Dear students,
Today we are going to explore the class blog. You are going to look for some specific links that will be useful to practice, improve and enjoy English.
You have to look for the link posted on the right side of this blog in which you can do the activity proposed in the following clues.
CLUES AND INSTRUCTIONS
1. In this link you can fill in the blanks with the lyrics, sing along and learn English with your favorite songs. Choose one of your favorite songs and complete the lyrics. Write in the comments what kind of music you like.šµš¶
2. In this corner of the blog you will find learning strategies for grammar, vocabulary, listening, and reading. Analyze the difficulties you have with learning English and write 5 strategies you will include in your personal plan of work and that you consider useful for your learning process. š»šāš”
3. On this website you can review and practice some grammar topics online. Choose one of the topics you consider difficult to learn and do some exercises. What site did you enter? What is the most difficult grammar aspect for you? š¹š»š
4. On this website you can learn English by watching videos at English Central doing listening, vocabulary activities, and practicing your pronunciation. It is free but you have to register. Chose a topic that you like and do one of the lessons. What video did you see? how were your listening and pronunciation abilities? šŗ
5. Do you enjoy watching tv series? This ORORO website offers different possibilities to learn English while you are watching your favorite tv series. Any episode includes English subtitles to read and facilitate your listening comprehension. Look for one you enjoy and watch a segment of an episode. Write a short description of what you saw.šŗš»
6. Choose a listening comprehension site from the ones proposed on the blog and do one activity according to your level. What activity did you do? š¢
7. Sit back, listen, and read a story at your own speed. What story did you listen to?š£
8. Do you have problems with your pronunciation? Let's practice before you give an oral report or present your task with this natural reader tool. What do you think about this tool?šš¬
8. Do you have problems with your pronunciation? Let's practice before you give an oral report or present your task with this natural reader tool. What do you think about this tool?šš¬
**Daniela CastaƱo Santiago 2024-2**
ReplyDelete1. On the "Lyrics Training" website, I completed the fill-in-the-blank exercise using the song "Where Dreams Go to Die." It was easy for me because the song is simple to understand.
2. For my learning process, I need to implement strategies like speaking with others in English, reading documents and articles with technical vocabulary, reading books that I enjoy, and reviewing some grammar topics that I donāt fully remember, as well as listening to English-speaking music artists.
3. In grammar, I went to the "Englishpage" website, specifically the "Modal Verbs" section, since itās a topic that, along with "Conditional Forms," I need to keep practicing. I completed some fill-in-the-blank exercises.
4. I did a listening activity using the video "Coming Home for Christmas." It was easy to understand and also entertaining.
5. For this practice, I used the series "Friends" because itās very funny, and the scripts are at an intermediate level. I watched an episode about two friends who got matching tattoos, and then one of them regretted it.
6. I took a listening test about a story of friends getting to know each other, and afterward, I had to answer some intermediate-level questions. I made a few mistakes.
7. I listened to a story about Sara, a mother who went shopping for supplies for her home and kids.
8. Itās an easy-to-use tool, with good avatars, perfect for practicing the pronunciation of complex words.
Hi, mi name is Johao Leandro Zapata.
ReplyDelete1.The song I listened to was "The Unforgiven II" by Metallica, and the genres I enjoy the most are rock, hip hop, and rap.
2. Personally, my biggest difficulty in English is speaking, but in order to improve my speaking skills, I first need to feel comfortable with listening and gaining knowledge of many key words and connectors so that I can express myself fluently in the future.
-I plan to practice with "TED Talks" every weekend to improve my listening and comprehension.
-I will look for activities where the goal is to complete words or sentences through listening.
-In my weekly routine, I usually watch series, movies, and listen to music. From now on, I want to do this in English with subtitles, so I can step out of my comfort zone and force myself to stimulate my English learning.
-I believe I need to search for activities or reading materials related to English grammar rules that I still need to understand and practice. These should include activities with connectors, key words, phrases, etc. All of this will allow me to feel more confident when structuring sentences in my mind.
-I want to stimulate my English learning through my professional career by reading information related to my field in English and learning technical terms that may be found, while also stimulating new knowledge.
3. I chose the website "englishpage.com/vocabulary/interactivelesson2a.htm" and I find it difficult due to the vast vocabulary with unknown words or words that even have different meanings depending on the context.
4.The video was "Focus on What Matters Most," and I understood most of the words, so I was able to understand a large part of the video.
5. I watched a segment from the first episode of the series "The Witcher," and it shows a hunter fighting a monster in the water. He was almost drowned but managed to defeat the beast, and that is where the adventure begins.
6. I used the website "Listen a Minute" and completed the activity on the "Animal Lesson."
7. I listened to the story about a lost cat, and it was enjoyable because it included a variety of different words, including numbers, ages, abbreviations, etc.
8. The voice is very clear and easy to understand because it is at a moderate speed, which allows me to feel calm when pronouncing words.
Mariana SepĆŗlveda Urrego 2024-2S
ReplyDeleteMy favorite kind of music is rock and pop I listened the song: Is this love by whitesnake
The learning strategies from my learning process will include
-put the words an their definitions in a cards, include an sample
-read about rules of Grammar
-listen and watch videos, movies or series in English with subtitule
- Look,write and pronunciated the words that are more difficult for me, with their definitions
-listen and repeat the words and sentences in High voice
-Practice reading aloud and practice conversatiins or situations when I be alone (perhaps of a mirror)
I entered in the website of Englispage.com
For me the most difficult things in Grammar is gerunds and infinitives, I can get wrong some the words
I watched the video:Escape from the office. My listening and pronunciation abilities are a little slow, sometime I return in the video, and repeat some words or sentences
I enjoy a lot watch series, i watched a segment of the simpsons episode. Lisa's parents are late for her performance at this school, she is doing a fire show.
I listened the audio:Gourmet cooking in the website ESL-LAB
I listened the story: halloween hustle
The website is a great tool for the learning in this process, helps to practice words with correct pronunciation
Hi iĀ“m Jaime Luis Osorio GĆ³mez
ReplyDelete1. I listened to the song dancin by Aaron Smith, this is my favorite song. I like any kind of music, but really i don't listen music a lot.
2. I need to expand my vocabulary and also need to practice my listening skills, these are my strategies:
- For vocabulary iĀ“ll see an image or photo that describe the word and
iĀ“ll try to repeat what the image means.
- To improve my listening iĀ“ll watch movies or videos in english, first with
subtitles and then without them, iĀ“ll optionally watch the video or movie in
spanish first because this will improve my listening a lot.
- IĀ“ll listening english music because i like it and this will help to improve my
Listening.
- For vocabulary iĀ“ll write new words in english and then iĀ“ll see their meaning.
- To improve mi listening and vocabulary iĀ“ll watch videos in english and then i write some sentences about the video
3. I enter in https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar and i practiced doing excercises to the future simple. I need to improve in this topic
4. I watched the video āto build a big productā and my listening skills were regular, my pronunciation was good, the most important thing that was i learned new words.
5. I watched the series āYoung Shleldonā on the episode number 1 āpilotā, in this episode we met sheldon cooper a smart guy we also met his family. Sheldon and his brother Georgie will go to the school in this cap.
6. I did āListen a minuteā and i listened a video about computers
7. I heard āSara went shoppingā
8. I think that this tool is very useful and interesting, it help me improve mi listening, reading and my vocabulary, because iĀ“ll see new words
Juan Jose Rada Garcia
ReplyDelete1.on the first activity page I listened to Heartless by kanye west since he is my favorite artist and basically the music I like to listen to the most is his discography.
2. strategies for improvement
-writing a journal in English
-listening to songs with lyrics
-writing about music or series to improve my writing in English
-Make friends from different countries who speak English to practice.
make a dictionary with words I don't understand to learn more vocabulary - make a dictionary with words I don't understand to learn more vocabulary
3. I went to the Grammar Exercises page and practiced the irregular verbs since they are the ones you have to learn by heart.
4. I watched the video I Can Do These Things, which is about some of the things that Ron from Harry Potter can do, and the results showed that I understand the dialogues very well but I am a little slow in speaking.
5. in the suggested page I saw one of the first episodes of the simpsons and, in the fragment I saw, bart was trying to solve an intelligence test.
6. for this point I went to the Esl-lab page and solved one of their listening exercises.
at the intermediate level called baking cookies.
7. i listened to The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf
8. its a good tool to pratice , i think its very useful to get better my lintening and my reading
Juan Pablo Montoya Yepes
ReplyDelete1. I was listened to the eternal king of music, Michael Jackson, the genders that I love to listen, pop, soul, jazz, blues and all that variations and evolution of genders are a completely trip under the music sense.
2. I have tried some of the exercises that I found on the blog about grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading. My main deficiencies are about grammar, and the collection of sentences into the diversity in my vocabulary, talking specify about the verbs. The 5 strategies that I been thinking are.
a. Make a collection of things that I do in the daily time and put the specific name in each one. It can help me to memorize different verbs, objects, and a lot of vocabulary.
b. Learn how work the structure of language first in Spanish, talking about the times, how the sentences can change in the past, present, and future, depending on the situation, and after that I can understand how it works in Spanish, it will make me so easy the compression in English.
c. Have a daily conversation with me in my head using no commons situations and sentences.
d. Try to explain all the process that I do in my daily work in other languages.
e. Search the translation of all the things that I canāt translate in my head.
3. I use the link grammar exercises and I found that the most difficult grammar topic to me is about all the conditional, because I canāt identify when a sentence, or a phrase have one of the conditional parameters to include them.
4. I use the ELLLO platform, and I saw the video of manel from Algeria (what do you usually eat for breakfast?) and I think that Iām on a good level of listening, cause I can understand all the video, I can understand that the usually breakfast in Algeria is a similar French breakfast and the culture in general have a lot of same things, cause Algeria is a French colony.
5. I saw my favorite tv Serie, south park. I saw the tomĀ“s rhinoplasty episode, here talk about the surgery of Mr. garrison at tomĀ“s rhinoplasty office, and all the substitution on the school, and how all the kids fall in love of the new teacher, miss Ellen.
6. I did the activity of listening about music, in the link listen a minute, here talk about how the life without music would be, and the importance of music in our daily life.
7. I read and listen the story called Halloween at cafƩ, and it talk about how a little mouse helps to kick out the ghost of the seaside.
8. Is a very good tool, because it helps to comprehend some sentences and phrases that Is different how it sounds in my head.
Carolina Soto Zuluaga
ReplyDelete1- I really like the genre of pop and romantic music and thatĀ“s why i chose perfect by Ed Sheeran.
2- Strategies for improvement:
- It is good to focus on improving on the topics that are most difficult for me.
- I think it's a good strategy to constantly listen to music from my favorite singers.
- I would like to apply the strategy of searching for music with different levels of difficulty in order to analyze my progress in the language.
- watch movies with english subtitles
- read short texts in English and try to understand.
3- I did the exercise on Positive Sentences in Past Perfect Simple because it seems to me that it is a topic that I should improve.
4- I chose the video "when is your job interview?" and it seemed to me that it did not have that much level of difficulty and I was able to understand it.
5- I saw a fragment of the series "Anne with an E" where a woman told a man that he should go to the train station.
6- I did the ELLLO platform activity where I watched a video called "What is your idea for a movie?" and I practiced the reading part.
7- I heard the story of Birdy and the Chocolate Tree.
8- I found it to be a very useful tool that I would like to continue using.
_Jeisson Stiven Aristizabal Botero_ 2024- 2S
ReplyDelete1. I listened Back to Black, song of Amy Winehouse, because i think that is a great song. i don't have favorite genre listen many, but sung in english, country music is one of i would selected like a favorite.
2. The strategies I will implement to learn English would be:
Practice reading aloud.
Practice situations when i am alone. Imagine introducing yourself, disagreeing with someone's ideas, being interviewed or asking for information.
Imitate native speakersā writing. For instance, in writing a response to a personal note, look at the format.
Write a journal in English to record your daily life experiences.
try to find songs that match your goal and level. Do the songs contain the Vocabulary or Pronunciation features you want to practice, i want songs that tell a story, with a wide range of vocabulary.
3.I accessed "English Page", entered in the link of phrasal verbs because i think that those verbs are difficult to me and have many applications in daily activities.
4 In ."English Central," I watched a video called "Queen Elizabeth and Paddington Bear", my experiences whit listening is good, i have improve mi skill in this area and itās possible that my pronunciation been good too, but i am feeling without confiance to talk others in this language.
5. I watched some minutes of āStranger thingsā, chapter one, this begin presenting a man was scape of stranger creature who is running after and devoured him, next that scene is join whit other where four childrens are playing dungeons and dragons, they are the principal characters on this serie, one of those is scolded for his mother because they had played around eight hours and it was too late.
6. I entered in ELLLO, here i listen a video about āwhat comedians do you like?ā the link has some activities, i can read, play a game, learn new vocabulary and others.
7. I listened a story about easter named ā eggs and a rabbitā this story is about the some kids that are looking for chocolate eggs, then is happening a fire and one rabbit was trapt, the kids and firemen went to help.
8. this tool is very interesting and useful, natural reader is an emulator to different native voices, i can listen the same text in differents accents and compare, i can load a document or prepare a presentation in public that i need to do and improve my pronunciation
Angela Camila Conde H.
ReplyDelete1. I listened "Just the way you are" By Bruno Mars and my favorite music is balada pop in english and espanish.
2. I believe that my biggest difficulty is the vocabulary, speaking and listening.
- I am gonna do flashcards with sentences that I can remeber easily
- I will put the words in flashcards with their definitions.
- I will make friends from English spiking countries to practice my pronunciation.
- I will listen to songs in English and choose words that I can learn.
- I will practise reading aloud
3. I practiced vocabulary to higer education and Positive Sentences in Past Perfect on https://www.englishpage.com/
4. I watch the "I can do these things" video and my experience was a little bit good because I undertood much words.
5. I started the series "Emily in paris" for practice my listen and my experiences whit listening is a little bad. In the first episode Emily gets the job in paris and she moves to paris to start a new life style as a marketing agent .
6. I went in to listen for a minute. I did the lession "cats" and the activitty listening gap fill.
7. I listen: Sara went shopping.
8. I believe that this tool is very good to learn the pronunciation and listening.
Deisy Paola Duarte Higuita
ReplyDelete1. I don't like this tool, because i think, in this blog are better tools for to practice the pronunciation, like English central, i really like this.
2. vocabulary: listen records of words / Grammar: learn the rules when I donĀ“t understand very well and do exercises to prantice / listening: set a goal for myself and use songs because a like that kind of strategies / reading: i will read something with lots of pictures / speaking: i will practice situations when i will alone and practice play of roles when someone / writing: i will write films reviews.
3. I went to englishpage.com, I have a lot of problems with grammar, I understand most of the sentences but I don't know how to formulate them from scratch. for example how to convert the verbs depending the time.
4. I watched the video "When is your job interview?", my listening was very good, but my pronunciation was a bit slower and not very clear.
5. I watched the first episode of "Young Sheldon." In this episode, Sheldon starts high school. He's the youngest student in his class, because he's a little boy with a brilliant brain. He interrupts his teachers a lot, because he's a perfectionist, that's why the whole school doesn't like him there, but his parents talk to him and tell him that he can't be a perfectionist at school.
6. I maked the Esl-lab, I was to listen a recording and answered some questions about that audio, was very interesting, there are a lot of word that i dont understand very well.
7. I listened the story "A missing cat", was a little sad, because Mrs Brown are a old woman, and she loves her cat, but he never back.
8. I don't like this tool, because i think, in this blog are better tools for to practice the pronunciation, like English central, i really like this.
Oscar Dario GĆ³mez Chasoy
ReplyDelete1. I listened the son sugar of maroon 5 , and i tried in the level intermediate but i donĀ“t achieved finish them because i tried many mistakes, so i tried in the level begginers and i achieved finish.
2. I Will include these strategies for my PPW, because i consider that i must improve to speaking.
- learn the rules
- read something with losts of pictures.
- practice with Friends from English speaking countries.
- write a journal in English to record your daily life experiences.
- practice situations when I am alone.
3. Go to the website: https://www.englishpage.com/ and practice prepositions there since it is a topic that is difficult for me.
4. I chose the video talking about movies, it was difficult for me to speak and explain in the final part of the exercise, I must improve my pronunciation.
5. I watched a Game of thrones, a chapter called Winter is coming.
6. Enter the website: āELLLOā and i listenig the video called cut the Music in this chapter John and Sarah talk about how schools need to support the arts like music
7. I listened to a short story about Mrs. Brown's lost cat named Clyde.
8. I think that "natural reading tool" is a great help to do oral work, because I can modify the speed and practice my own pronunciation.
Hi, my name is Alejandro Loaiza Gallego and these are my answer.
ReplyDelete1). I practice my English to the song Rock you like a hurricane by the band Scorpions. The type of music i listen to most is rock.
2). Strategies:
- Make sentences using the word i am studying
- Be patient, it is difficult to remember all the rules in a short time.
- Learn English with a singer i enjoy listening to.
- Find songs with printed lyrics.
- Read something short and easy to begin.
3). I enter in the web page "https://www.englishpage.com". I have difficulty with the use of articles, gerunds and infinitives.
4). I saw the video about the movie "Mad max fury road". My pronunciation and listening abilities are deficient.
5). I saw the first episode about the tv serie called "Over the garden wall". This episode is about the journey of two brothers through a place called (The unknown). They are lost but are helped by a woodsman. Then they are attacked by a beast so the woodsman recommends them to go north.
6). I listened to the actors on a website called "Listen a minute".
7). I read the black cat, but there are a lot of words i donĀ“t know. it is a scary and interesting story.
8). This is an interesting tool because it allows you to practice pronunciation in a more natural way.
Thank you.
Hello, My name is Luis Eduardo Torres Tabares
ReplyDelete1) I practiced my English with several songs by the author "AVICII" which has song very good and with very plain vocabulary, perfect for study. The songs are "waiting for love", "the nights", "wake me up". etc. I achieved i achieved to do till the intermediate level without problems.
Mariana Botero PĆ©rez. 2024-2
ReplyDelete1. Iām practicing with the song āAct My Ageā by One Direction since itās one of my favorites from the bandāthough honestly, my real favorites are āEnd of the Dayā and āHappily.ā As for my taste in music, Iād say Iām into anarcho-punk and queer-punk right now (not even sure if that last one is a real genre). My music choices are super based on my mood, so I switch genres and artists randomly.
2. I checked out the English Grammar Reference page and realized I struggle with telling the grammar rules apart and knowing how to use them right. Iām also thinking of a few ideas to help with my other challenges:
Grammar: Go over a few rules each day with examples and try out some grammar apps.
Vocabulary: Use flashcards to keep up with new words and group similar ones together.
Listening: Start with audio at slower speeds if needed, then work up to normal speed without subtitles.
Reading: Start with easy stuff, focus on main ideas, and do a quick summary after.
Consistency: Set small weekly goals.
3. I checked out https://www.englishpage.com, and the use of gerunds and infinitives is pretty confusingāespecially since the grammar changes depending on the type of subject.
4. I watched the video "Protests" and felt pretty good about my listening skills; Iām comfortable with English audio.
5. I watched episode seven of the first season of *Shameless* (U.S.) because honestly, no matter how bad your day is, the Gallaghers always have it worse! Itās my āuncomfortable comfortā show. To sum it up: Fionaās stuck taking care of her siblings and Frank, while she has a decent boyfriend who doesnāt get her reality, and my favorite character is dealing with a pedophile or groomer (both terms work here).
6. I picked āI Donāt Want to Miss a Thingā for a fill-in-the-blanks exercise since it was my song for the dance at my 15th birthday.
7. The story I listened to was āA Murder-Suicideāāit sounded a lot like Poeās style but simpler.
8. Itās a great tool, especially since I tend to sound like Karol G in her first international interviews.
name: pedro naipe
ReplyDeletehello my name is Deivy Santiago Lafaux Moreno
ReplyDelete1. I chose the songs thiller a bad because michael jackson in the best
2.The following activity gives us some tips on learning strategies on how to improve either dramatic pronunciation, vocabulary, etc.
3. In this activity they teach us dramatic and pronunciation exercises.
present simple
past progressive and present perfect
4.The truth of these is by seeing I learned a little about listening and the sound when a
person speaks or sings.
5.the truth of osoro tv me and the sompsons and I learned how through comedy in English one can develop alternate knowledge of some present sentences in the video
6. In this part of the activity I learned how one can develop some positive and auditory aspects thanks to auditory comprehension.
7.This story tells us about how a lady realizes how her cat is straying in the city, a very
moving story.
8.This activity focuses on pronunciation, which is important since clear pronunciation helps increase confidence when communicating.
Answers blog
ReplyDelete1. I listened to my favorite song ĀØThis LoveĀØ by Camila Cabello. She is my favorite artist, and my favorite music is pop
2. If I want to learn English, I need to use some strategies like:
-Compose sentences with the words I am studying.
-I need to learn the rules.
-I will use natural word associations, such as opposites. For instance cold and hot, brother and sister.
-Record the words and their definitions..
-Read something short and easy, for example, news headlines and comics.
3. I used this page https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar and I practiced the irregular verbs activity because this topic is confusing for me.
4. I saw the video "Talking about celebrities". My listening and my pronunciation are good but I can do better.
5. I saw an episode of āAnne with an Eā, this one is about a little orphan girl who finds a home and is happy to belong to it.
6. I used the following website https://listeningingles.com and take the A2 level test.
7. I heard the story called āA missing catā.
8. I found it an interesting and very useful application to review for , we can improve our reading and listening skills.