Blog post #3 - due Monday, April 24

For today's topic I am combining 2 requests for topics: idioms and technology. This will be a lesson about slang expressions related to technology.

You have listened in class to an  introduction of American slang by JenniferESL. You have also listened to Lesson 8, Part I about technology, and made a list of those expressions. Listen to it again, and answer these questions:

1. Which of these expressions have you heard before? Which have you never heard?
2. Which might you use in the future?
3. In what situations might these expressions be appropriate and inappropriate?

If possible, react to your classmates' comments.

Best,

Diana

Blog post  #2 - due Wednesday, April 5

Dear students,

This week's topic will combine sports, exercise and grammar. Answer the following questions in paragraph form.

1. Are you interested in sports?If so, what is your favorite sport?
2. How long have you been playing it, or participating in it?
3. Have you ever been on a team?
4. What else do you do for exercise?
5. How long have you been doing it?

As before, please answer in paragraph form, and please respond to at least one of your classmates.

Dear students,

Welcome to our class blog! This week's topic will be movies. Please answer the following questions in paragraph form. Then read all of your classmates' answers and react  briefly to at least one of them  for full credit.

1. Do you like movies? If so, what kinds of movies do you like?
2. What is the best movie you have seen recently? What was it about? What language was it in?
3. Not too long ago I saw an excellent movie called "Hidden Figures."Have you seen it?It was about three brilliant Afro-American female mathematicians who worked for NASA in the American South in the 960s and faced discrimination. I think it won several Academy Awards.
4. Does discrimination against minority groups exist in your native country? Explain.

I look forward to reading your comments.
Diana