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The School of Languages ( Escuela de Lenguas) was opened on 30th September (year 1993) because the translator's day is celebrated that date. It belongs to the National University of La Plata.

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Sunday, 27 September 2009
Chat Session

Last Tuesday, September 22nd we had a wonderful experience: a chat session with students of English living. It was our (teachers' and students') experience, so we were anxious.

I was particularly worried about the hardware and the software because the event depended on them! Luckily, we managed to achieve our aim in spite of conection or some technical problems.

The Students were supposed to do certain tasks: Invite students to their MSN contact list and accept invitations, introduce themselves politely and find out some information about their chat partners. The results are below:

Tatiana is 15 years old, she’s from Capital (Almagro – Balvanera). She likes listening to music, like cuarteto and reggaeton. Her hobbies are watching TV, for example. She’s in the 5th year of English at her institute. She went to Alto Palermo yesterday to celebrate the spring’s day. Her blog is http://blog-of-tati.blogspot.com by Sofi.

Today I Chat whith a student from Buenos Aires , her name was Irene , her nick name is Brujita, she is 15 years old and loves music . She hears Punk /Rock music , and she also likes folklore , she is in the same level of English as I am ( fifth year). For spring day , she went to a friend’s house and stayed over  , she didn´t sleep at all and she told me that she was really tired.
by Augusto.

Today we have an experience with some students from another institute in Buenos Aires. We chated and meet each other.
I chated with Tatiana . She is 15 years old and she goes to Santa Rosa School. She’s from Capital Federal. She likes playing handball but she doesn’t have time to do it, so she does some training at school. She likes many styles of music like cumbia, reggaeton and cuarteto. About her i can’t say many things because we chated for a short time but her fauvorite colour is green and she loves Kevington boxers. by Facundo
Today we Chat with same guys from bs as. I met Marchu she is 14 years old but in October she will be 15. We spoke about the spring day and she told me that she did not anything because she had homework, and she, with her friends decide to go at the cinema on Saturday. Marchu loves internacional music like Britney Spears. She is such a good student at English, she has an 8 in the last test! by Camila.

Here are some photos of the event!!!


 
 

posted by: escuelaunlp at September 27, 2009 14:41 | link | comments (1) |
argentina, blogwriting, escueladelenguas

Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Module 16

Dear Students:
 
We are going to do some revision on Module 16.
 
 
Exercise One:
Here is an interactive exercise where you have to answer the questions with only one adjective. If you do not understand the adjectives, remember to check their meaning in an online dictionary such as: http://lookwayup.com/free/
 
Click here to do the exercise http://esl.fis.edu/vocab/q7v/feel_1.htm
 
Exercise Two: Here is another interactive drag and drop exercise,
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-games-feelings.htm
First click on instructions and read them carefully.
Do the exercise, and finally check your answers.
 
 
Exercise one: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/exercise1.swf
Exercise two: http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/exercise2.swf
Exercise three:http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/usedto/exercise3.swf
Exercise four:  http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.used.p.htm
 
Hoping you will enjoy the activities.... See you soon :-)  Nelba

posted by: escuelaunlp at September 09, 2009 12:23 | link | comments |
grammar, argentina, escueladelenguas

Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Revision Unit 15

Activity One:

Study the following table to revise Prefixes
Prefixes

Activity TWO : Here is an interesting interactive activity to see what you can remember about prefixes !


Activity THREE: Now time of writing!
The Topic of Unit 15 was FEAR.
For this activity, Click on "Ghost Story" .
I am afraid you will need to look up some words on a dictionary 8-) 

Activity FOUR: More Reading + Filling the gaps
Some animals are related to evil things, for example “crows”. Do you know what crows are? They are ugly black birds. Edagar Allan Poe wrote a famous poen called The Crow. You can read a rhyme below referring to crows:
 
COUNTING CROWS          
 
One's bad,
Two's luck,
Three's health,
Four's wealth,
Five's sickness,
Six is death!!!
 
There are some popular phrases related to evil things. Write the complete version of the following phrases in “comments”, and send me the correct version to escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar (Every dash corresponds to one letter)
 
To break a mirror means 7 years _ _ _ luck.
 
If a mirror in the house falls and breaks by itself, someone in the house will  _ _ _ soon.
 
A white moth inside the house or trying to enter the house means _ _ _ _ _.
 
If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die _ _ _ _ _.
The seventh son of a seventh son has magic powers, according to Irish folklore, but is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in Romanian legend.
 
The devil can enter your body when you _ _ _ _ _ _. Having someone say, "God bless you," drives the devil away.
 
Sparrows carry the souls of the dead, it's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (not lucky) to kill one.

If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the _ _ _ _ (360 days)  is over.
 
Can´t guess the words? I took the rhymes from the following website: “ Info about Superstitions: old wives tales, folklore, bizarre beliefs, taboos, omens, lucky & unlucky things”  Look for the phrases at: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html


posted by: escuelaunlp at August 18, 2009 10:28 | link | comments (5) |
grammar, argentina

Friday, 07 August 2009
Dangerous Facebook

Hello, students:

We are back to school after these long holidays due to the swine flu, so let's start working.

Some days ago I received a mail warning me about the use of Facebook. I am sure you know it and probably you have an account there. The mail had a video. Please, watch it and pay careful attention to it. Think seriously about the topic and write what you think about it in "comments".

posted by: escuelaunlp at August 07, 2009 10:41 | link | comments (6) |
technology, comic, blogwriting

Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Weird Winter Holidays

Hello, dear participants. Here is a new set of activities to do
 
Activity ONE: Writing short paragraph in comments.

These winter holidays are weird: we have 3 weeks without classes but we cannot go out too much because of the danger of the swine flu.
 
What do you do to spend your time?
How do you prevent getting swine flu?

Activity TWO: Read the following information about the Swine flu in this LINK.
( Please send a mail to escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar if it does not work)

After reading do this quizz

posted by: escuelaunlp at July 22, 2009 09:46 | link | comments (10) |
argentina, escueladelenguas

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Fantasy & Science Fiction

Hello, participants:

Please, read this definition: "Science fiction and fantasy stories are make-believe tales. Fantasy stories are unlikely tales that have strange or imagined characters, places, or events. Science fiction stories are about life in the future or life on other planets." 

Activity one: According to this definition, what type of books are "Twilight" and "I, Robot" ? Answer this question and give more examples in "comments" of fantasy or sci-fi books you have read or movies you have seen. Only titles in English will be accepted

Activity 2: Do this quizz
 

posted by: escuelaunlp at June 23, 2009 22:54 | link | comments (13) |
technology, robots, argentina, jovenes4ma esl nelba quintana

Thursday, 04 June 2009
Wall Wisher about Movies

Dear participants:

Congratulations on your movie reviews. Some people have left us comments. Have you read them? Our audience is growing, so keep on participating!

A colleague of mine, Prof. Ana María Menezes from Brazil,  has started a project for two groups of her students about films. (What a coincidence!)They ´ve been talking about films and ways of describing them. They have posted their own recommendations and Ana María wanted them to see other people have been joining them.

 
They´re using a very interesting Web 2.0 tool called "Wall wisher" to collect their movie recommendations. Here´s her  invitation to jovenes 4MA and 5me to join them at http://www.wallwish er.com/wall/ favouritefilms . All you have to do is get registered, double-click on the wall, write your name/nick, your text and add a link to a trailer from youtube. Remember to say you are from Argentina and mention your course! e.g. "Martín from 4ma A , La Plata, Argentina"

"Thank you all, anamariacult (her nick) http://lifefeast. blogspot. com (her blog)

posted by: escuelaunlp at June 04, 2009 13:29 | link | comments |
movie, argentina, jovenes4ma esl nelba quintana, blogwriting

Monday, 18 May 2009
A film I liked by Facundo Carrique, Renata Bega bartínez and Jerónimo Acosta

The Lord of the Rings: (by Facundo)

Lord of the RingsLast Saturday, I watched a film called "The lord of the rings". This is my favourite movie. I saw it 5 years ago in the cinema with my dad and my mum.

The story is a about a hobbit called Frodo, who found a very powerful ring. This ring belongs to Sauron, the king of Mordor.Frodo has to travel across the continent to arrive Mordor because the ring can only be destroyed if it's thrown into a volcano. In the trip he meets new friends like Aragon, Gimli and Legolas. These characters help Frodo in all his battles with the orcs, Mordor's soldiers. Aragon becomes later the king of Gondor while Frodo and Sam, one of the hobbit's friends , are destroying the ring. When they destroy it, Mordor disappears with Sauron. After that, peace returns.
The movie was recorded in New Zeland and it has one of the best special effects and clothing I've ever seen. I like this movie because it's very interesting and exciting film.

The Ring (by Renata and Jerónimo)
 
            We saw the movie for the first time when we were about nine years old, at a pijama´s party, with our friends.
 
         The plot of the film is about the revenge of an orphan girl, named Samara, who was later adopted by Anna Morgan and , two farmers. Because she was so weird, frightening, and savage, Anna decided to smother her with a bag and pushed her into a reef, where seven days later the little girl died. So, mystically, there is a video that shows Samara´s life, and kills everyone who watches it; but there are exceptions, if you prove Samara you care and understand her, and tell everybody how hard her life was, you are safe.  
        
 
We enjoyed the film because it is very scary, and we love that! You can have a good time with your friends, if they aren’t dead yet.







posted by: escuelaunlp at May 18, 2009 12:03 | link | comments (1) |
movie, argentina, jovenes4ma esl nelba quintana, blogwriting, escueladelenguas

The Film I liked by Camila Núñez Zerillo and Camila Rumi

The movie we’re going to write about is Titanic. We saw this movie with friends in our houses for the first time one night some years ago. We were eating pop corn, sweets, chocolates and drinking coke.
This movie describes a love story between a man named Jack and a lady called Rose. They were from different social classes; she was engaged with a rich man whereas Jack was a poor man who won a ticket for the trip in a poker game. When Jack saw Rose, he fell in love with her immediately. They spent time together, but her family didn’t accept him. One night the Titanic crashed with an iceberg and was starting to sink. The people were very scared, and everybody was shouting. The Capitan said that only women and kids must went on the small ships. Rose sated with Jack because she didn’t want to leave him alone, but finally Jack died on the ocean.
We love the story but this is very long, and sad at final.

Here is a video of one of the most famous episodes in the movie. Click on the play icon to watch it. If you have a slow Internet connection, its downloading may take some minutes. Be patient :-)

posted by: escuelaunlp at May 18, 2009 07:15 | link | comments (4) |
movie, argentina, jovenes4ma esl nelba quintana, blogwriting, escueladelenguas

Thursday, 14 May 2009
A film I liked by Gonzalo Ardanaz

Yesterday I was alone and bored in my house when I realized that a friend had given me a DVD movie that morning, so I saw it. It was Pulp Fiction, the film of Quentin Tarantino. The movie is divided in three parts: “Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace’s wife”, “The gold watch” and “Bonnie’s situation”. Each part narrates a different story but they are interrelated.
The main actors are John Travolta, Samuel W. Jackson and Uma Thurman.
I think it is an excellent film, the dialogues and the acting are great and the plot structure is very original and entertaining. I liked it very much.

posted by: escuelaunlp at May 14, 2009 22:05 | link | comments |