ENGLISH 3-MONIKA-2016-2
Class
Lessons
Here is the class outline:
1. Online dictionary: wordreference
Aug 8
Very useful dictionary to learn English. |
2. Syllabus
Aug 8
Content of the English 3 course. |
3. COMMON VERBS IN ENGLISHEnglish verbs with Spanish translation. |
4. LIST OF CONNECTORS
Aug 8
Words to link ideas. |
5. COURSERA: ONLINE COURSES IN ENGLISHBrowse the course catalogue, select ONE course that you like and enroll. |
6. DUOLINGO: practice languages with games and activities
Aug 8
Games to practice English. |
7. GLOSSARY FOR EDU 2.0
Aug 8
Terms to use this platform. |
8. PREPOSITIONS
Aug 8
Common prepositions in English. Prepositions normally link words. |
9. LIST OF REGULAR VERBSList of regular English verbs. |
10. LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBSList of irregular English verbs. |
11. MONIKA'S BLOGA brief history of the English language. |
12. QUIZLET
Aug 8
Lots of games to practice vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. |
13. QUIZLET-Verbs (English-Spanish)
Aug 8
Games using English verbs. |
14. REAL ENGLISH VIDEOS & EXERCISESVideos and exercises. |
15. SESSION 1: Introduction to the course, platform enrollment & sign-up on Coursera
Aug 8
EDU 2.0 and COURSERA. P.S. There's no material as such in this first session. |
16. SESSION 2: DIAGNOSTIC EXAM: The History of the English Language
Aug 11
Diagnostic exam |
17. SESSION 3: video on Margaret Thatcher
Aug 15
Listening exercises and review of past verbs (regular and irregular) |
18. SESSION 4: The future of English-WILL
Aug 18
Future: use of WILL for predictions. |
19. SESSION 5: more on future
Aug 22
WILL for predictions. |
20. SESSION 6: Pink Floyd-Future (Will and Going to)
Aug 25
Different use of Future WILL and GOING TO |
21. SESSION 7: Experiences and comparisons
Aug 29
Present Perfect |
22. SESSION 8: Newspaper articles-Experiences and results
Sep 1
More on the use of Present Perfect. |
23. SESSION 9: text analysis: genre, tone, register and topic
Sep 5
Analysis of different texts, in terms of genre, tone, register and topic. |
24. SESSION 10: Best friends, a dying species
Sep 8
Discussion on how digital communication has changed the way people relate to each other. |
25. SESSION 11: GLOBAL WARMING (CAN-COULD-MAY-MIGHT)
Sep 12
Possibilities: CAN-COULD-MAY-MIGHT |
26. SESSION 12: Hypotheses
Sep 15
DEFINITION: A hypothesis consists either of a suggested explanation for a phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena. The term derives from the Greek, hypotithenai meaning "to put under" or "to suppose." The scientific method requires that one can test a scientific hypothesis. Scientists generally base such hypotheses on previous observations or on extensions of scientific theories. In common usage in the 21st century, a hypothesis refers to a provisional idea whose merit requires evaluation. For proper evaluation, the framer of a hypothesis needs to define specifics in operational terms. A hypothesis requires more work by the researcher in order to either confirm or disprove it. Any useful hypothesis will enable predictions by reasoning (including deductive reasoning). It might predict the outcome of an experiment in a laboratory setting or the observation of a phenomenon in nature. The prediction may also invoke statistics and only talk about probabilities. |
27. Session 13: more on hypotheses
Sep 19
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28. SESSION 14: Research methodologies
Sep 22
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29. SESSION 15: Street Art
Sep 26
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30. SESSION 16: Word formation
Oct 6
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31. SESSION 17: continue with Word Formation: prefixes and suffixes
Oct 10
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32. SESSION 18: word formation-revisited: BBC News
Oct 13
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33. SESSION 19: Languages and perceptions of the world
Oct 17
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34. Session 20: connectors
Oct 20
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35. SESSION 21: Masdar City
Oct 24
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36. SESSION 22: continue with session 21
Oct 27
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37. SESSION 23: BBC News Videos
Oct 31
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38. SESSION 24: US ELECTIONS
Nov 10
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39. SESSION 25: Write the end of the story
Nov 14
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