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    6月24日

    FINAL EXAM (HIGH INTERMEDIATE)

    Hi, guys!

     

    This is your final exam.  Get ready because you're going to be consulting some information from the internet.  You can use any search engine like google, msn or yahoo:

     
    1. People's opinion about Barack Obama.
    2. The latest polls concerning Obama's popularity (you can look for February's polls).
    3. What are Obama's plans regarding USA's relationship with Mexico?  

    When you finish with this consult, you'll need to do the following:

    1. Open a WORD DOCUMENT and report what you discovered using INDIRECT SPEECH (For example:  "Some people said that Obama wasn't doing the great job he had promised.")  Write 5 sentences using indirect speech.
    2. In the same WORD DOCUMENT, write your opinion about the following questions:
    • What could happen if Obama weren't able to achieve everything he promised?
    • What would you do if an American company offered you a job in these days of economical crisis?
    • What would have happened if George Bush had been a different type of president?.

     

    When you're finished, WRITE your opinion about the following video:  http://www.clarin.com/shared/v8.1/swf/fullscreen_video.html?archivo=http://videosfla.uigc.net/2008/07/29/rp.flv ... Remember:  You'll get extra points for each INDIRECT SPEECH or CONDITIONAL example that you use to speak with.  Please try to make your opinion at least 1 page long.

    In the end, you only need to send me two things in the same word document: 

    • The 5 sentences and your opinions to the questions.
    • Your opinion about the video.(1 page)
    Remember my e-mail address:  hugorimada@hotmail.com
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    3月20日

    FINAL EXAM (INTERMEDIATE)

    Hi, guys!

     

    This is your final exam.  Get ready because you're going to be consulting some information from the internet.  You can use any search engine like google, msn or yahoo:

     
    1. People's opinion about Barack Obama.
    2. The latest polls concerning Obama's popularity (you can look for February's polls).
    3. What are Obama's plans regarding USA's relationship with Mexico?  

    When you finish with this consult, you'll need to do the following:

    1. Open a WORD DOCUMENT and report what you discovered using INDIRECT SPEECH (For example:  "Some people said that Obama wasn't doing the great job he had promised.")  Write 5 sentences using indirect speech.
    2. In the same WORD DOCUMENT, write your opinion about the following questions:
    • What could happen if Obama weren't able to achieve everything he promised?
    • What would you do if an American company offered you a job in these days of economical crisis?
    • What would have happened if George Bush had been a different type of president?
    • Write 2 wishes that American people have right now.

     

    When you're finished with the word document, please open a SOUND RECORDER file and record your opinion about the following video:  http://www.clarin.com/shared/v8.1/swf/fullscreen_video.html?archivo=http://videosfla.uigc.net/2008/07/29/rp.flv ... Remember:  You'll get extra points for each WISH, INDIRECT SPEECH or CONDITIONAL example that you use to speak with.

    In the end, you only need to send me two things: 

    • The WORD DOCUMENT with 5 sentences and your opinions to the questions.
    • The SOUND FILE with your voice stating your opinion about the video.

    Remember my e-mail address:  hugorimada@hotmail.com

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    FINAL EXAM (BEGINNERS)

    Hi, guys!

     

    This is your final exam.  All you need to do is open a WORD DOCUMENT and type the following:

     
    1. Write 5 things that you are going to do this year.  (ex. "I am going to sleep all year.")
    2. Write 5 things that the members of your family are going to do this year too.  (ex. "My brother is going to get married this year.")
    3. When you finish, use the SOUND RECORDER (or "grabador de sonido") to record the following:    First, read the 10 sentences.  Then, explain 2 of them.  Speak about all the details and give your opinion about these future projects.  

    (For example:  "I am going to take a vacation in Hawaii.  I have the tickets and I have the reservations now.  Hawaii is very nice because the weather is hot and sunny.  I want to stay in a very nice hotel and I am going to go shopping to the malls.  Then, I'm going to see the volcanos and I'm going to drink some typical drinks.  Etc...  I want to visit Hawaii because... etc..." )

    In the end, you only need to send me two things: 

    • The WORD DOCUMENT with 10 sentences.
    • The SOUND FILE with your voice reading 10 sentences and explaining 2 things that you're going to do this year.

    Remeber my e-mail address:  hugorimada@hotmail.com

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    3月10日

    NONFICTION RESEARCH

     
    RESEARCH
    Choose one of the two following research subjects:
     
     
    ANDREW MISHKIN and the MER mission (Making tracks on Mars)
     
    Prepare an illustrated report including the following information:
    1. A list of goals of the mission
    2. The results of the exploration
    3. Your own evaluation of the mission’s success.
     
    HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES (Harriet Tubman: Guide to freedom)
     
    Research part of the history of slavery in the US.  Concentrate on the period from 1740 to 1865.  Make a timeline with at least five important events that happened during these times.
    • a)
    Divide the timeline into intervals of 25 years.
  • b)
    • For each event that you insert, write a note explaining why it was important.

     

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    2月12日

    PRESENT PERFECT vs SIMPLE PAST

    Hi, guys!!!

    Today you're going to ask interesting questions to everyone!

    Please, record your voice to make 5 questions about anything you would like to know about any one in the class. 

    Don't ask questions directly to any particular person.  Just make questions out loud using the simple past or the preesent perfect.

    Here's an example:
           - Have you ever visited the US?
           - Did you have fun last weekend?

    It should be only easy questions.  Nothing too fancy or too daring, ok?

    When you're done, please send me the files so I can send them to everyone and they can answer your questions as well...

    After that, click on the following links to practice with some exercises:

    http://www.better-english.com/grammar/pspp1.htm
    http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/prsperf4.html
    http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz29bms.htm
    http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/intermediate/present%20perfect%20vs%20past.htm
    http://www.witchhazel.it/presentperfect_pastsimple_quiz1.htm

    In the end, you'll be able to practice with some exercises to practice with your participles and past verbs!!!!

    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/participles1.html
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/participles2.html



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    2月5日

    EXAM PRACTICE 1C-3D

     
    Choose the correct words
     
    1.An INFERENCE is a logical ( conclusion / debate) we make about a story but that the author hasn’t stated.
    2.There are four types of ( nonfiction / fiction ) writing.
    3.The setting of “Zoo” is on planet Earth in a ( near / far ) future.
    4.The ( horse-spiders / humans ) were happy when they arrived to their home planet.
    5.The children had many bad dreams after seeing that    ( alligator / lizard ) running free.
    6.( “Life without gravity” / “The eternal frontier” ) talks about living in a weightless environment.
     
    Choose the correct FUNCTION of the underlined words:
     
     
    1.Mary doesn’t like sandwiches.
    Direct Object b.  Indirect Object c.  Main verb d.  Subject
    2.Mary gave some candies to Pedro.
    Direct Object b.  Indirect Object c.  Prepositional phrase d.  Predicate noun
    3.When did you buy your mom that sweater?
    Direct Object b.  Indirect Object c.  Predicate noun d.  Predicate pronoun
    4.The new vicepresident of the class is going to be Robert.
    Direct Object b.  Indirect Object c.  Subject d.  Predicate noun
    5.Ernest, the librarian, isn’t giving any books away this month.
    Predicate noun b.  Appositve c.  Direct Object     d.  Indirect Object
     
     Choose the correct answer
     
    1.Which is the questions that the Indirect Object answers?
     a. Which one?
     b. What?
     c. To whom?
     d. Where?
     
    2.In the sentence “Weightlessness is upsetting on your stomach”, the word “upsetting” is…
     a. the direct object.
     b. the indirect object.
     c. a predicate adjective.
     d. a predicate adverb.
     
    3.One of the things that can happen to you when you are in a weightless environment is…
     a. your blood pressure goes up.
     b. your stomach feels strange.
     c. your voice changes.
     d. Your muscles puff up.
     
    4.Nonfiction writing…
     a. is never funny.
     b. could be biography.
     c. is never true.
     d. can have some ficition in it.
     
     Instructions:  Circle the word that is not correct.
    1.Where did you sent that e-mail?
    2.Could he helps us find my wallet?
    3.No one ever tries to gain weight.  They just do it unconcious.
    4.Jumping higher, she get the olympic record in the competition.
     
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    1月22日

    High Intermediate first computer class!!

    Hi, guys!

    Welcome to our cyber class!!

    First we're going to practice some grammar exercises.  All you have to do is click on the links below one by one (in order), follow the instructions and answer the small quizzes you'll see. 

    When you're finished with one, you just need to close the window and go on the following one.

    Exercise 1
    Exercise 2
    Exercise 3
    Exercise 4
    Exercise 5
    Exercise 6

    Now we're going to watch a video!!!

    Inauguration day

    As you watch, please write down on paper all the words that you want to understand better later on. 

    When you're done, go to the WINDOWS SOUND RECORDER  and record your voice saying what you think about Barack Obama's being the first black president of the United States.  Save the file with your voice and send it to me to the following address:  hugorimada@hotmail.com.

    I'll be sending you feedback on your speaking skills soon...

    Thanks for coming today!!!
    I hope you enjoyed...
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    12月3日

    EXAM PRACTICE (December 2008)

     

    What type of word is the underlined one?

     

    1.         I think Manuel looks pretty sad these days.

    1. Action verb
    2. Linking verb
    3. Adverb
    4. Mental verb

     

    2.         Lately, some of my friends haven’t been studying hard.

    1. Proper noun
    2. Personal pronoun
    3. Common pronoun
    4. Common noun

     

    3.         We have never gone to the beach.

    1. Time noun
    2. Adverb modifying adjective
    3. Adverb modifying noun
    4. Adjective

     

    4.         Mary loved those flowers, but she didn’t really like those.

    1. Demonstrative adjective
    2. Definite article
    3. Indefinite pronoun
    4. Demonstrative pronoun

     

    5.         Cindy thinks Martin is a kindly person.

    1. Adverb modifying noun
    2. Adjective
    3. Adverb modifying verb
    4. Correlative conjunction

     

    Choose a word that doesn’t correspond with the group.

    1. Beautiful
    2. Kindly
    3. Music
    4. Playful

     

    1. Move
    2. Rise
    3. Single
    4. Join

     

    1. Anything
    2. They
    3. Some
    4. All

     

    1. In
    2. Where
    3. Outside
    4. In front of

     

    1. Have
    2. Both
    3. Did
    4. Can

     

    1. Mine
    2. Her
    3. Your
    4. My

     

    1. Mr Peters
    2. The king
    3. The trackers
    4. Leita

     

    1. That
    2. Those
    3. Thin
    4. These

     

    1. By means of
    2. Both… and
    3. Next to
    4. Inside

     

    1. Great
    2. Immense
    3. Star
    4. Dirty

     

    1. Think
    2. Plan
    3. Run
    4. Like

     

    1. Sing
    2. Seem
    3. Study
    4. Think

     

     

    Which underlined word is an adverb?

     

    1. No one ever pays attention to the small letters underneath an official document.
    2. Where do you usually stay when you travel to that beautiful city?
    3. Monica has been quite kindly with some of my friends.
    4. We’re going to arrive too late tonight for the movie.
    5. She’s been tidying up her room rather fast.  She’s so fast.

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    10月20日

    Grammar exercises

    a. Those computers are quite slow.

     

    1. Common noun:
    2. Linking verb:
    3. Demonstrative adjective:
    4. Descriptive adjective:
    5. Adverb modifying adjective:

     

    b. Can you possibly help me?

     

    1. Personal pronoun:
    2. Action verb:
    3. Object pronoun:
    4. Helping verb:
    5. Adverb modifying verb:

     

    c. My best friend has been working extremely hard these days.

     

    1. Common nouns:
    2. Action verb:
    3. Possessive adjective:
    4. Descriptive adjective:
    5. Helping verbs:
    6. Adverb modifying verb:
    7. Adverb modifying adverb:
    8. Demonstrative adjective:

     

    d. We will start the homework right after lunch.

     

    1. Personal pronoun:
    2. Helping verb:
    3. Action verb:
    4. Definite article:
    5. Common noun:
    6. Adverb modifying verb:
    7. Adverb modifying adverb:

     

    e. That music sounds too loud.

     

    1. Demonstrative adjective:
    2. Common noun:
    3. Linking verb:
    4. Descriptive Adjective:
    5. Adverb Modifying adjective:

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    10月9日

    EXERCISES FOR THE FIRST BIMESTRAL EXAM

    Write a word of the type specified

     

    1. There aren’t _______ people in this room. (Indefinite adjective)
    2. _______ don’t think my father will give me the money that _______ asked him. (Antecedents of pronoun)
    3. Our _________ team will not pass to the play-offs.  (Compound noun)
    4. Mary _________ quite sad today.  (Linking verb)
    5. ___________ can tell me what to do!          (Indefinite pronoun)

     

    What type of word is it?

     

    1. When Marty grows up, he will earn much money and he won’t give any to the poor.
      1. Marty____________________
      2. Grows up ____________________
      3. He ____________________
      4. Will ____________________
      5. Much ____________________
      6. Any ____________________
      7. The ____________________

     

    1. Dr Sampson hasn’t used his computer for a long time period.
      1. Dr Sampson____________________
      2. Hasn’t ____________________
      3. his ____________________
      4. Computer ____________________
      5. a ____________________
      6. Long  ____________________
      7. time period____________________

     

    1. Our high school principal looks a little busy in her office today.
      1. Our____________________
      2. High school ____________________
      3. looks ____________________
      4. A little ____________________
      5. busy ____________________
      6. her  ____________________
      7. Office ____________________

     

    Context clues

     

    1. That stationery store is not very good.  They don’t have enough paper and their pencils are not very varied.  I think they should get more notebooks and a copying machine.

     

     Context clues: _________________________

     Meaning: _____________________________

     

    1. After the catastrophe.  All of England was appalled.  Everyone looked consternated as they walked in the streets, like in a state of shock and eternal dismay.

     

     Context clues: _________________________

     Meaning: _____________________________

     

    1. “Behold!”  Said the old man.     We opened our eyes wide and tried to look at what the old man was pointing, and then, right in the dark, we could perceive the most beautiful waterfall ever seen by man.

     

     Context clues: _________________________

     Meaning: _____________________________

     

     

    HYPERBOLES

     

    1. That man is crazy.

    _______________________________________________________________________________________

     

    1. His girlfriend loved him a lot.

    _______________________________________________________________________________________

     

    1. No one could identify the dead body.

    _______________________________________________________________________________________

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    9月26日

    "All Summer in a day" by Ray Bradbury

     

    “Ready?”

    “Ready.”

    “Now?”

    “Soon”

    “Do the scientists really know?  Will it happen today, will it?”

    “Look, look.  See yourself!”

    The children pressed to each other like so many roses, intermixed, looking out at the hidden sun.

    It rained.  As always for the last seven years.

     

    It had been raining for seven years; thousands and thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain water, with the sweet crystal fall that showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves comve over the islands.  A thousand forests times to be growing again.  And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.

     

    “It’s stopping, it’s stopping!”

    “Yes, yes!”

    All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun.  About how like a lemon it was, and how hot.  And they had written small stories or essays or poems about it:

    I think the sun is a flower,

    That blooms for just one hour.

    That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the silence of the classroom while the rain was falling outside.

     

    “Aw, you didn’t write that!” Protested one of the boys.

    “I did,” said Margot.  “I did.”

    “William!” Said the teacher. 

    But that was yesterday.  Now the rain was slackening, and the children were grouped in the great windows.

    “Where’s the teacher?”

    “She’ll be back.”

    “She’d better hurry, or we’ll miss it!”

     

    The others didn’t like Margot because she was so smart and today she said that she remembered the sun.

    “But that was seven years ago!” Said the children.  “You couldn’t possibly remember.  I think you’re inventing things.”

    “I remember!”  She said.  “It’s like a penny.  Like a yellow penny.”

    “You’re lying.  Liar!  Liar!”  They sang.

    “It’s like a fire,” she said, “in the stove.”

    “You’re lying, you don’t remember.”

     

    Now she tried to look out the window.

    “Get away!” Said the children.  “You will not see anything today!”

    “But I want to see!”

    “You saw it seven years ago!”  They said. “You have to let us see it now!”

    They took her arm and made her walk all the way to the empty room in the end of the hall, where there were no windows. 

    “No!” She screamed.  “I want to see it! It’s the most beautiful thing in the universe!”

     

    They locked the door and ran back to the windows where the teacher was waiting now.  They heard muffled cries behind the door but they didn’t care.

    “Where have you been, boys?”

    Now the rain had finally stopped.

    It was as if an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had stopped because everything was so silent now. The expectation was so great that you couldn’t even hear people’s breath.

     

    “Oh, it’s better than the sun lamps, isnt’ it?”

    “Much, much better!”

    They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing as you watched it.

    The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle and heard the animals among the trees.  They pushed each other, the played       hide-and-seek, but most of the time, they squinted at the sun until they started crying, they put their hand up to that yellow circle on the sky and that amazing blueness and they breathed the fresh, fresh air and listened and enjoyed the silence without rain.

     

    And then-

              In the middle of their running one of the girls screamed.

    Everyone stopped.

    The girl, standing in the open, held her hand up.

    “Oh, look, look,” she said, trembling.

    They came slowly to look at her opened palm.

    In the center of it, was a small tiny raindrop.

    She began to cry, looking at it.

     

    “Oh, oh.”

    A boom of thunder scared them again. 

    “Will it be seven more years?”

    “Yes.  Seven”

    Then one of them began to cry too.

    “Margot!”

    “What?”

    “She’s still in the closet where we locked her.”

    “Margot.”

     

    They walked slowly down the hall in the sound of cold rain.  They turned along the doorway to the room in the sound of the storm and thunder, a lightning on their faces, blue and terrible.  They walked over to the closet door slowly and stood by it.

    Behind the closet door was only silence.

    They unlocked the door, even more slowly, and let Margot out.

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    9月19日

    CELESTE'S DAY!!

    GRAMMAR

    http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz18mdf.htm

     
    LISTENING
    http://esl-lab.com/kinder/kinderrd1.htm
     
    LISTENING, SPEAKING
    Enter this page:
    and click on the list called BEGINNERS where you can read PLAY ALL...
     
    (Please, listen, repeat and record your voice with the sound recorder)
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