lesson 3

today we'll try another ict tool - webquest!

go to http://zunal.com/introduction.php?w=90802 and start!

there are too many resources there, so let's reduce.

Fitness Instructors will deal with urls 7,9,37

Nutrition specialists will deal with urls 24,30,38

Healthy Lifestyle Advisors will deal with urls 40,43,48

While studying your resources, pick out at least 10 new vocabulary items and publish them in your blog - in sentences, demonstrating their meaning

Make an online presentation using this program, use your google account. Attach your presentation to your blog.

Homework:

use evaluation and commenton your classmate's presentation.

lesson 2

Hello, everyone!
I've read your blogs and added them all to the list on the class blog. That makes sense - at least for me - to make our work more organised and coordinated. Unfortunately, not everyone made task 3 from the last lesson - you had to comment on your classmates news, so please, do that in the nearest future.
Today we'll explore a very interesting and useful website - bbc learning english. It is a great resourse to imrove your language skills and enlarge your vocabulary.

First, just go ahead for 5 minutes, explore the site by clicking the link above. Afterwards, we'll have a feedback discussion: what can you do on this site? what do you find most interesting and useful?


Now, you'll explore the site in more details. As you can see, it includes many rubrics. We'll work in groups - now we'll decide who's in which group - and each group will have a special task about researching this site. You will post the results of your research on your blog? and don't forger to mention which group you are in!

Task 1

Go to words in the news and find the story called
Group 1. Eating 64-year-old food
Group 2. Why zebras have stripes
Group 3. Popcorn older than cinema!
Use the vocabulary comments and publish on your blog a literary translation of this story. You can use online dictionaries, but no mashine translation!

Task 2

Go to the English we speak and click on
Group 1. Cheesy
Group 2. Mind-boggling
Group 3. Savvy
Listen and/or read the issue and then on your blog make up a short situation which demonstrates the idiomatic use of this word

Task 3

Go to News English Extra and find a story called
Group 1. Information Society
Group 2. Money laundering
Group 3. Biodiversity

On your blog, publish a short news story on the topic and don't forget to use the word of your group!

Task 4 - All groups!

Go to Keep you English up to Date! and find Series 4. Read about new words which have appeared in English quite recently. Then, do a quizz based on this series (at the botton of the introduction page). How many points did you get right?

Homework
I hope you enjoyed your journey through BBC Learning English website. You can subscribe to it and use it regularly. At home I would ask you do the following:
1. On your blog, publish 50 -words-long feedback on today's lesson.
2. You have 2 options: either go to Words in the News and find another story to translate (and publish on your blog, of course) or go to News English Extra and make up another news story and publish it as well

This seems to be all for today. See you next Monday!

let's start!

Dear everyone!

I hope this course will be an enjoyable experience for you.
So, today I would like us to get to grips with blogs)))


Task1


Go to http://www.blogger.com/ and create your own blog - internet diary. It's very easy! So have some fun experimenting with design. After you are over, post a comment to this blog entry with a link to your blog. While you are busy doing task 2, I'll attach your links to this blog, so you'll be able to read each other's blogs and comment on them



Task 2


Many people use their blogs to comment on the latest news and share their thoughts with others. It's like being a journalist!

So, your task here will be to search the internet for the news which appeals to you and write about it in your blog. People usually not just write text but also attach weblinks, pictures and video to their blog entries - so, go ahead, experiment with these tools!


Below, you will see my news entry as an example




I was really shocked yesterday to know that Whitney Houston was found dead.
I'm so sorry for this talented singer and a very beautiful woman. I can't say I was a fan of hers, but I really enjoy her songs and her powerful, amazing voice which made me make the volume of my radio up every time I heard one of her recordings on air.
This sad accident reminds me of another beauty and pop icon of her time - Merilyn Monroe, who also died so suddenly and used to have the same problems which killed Whitney - alcohol and drugs.
Why do the beautiful, talented, rich and famous have to be so unhappy and die so young? Like a candle which burns so bright and extinguishes so soon...
The song which made her world famous - I Will Always Love You is now like a hymn of her fans, devoted to herself this time...
Here is the karaoke video which I especially liked. Enjoy!

Task 3


How do you usually search for information on the Internet? I guess, you just google some key words - and that's a good idea. However, you can also make information come to your mail box if you subscribe to it.
Have you ever heard of RSS? I hope, no))) Otherwise, I'll have nothing to teach today anymore)))
Anyway, watch a short video about RSS here.
Now, we'll do what the video suggests.
First, go to https://www.google.com/accounts and create an account in google. After you are through, just enter your gmail box and find Reader. Here you will enter your favourite websites and subscribe to them. As a first step, subscribe for this blog and the blogs of your сlassmates.


Homework


1. post a comment to this entry with a link to your blog
2. complete your news entry with at least one picture and one weblink
3. leave a comment at at least one of your classmates' blogs
4. Subscribe to this blog and to all of your classmates' blogs
5. add at least one extra RSS feed (not to your classmates' blogs) and be ready to comment upon your subscription next time (why did you choose this one?)

If you worked well today, you have already done issues 1-4, so you have only #5 to complete!
That's all for today, see you next week!