Visita a un Museo en USA

Hi everyone,

as a new term begins we bring you a virtual visit to a museum in the USA. This museum would lodge immigrants 200 years ago.

The working sheet includes the answers and below you will find the audio file.

May you find it useful and any doubt you might have, contact your teacher.

ACTIVITIES (with answers)

Kind regards,

Prof. Mariano Ignacio

Centro Univ. de Idiomas

Total English - Revisión de las Unidades

Hola a todos!

El cuatrimestre ya está finalizando, y queremos que el proceso de exámenes sea un tiempo de evaluación objetivo y a la vez personal. Objetivo, cuando todos ustedes alumnos rinden sus exámenenes en los que se evalúa el progreso y los contenidos adquiridos. Y personal, cuando son ustedes mismos quienes miden y ven su propio progreso. Es por eso que hoy les acercamos un examen unidad por unidad, para que hagan una evaluación personal antes del examen. Pero... es importante que NO los realicen como un ejercicio más, sino como el resultado del estudio previo. Hagan los ejercicios del Workbook, trabajen con el CD-ROM -tiene muy buena ejercitación y explicaciones claras y concisas-. Y recién después, realicen estos "exámenes" de práctica.
Que les resulte de utilidad y que los exámenes finales sean un tiempo de cosechar el trabajo del cuatrimestre.

Unidad 1 -examen y respuestas-
Unidad 2 -examen y respuestas-
Unidad 3 -examen y respuestas-
Unidad 4 -examen y respuestas-


Saludos,
Prof. Mariano Ignacio
Centro Univ. de Idiomas

Argentinians in London

Hi there!

A bonus track video clip this weekend! CNN visited a London bar where Argentine fans were watching the World Cup match between Argentina and Greece. Peek inside!
Have a look at Argentinians in London as they enjoy a football match as much as we do... but in English!

Cheers!
Mariano

Spanish and English living together!

Dear all,

Bilingual education is the practice of teaching non-English speaking students the principal subjects in their native language as they learn another language. Developed in the 1970's, those programs were intended to help children keep up with their classmates in subjects such as Math, Science and Social Studies while they studied English.
This week, we bring you a report that explores the experience of a school in the USA.

Click here to download the exercise for you to work.

And this is the AUDIO needed for the task.




Once you have finished, we invite you to watch an additional report based on Bilingual Education.




Enjoy!
Prof. Mariano Ignacio
Centro Univ. de Idiomas.

Sentenced to... Shakespeare!

Dear all,

Every night in Boston, Massachusetts, 13 actors take the stage at Shakespeare & Company in “Henry V.’’ Nothing so unusual in that — except that they are teenagers, none older than 17, and they have been sentenced to perform this play.

The show is the culmination of a five-week intensive program called Shakespeare in the Courts, a nationally recognized initiative now celebrating its 10th year. Berkshire Juvenile Court Judge Judith Locke has sent these adjudicated offenders — found guilty of such adolescent crimes as fighting, drinking, stealing, and destroying property — not to lockup or conventional community service, but to four afternoons a week of acting exercises, rehearsal, and Shakespearean study.

This week, we bring you an interesting report on how adolescents are re-educated by means of drama. There is no exercise to be done. Only to listen and enjoy. And in case there are words you do not understand, we provide you with the transcription. Then, if you wish, there is a video that illustrates the report.

Enjoy!

TRANSCRIPTION TO THE AUDIO PROGRAM

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Prof. Mariano Ignacio

Centro Univ. de Idiomas

Facebook

Dear all,
Facebook has become the largest social network in the world. But at the same time, posting our lives on the internet may mean not having privacy. This week, we invite you to listen and work on activity we have prepared for you on the life through Facebook.
Hope you find the activity interesting and useful. And when you finish working, we have posted a video on the 25 Things a Guy Hates about Facebook.
Have fun!

ACTIVITY

AUDIO (needed for the activity)


VIDEO (just for fun)


Kind regards,
Prof. Mariano Ignacio
Centro Univ. de Idiomas

Short Story by Edith Warton

Dear all,
Edith Wharton was was a Pulitzer Prize winner, she was born in the USA in the late 1800's. Her novels and stories are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony.
Today we bring you one of her classic stories called "The Line of Least Resistance."

You can read and listen to the story.

READ

LISTEN



Enjoy!
Prof. Mariano Ignacio
Centro Univ. de Idiomas