Instructions:
- Which country would you like to go to? Why?
- What do you know about it?
- What would you like to do there?
- Would you like to study/work/live there? Explain.
- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts
- Word Count: 160 words
__________________________________________________________________SAMPLE:
RUSSIA:
Although
money can be an issue, and going to distant places can be a broken
dream before you start dreaming, I would anyway love to visit Russia.
Because of many reasons, but mostly, because it is such a varied and
colorful contry.
Russia
has an incredible population, they are 142.5 million people according
to the statistics given by the UN in 2007. The number might seem scary,
but don't worry! Density is low because of the country’s enormous size,
in fact, its geography is composed of more than 17 million square
kilometres!
This
huge land is the home of one of the most multi-ethnic nations in the
world, and it is considered to be the world’s most diverse society –
there are as many as 160 ethnic groups living there, i.e. 160 ways of
viewing life, asian people, eurpeans, people from the arctic, etc!, and
just the thought of all the traditions, cotumes, and folclore they have,
makes crave for going ASAP!
Another
of the reasons I would like to see Russia, it's its multi-lingualism, I
mean, being honest; with that ammount of squared kilometres and
ethnicities, you could not expect any less.
There
more than 100 tongues spoken in all the country, and even though
Russian is the official language, one can always learn a word or two in
an incomprehensible, new-for-us language!, Furthermore, I find
particularly interest the fact that when writing, the Russians use the
Cyrilic Alphabet, and simply, no-one can say it is not a whole world to
discover.
Apart
from the above mentioned, I have real interest in taking a tour around
the geography, and have a good time travelling Asia and Europe, but even
more, I would just love to take a culinary tour, can you imagine the
ammount of strange dishes one can find among all those ethnicities??
So
far, I have had the chance of eating a couple of traditional russian
dishes, they have both been very stimulating and a bit unknown for me,
and since I have loved them, I am looking forward to eating them again
in situ, and also, have a bite of everything I can, and I am sure that
when money gets to be a friend of travelling, I will be sending you
postcards from there.
See you in Russia!!!
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VIDEO TASK #1. DUE TO: 10/06/2015
see: - http://englishposting.blogspot.com/p/blog-syllabus-level-4.html
- http://www.englishposting.blogspot.com/p/marking-rubric.html
A SUBJECT YOU ENJOYED AT SCHOOL
Record a for
2 minute mobile phone video presentation*
about a subject you enjoyed at school. Say:
- What the subject was,
- Who taught it,
- Why you enjoyed it,
- What things you learnt in this subject.
- Mention
anything else you think is important.
A mobile phone video presentation is a video of
the student talking directly to the camera. This activity is seen as part of
the learning process. Videos are made in the students’ own time and they are
free to practice and record as many versions as they see fit in order to
complete the task. However, the final video must be in one take (i.e. they must
not be edited). Moreover, the professor must be able to see the student clearly in the
video (i.e. No sunglasses!). If the professor thinks that the text is being read, s/he can
arrange for the student to re-record it or repeat the talk in class.
Given the context of today's class yo will have to do these activities on your own. Please save screenshots of the results and bring them to class next Tuesday.
