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I want to share with you this website I’ve found. It’s the website for the textbook we are using in class. Only choose an activity (grammar or vocabulary) and have fun while you reinforce what we have studied in the classroom. Do it, and then share your experience in the comments or in class.

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/americanheadway/ahy_level3_home/

Definitively one of my top ten movies is named Lost in Translation. Sofia Coppola directed this movie, in the year 2006. The story is about Bob (Bill Murray), who is a famous movie star that is hired to shoot a commercial in Tokyo. He meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) because she is staying in the same hotel as his. Charlotte is a young girl who just finished her college Studies in philosophy. She is married to a young model photographer who is in Tokyo for a shooting session and asks his wife to go with him. You can notice through the movie that both, Sarah and Bob are bored and tired of their lives there. They find themselves alone, in a country with too many technological advances, and a language very difficult to understand. The music in the movie is great because we can hear some tunes by Air and Phoenix among many others. Moreover, this movie has a very subtle sense of humor.

1. Read the sentences about Johnny Appleseed and then compare them with the paragraph below. Notice the ways that the sentences are combined.

• Johnny Appleseed’s real name was John Chapman. He was born in 1774.

• He was born in Massachusetts. He traveled westward.

• At that time, he was 23 years old. He went to the Ohio River Valley. He found no apple orchards.

• He found no apple trees.

• Johnny had a love of nature.

• This love gave him an idea.

• He planted thousands of seeds. The seeds were for apples.

• The seeds grew into apple trees. This made the wilderness bloom. Johnny Appleseed died in 1845.

• He spent 50 years traveling and planting seeds. Some of the trees still bear apples.

• He planted those trees 200 years ago.

Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, was born in Massachusetts in 1774. When he was 23 years old, he traveled westward to the Ohio River Valley, where he found no apple orchards or apple trees. Johnny’s love of nature gave him an idea. He planted thousands of apple seeds, which grew into apple trees, making the wilderness bloom. Johnny Appleseed died in 1845, after 50 years of traveling and planting seeds. Some of the trees that he planted 200 years ago still bear apples.

2. Write in the comments to this entry, a short profile of a person that is important to you. Try to make your paragraph sound as more natural as possible.

Here is the new schedule for the CAADI DCEA for this Fall semester. I hope to see you there soon. The CAADI offers you the opportunity to improve your English quicker than you thought.

Go, use it, and enjoy it.

Yesterday in class we were discussing about the syllabus for level four and the grading criteria.

First, here are the grading criteria. Please mark all these important dates down on your calendar.

Important Exam Dates

Quiz Date

First                       Aug 20^th

Second                Aug 27^th

Third                     Sep 3^rd

First Writing       Sep 3^rd

Fourth                  Sep 10^th

Midterm             Oct 1^st

Fifth                      Oct 15^th

Sixth                     Oct 22^nd

Second Writing Oct 29^th

Seventh              Nov 5^th

Eight                     Nov 12^th

Final Exam          Nov 19^th

Oral Exams         Nov 13^th & Nov 20^th

Grading Criteria for All Exams and Quizzes

Quizzes – (Eight in total)              20%

Writing Exams (Two in total)      10%

Midterm and Final                          30%

Oral Exam                                          30%

Class Participation                          10%

Welcome again, and please feel free to comment anything in this blog.

Here’s our Carta Descriptiva or syllabus for our English Level 4 class. Save it, keep it, comment it and use it as your guideline for whenever you miss a class. (Hopefully this will not happen at all )