Saturday, July 16, 2016

Second Semester




It is so exciting to start a new stage. I invite you to challenge yourself setting high expectations for this journey we'll embark. 

Some of my expetations for this journey are: 

  1. Guide my students throughout this learning adventure. 
  2. Bring new and meaningful material to learn. 
  3. Help my students neutralize their accent and get acquainted with the sounds of English. 
  4. Develop conversation skills for real life situations. 
  5. Use varied resources for the learning process. 
  6. Take advantage of this opportunity and ENJOY it!
How about yourself?
Share 5 expectations you have for this course.

30 comments:

  1. Hello, thank you for being dynamic.
    My expectations for this course are:
    1. Try to speak more fluently in english
    2. Increase my vocabulary and idioms
    3. Reduce my grammar mistakes.
    4. improve my pronunciation
    5. Be able to understand more accents, rythms, and specializied topics.
    6. Try to read more in english, like relax literature, novels, biographys, design articles, fashion articles, etc.
    It were 6 instead of 5, and I could continue finding more things to improve in english even in spanish.
    So I see you next Saturday, and thanks for the challenge of the blog.

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  2. Thank you very much for sharing Karla.
    Setting more expectations is not bad at all. In fact, the more you expect, the harder you'll push yourself to work. I really appreciate you participation in our blog. That is a great way to increase your vocabulary. I will definitely support you and provide advice on how to work on other areas.
    Maybe other Pioneers can share what they're doing to improve. Am I right?

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  3. Is interesting how we learn more and more, and it's a wounderfull have the oportunity to share what I think. My 5 expectation are: 1. I suscribe a vocabulary page that Betzy recomended. 2. Think in english 3. Don't use a traslator because i want to learn from my mistakes, if i wrote wrong a few word please led me know. 4. It's a challenge practices with my classmate our conversation in recesses. And 5. The time is depend us. See you tomorow and TGF (thanks god is friday) for all of you

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    1. Congratulations for implementin your action plan!!!
      I am happy to hear you won't use the translator. When you cheat, you deceive yourself.
      And every action you take definitely depends on you! Thank you for accepting the challenge.

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  4. I have a question. Why I and Delmy have the sign of B (blogger) in our comments, You Betzy have your avatar, Yeshua has his picture. Is it because Yeshua used the google plus, Delmy and I the blogspot.com and you Betzabe, Is your avatar as a the picture that Yeshua used. Am I right?

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    1. I am sorry I did not get beck to you Karlita. I am glad you were able to figure it out!

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  5. Now I have my picture, yes it´s because I personalize my blog after I made my first post. Thank you guys.

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  6. get vocabulary.

    practice my pronuntiation

    get experience for speak more faster.

    and of course learn English very Well.

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    1. And remember that the best way to achieve it is to use the language as much as you can.

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  7. My expectations when I finished this course are:

    1. Get more vocabulary
    2. Speak Fluency
    3. Better pronunciation
    4. Write & Read more in english.

    See you tomorrow.

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    1. Nice, I will be more than happy to help thrugh the process!

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  8. A lot of discipline is necessary.
    You can do it Delmy!

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  9. Hello! First, I have to say I really like the class.

    I hope be able to:
    1. Learn more vocabulary
    2. Speak fluently
    3. Improve my pronunciation
    4. Improve my listening
    5. Speak with bilingual people

    ... and of course enjoy the journey :o)

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    1. I am so happy to hear you have liked our class! It will definitely be an exciting journey. You will notice how all your skills improve. However, it is important to have an action plan. Don't forget to complete yours!

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  10. Hi guys, I´m so happy because today I started an english reading. Maybe it´s a complicated book, and surely I´ll need to re read it.
    But meanwhile I´m learning a lot of vocabulary, so I have a question for you Miss. Give me some examples to understand each of the terms, but using each one in diferent ways or sentences without having to memorize each one.

    This weekend I went to the book fair, so I bought the Human Action of Ludwig von Mises. That´s my english book. I always wanted to read it.

    But while I was writing this, my dougther read it, and she corrected my puctuation and asked me "Mom, have they ever tougth you the FANBOYS?" And she explained me that one of the use of the commas has to be to use it only after a FANBOYS, and FANBOYS is the acronym of:
    For
    And
    Nor
    But
    Or
    Yet
    So,

    So I understand that I must use a comma after one of this words.

    See you.

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    1. it's a great tip Karla, thanks you for share it

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    2. FANBOYS are incredible Karla. They help us sound coherent. We will definitely be learning more conjunctions. In fact, I will provide a copy this Saturday!
      About a technique on learning words withour necessarily memorizing them I'd advise you to watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGfYBS9E9iQ

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    3. Hi Karla!!!
      thanks for the information...

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  11. Wow! Thanks for the tip Karla... and congrats for your new book!

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  12. Hi everyone! I understood that we must to participate in this blog, so, I have a question... Do we have to wait a special topic?

    In the meantime I say hi to all of you.

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  13. Milly, did you recived an email from Betzy, she send the presentation, in the last slide said bouth things: 1) answer a interview question, and 2) describe one paragraph ourselves

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    1. Thank you Yeshua,
      I updated the activity.

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    2. Hi! Thanks a lot Yeshua! I do received it. But I continue with the doubt... Do we have to do this? (I mean interview question and describe ourselves?)

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  14. If you don't received the email, i can forward you, give me your address.

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  15. To weeks ago, I completed a personal test in my work, and I received my results, it's a description of me, and i think is a great moment to share all of you

    Characteristics
    • Quick task-oriented thinker, not focused on feelings.
    • An innovative future-oriented individualist, focused on action and supervision.
    • Critical of yourself and others.
    • You want to deliver as many unique personal achievements as possible; you aim for the out of the ordinary.

    Motives
    • You are positively motivated when you can go after unique personal successes and career ambitions.
    • You are demotivated when you are unable to achieve any personal successes or cannot meet your own objectives.

    Talents with people
    • You have an independent attitude and approach; you do not require the approval of others.
    • You can work around others tactically to achieve what you want.
    • You can take objective decisions and do not allow yourself to be guided by your emotions.

    My personal style pattern matches that of the PIONEER, I'm focused on the future and always on the lookout for challegning tasks.

    Now you know whats meaning a PIONEER, is purely coincidental

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    1. I have enjoyed reading your results my dear Yeshua.
      "Pioneer" huh? What a suitable name for our team!
      I will be very careful with your motives. I would be very sad if you lose motivation in my class, so help me help you keep up your motivation levels.
      I invite you to partcipate in the updated version of this week's blog!

      Take good care!

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    2. Well Done yeshua!!!!
      contratulation...

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  16. Hi Miss!!!!!

    My expectations are:

    1. Speak more fluently english

    2. Learn more vocabulary

    3. Understanding more accents because for my is very difficult

    4. Better pronunciation, (Thanks for the tip, now i can said think, three, thirty correctly and the other words,

    5. And of course to share whit all of you

    bye and have a nice day


    Pía




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