›usually fast

›To get information

›Skimming, scanning, predicting; Guessing unknown words; Understanding details; Understanding relations between sentences and between paragraphs; Understanding references; Understanding inferences

 

When reading this part of the ppt, I thought of word order especially when I read the phrase, understanding relations between sentences and paragraphs. As in, if a student can understand the place of different parts of speech in a sentence he can further understand sentences in a paragraph and paragraphs in an essay. So, he firstly reads at a grammatical-logical level, and afterwards the meaning of words has to be deduced from context or the teacher hands Ss a list of opposites. I think that these 2 activities should accompany a reading comprehension text. 

 

Some useful links

Searching on the internet for resources I found these sites:
- http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_back_to_school_quotes.shtml
it provides some useful quotations to be used in class
-  http://www.educationworld.com/ which is actually the site from which I took the first link
- http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html
it hosts some interesting conferences, like this one I gave you in the link
- http://www.wolframalpha.com/
this is one of the things the guy in the link above was talking about :)

After our evaluation exam I went straight home and search for the poem Adela read to us. I found it here:
 http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=5921

 I don't know if you knew or if you watched "Detachment", which is a movie released in 2011, but I watched it and I got really impressed. It is a bit harsh, but it is about teaching...
I'll give you a link if you want to watch it online:
http://www.movie2k.to/Detachment-watch-movie-1225139.html

WRITING ACTIVITY / Day 6

By Gabriela, Daniela, Vanda, Radu, Dănuț

A Drizzling Day

         It was unexpectedly uninspired to have chosen such a day for skydiving. Gosh ! It was drizzling as it always did on November days. Bill dressed nervously, putting on his skydiving suit. At some point he defied the idea of doing such a dangerous thing. But thoughts were redundant anyway… They were part of his garrulous nature. They somehow disgusted him since, after all, he was a man of action. All he could do was not to worry about it… The worst thing that could happen was to land on a deserted island. What a bright perspective!

         He stepped aut of the plane, plunging into the unknown. All worries seemed to be gone!

         Not true! He soon opened his eyes only to see a group of painted islanders. Never in his life had he felt worse… Endangered! He was scared and confused.

         ”Wan Yan Dam May Am!!!” They were garrulous indeed ! More than himself! He could not even raise a tent to hide from the annoying drizzle. Fortunately, the Chief of the ”Wan Yan Dam May Am!” came to him and offered a colourful feather helmet. Good sign!

         Bill was no longer excited or threatened! He was simply happy! After all, it was Hawaii, the island of his dreams!

Two people who become strangers - story

                                        
                          Two people who become strangers

I suddenly woke up on an island. As I stood in the middle of nowhere, I talked to my self and said "I have to defy it, I have to prove that I can make it out of here!.Even though I am not garrulous , I would have preferred someone to talk to now,but there was nobody there, just me and the island".

Fortunately she saw a man who was skydiving. He noticed her and she was nervously watching the sky. Soon after they met they thought of the same "don't worry, be happy" song. All of a sudden it started to drizzle  and all their good mood went into the sea .

For a period of 2 months they lived happily there, as a man and a woman alone on an island would… But after some time he noticed that she had some bad habbits .

From his point of view her actions and words seemed redundant. Well, after all she is talkative. That's ok for some, but not for him though, he was disgusted. At some time, while listening to her talking like mad, he was thinking about the day he went skydiving with his highschool friends.That experience was marvellous.

He decided that he would tolerate her while on the island but when they return into the real world, they will separate.  

                                        Violeta, Andreea, Carmen and Larisa

Attempts at storywriting

She was like a garrulous island... A drizzle of words would pour out of her and she could not stop, no matter how isolated she had started to be... People would have gone skydiving only to avoid her redundant waterfall of yesterday's news and plain nonsense but she refused to worry... She would simply look disgusted, watching the crowd of people moving nervously further and further away from her. Eventually a delicate smile would appear in the corner of her mouth. If you can't beat them, defy them!

Teaching idioms, 3 activities.

Activity 1 :

We give the Ss 4 phrases with the idioms we want  to teach them  ask them if they have understood the meaning of the idoms . If they haven't understood the meaning, then we give them the explanations .

1.If you play your cards right,you can get whatever  you want .

2.The problems that you see here are just the tip of the iceberg.

3.I do not think you have the cheek to play that joke on her,she do enot enjoy jokes.

4.We won the match  fair and square .
5.The young man is rather green and does not have enough experience to drive the machinery.

Activity 2:

We give the Ss small sheets of paper containg two columns.On the first column they can read the first part of the sentence and on the second column the secondd part of the column. The idiom may be either in the first or in the second column .

She played her cards right	more problems are to come.
He is in his first year of teaching	I can say that he has the cheek.
This is the tip of the iceberg	They  weren' fair and square.
They swindled us;	and now she is the manager of the company.
By the way inwhich he behaved	thus we can all agree that he is green.

Activity 3 :

We ask the Ss to write 5 sentences with the idioms that they have learned .

                                                      Drăgulescu Violeta and Plennert Larisa

idioms

Students receive a handout with the following idioms: the tip of the iceberg, be green fair and square, have the cheek and play one`s card.

Activity 1.
Ss have to choose the appropriate meaning of the given 4 idioms. For example:
What you`ve heard is only the tip of the iceberg. The whole story will give you creeps!
a) surface of things
b) the way things are
c) the things to refer to

Activity 2.
Ss are given a short sentence and they should explain the meaning with their own words/rephrase.
eg.  He had the cheek to suggest that I should be the one to apologize!

He dared to....

Activity 3

Fill in the gaps with the given idioms.

eg. If you___________________________you will probably get a promotion.

Choose one of the idioms and try to write a story (real or fantastic) about how was it created (Use at least 50 words).

By Andreea, Danut