Journal Question # 8

A person you know is planning to move to your town or city. What do you think this person would like and dislike about living in your town or city? Why? Use specific reasons and details to develop your response.

Journal Question #7

What is the most important thing that we need to teach children? Use details in your response.

Review: Sentence Structure

Please review the four sentence types in English and the possible ways to create each of them at this Web site on Advanced Technical Writing by the University of Idaho.

Journal Question #6

What is something that you wish you could be talented at, and why? Use reasons and details to support your response.

Journal Question #5

Where would you like to be professionally in ten years? Use details to support your response.

Review: Basic Paragraph Structure

Please review this website on Basic Paragraph Structure and consider this information when posting your responses to the journal questions. (Topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence.) Have a great weekend!

Journal Question # 4

What are the characteristics of a good parent? Use reasons and details to support your response.

Journal Question #3

"Dad, should I be a baseball player or a rock-n-roll star?"

If you could have any job or profession, what would you be? Use reasons and details to support your response.

Journal Question # 2

Watch this video "One Semester of Spanish Love Song" and reflect. How did you feel when you were first learning English? Use illustrations and examples in your response.

Journal Question #1

What does your dream house look like? Use details to support your response.

Welcome back!

Click here for a reminder for basic blogging!

Our Group

Your Blogs from the WebQuest

Here are your blogs from the WebQuest Mrs. Garrison's Spanish Class. Be sure to leave your comments for each of your classmates as comments on their blogs. Congratulations on your hard work!

Zacatecas
Conchita- travel agent (Maria Concepcion Zepeda Navarro)
Polo- tour guide (Apolonio Quezada Corona)
Mago- cultural attaché (Margarita Carrillo Montes)
http://westminercityzacatecas.blogspot.com/

Mexico City
Blanquita- tour guide (Blanca Rosa Lozada Ruiz)
Tere- travel agent (Teresa Serrano Navarro)
Patty- cultural attaché (Patricia Quijas Martinez)
http://ixtlazihuatl.blogspot.com/

Veracruz
Tere- travel agent (Maria Teresa Ramirez Barba)
Gaby- cultural attaché (Gabriela Veyna Martinez)
Guille- tour guide (Guille Gonzalez Salazar)
http://visitveracruz.blogspot.com/

Michoacan
Cathy- tour guide (Cathalina Huerta Urzua)
Ale- travel agent (Maria Alejandra Hernandez Haro)
Patty- cultural attaché (Laura Patricia Alvarez Carrillo)
Gustavo- cultural attaché (Gustavo Gutierrez)
http://travelingaroundmexico.blogspot.com

Guanajuato
Ma Wing- tour guide (Maria Luisa Mawing Gomez)
German- cultural attaché (German Soto Ruiz)
Ruth- travel agent (Ruth Gonzalez)
http://homeworkguanajuatotour.blogspot.com/

Jalisco
Danny-cultural attaché (Juan Daniel Murillo Porras)
Lolita- travel agent (Maria Dolores Ortiz Moreno)
Anahy- tour guide (Ana Irene Sierra Velazquez)
http://wonderjaliscostate.blogspot.com/

Coahuila
Patricia- tour guide (Patricia Cabrales Curiel)
Mary Lu- cultural attaché (Maria de la Luz Avila Vega)
Lupita- travel agent Guadalupe Alicia Meneses Acedo)
http://coahuilatour.blogspot.com/

Nayarit
Vicky- cultural attaché (Victoria Alicia Morales Gomar)
Gina- tour guide (Lorena Georgina Gutierrez Godinez)
Miraya- travel agent (Bertha Miraya Zuniga Cueva)
http://beautifulnayarit.blogspot.com/

Listening to a PODCAST

Follow the steps below to listen to a podcast. For this exercise, we are going to listen to ESL Podcast #325 - Describing People's Moods.

1. Go to http://www.eslpod.com/website/index.php and scroll down to Podcast #325.
2. Right click on the "Podcast" icon under the title of that post.
3. Select "Save target as" and choose a place on your pc to save the file (desktop?).
4. Wait while the file downloads and open it when complete.
5. Media Player (or similar) should launch and play the podcast.
   

NOTE: The "Audio Index" tells you where on the counter of the file each part of the podcast can be found. Each podcast on this site contains a deliberately slow reading of the dialog, an explanations section where idioms and vocabulary are carefully explained by a narrator, a "fast dialog," or a reading of the dialog at a normal rate for native speakers. The script is also written out for you on the Web site.

While you can decide what works best for you, I highly recommend you first try to listen to the "fast dialog" by forwarding on the play bar your Media player to the right place (10:50 on Podcast #325) once or twice before listening to the slow dialog or explanations. See how much you understand, but remember, these are written with idioms and phrasal verbs you are not necessarily expected to know.
Good luck and have fun!

Your WebQuest

Mrs. Garrison's Spanish Class

Click on the link above and read all the information on that site. We will talk about the project tomorrow (and answer any questions you might have), so be prepared to form groups of three and agree on roles and projects within each group. We will present these projects late next week.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - 1948 Cartoon

Watch this early cartoon about Rudolph. (It's only about 8 minutes long.) Listen for the words that rhyme and also notice how the structure words are said quickly and unclearly. When you want to have a look, click on "comments" at the bottom of this post to see the script for this video ; ) Also, be sure to add your own comment about the video. Do you like the story? What do you think is the message to kids?