Marzo 22 2013

Actividades de desarrollo de habilidades de lectura.
Segundo bloque Lengua Adicional al Español. IV. Present perfect tense

Usar material real: revistas, novelas, cuentos, ofrece muchas ventajas:
1._ El alumno lee,  entra en contacto con muchos significados, formas, estructuras gramaticales que en clase tal vez nunca se hubieran explicado.
2._ Se convierte en un proceso íntimo, como lo es el aprendizaje. Cada cerebro tiene múltiples Conexiones neuronales distintas estimuladas de manera diferente.
3._ Jamás sabremos si esa experiencia detona en el alumno curiosidades o caminos diferentes en su vida.
4._ En esta actividad, de manera simultánea entra en contacto con todo lo que ha aprendido, revalorando lo que sabe y evaluando lo que desconoce aún.

Actividad: Identificación de tiempo gramatical, conectores y vocabulario.

1._ Se le entrega a cada alumno, una revista o el material de lectura.
2._ Se escribe en el pizarron las actividades a realizarse:

1._ Find 10 connectors: however, furthermore, so, then, etc.

2.- Find 20 phrasal verbs: get over, get into, call over, turn on,  expressed  in any time.

3._ Find 20 sentences expressing  perfect present time.

4. Write down the three  lists  on your notebook. They will  be part of  your portfolio.

5.- In the meantime, write  down all the new words, They will integrate your second  glossary. (100 words that you dont understand o know).

Phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs are not easy to Master. Two words verbs, idioms are other names.If a student is able to integrate them in his o her vocabulary, then he or she is  fluent in English.
Today, most  of the group helped in a community labor, so the clase was very quiet.
Yesterday I asked them to bring magazines, scissors and glue.
We started with  a 16 pages list that alphabetically enlists and describe hundreds of Two words verbs.
They had to choose an image that represents one phrasal verb untill the had ten to 15. They chose the easiest ones.

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Let go of your stiff death grip on the lectern and learn how to make your speeches interesting through body language.

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The human body contains more than 700 muscles, but few of those are used by speakers – except when using their arms and fingers in a life-preserving clutch of lecterns and laser pointers or frenetically clicking on PowerPoint slides. Speakers tend to focus most of their efforts in search of the perfect word to illustrate their precious points, despite overwhelming evidence proving that, in fact, our bodies speak louder than words.

Your effectiveness as a speaker is directly related to your ability to invoke emotion and interest through the use of non-verbal communication. Your listeners judge you and your message based on what they see as well as what they hear. In public speaking, your body can be an effective tool for adding emphasis and clarity to your words. It’s also your most powerful instrument for convincing an audience of your sincerity, earnestness and enthusiasm. Whether your purpose is to inform, persuade, entertain, motivate or inspire, your body language and the personality you project must be appropriate to what you say. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” So be sure your appearance, posture and attire is appropriate as well.

Here’s how you can incorporate appropriate body language into your speeches:

• Start with eye contact. Being prepared – having control of your message – is a prerequisite for being able to project and establish a bond with the audience. Don’t just pass your gaze throughout the room; try to focus on individual listeners and create a bond with them by looking them directly in the eyes for five to 10 seconds.
• Smile!
• Express emotion with your facial muscles. For inspiration, take a look at the The Human Face, a BBC documentary narrated by John Cleese of Monty Python fame, now available on DVD.
• Avoid distracting mannerisms – have a friend watch as you practice and look for nervous expressions such as fidgeting, twitching, lip biting, key jingling, hands in pockets or behind the back.
• Telling a story? Highlight the action verbs and look for ways to act out one or more parts. Speaking about marathon running? Run a few steps.
• Stay true to your personality. Don’t copy gestures from a book or other speaker, but respond naturally to what you feel and say.
• Make gestures convincing. Every hand gesture should be total body movement that starts from the shoulder – never from the elbow. Half-hearted gestures look artificial.
• Vary your speaking position by moving from one spot on the stage to another. For example, walk to the other side of the stage as you move to a new topic or move toward the audience as you ask a question.

Toastmasters International - Gestures: Get Moving!

Toastmasters International - Gestures: Get Moving!

Maya Angelou

    A Brave and Startling Truth    Maya Angelou American Poet, Author and Actress   We, this people, on a small and lonely planet  Traveling through casual space  Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns  To a destination where all signs tell us  It is possible and imperative that we learn  A brave and startling truth  And when we come to it  To the day of peacemaking  When we release our fingers  From fists of hostility  And allow the pure air to cool our palms  When we come to it  When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate  And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean  When battlefields and coliseum  No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters  Up with the bruised and bloody grass  To lie in identical plots in foreign soil  When the rapacious storming of the churches  The screaming racket in the temples have ceased  When the pennants are waving gaily  When the banners of the world tremble  Stoutly in the good, clean breeze  When we come to it  When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders  And children dress their dolls in flags of truce  When land mines of death have been removed  And the aged can walk into evenings of peace  When religious ritual is not perfumed  By the incense of burning flesh  And childhood dreams are not kicked awake  By nightmares of abuse  When we come to it  Then we will confess that not the Pyramids  With their stones set in mysterious perfection  Nor the Gardens of Babylon  Hanging as eternal beauty  In our collective memory  Not the Grand Canyon  Kindled into delicious color  By Western sunsets  Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe  Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji  Stretching to the Rising Sun  Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,  Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores  These are not the only wonders of the world  When we come to it  We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe  Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger  Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace  We, this people on this mote of matter  In whose mouths abide cankerous words  Which challenge our very existence  Yet out of those same mouths  Come songs of such exquisite sweetness  That the heart falters in its labor  And the body is quieted into awe  We, this people, on this small and drifting planet  Whose hands can strike with such abandon  That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living  Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness  That the haughty neck is happy to bow  And the proud back is glad to bend  Out of such chaos, of such contradiction  We learn that we are neither devils nor divines  When we come to it  We, this people, on this wayward, floating body  Created on this earth, of this earth  Have the power to fashion for this earth  A climate where every man and every woman  Can live freely without sanctimonious piety  Without crippling fear  When we come to it  We must confess that we are the possible  We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world  That is when, and only when  We come to it. This poem was written and delivered in honor of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. � Maya Angelou, from A Brave And Startling Truth

Modals, connectors and conditionals

Can't step in my way
head first in your love and dismay
It's like beating the dead
I can't stop going out of my head
whatever this could be I'd never know,
I never said it'd be the end all to be all
Provided that...
If happy ever after did exist
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairytales are full of shit
One more fucking love song I'll be sick
but also...
I want you to know with everything I won't let this go
These words are my heart and soul
I'd hold on to this moment you know
As I bleed my heart out to show and I won't let go
Even if...
there'll be no sunlight if I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies if I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds,my eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday, it will rain,rain, rain
provided that...
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for ya, baby
But you won't do the same
But also...
Everyday I Wake Up Next To A Angel
More Beautiful Than Words Could Say
They Said It Wouldn't Work But What Did They Know?
Cause Years Passed And We're Still Here Today
Never In My Dreams Did I Think That This Would Happen To me
Either...
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
But also...
Now possibilities I'd never considered
Are occurring the likes of which I'd never heard
Now an angry soul comes back from beyond the grave
To repossess a body with which I'd misbehaved

Martin R 407

Sum41, Evanescence, Bruno Mars, Avenged Sevenfold y Maroon 5

second conditional in songs

If you could read my mind…

If you could read my mind I could show you that

There is a thin line between the dark side and the light side


but if you were with me, that wouldn't be necessary to classify.

If I had you, then money fame and fortune never could compete, according to my love you are all I want, all I need, if you were a house I would live in you all my days, if you were a preacher I’d begin to change my ways, as if you could read my mind, love, 
 what a tale my thoughts would tell and as soon as the heartache comes the hero would be you, heroes often fail

Never thought I could feel this way


If only you could read my mind...