First Class Upper-Intermediate

Hello Everyone!!!

Welcome to my blog. I post here many of the work I do with my students. Please carefully follow the instructions that appear after this text.

1. Create a blog and carefully follow the instructions of this webpage: http://masterzea.blogspot.com/2011/09/creating-blog.html

2. When you finish go to http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/ and set a countdown for 45 minutes.

3. Now go to http://englishenglish.com/englishtest.htm and start doing the test. you have 45 minutes to do it.

4. At the end of the 45 minutes, click on Grade Me! and use the information you get to do instruction 5 and 6.

5. Create a post in your blog called "Learning about my English Level".

6. Create a chart like this one (copy/paste from my example into your blog):

Number of questions I got right: xx, xx, xx.

Grade in percentage: X%

Question you got wrong	Language item	My mistake / Correction	Reflection
1 (example)	Simple past tense (example)	Did you went anywhere interesting last weekend? Did you go anywhere interesting last weekend? (example)	When I use the auxiliary did I do not use the main verb in past tense. (example)

If you do not finish the task, be sure to finish it for next Monday.

Thank you for your hard work!

Rythm and Poems

The Crocodile's Toothache

The Crocodile
Went to the dentist
And sat down in the chair,
And the dentist said, "Now tell me, sir,
Why does it hurt and where?"
And the Crocodile said, "I'll tell you the truth,
I have a terrible ache in my tooth,"
And he opened his jaws so wide, so wide,
The the dentist, he climbed right inside,
And the dentist laughed, "Oh isn't this fun?"
As he pulled the teeth out, one by one.
And the Crocodile cried, "You're hurting me so!
Please put down your pliers and let me go."
But the dentist laughed with a Ho Ho Ho,
And he said, "I still have twelve to go-
Oops, that's the wrong one, I confess,
But what's one crocodile's tooth more or less?"
Then suddenly, the jaws went SNAP,
And the dentist was gone, right off the map,
And where he went one could only guess...
To North or South or East or West...
He left no forwarding address.
But what's one dentist, more or less?

-Shel Silverstein

Diphthongs and Triphthongs

Hello!

Here we meet again for our final work of Phonetics and Phonology course for these second term.

READ ALL BEFORE YOU BEGIN

1. Create a new post in your blog with the title: Diphthongs and Triphthongs.

2. Define the following terms in your post:

DIPHTHONG:

PROPER DIPHTHONG:

IMPROPER DIPHTHONG:

TRIPHTHONG:

2. View this video:

3. Make a list of 10 proper diphthongs, 10 improper diphthongs, 10 triphthongs, and 10 words that are not diphthongs nor triphthongs.

4. Make a a game using the list you did in 3 and post the game in your blog.

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a. Click on start.

b. Give a name to the quiz.

c. Give a name to each category (Proper Diphthongs, Improper Diphthongs, Triphthongs, Other words).

d. Under each category, paste your list.

e.Write a password protect.

f. Click on the gear (Embed into a blog).

g. Copy the code and paste it in your blog.







5. Write a reflection about today's class.

6. Publish your Post.

Thank you and Good night!

MINIMAL PAIRS

Welcome once more to your self learning "Phonetics and Phonology" program. Today we will talk about minimal pairs.

As usual, please read carefully the instructions and create only ONE blog entry or Post per class. If there is an * in the instruction number, it means that you should do something on your blog.

READ ALL BEFORE DOING ANYTHING

*1. Title of your post: Minimal Pairs. Answer the following questions in your blog.

*2. In your own words, based on what you have found on the internet, what are minimal pairs?

3. Watch this video:



*4. Why do you think minimal pairs are important?

5. Time to play. Select one of these games to identify the minimal pairs. SAY THE MINIMAL PAIRS AS YOU READ THEM.

Play only for 10 minutes. Use this online stopwatch to guide your time.

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*6. Select 4 minimal pairs that you found difficult or that you don't know the meaning. Find out their meaning and record it with vocaroo. Embed your recordings in your blog and under them put a sentence to understand their meaning. Follow this example:

Pair 1: Fair - Fear

The group has achieved fair and equal representation for all its members.

I fear the increasing unemployment.

Pair 2: Xxxx - Yyyy

[CONTINUE AS THE PREVIOUS EXAMPLE (4 pairs)]

*7. What did you learn while developing this exercise? (Talk about the tools you used, the words you learned, the websites you have encounter, etc)

Thank you for your work.

LONG VOWEL AND SHORT VOWEL SOUNDS

Hello P&P students. Today you will learn about the pronunciation of Long and short Vowels.

Read all these instructions before starting:

1. Create a KWL chart like this one on a new post in your blog with the title Long Vowel and Short Vowel Sounds:

What I know about Long and Short Vowel Sounds…	What I want to know about Long and Short Vowel Sounds…	What I learned about Long and Short Vowel Sounds…
I know that long vowels are…	I want to know…	I learned that…

2. Fill in the First column.

3. Enjoy these videos and UNDER the KWL chart write the definition of Short Vowels Sounds and Long Vowel Sounds.

5. Fill in the second column of the KWL chart.

6. Put these words in the correct column and fill in the chart as the example (rip, ripe).

stop, lad, mud, stain, smile, bone, pie, mule, stay, pray, lid, mug, cat, rule, load, pill, still, bug, bite, sun, pig, boat.

SHORT	SENTENCE	LONG	SENTENCE
rip	A fan tried to RIP his pants in a concert.	ripe	A fully ripe apple stays white in the inside.

7. Select 3 Short vowel words from point 6 and record a sentence. Place the Vocaroo Embedded under the word. Follow this example:

Short Vowels

Rip

8. Select 3 Long vowel words from point 6 and record a sentence. Place the Vocaroo Embedded under the word. Follow this example:

Long Vowels

Ripe

9. Fill in the last column of your KWL chart.

10. Publish your post.

Thank you for your hard work. I will see you next week.

CHART OF PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY BLOGS

Hello P&P students!

Go to my WIKI in order to fill out the chart of blogs. Follow these instructions:

• Enter this site: www.masterzea.wikispaces.com
• Click on Edit
• Look for your name.
• Click on the column Blog in front of your name.
• Now click on Link.
• Click on External Link.
• In Link Text write the address of your blog (e.g. www.masterzea.blogspot.com) and in Address write again the address of your blog (e.g. www.masterzea.blogspot.com).
• Tick on New window and then click on Add Link
• Verify that your link has been added in the wiki.
• Click on Save.
• Finally, click on the link of your blog. If you did the exercise correctly, your blog should open in a new window when you click on it.

THANK YOU!