Away from home . Video project closure

A HOME FROM HOME

In order to close this academic year, we held a session in which you could display the outcome of your work in this video project. Now, I am inviting you to share your comments on this experience as well as the link to the site where you have uploaded your video.

And as many of you stated at the end of your presentation … 

Thanks for sharing!

Now, sit down and enjoy.

By Agustina Martinez

By Ludmila Bergamini and Leila Sartor

By Rocío Maciel, Yamila Hurt and Ornella Quintana

By Daiana Corgnali

By Barbara Amherdt

Test 8 - Assignment

Hello everyone

Today I am posting the test which will be done for homework.
You must print it out and hand it on Monday 9th at the latest.

Click here to download your copy.

Module 8 - Review page answers

Dear all

Here I am sharing the answers to the exercises which appear on page 87 of our coursebook.
Please, check your answers to the exercises.

1
1 C
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 A
6 B


2
1 Representatives
2 unemployment
3 application
4 shortage
5 sadness
6 Tourists
7 arrival
8 knowledge


3
1 reminded his colleagues to
2 suggested (that) Carol (should)
3 accused Anna of
4 warned us not to
5 apologised for not
6 his notice the following/next
7 recommended looking/(that) I look/(that) I should look
8 denied breaking/that she had broken

Listening Practice: all the answers to the tests

Dear all

Today I am posting the answers to all the listening tests so you can go on practising on your own.
Please click on the link to have access to the document with the answers.

Mister Botibol

Please, use the comments box below to give your answers to the questions below.

• Do you think Mr Botibol's life has been a failure?
• What does Miss Darlington do for a living? How important is this for the story? 

Look at this information about the word 'sympathise' taken from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

sym‧pa‧thize ( also sympathise British English ) / ˈsɪmpəθaɪz / verb [ intransitive ]
1 to feel sorry for someone because you understand their problems :
I sympathize, but I don’t know how to help.
sympathize with
I can sympathize with those who have lost loved ones.
2 to support someone’s ideas or actions
sympathize with
The public sympathized with the miners’ strike.

• Do you sympathise with the main character in the story? Why (not)?
• Have you ever dreamt of being a great writer or composer or artist?
• Do you think some of the events in the story are too unreal and impossible?
• Have you ever heard of 'air guitar' or 'air drumming'? If not, check the videos below and trace a comparison between what these people and Mr Botibol do.

Air guitar

Air drumming

Cultural Contrast

Hello everyone!! 

Here you can share the link to your videos

The main aim of doing these activities with you was to observe how you worked with ICTs in the classroom.  From many ICT tools, I´ve chosen the blog to help you develop your writing and reading skills and create an online community where all of you could share your ideas, feeling and thoughts about this interesting topic. The idea of working with windows moviemaker was to help you develop your creativity and critical thinking as you were asked to work in groups and it required you to collaborate and make decisions.

As a last discussion, I would like you to briefly comment on these questions: What do you think about working with ICT tools? How do you feel it can help you?

I hope you have enjoyed it and thanks for participating!!

Aneley

What is culture?

 Answer the following questions in the comments box below.

     a- What do you infer from the picture? What does it showt?

  b- What is the best/most important thing your culture has given to the world?

        c- What in your culture are you most proud of?

        d- Which culture other than your own do you admire? Why?

To do the activity in class you should choose four of the eleven aspects of culture which are shown in the picture below.

Click on this link: to watch a video which describes some of the cultural aspects which are mentioned in the picture above.