Thursday, September 27, 2007

Blog Tasks 1 - 5


Do you like this London Metro station? It's called Underground or The tube. It has about 12 different lines

Let's try blogs and see if we learn English better and faster. Creativity and imagination are important. Create your own blog and do the following activities:

1. Write about a website you enjoy visiting (120 words minimum)
Say:How you found this site.How often you visit it.
And explain why you like it.Add a link to the webpage.

2. Select an appropriate career-related article from the Guardian (or similar quality newspaper/source)
Summarize the article (120 - 150 minimun)Do not plagarize!!!!!Provide a link

3. Post a piece of art you like and write an accompanying text (150 words minimum)
Say:Who the artist is.When you first saw this piece of art.Explain why you like it.

4. Write an evaluation or criticism of a classmate's blogspot.
You could say why you like/dislike it or list the strong points and the weak points.It would be good if you included comments on your favourite/least favourite post.You could also mention the desing, layout, colours, etc.Minimum 200 words.

5. Write a review of a film you saw recently (200 words minimum)
Say who stars in the filmGive a short outline of the plot.Mention the good points and bad points of the film.

6. The advantage and disadvantage of using blogs in the English classroom.

Link your blog to this one.

5 comments:

Roberta said...

Hello teacher...

this is my blogspot.....

atte

Roberta Zúñiga

C.T. said...

A good start, Roberta. It looks nice.
I hope to see your blog becoming more and more attractive.

Maritza Garrido Palma said...

Hi teacher!!!
The blog is beautiful, creative and good!!!!
Maritza...

Dani said...

Hi!
I have updated my Blog and i see that that you updated your blog too.

Profesor, discupe por no ir a clases pero esta semana y la proxima son terribles para mi, de todos modos el martes estaré allá a las 11 como quedó acordado.

PS: Forgive me for not writing in English but is late and i dont have time.
PS2: At least I did the tasks =D
PS3: perdón si escribí algo mal

Maritza Garrido Palma said...

Dear teacher:
I think it is an excellent idea to create a blog for the work of the English pilot class, but I think that,in chile, today not all homes have Internet, so it's a little more difficult to perform homeworks for such persons ..
Except for that detail, I think it is an excellent idea, the blog allows you to work in various subjects, practice vocabulary, grammar and spelling.
There is a need to refine this system to be implemented more efficiently in future courses of English pilot, in order to become an effective tool for the student and teacher.
It is very didactic that on the website of the blog can be loaded pictures of the issues. In addition to upload videos; teacher, you Should consider as a tool that can be very useful.
The key to the success of this system is to balance two things: a record of pupils, allowing time within the colase to develop the themes of the blog and a constant revision of the themes developed by the students.

I hope that my comments will help to perfect this system professor.

Sincerely, Maritza.