What follows below is a list of links to the blogs by the students at the Bilingual Administrative Assistant program, Second Semester B. You can find such nice posts and litteracy projects here!
Please visit them and support your peers' and classmates work by posting comments on their writing.
Hello guys at the Bilingual Administarve Program, 2nd semester B. This is an example of what you have to do for your reading assignment.
1. Prepare a short oral presentation on your reading. Then record it on video (a one-minute long talk should be sufficient), upload it to You Tube, and post it to blog.
Everybody should have his / her own video posted on their blogs. You can use your imagination to record your video any way you like, but don't get complicated. Uploading videos to You Tube is very easy to do. You just need an account.
2. Write a short review on the text you read. It woul be nice if you could write different post mentioning different aspects of the book for each member of your group. below you can find an example of a short review for The Reader, a novel by Bernhard Schlink.
My short review on The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The reader is a beautiful novel by German lawyer Bernard Schlink, published in 1995 in Germany, and then translated into many languages. It was released this year again because it was adapted to a movie last year. Kate Winslet, who played Hanna Schmitz, won the Oscar for her performance, by the way.
I like this novel because it is an interesting view of the Nazi holocaust. It’s the story of a 15 year old boy (Michael Berg) who fell in love with an older woman (Hanna Schmitz). She helped him once when he fainted on the street on his way home after school: this was a symptom of hepatitis.
When Michael recovered from his sickness, he visited Hanna with some flowers to thank her for her help. After a couple of visits, he saw her taking a shower, she seduced him, and they made love. They had a strange romance for some months, and then Hanna disappeared. Every time, before they made love, Hanna asked Michael to read passages of books to her, but he never understood why.
Many years later Michael became a lawyer and he participated in a trial to a group women from the SS (Adolf Hitler’s police), when World War II ended, for killing a group of Jewish women. Michael was shocked when he saw Hanna in the group of accused women. Hanna was sentenced to life in prison, but their secret was never revealed. Hanna had another secret Michael learned in the trial: she didn’t know how to read and write. So he later sent Hanna recordings of books with his voice when she was in prison.
In my opinion this a great novel that makes us think about the importance of love, compassion, and learning from our mistakes. I recommend it to everybody.
Hello everybody the following are some objectives and goals some teachers here at the Centro Cultural Colombo Americano have devised for blogging in our classes. We hope they can help you understand why creating and maintaining a nice blog can really help you in your English learning process. Any comments on them are highly appreciated.
Goals
*Improve your fluency when reading, and express yourself better when writing.
*Be aware of new forms to interact with your classmates.
*Get closer to the goal of thinking in English.
Objectives
I.Reading
*Enjoy and get the most out of reading short or longer texts.
*Improve fluency when reading.
*Identify what you like or dislike in a text, what you agree or disagree with, and express it freely in your own words.
*Help, support or give constructive criticisms to your partners when you read what they wrote.
II. Writing
*Become more aware of the steps, process and methods you need to improve your writing skills.
*Be critical to yourself in the process of writing, without being scared to write or express your ideas.
*Apply as much vocabulary and grammar you study when you create your blog posts.
*Apply writing rules (spelling, punctuation, organization of ideas, argumentation, etc) continuously, but with your own ideas and imagination.
III. Interaction with your classmates
*Create blog posts that are interesting and appealing to your classmates and friends.
* Cooperate with your classmates learning by giving them support and helping them improve their understanding of topics.
*Participate constantly in a space that can be more student-centered than the classroom: the web.
