Since in order to write today’s post you can choose ONE of two options, I have written two sample posts to guide your writing (See below).
Post 1 (Instructions).
Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting.
Write about a career-related website that you enjoy visiting.
You should:
- provide a link
- describe the website (sections, features,etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.
Make sure you add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts.
-Word Count: 130
- provide a link
- describe the website (sections, features,etc)
- say how often you visit the site
- explain why you like the site.
Make sure you add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts.
-Word Count: 130
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Post 2 (Instructions)
Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?
Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?
Say:
-Who she/he is.(short biography)
-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)
-Why you like her/him.
-Include his/her image
> About 130 words
Remember to add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ posts
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The BBC English learning website.
Whether you’re a student or a teacher, you should visit BBC Learning English. To me, it’s
one of the best sites to look for different kinds of information
related to teaching and learning English as a second language.
But
it’s not only about learning, it also has lots of articles related to
culture. It’s a great site where students can do exercises, read pieces
of current news, practice their listening skills, improve their
pronunciation, and even have fun playing games, watching videos or chatting with people from all over the world.
If
you are a teacher, you also have lots of options, for example you can
download up to date material for your classes, that you can adopt or
adapt, get new ideas to improve your lessons or exchange information with other teachers.
Some
of its regular features that I like include, among others,: “Words in
the News”, which contains written and video stories; “Express English”,
in which people are asked about their opinions on different things
-Each week there’s a new topic and the interesting thing is that you
can also join the conversation; “Quiznet”, which gives you the chance
to increase your vocabulary on different topics; and I also like “6
Minute English”, a short radio programme that helps you improve both
your listening comprehension skills and your vocabulary while you learn
about an interesting issue.
I
like this site because everything in it has been carefully done by very
professional people, it’s very user-friendly, so you can find things
easily, and everything is interesting and down-to-earth, I mean , it is
related to real life. For all these reasons I visit this site on a regular basis and I strongly reccomend it to you. The address to this website is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
An expert that I admire
“What
a great activity! It’s interesting and fun to do”. This is what I
usually say when I see English text books that have been written by
Penny Ur. But Penny is more than an experienced text
book writer, she´s a remarkable English Language Teaching author who
has helped teachers develop their teaching skills, that is to say, she
teaches teachers to teach.
I
don’t know much about her personal life, all I know is that she is
Israeli or American and that she studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. I
also know that she has travelled extensively giving conferences
worldwide and has written lots of papers, which are very
teacher-friendly, I mean, it’s very easy to understand what she is
trying to communicate and her tips are really helpful.
Some of her most prominent books, among others, are: Five Minute Activities, A Course in Language Teaching , and Grammar
Practice Activities. When I was studying in London I used one of her
books, which was called Proficiency in English, if I remember well.
Although her books are more concerned with the teaching of grammar than on improving your communicative skills,
I like her because she is able to teach structures in an interesting
and meaningful fashion, which is something that not many writers are
able to do. Finally, there are writers concerned with Teaching English
as a Foreign Language who have written long, boring and hard to
understand papers. Instead, she has written short and clear documents
that say more than a million pages.
