Friday, September 27, 2013

Listening Quiz for Wednesday, October 9

This is the material for the next Listening Quiz


Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7369826n

Instructions:

1. watch the video (as many times as you need to)

2. try to understand key vocabulary

3. try to get the details

4. try to get the main idea (what is the central point of the discussion in the video)

Homework for Monday, September 30

Write a paragraph


Topic "Are men and women equal in El Salvador?"

your paragraph should include:

 Title (related to the topic and your personal opinion)

1. topic sentence (it controls the entire paragraph, and in this case, if you agree or disagree with the question)

2. supporting sentences (give details about why something is if your opinion is yes or no)

3. conclusion (restate your topic sentence and add your personal opinion about it)

Put the story together


1. establish contact with your classmatess via e-mail, skype, facebook, twitter, or any other.

2. put together the parts of the story you discussed in class

3. write the story (one per group) and send it to my e-mail (fnm34@hotmail.com)


Complete the Reading Task


Link:  http://www.4shared.com/file/KbklvJV7/Reading_Assigment_The_Polar_Be.html

Due date for all assignments: Monday, September 30


Monday, September 23, 2013

Mid-term Exam Information (Important, please read)

Hey guys, I was in a meeting about the Midterm Exam this morning, and these are the results:

Monday, September 30: Written Exam (Reading and Vocabulay, Writing)

Wednesday, October 2, Written Exam (Listening, and Grammar)

Thursday, October 3, Oral Exam

1. Raquel
2. Rafael
3. Luis
4. Paola
5. Augusto
6. Desire
7. Fatima
8. Astrid
9. Fernanda


Friday, October 4, Oral Exam

1. Ana Isabel
2. Marjorie
3. Eu
4. Dennis
5. Elida
6. Diana
7. Jessica
8. Alvaro
9. Roxana
10. Gabriela

Monday, October 7, Oral Exam

1. Yasmin
2.  Mariana
3. Ricardo
4. Marlene
5. Lissette
6. Noe
7. Josseline
8. Stephanie
9. Erika
10. Gaby

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Rubric for Task 1



TASK 1 RUBRIC: Presentation of task # 1
Intermediate Intensive English I. Term II- 2013


Student’s name: _______________________________________________________

Category
4
3
2
1

Task completion 
 and preparedness
Superior Completion of the task; content rich. The student is completely prepared and has obviously rehearsed.

Completion of the task. Content appropriate. The student seems pretty prepared but might have needed a couple more rehearsals.

Partial Completion of the task; content somewhat adequate and mostly appropriate. The student is somewhat prepared, but it´s clear that rehearsal was lacking.
Minimal completion of the task, content undeveloped. The student does not seem at all prepared to present.

Clear speech
Speaks clearly and distinctly all the time and mispronounces no words. Speech may contain elements of a native accent.
Speaks clearly and distinctly all the time, but mispronounces very few words. Understood without difficulty by listener.
Speaks clearly and distinctly most (94-85%) of the time. Mispronounces some words. Usually understood by a listener.
Often mumbles or can not be understood or mispronounces a lot of words. Difficult to understand. Speech is so strongly influenced by first language.

Fluency
The speech demonstrates ease and comfort with the language and any pausing is natural.

The student completes nearly all thoughts but has some pauses. Speech flows naturally most of the time.
There are mostly complete thoughts with significant pauses as the student searches for words to complete the thoughts.
There is a lot of hesitation and stopping and sometimes the student does not complete thoughts or may leave a long period of silence during speech delivery.

Grammar
There are almost no grammatical mistakes in student’s speech.

There are a few grammatical mistakes in student’s speech.
There are some grammatical mistakes in student’s speech.
There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in student’s speech.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Homework for Friday, September 13

This is the homework for Friday, September  13, 2013

 1. go to www.4shared.com

2. create a new account (choose the free version, not premium)

3. with the new account, you will be able to download the file

4. once you download the file, choose download, free, you have to wait (don´t choose the premium)

5. print it and bring it on Monday (double space so you can work on it)

6. underline the following tenses in the sentences you read: Simple Past, Past Continuous, Present Perfect

7. underline Subject Pronouns, Object Pronouns, Possessive Pronouns, and Possessive Adjectives

Link: 
http://www.4shared.com/office/St-sT5A-/Reading_Assignment.html


 (SP-SUbject Pronoun)   (OP-Object Pronoun)     (PP-Possessive Pronoun)  (PA-Possessive Adjective)

Simple Past             Past Continuous       Present Perfect

"THE GIFT OF THE MAGI"


She found it at last.  It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no  
 (SP)          (OP)         (SP)  

_Simple Past____       __Present Perfect__________________________




design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all 

                                                              (PA)

good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. 







Contents for the Mid-term (explanation and practice exercises)

Contents for the Mid-term Exam

Unit 9 (photocopy)                    Health Problems and Giving Advice (Modals)

 http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/330-modals-advice.htm

Unit 1 Open Mind 2                  The Simple Past and Past Progressive


http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastsimpleorcontinuous/menu.php

Unit 3 Open Mind 2                Giving and Asking for Permision                                                                                          Subject, Object, Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives                      

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/should.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns

Unit 5 Open Mind 2                 Present Perfect versus Simple Past

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

Unit 6 Open Mind 2                Direct and Inderect Objects, Separable Phrasal Verbs

http://www.germanna.edu/tutor/Handouts/English/Direct_and_Indirect_Objects.pdf

Grammar Reference Guide (explanation of all gramatical structures)

 http://www.4shared.com/office/ELlCZgiZ/Grammar_Reference_Level_2.html


Students should complete all exercises in the Textbook and Workbook as well (UNITS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Monday, September 9, 2013

Activities for Week, Septermber 9 - 13

There will be class on Wednesday, September 11
a. Quiz 

First Task Presentations

* Presentations will start right at 10:00AM, the first person in each list is responsable for being there at that time, and so are the rest in the respective order.

Thursday, September 12

1. Ana Isabel
2. Marjorie
3. Eu
4. Dennis
5. Elida
6. Diana
7. Jessica
8. Alvaro
9. Roxana
11. Yasmin
12.  Mariana
13. Ricardo
14. Marlene
15. Lissette

Friday, September 13

1. Raquel
2. Rafael
3. Luis
4. Paola
5. Augusto
6. Desire
7. Fatima
8. Astrid
9. Fernanda
10. Noe
11. Josseline
12. Stephanie
13. Erika
14. Gaby
15. Gabriela