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A composition by one of my students

In the future, as in the past, older people are going to live simple live .They won't want a lot of material thing around them .Simple living will be important to them.

Older people are going to learn to limits their property. They are going to buy only necessities .They are going to have a few nice things instead of a lot of not so nice things .From time to time they are going to make list of their possessions .Their they are going to give away a valuable item like an antique chair to one of their children or grandchildren. They are going to keep a few treasured possessions for themselves, an old family photograph or a family Bible is going table enough for them. The guiding rule for them will be "if you don't value it" don't keep it.

Older people will be able to teach us something about simple living, won't they? (By Abnert) CHANGES

In the future, as in the past, older people are going to live simply. (Their lives will be simple). .They won't want a lot of material things around them. Simple living will be important to them.

Older people are going to learn to limit their property. (Older people are going to learn to reduce the number of things they own.) They are going to buy only necessities. They are going to have a few nice things instead of a lot of not so nice things. From time to time they are going to make a list of their possessions. They're going to give away a valuable item like an antique chair to one of their children or grandchildren. They are going to keep a few treasured possessions for themselves, an old family photograph or a family Bible is going to be enough for them. ("The Bible is enough for me." "The Bible is going to be enough for me.") The guiding rule for them will be "if you don't value it, don't keep it."

Older people will be able to teach us something about simple living, won't they? (By Abnert)

(a) how to use videos in the classroom and (b) suggestions for using audio tapes to improve spelling. (c) after the paper is a short description of a typing course.

At the bottom is a list of 10 questions for a composition (with my responses). I encourage you to use these questions to push yourself to write something and discover spaces and missing words in your vocabulary.

If you want to join the directory, please send me the information requested below.

This presentation is for SE Regional TESOL Conference 2000 "Moving into the Millennium" == October 19-21 Miami, FL == Saturday 21 October, 12 to 12:45 pm in Room 3214, using a computer with internet connection. --- ==============================================================================================================================================

The focus is on communication and production. Is there something for the student to produce? Who is the audience? What can the student say? Is the product valuable to someone? What can the teacher (as facilitator) do to help the student make his opinions valuable and interesting?

At TALK International School of Languages, we want the lessons to be interesting. We want students to communicate with someone else (not complete boring grammar worksheets). We want students to use English to talk about and write about something personal (which is interesting). So we show students how to create create web pages to describe their home city and cities and places that they have visited. PRODUCTION: can we use the Internet to help students to actively produce (rather than passively surf from page to page)? Can students create a portfolio of interesting stories and examples of their writing?

Mistakes are gold. Mistakes are good. Keep the mistakes and show the corrections lower in the website.

The student has a permanent record of typical errors and will know how to correct them.

PITFALLS

1. Teacher forgets to label the photos accurately or doesn't know how to find the photos quickly. REMEDY: practice ahead of time!

2. Websites that have changed addresses. REMEDY: check the websites before you ask the students to visit them!

3. Students forget to complete the operation and just quit (losing their information). REMEDY: "Students, please save your program by exiting properly. Log out, don't just shut off the computer."

4. Students forget to send you their website address.

REMEDY: write down the address.

5. Teacher puts photos on one diskette and diskette fails or three teams want to look at the diskette at the same time. REMEDY: Bring the same photo on three diskettes. Have at least 10 photos on diskette. If they are optimized (stripped by Adobe PhotoShop), then the photos load much more quickly. You can pull uncopyrighted photos from other web sites, and remember to give credit to those sites.

6. Students forget their passwords. REMEDY: make the password the same. I make all of our passwords "beach" and they always remember it. If you need a longer password, "beachbeach".

BENEFITS

1. Students edit each other's work ---

2. Students have a product at the end of the class ---

3. Other students can visit the web sites ---

4. It's a good idea to print what students create and keep a hard copy. ---

5. Students might eventually see the benefit of learning to "touch type" (type without looking at their fingers or the keyboard). =================================================================================================================================================================== EQUIPMENT THAT YOU NEED

At least one computer per three students.

Scan some photos ahead of time.

Visit the websites before you give them to students.

Ask students to create their own websites when they go traveling.

Teach the learners how to touch type before they work on the computer a lot.... ************* MINI LESSON for TOUCH TYPING **************

HOME KEYS ASDF left hand

JKL; right hand little finger: QAZ

ring finger: WSX middle finger: EDC index finger: RFVTGB

LEFT little finger: P;/ ?:

ring finger: OL>.

middle finger: IK<,

index finger: UJMYHN

Right Thumb: SPACE BAR

It's time to practice these words (ONLY THE LEFT HAND): was see dead tear water faster safe crease save This site is www.angelfire.com/fl4/englishlesson ================================================================================================================================= Send your ideas to englishlesson@mail.com, Steve McCrea TALK School of Languages Fort Lauderdale FL Come and visit the websites of my students (partial list follows) www.angelfire.com/co3/paolita www.angelfire.com/fl4/orlandog www.angelfire.com/fl4/borrow www.virtourist.com (especially Kay Latona's trip to Tanzania) This site needs 20 or more photos and at least 10 hours of time to compile. Scanning 20 photos and optimizing them on PhotoShop can take 3 hours, then the coordinating of captions with the photos can take another 3 hours. Spell checking and deciding on the order of the photos can add to the headaches. For more information, contact ecorbero@hotmail.com (send photos to that address) or to his webmaster address at enric@virtourist.com www.virtualtourist.com (good for a short class) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See the English lesson at www.talkinusa.com ========================================================================================================================================== ADVERTISEMENT: You can buy a book of worksheets called "Help! I Need a Worksheet!" Worksheets that work in classrooms that teach English as a Foreign Language. For information, go to www.angelfire.com/fl4/stevetest ========================================================================================================================================== I want to create a web-directory of students and teachers. It will be organized by Country. ============================================================================================================================================== I want to tell my students, "Go to this website and you will find interesting people and you can write to them and begin a conversation via the INTERNET. If the other person wants to meet you when you visit, then you can talk over coffee." ============================================================================================================================================== When you reply, please tell me the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your name --- your email address ---- your city --- your country --- your interests ---- your web page (perhaps you created an interesting web page on www.virtourist.com or on www.virtualtourist.com) ---- Anything else you want to communicate ----(example: "Please write to me when you are visiting my city. We can have lunch together and I will tell you some great places to visit in my city." ============================================================================================================================================== Send the information to "stevemccrea@usa.com" and I will put the information in the Directory of Very Interesting People. === (Are you a VIP? Yes!) ============================================================================================================================================== ============================================================================================================================================== EXAMPLE == Steve McCrea == englishlesson@mail.com == Fort Lauderdale Florida == USA == I'm interested in visiting almost every country in the world and I want to plant a tree in each place that I visit. I'm creating a directory of treeplanting programs, so if you know about one, please send me the information about the program. == My web page is at www.virtourist.com (look for KEY WEST and FORT LAUDERDALE) == Please write to me when you are visiting my city. You can come to one of my classes and you can give my students practice in conversation and we will tell you some great places to visit in my city. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ============================================================================================================================================== Send the information to "stevemccrea@usa.com" and I will put the information in the Directory of Very Interesting People. ============================================================================================================================================== At the bottom of this web page is the beginning of the Directory of Very Interesting People. :-) (VIP) If you want to join the directory, please send me the information ============================================================================================================================================== Steve McCrea TALK International == 2455 East Sunrise Blvd, Suite 200 == Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 == www.talkinusa.com At the bottom of this web page is the beginning of the Directory of Very Interesting People. :-) (VIP) If you want to join the directory, please send me the information ======================================================================================================================================================================= FLORIDA Your name: Cary Elcome == your email address: bradstow@aol.com == your city: Fort Lauderdale == your country: The United States (originally the United Kingdom)== your interests: cooking, travel & meeting people, languages, many kinds of music (not rap or hip-hop, sorry) === your web page: virtourist page on Cachoeira & Recife, Brazil === Anything else you want to communicate: I'll be very happy to help you in any way I can if you want to know about Fort Lauderdale, or Florida in general. If you come here, we can meet and talk if you like! ======================================================================================================================================================================= FLORIDA -- Fort Lauderdale == John I. Cook == e-mail address: johncook2000@hotmail.com == Ft. Lauderdale, FL == I'm a teacher of college English, Sociology and TOEFL at TALK ============== I LOVE to travel and speak Spanish, read and write poetry, play basketball and work out at the gym... I'm a very spiritual and peaceful type...maybe even boring, but happy I've a wife and a daughter - Simona and Ayanna, respectively... Life and hard work have given me a BA in Sociology from Princeton and an MS in Education from Iona College, New Rochelle, NY...and so on and so on and so on...I'm okay, you're okay...

Wisconsin, USA

JK McCrea, I was born in Milwaukee, WI, jkmccrea@hotmail.com == Hi, I'm a journalist and a photographer == I've visited many country and I love to exchange stories. I check my e-mail twice a month. I would love to write to other people who like traveling to Tiber, Nepal, Costa Rica and South of France and Tuscany. I live in Florida now.

BRAZIL

Alex Salfatte, Sao Paolo, alexis_salfatte@hotmail.com

Your name VOLNEY GOUVEIA

your email address NEY.GOUVEIA@ZIPMAIL.COM.BR

your city RIO DE JANEIRO

your country BRASIL

your interests TRAVEL, MEET PEOPLE, EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE AND LEARN ENGLISH

IF YOU WANT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT MY COUNTRY, IT WILL BE PLEASURE FOR ME GIVE IT YOU . TODAY IT IS CHEAPER TO THE FOREING VISIT BRASIL BECAUSE THE EXCHANGE RATE IS HIGH AND THE GOVERNAMENT CONTROL THE INFLATION COSTA RICA =======================================================================================================================================================================

JK McCrea, I've visited San Jose, Costa Rica, and I live in Florida == jkmccrea@hotmail.com ITALY ======================================================================================================================================================================= Your name Paolo Ottelli -- your email address ottelli@mail.com - your city Lumezzane Brescia == your country Italy == your interests swim, motorbikes, F1, internet, mounting, movies, your web page ==== ======================================================================================================================================================================= VENEZUELA =============================================================================================================================================== Name : José Orellán == e-mail: jorellan@telcel.net.ve = City: Cagua = State: Aragua = Country: Venezuela - My Interest: Latin Music (Salsa) Collector, Softball player = My Web Site: http://salsa2u.freeservers.com/ =================================================================================================================================================================== //////////////////////// More information //////////////////////// =================================================================================================================================================================== (a) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< VIDEOS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> =================================================================================================================================================================== How do you choose a video for use in a classroom? =================================================================================================================================================================== =================================================================================================================================================================== EXAMPLES OF BAD VIDEOS ---- The World's Most Amazing Videos: the announcer shouts, the videos include a long story to explain the situation, the videos are sometimes violent =================================================================================================================================================================== America's Best Car Chases: too much violence, some students might not like the rough action, sometimes the police are rought on the driver, then the student gets worried about driving in the USA. =================================================================================================================================================================== ANOTHER USE for video tapes is to play one in the classroom before the students walk in. Start at 8:45 am before the class at 9 a.m. Students who arrive early have something to talk about. (At TALK, we try to play something on the TV, usually something funny or a video from a student's trip...) ("look, there is Krista in San Francisco!") =================================================================================================================================================================== (b) >>>>>>>>>>>>> AUDIO TAPES <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< =================================================================================================================================================================== All Clear (idioms, expressions) =================================================================================================================================================================== the tapes from our New Interchange series, and the tapes from the old "Interchange" series. =================================================================================================================================================================== Raise the Issues (good for high levels, 5, 6 and TOEFL) =================================================================================================================================================================== Procedure: Listen to one sentence. Stop the tape (pause). Write the sentence. (If you need to hear it again, rewind. Play again. Stop. Write). Continue playing the next sentence. Stop, repeat. After tend minutes of listening, compare your spelling to the spelling in the book. =================================================================================================================================================================== If you have questions about this method, send me an email... englishlesson@mail.com ============================================================================================================================================== =============================================================================================================== TOPICS for Compositions =================================================================================================================================================================== 1. Do you remember a person from your school? MY REPLY -- I remember a remarkable guy named Mike T., but now he calls himself philip. He threw a football very well and he had a lovely nose, a finely cut nose wihtout the bump that I have in my nose. He had a strong arm and I caught his pass once and then dropped it. It was very sad. Oh well.... =================================================================================================================================================================== 2. Do you remember a person who is dead? (Write a letter to a person who died). MY REPLY == I recall my grandfather who was a great fisherman. he was always taking a nap in the afternoon and he loved the New York Yankees baseball team. he died when I was 14 years old, in 1972 and I was happy to have known him. =================================================================================================================================================================== 3. Do you remember a wedding? MY REPLY == my first wedding with my video camera was a success. I shot the bride and groom very little. I positioned the camera over the shoulder of the groom and filmed all the pe

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