Good Bye

As you all know, I am enjoying early retirement, therefore this blog will not be continued in the same way. On the other hand, I will not close or delete it as it can still be of some use.

I have enjoyed teaching you all these years at the Language School, and even though teaching is a difficult profession it can also be very rewarding. Sometimes teachers forget that teaching is also learning and learners don't realise the key role they play in creating an interesting and safe environment where everybody is at home.

Along these years I have become aware that learning a foreign language is like wearing new shoes. At first you feel very uncomfortable in them, but the more you wear them the better they fit. So effort pays back. It is worth. So be patient and trust in yourself. If your really need English, you'll certainly learn the language whatever it takes!

Glossary

NA2

I have opened a new glossary for Edith Warton's story. Please add new entries.
I hope you can use the forum now: identity issues. Vocabulary and ideas. I have made some changes so that you can write.

Please, keep it alive.

Homework:
Read the story.
Unite 2: Identity. Reading, vocabulary and grammar.
Workbook lesson 2.

Next day:
a) presentations
b) discussions
c) reading "Afterward"

See you,

Homework NA1

Presentations to the whole class with events in your life/events in the world.

Hand in stories about the teenager who lost his job at a Building Company.

Grammar and vocabulary related to Lesson 4
-Past tenses
-Relationships, clothes, weather, feelings, likes, sound and light, etc.

Keep on with your workbook (lesson 4).

See you tomorrow!

HW Wednesday
1) Hand in clean copies of your stories
2) exercise 5A page 51
3) Tenses exercises
4) Vocabulary

Homework NA2

Workbook Unit 2

As each of you has different learning needs, think about yours, and then select those activities (listening, tenses, vocabulary, etc.) that best suit you.

VLP
Read Afterward, by E. Warton.

Participate in the discussion about identity. If you cannot write on the VLP, just write a few ideas on a notebook.

Review past tenses. You have exercises in the na2.09mj@gmail.com acount.

Review vocabulary: topics
- economy
- crime
- weather
- describing people and places

If you still have time to spare, watch the new Obama-Romney Debate on youtube.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Class summaries

These are the groups and links:
 NA1 09 horas http://groups.google.com/group/na1inma
 NA1 11 horas na1.11valencia@gmail.com
 NA2 09 horas na2.09mj@gmail.com
 NA2 11 horas na2.11eoival@gmail.com
Ask your partners for the password, if you should need one.

This is the place where you can write the lesson summary and the new words and expressions to be learned. Anyone can contribute, but we follow alphabetic order, so pay attention to your turn in order not to miss it. If you consider something to be missing just add it at the bottom and don't forget to always sign it.

Submit your email address to receive updates of this blog, please.

Poster

Here you have the tutorial for the poster: Glogster.com Contents: Events in my life Events in the world during my life.

Learning Virtual Environment

Here