Talents! Recipes, maps and Love birds!

More photos! We sure had a lot of fun this semester! Food was delicious and students were great!

Talents

Talents!

Recipes
Level 5 students and their favorite snacks!!

my favorite recipe!

Love Birds

Love Birds from URBE

Maps!
Level 2 maps

Maps!

Keep on shining!
Doris3m

Doctors! At the doctor's photos!

Well, didn't we have fun with our dramas at the doctors' office! Click on the photo to see the whole bunch of them. You can use your photos for your blogs!

at the doctor!

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Doris3m

Writing Class

Hello! these is the content outline for your final project:

Writing Class

Introducing yourself

Unit 1 Journalism.

Writing:- Topic sentences- main idea- controlling idea

Unit 2 Advertising.

Three part paragraph:- Topic sentence- supporting sentences- concluding sentences. Writing an opinion about the Korean video by Kiss.

Unit 3 Finding a job

Job postings- writing a cover letter- writing a resume.

Unit 4 Pros and cons

Tree graph- transition expressions. Writing a paragraph about advantages and disadvantages.

Unit 5 Outlining

Writing a three paragraph composition- Writing a poem: persona-poem and cinquain

Now, a description of what and how you're going to include it in your final project blog:

Final Project

Create your own blog to showcase your best work!

A good way to show your portfolio is by using a blog and posting it in the Internet. The process of putting together a writing portfolio will also give you the chance to reflect on your own work and how you have grown as a writer.

For our project you'll organize your work chronologically.

You should include:

1. A title for your blog.

2. An introductory paragraph focusing on what you did during your English writing class. As you write your introductory essay, keep in mind these guidelines:

Here are some questions to consider when writing your introduction. You do not need to answer all of the questions but you can use them to guide your writing:

• What is your opinion about your writing course?
• Write a general description of your classes. What did you wrote about? What kind of paragraph writing did you learn to write?
• What exactly are you writing about in your blog? Include a table of contents listing the title, category, and date of each piece.

3. Include an entrance per unit and discuss each piece individually. Add pictures, links, or videos to illustrate your work. Here are some guiding questions. Choose one or two to address per unit discussed:

• What's the unit about?
• What did you learn in this unit?
• What skills did you work on when working in this unit?
• How did you brainstorm, revise, and edit?
• Who gave you feedback and help?

4. A conclusion reflecting on what you learned from reading the compilation of your works. Use these guidelines as you write your conclusion:

Read all of your pieces.

Here are some questions to consider when you write your project conclusion:
• Reflect on your work during the semester.
• What subject matter did you like the most? What didn't you like? What subject was interesting or boring to write about?
• What do you think about having your classes in the lab and writing a blog to showcase your work?
• How have you evolved as a writer and English student?
• What are your future writing plans?

Well, have fun working and reflecting on what you have done during our time together.
It's been really nice to have been your teacher!

Keep on shining!

Doris3m

Level 5 tasks

Level 5... these are you're tasks!

1. Unit 1 * Childhood Memories. Interviewing an older person and telling about his or her childhood memories.
2. Unit 2 * Caught in the rush. Composition and a letter to the mayor telling about Maracaibo's traffic or public service problems.
3. Unit 3 * Time for a change! Composition describing where I live, wish to change about it and my dream house.
4. Unit 4 * I've never heard of that!Favorite recipe and how to cook it.
5. Unit 5 * Going places. Describing my dream vacation.
6. Unit 6 * Sure no problem! A conversation about complaining and apologizing.
7. Unit 7 * What's this for? Describing what things are for and how to use them.
8. Unit 8 * Let's celebrate! Describing customs and events.

Hope you have fun working on your final projects.... can't wait to see them all!
Keep on shining!
Doris3m

Level 4 Tasks

More tasks.... Now, it's level 4 turns. Here they are:

1. Unit 9 * Describing yourself. Physical description
2. Unit 10 * Have you ever been to Canaima? Things I've already done and things I haven't done yet.
3. Unit 11 * It's a very exciting city! Describing a city of the world.
4. Unit 12 * It really works! Home remedies
5. Unit 13 * May I take your order? Going to a restaurant: A dialogue and writing restaurant review.
6. Unit 14 * The biggest and the best! Describing and comparing geographical facts about our country.
7. Unit 15 * I'm going to see a musical. Role play a conversation
8. Unit 16 * A change for the better! Telling how I have changed and my plans for the future.

Work hard... it's worthy!
Keep on shining!
Doris3m

URBE's EFL students January -April 2007

Well, here you are! The photos! If you need your photo for your blog, just click on it and save it to your computer.

EFL students January- April 2007

URBE EFL students January - April 2007

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Doris3m

Level 2 Tasks

Tasks we did in our Level 2 class!

1. Unit 9 * Broccoli is good for you. Draw your food pyramid and write a composition about food.
2. Unit 10 * Talents and sports. Show and tell... a composition about talents and sports.
3. Unit 11 * Festivities! Mind map of a celebration. A composition about your favorite celebration.
4. Unit 12 * At the doctors! Dialogue dramatization.
5. Unit 13 * Where's URBE? Giving directions. Draw a map and explain where places are and how to get to those places.
6. Unit 14 * Last Weekend. Composition about what I did last weekend.
7. Unit 15 * Biographies. Drawing a time line and telling about my life and the life of someone I admire.
8. Unit 16 * Telephones! A conversation.

Looking forward to read your blogs!
Keep on shining!
Doris3m

Level 1 tasks

Hi, there! well, here you have the tasks we did in level 1.

1. Unit 1 * Nice to meet you. A dialogue!
2. Unit 2 * Where things are? A collage!
3. Unit 3 * Where are you from? A composition. Describing myself, a friend and someone famous!
4. Unit 4 * Clothes and the weather. What am I wearing?A composition. Describing what people is wearing in a photo.
5. Unit 5 * What are you doing? A composition Describing what people in a photo are doing.
6. Unit 6 * Family and daily routine. A family tree and my daily routine.
7. Unit 7 * My dream house. Drawing and describing my dream house.
8. Unit 8 * Jobs. Describing people's jobs.

Well, hope this help you remember all the tasks we did. Make sure you have done them all!

Keep on shining!

Doris3m

Blog Format!

Create your own blog to showcase your best work!

A good way to show your portfolio is by using a blog and posting it in the internet. The process of putting together a writing portfolio will also give you the chance to reflect on your own work and how you have grown as an EFL student.

For our project you'll organize your work chronologically.

You should include:

1. A title for your blog.

2. An introductory paragraph focusing on what you did during your EFL English class. As you write your introductory paragraph, keep in mind these guidelines:

Here are some questions to consider when writing your introduction. You do not need to answer all of the questions but you can use them to guide your writing:
• What is your opinion about learning English?
• Write a general description of your classes. What were they about?
• What exactly are you posting in your blog? Include a table of contents listing the title, unit, and date of each piece.

3. Include an entrance per unit and discuss each unit individually. Add pictures, links, or videos to illustrate your work. Here are some guiding questions. Choose one or two to address per unit discussed:
• What's the unit about?
• What did you learn in this unit?
• What skills did you work on when working in this unit?

4. A conclusion reflecting on what you learned from reading the compilation of your works. Use these guidelines as you write your conclusion:

Read all of your pieces.

Here are some questions to consider when you write your project conclusion:
• Reflect on your work during the semester.
• What subject matter did you like the most? What didn't you like? What subject was interesting or boring to you?
• What do you think about having your classes in the lab and writing a blog to showcase your work?
• Describe the tools you used to learn: Computer lab, mind maps, composition writing, interviews, drawings, tutoring, etc.
• How have you evolved as a writer and English student?
• What are your future plans about learning English?


Remember you’re posting your work to the world. It’s very important you check and double check your work before post it to your blog.

What is the editing stage?

The editing stage is when you check your paragraph for mistakes and correct them.

Grammar and Spelling
1. Check your spelling.
2. Check your grammar.
3. Read your composition again.
4. Make sure each sentence has a subject.
5. See if your subjects and verbs agree with each other.
6. Check the verb tenses of each sentence.
7. Make sure that each sentence makes sense.

Well, have fun working on your project.

Keep on shining!
Doris3m

Hello! Welcome to our Final project blog!

Hi, there! Welcome to our Class Blog!

Here you'll find all the instructions for our final projects! For our final project we'll get our own blogs and post all we have learned and have done during our English Courses! Let's show the world our work.

The project has 3 steps:

Step 1. Collect all your work

First thing is to do is to collect all your work during the semester. When we talk about your work, we're talking about:

• your compositions,


• maps and drawings,
  
• dialogues,


• interviews,


• short presentations,


• songs and videos reviews,


• recipes,


• participation in the blog Multiliterate Doris,


• and your work posted at your community of practice Level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, Speaking Group and Writing Group
  

Step 2. Check your work with TUTORS

Now, that you have collected all your work... you have to check it with your tutor ( go to Building F, first floor and look for the ESL Center tutors at URBE).

These are Antonio, Madwin and Guillermo.

Step 3. Edit your work.

After you have check your work with URBE's tutors...

1. write them in a word document or a power point document,
2. edit them using the check speller. To find the ckeck speller go to Herramientas - idiomas -Ingles USA and correct your mistakes.
3. Finally, your work is ready to be posted at your new blog.

Well, this is the first part. Make sure you follow all the steps. If you have any questions... let' me know. My online hours are evenings from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Keep on shining! and keep posted for part 2 of our project
Doris3m