English Teaching

sábado, 15 de agosto de 2020

How to write an essay?

How to write an essay?

What is it an essay?

An essay is an extended piece of writing whose purpose is to present a particular point of view. It could be defined as academic writing to validate, analyze, interpret, or set facts regarding a particular issue. Lozano, L. (2020).

Types of essays:

· Literary essay.

· Argumentative essay.

· Scientific essay.

· Expository essay.

· Philosophical essay.

· Critical essay.

· Sociological essay.

· Historical essay.

· Descriptive essay

· Synoptic essay

· Analytical essay

· Exploratory essay

· Review essay

Steps to write an Essay

1. Decide the kind of essay you want to write:

· Do you want to write an argumentative, descriptive, synoptic, analytical, exploratory, or a review essay? What is your purpose?

2. Brainstorm and Research your essay topic.

Be sure you have a clear vision of your topic. Then, write an introduction to begin your essay, at least two or three body paragraphs to develop the introduction, and a conclusion to end the essay. Use transitions to help the readers understand the organization of the ideas. Phillips, D. (2001).

3. Develop a thesis:

· Do you want to present your point of view and persuade your readers?

4. Edit your essay:

· Did you support your ideas, give examples, reasons, facts, and details?

· Did you stick to vocabulary and sentence structures you know?

· Are you sure about your spelling, and grammar?

5. Evaluate your essay:

5. Do you have very strong organizational, structural, and grammatical skills?

4. Do you have good organizational, structural, and grammatical skills?

3. Do you have adequate organizational, structural, and grammatical skills? Does your essay contain errors?

2. Do you show evidence of organizational, structural, and grammatical skills that still need to be improved?

1. Do you show a minimal ability to convey ideas in written English?

References:

Lozano, L. (2020). How to write an essay?

Phillips, D. (2001). Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test. Second Edition. New York. Pearson Education Editorial.

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How to write an essay?

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viernes, 24 de junio de 2016

PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS TO DEVELOP ENGLISH READING SKILLS IN EIGTH GRADERS STUDENTS

Taller 1: A lost dog:

OBJETIVO: Practicar para mejorar el nivel de comprensión lectora en inglés de los estudiantes de 8º.

IMAGINE

I. Imagine you have a pet you love a lot and answer the following questions:

Do you have a pet?
What’s his/her name?
What would you do if you lose it?
What do people do when they lose their pets?

MATCH

II. Before Reading. Now click the link above: Look at the poster for a lost dog and do the exercises to practice to improve your reading skills.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/lost-dog

Do these exercises before you read.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/lost-dog

III. Lee el siguiente texto y responde los interrogantes:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/lost-dog

1. Check your understanding: True or False

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/lost-dog

2. Check your understanding: gap fill

3. Check your understanding: error correction

CREATE

IV. Select from our PLE the appropriate tool to creat a poster for a lost pet.

Taller 2: Thank-you email:

Look at the email and do exercises to practice to improve your reading skills.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/thank-you-email

OBJETIVO: Practicar para mejorar el nivel de comprensión lectora en inglés de los estudiantes de 8º.

IMAGINE

I. Before Reading

1. Imagine that in your last birthday you received the gift you always wanted, but the person is not in your city, he sends it with one of your relative.

2. What is it?

3. What would you say?

4. What would you do?

II. Do these exercises before you read.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/thank-you-email

MATCH

III. Lee el siguiente texto y responde los interrogantes:

1. Check your understanding: True or False you-email

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/thank-you-email

2. Check your understanding: Matching

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/thank-you-email

3. Check your understanding: grouping

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/thank-you-email

CREATE

I. Select from our PLE the appropriate tool to write an e-mail to thank someone to give you something or say something nice about.

Taller 3: At the restaurant: Look at the menu and do exercises to practice to improve your reading skills.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/restaurant

OBJETIVO: Practicar para mejorar el nivel de comprensión lectora en inglés de los estudiantes de 8º.

IMAGINE

1.. Before Reading

· Answer the following questions:

1. Imagine you are in an international restaurant, how would you call the waiter?

2. What kind of food would you ask for?

3. How would you ask for each type of food?

4. What expressions would you use to ask for the bills?

· Do these exercises before you read.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/restaurant

MATCH

II. Lee el siguiente texto y responde los interrogantes:

Reading:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/restaurant

2. Check your understanding: True or False you-email

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/restaurant

3. Check your understanding: grouping

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/restaurant

CREATE

III. Select from our PLE the appropriate tool to creat a menu you hope to see in an international restaurant, and do poster of that restaurant to present it to your classmates.

Taller 4: At the swimming pool: Read the swimming pool poster and do the exercises to improve your reading skills.

1. Before Reading

· Answer the following questions:

1. Imagine you are at the swimming pool, what kind of clothes are you wearing?

2. Who are you with?

3. What are you doing now?

4. What activities can you do at the pool?

· Do these exercises before you read.

MATCH

1. . Lee el siguiente texto y responde los interrogantes:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/swimming-pool

2. . Check your understanding: grouping

· Do this exercise while you read

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice/swimming-pool

3. Check your understanding: True or False you-email

CREATE

III. Select from our PLE the appropriate tool to creat a list of rules to keep in at a swimming pool, and do poster to present it to your classmates.

Evidence of Students' PLE

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Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert

Contest Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert

Questions:

1. Why do you consider yourself to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert?

I consider myself to be a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert because in my classes I use a range of tools created by Microsoft to facilitate the teaching learning process. We are studying how to use outlook.com, onedrive, office, sky, Xbox, bing, MSN, store and other Microsoft tools to have a better succeed English learning process. Moreover, in the project “English and ICT as an opportunity to form global citizens, as well as in the proposal I know my city, its history culture and society and in others works that I develop with my students the use of Microsoft technology has been really important to succeed. It helps me to motivate my pupils to learn and at the same time to encourage them to build knowledge, do collaborative work and develop their critical thinking. I work with synchronous tools and asynchronous tool as e-mails and blogs to teach and share information not only in the classroom, even outside of it. In order to describe and illustrate how I can do this, I will talk about a project in which my learners are working now, its name is: I know my city, its history, culture and society, the proposal is a school scenery which takes into account the theories of contextual learning to develop reading skills and text production in native language and in English. In the English classes and through interviews to the community members, consulting in books and on the web, students read and write in English and Spanish about Monteria's, history, culture and society. The objective of the project is to write an e-book, it will serve as educational tool to teach and learn about Montería City. Therefore, a lesson plan to continue working in the project could be:

2. Describe a lesson you have taught in which you have incorporated Microsoft technologies in innovative ways.

GRADE: 7° Subject: English I.H 2 hours per week PERIOD: IV (fourth Period of classes)

TOPIC:

COMMUNICATION: Talk about my neighborhood.

WARM UP: I am going to elicit students to know their previous knowledge about the class topic.

FINAL ASSESSMENT:

Students are going to:

1. Prepare an interview to some leaders of the community to ask for the history of their neighborhood (They should use Microsoft Office applications: Microsoft office word, Microsoft office excel or other application to design the format). In addition, they should expand the information they get through the interview consulting in books and on internet.

2. Do the interview and record it. (Use moviemaker to edit it).

3. Organize posters to socialize the history of your neighborhood in the school (Find out what Microsoft tools can help you to do the posters).

4. Do a Microsoft Power Point Online presentation to show all the results of the investigation about the history of Montería and their neighborhoods.

Note: The teacher is going to give instruction, check and explain each point.

FINAL ASSESSMENT: Students are going to be evaluated in each point of the class, especially during their final performance.

3. How do you think being an MIE Expert will impact your teaching?

In my point of view being an MIE Expert will impact my teaching, since it will give me more opportunities to be trained in the use of the most innovative Micrisoft Tools to improve the teaching learning process. Moreover, I will have the chance to socialize my projects with colleagues from all over the world as well as learn from their experiences. Therefore, I want to get the prize and recognition and the benefits that Microsoft offer to teachers through this contest:

Opportunities for professional development and certification.
Share my experience with educators and renowned specialists.
Participate in focus groups that provide information to product development teams of Microsoft.
Try new products Microsoft in beta.
Collaborate with innovative educators around the world through Skype in the classroom.
Becoming a regional host in the events that show the Microsoft technology in the classroom.

It’ is important to say that I use ICT as much as I can. I say to my students that people who speak English and use technology properly have the doors of the world opens and more opportunities that those who don’t do it.

Equally important is to relate some links to access to some blogs and videos as evidence of my work and projects that I have designed and implemented in the school.

http://levisenglishteacher.blogspot.com.co/

http://monteriacapitalganadera.blogspot.com.co/

http://mamuelruiz.blogspot.com.co/