Showing posts with label Education and Ways of Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education and Ways of Learning. Show all posts
Listening Comprehension: Education
January 26, 2017
THE BOOKMOBILE:
How a book changed my life
1. Watch the video and decide if the following statements about the girl in the video, Storm, are true or false.
1 She grew up in a poor family.
2 She owned a lot of books.
3 She found volcanoes really exciting.
4 She didn’t really enjoy reading.
5 When she was 15 she left the migrant camps.
2. Match the opinion adverbs on the left with their meaning on the right.
Functional Language: Expressions at School
January 4, 2017
Expressions at School
➜Beginning the class
- Hello! Hi! Good morning! Good afternoon!
- Take off your jackets, please. Close the door, please. Write the date on the board, please.
- Take out your books, please. Give out the books, please. Alicia, share your book with Laura, please.
- Exercise one at the top of page three. Activity two at the bottom of page three. Which exercise are we doing?
- Work in groups of three. Work in pairs. Work on your own.
- Have you done your homework?
- Juan isn’t here today. He is not well.
- Have you got a pencil? Can I borrow your rubber? Can you lend me a rubber, please?
- Ready? Let’s start. David, you start.
- What did you say Juan?
- Just a moment. Wait a minute. Hold on a second.
Vocabulary: Education
EDUCATION
Education:
Educational systems are established to provide education and training.
Formal education:
Formal education results from a program of instruction in an educational institution leading to a qualification / certification.
Basic Education:
Basic education refers to the whole range of educational activities taking place in various settings (formal, non formal and informal), that aim to meet basic learning needs. According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises primary education (first stage of basic education) and lower secondary education (second stage). In countries (developing countries in particular), Basic Education often includes also pre-primary education and/or adult literacy programs.Universal basic education is regarded as a priority for developing countries
Thanksgiving Day at School
What is Thanksgiving?
The Puritans were a group of English Protestants emerging around the mid-16thcentury who sought “to purify” the Church of England (Anglican Church) from the influence of the Catholic Church. They were persecuted by different English monarchies for criticizing the religious corruption of the Church of England. When King James I established that it was a crime not to belong to the Church of England, a group of Separatists fled from England to Holland in 1607. Later, they came to America aboard the Mayflower and founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620. This particular group of Separatists are also known as “Pilgrims” or “Pilgrim Fathers".
After signing the Compact, the Mayflower passengers explored the Cape Cod area and decided to settle down in a location they named Plymouth after the harbour in England from where they left. The historic landing took place on December 21, 1620. During the first year the Pilgrims went through all kinds of problems. The diseases, the lack of food, and the harsh winter conditions killed many of them. The Wampanoag Indians teach the Pilgrims good fishing spots and farming techniques which they soon begin to employ.
In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest inviting the Wampanoag tribe to three days of feasting. The President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed “Thanksgiving Day” a nationwide holiday on November 26, 1789. Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States “the fourth Thursday of November” to honour the memory of the Pilgrims.
Pronunciation: What Is Intonation?
What is intonation?
Intonation and stress are closely linked. In fact it's impossible to dissociate them. They go hand in hand.Intonation is about how we say things, rather than what we say, the way the voice rises and falls when speaking, in other words the music of the language.
Just as words have stressed syllables, sentences have regular patterns of stressed words. In addition, the voice tends to rise, fall or remain flat depending on the meaning or feeling we want to convey (surprise, anger, interest, boredom, gratitude, etc.). Intonation therefore indicates the mood of the speaker.
There are two basic patterns of intonation in English: falling intonation and rising intonation.
In the following examples a downward arrow (➘) indicates a fall in intonation and an upward arrow (➚) indicates a rise in intonation.
Again, these are not rules but patterns generally used by native speakers of English. Just remember that content words are stressed, and intonation adds attitude or emotion.