Online Classes with Pia

¿Sabías que el 11 de septiembre es el día del docente en Argentina? FELIZ DIA A MIS COLEGAS EN ARGENTINA Y EN EL MUNDO :)
Did you know that September 11 is Teachers's Day in Argentina? HAPPY DAY TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES IN ARGENTINA AND IN THE WORLD

Pretéritos en Español

Have you learnt anynthing new this week?

English Tenses: Present Perfect

¡¡Hoy Ana y yo HACEMOS un vivo!! Vamos a charlar de Fulbright, de becas y de viajes.

Dónde: en nuestras cuentas de Instagram y

Hora: 7pm (hora Argentina)

Comisión Fulbright Argentina The Fulbright Program

If you had a superpower, what would it be?

En nuestras clases de español trabajamos con el verbo VIVIR. ¿Dónde vives tú?

Make a wish...

Para los que les gustan los relatos sobre docencia comparto esta página que sigo y disfruto desde hace tiempo.
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Esta semana leí un artículo sobre Mara Wilson, la actriz que representa a Matilda en esa mágica película de los ‘90 basada en el libro de Roald Dahl. Esa película que muchxs coincidirán conmigo es una de las mejores de nuestra infancia.

Creo que todxs mis colegas docentes se han imaginado alguna vez ser como la maestra Miel, y cuando recién empezaba a dar clases en escuelas primarias tuve un ‘Momento Matilda’ que quiero compartir.

Estábamos en el aula de 5to grado trabajando con números. Para que practicaran cómo decirlos en inglés empecé a darles sumas y restas hasta que llegamos a un número grande que no esperaba que pudieran resolver mentalmente. El objetivo no eran los cálculos matemáticos, sino usar números en contexto. Unos segundos más tarde uno los chicos nos sorprendió a todxs con el resultado. Automáticamente pensé en la película, en Matilda en su primer día de clase, en la sorpresa de la maestra Miel cuando su nueva alumna resuelve una multiplicación compleja en segundos.

Ese alumno no tenía superpoderes y no podía mover cosas con la mente, al menos que yo supiera. Y yo no era, ni soy, la maestra Miel. Sin embargo nadie me podrá negar que el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje tiene una magia inexplicable.

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This page is hilarious!!
Strongly recommended 😂😂
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We haven’t stopped learning!!
Monthly Summary
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One of the topics we discussed this month was the difference between Present Perfect and Past Simple.

🔸Did you know that Present Perfect is used for UNFINISHED TIME and Past Simple for FINISHED TIME?
For instance:
-I've lived in the United States for two years. (I'm still living in the US)
-I went to New York in 2011. It's a wonderful city.

🔸If you are going to say when something happened (specific time), please DO NOT use Present Perfect.

We also talked about WHITE LIES. Do you TELL white lies? How often?

Some of the things we learnt in our online classes this week.

🔸Pronunciation
We kept working on the consonant sounds /θ/ and /ð/.

🔸Games
We played 'Never Have I Ever' to revise past participle forms.

🔸Grammar
We revised the difference between present perfect and past simple.

More about podcasts!

🎧 Suggestions for podcasts to share with your students when they need more listening practice: http://bit.ly/Podcasts-EnglishLanguageLearnig
Ann :)

Some of the things we learnt in our online classes this week.

🔸Pronouns
We read about the use of the gender-neutral singular pronoun THEY and we learnt how to use it in different contexts. (Explanation on previous post)

🔸Expressing your Opinion
We talked about exams and discussed how testing could be improved in schools. We went back to our school memories and shared anecdotes about exam days when we were kids.

🔸Grammar
We revised the correct ways of using the verbs to SUGGEST and to RECOMMEND. They can be followed by:
1. A noun> He recommended the restaurant down the street.
2. A gerund> She suggested shopping at farmers markets instead of grocery stores.
3. A clause> He suggested that I should go and apply for this job.

About a year ago I listened to my first podcast. It was a new world for me. Since then they became part of my everyday life.
If you wanna know about the world’s current issues and get used to a myriad of accents, check The Documentary Podcast. I love it 💚!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads

GENDER NEUTRAL SINGULAR PRONOUN 'THEY'

3 a ✔ used with a singular indefinite pronoun antecedent:
No one has to go if they don't want to.
Everyone knew where they stood …
— E. L. Doctorow

b ✔ used with a singular antecedent to refer to an unknown or unspecified person:
The person who answered the phone said they didn't know where she was.

c ✔ used to refer to a single person whose gender is intentionally not revealed:
A student was found with a knife and a BB gun in their backpack Monday, district spokeswoman Renee Murphy confirmed. The student, whose name has not been released, will be disciplined according to district policies, Murphy said. They also face charges from outside law enforcement, she said.
— Olivia Krauth

d ✔ used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary (see NONBINARY sense c):
I knew certain things about … the person I was interviewing.… They had adopted their gender-neutral name a few years ago, when they began to consciously identify as nonbinary — that is, neither male nor female. They were in their late 20s, working as an event planner, applying to graduate school.
— Amy Harmon

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they

Some of the things we learnt in our online classes this week.

🔸Pronunciation
We had fun trying to pronounce all these words correctly: “English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.” ― Anonymous.

🔸Tenses
We talked about present and past habits and compared how different our lives and our grandparents' lives are.

🔸Recommendations
PODCASTS! There are some cool podcasts you can follow to improve your listening skills.
Six Minute English, by BBC radio.
The Documentary, by BBC World Service.

Me encantan los juegos y todas las semanas elijo alguno para mis clases. En Australia solía llevar Boggle al aula.
Una buena versión digital es el wordshake de la página del 👇🏼 .
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games/wordshake

Wordshake Play Wordshake and see how many points can you get in three minutes. Longer words score more points!

I took this photo somewhere in the NYC subway, in January 2018.

Some of the things we learnt in our online classes this week.

🔸Dates and Pronunciation
We revised how to say the date and practiced the /θ/ sound in ordinal numbers. Remember we write mm/dd/yyyy in the U.S.

🔸Vocabulary
We talked about traveling to outer space and discussed the Space X launch (scheduled for Saturday 3:22 p.m. Eastern time). This is the first time in history that a commercial aerospace company will take humans into Earth's orbit.

🔸Tenses
We continued working with future forms and made predictions for 2050.

🔸Recommendations
There are two Argentinian newspapers in English and they are great resources for students!
The Bubble
www.thebubble.com
The Buenos Aires Times
www.batimes.com.ar