Dear Learners!
Welcome to Week 6! This week’s topic is Summer Safety. Lots to talk about!
Have you noticed that the tasks and the learning materials are getting more and more challenging? We started with introductions and summer plans and now we are onto infographics and presentations!
Check out Week 6 on the wiki for information about:
- Making infographics
- Using imperative structures
- Talking about rain dates (a date in the rain? Nope, it’s an idiom…)
- Practising connected speech
Weekly Language Rendezvous
This week’s classes are super exciting – > it’s the Online Folklorama week. Yesterday morning we had a class with two wonderful presentations about Russia and Spain. That was all the class time allowed for, but we continued last night at 8pm and listened to one more wonderful presentation about Kazakhstan.
We’re going to continue next week with your presentations. If you haven’t had a chance to practise your presentation skills yet, you still have time:) It’s fun to try, you won’t regret!
To join our classes, to present and/or to lurk, log in to your account, go to Notices and look for the Notice called ‘Weekly Language Rendezvous’. You will find the link to the classes there.
Weekly Podcast
Let’s review the pronunciation of some English words used by presenters during yesterday’s Online Folkorama classes. To listen to the podcast, click the Play button.
Here is a list of words from the podcast:
- Rendezvous
- Stereotype
- Diverse
- Multicultural
- Basis
- Satellite
- Artificial
- Earth
- Astronauts
- Cosmonaut
- Temperature
- Climate
- Literature
- Architecture
After listening, make your own recording. Say the words and then put them in sentences. Upload your recording to My e-CLPA/Language Samples.
Program Skills Assessment
Have you taken the Program Skills Assessment yet? Go to My e-CLPA/Program Skills Assessment. This tool will help you create a learning roadmap for the rest of the course. It will also secure your Certificate of Participation if you want one. See Update 4 for more information.
Highlights
- What did you do over the long weekend? Any new pictures or event descriptions? Please share with us.
- Iwona went to a gallery and here’s what she wrote about the experience http://mylifetravels.wordpress.com/ Feel free to comment on her blog post.
- Daria’s blog post about her trip to Corfu http://reedovad.blogspot.ru/2013/08/my-first-week-of-summer.html Leave a comment for Daria too!