Lesson plans for English IV and V

I visited the Read Write Think website and I think we can use it with our students. For example, in English V, Unit Six: "Plans for the future", you can find a lesson called: A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future. It has many resources such as pre-writing questions, questions for reflection, a printing press in which they can make their newspaper to write there what will they be doing in 5 or 10 years from now. The site is in: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=943#standards

The other one I liked was a lesson called "Exploring and Sharing Family Stories", in which, after choosing a family member to interview, students create questions, interview their relatives, and write a personal narrative that describes not only the answers to their questions but their own reactions to these responses. These narratives are peer reviewed and can be published as a class magazine or website. I think this lesson will help to understand and review English IV, Unit Five, "To describe routines and preferences". It also has many resources like a worksheet contains basic questions, history questions so they can interview their family and write about that. The site is:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=805

A recording

My activity in Scribd

Hello everyone, here it is my activity.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3112666/activity-of-May-and-Might

Work Day 5

The tools I chose were, the first one called PowerTalk that it is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.

You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.
Speech is provided by the standard synthesised computer voices that are provided with Windows.
I have already tested with my presentation. If one of you are interested in this tools, the site is:
http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/

The other one is Podesk and the site is: http://www.podesk.com/
Podesk is a dead simple way for independant content creators and producers to publish videos on the internet. It’s faster and easier than any other solution and you have total control over the ditribution.
You decide what to publish simply by dragging video from your desktop. Your video is compressed and hosted directly and instantly from your computer. Once published, you can access your video over a regular browser, or throught the podcast feed. Or if you are in a hurry, you can simply record from your webcam!
And You can also publish mp3 files and Pictures!

There are many more but I liked these 2 tools.

My blinklist

http://www.blinklist.com/Mar2006/

My presentation

My partners´blogs

Susana Arvizu: http://arvizublogexperimental.blogspot.com
Gloria Villarreal: http://gloriavillarreal.blogspot.com
Marlín Valenzuela: http://marlinprepa6.blogspot.com
Carolina Berumen: http://caroberumen.blogspot.com
Juan Carlos de la O: http://juancarlosdelao.blogspot.com
María Elena Alvarez: http://marielenaalvarez.blogspot.com
Alejandra Lorena Cruz: http://alejandralorenacruz.blogspot.com
Ruth Osorio: http://learningenglishatprep5.blogspot.com

OUR LIFE ON EARTH

2. Mini-saga

My pet´s name is Jack, he is a Fox Terrier. When my son gave it to me he didn´t tell me he was an escapist dog. One day, I went to the gym and he was inside the house. But 2 hours later, when I arrived, he had already disappeared.

1. The guessing game. My precious gift

Somebody gave it to me about 5 or 6 years ago. I was very pleased to receive it from a friend. I like to wear it on some special ocassions. I think it is very nice and elegant and I feel very good when I wear it. When people look at it, they say they like it and ask me where I bought it, but I say to all of them that it was a gift from a person that tried to please me when he gave it to me.

Chequen mi Slide Show

Something about me

Well, hi my dear colleagues, here it is my presentation to you and the world. My name is Marsella and I am an English teacher from Prep 1 and I am very interested in using high tech in the teaching process.


In my free time I like to read, to take care of my body, so I like to take a one-hour walk in a park near my home.


As it is important to take care of the body, it is also important to take care of your mind, your spiritual part of yourself. I enjoy reading, going to the movies and visiting new places. It´s great to improve your mind and to enrich your knowledge, and life is all about this, to be happy and to make people happy, don´t you think so?
And here it is a link:

http://www.slideshare.net/guest5ee501/my-presentation-420363/