MURPHY´S LAW

Are you familiar with Murphy's Law??
It is a famous law that says that
"If anything can go wrong, it will"

Do you know the story of the famous Murphy´s Law? Check it or find it out at:
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html


Activity ONE: Writing about you


Does Murphy´s Law apply in your everyday life? Do silly, normal, small, annoying things happen to you every day? Can you think of examples?


Tell me about it by mail to solibarrav@gmail.com!! (Your work cannot have less than 50 words. Please, use double spaced format, size 12 Arial font. You are expected to illustrate your writing with an image from the web related to your anecdote)

Activity TWO: Listening Section


Now, let´s listen to a song where Muphy´s Law situations appear all along!

The singer, Alanis Morissette named the song “Ironic”, do you know it?

Enjoy the song, listen to the lyrics and take notes of as many Murphy´s Law situations as you hear.

Click on the following link to listen to the song and watch the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9yUVgrmPY

From your notes, write examples of Murhpy´s Law situations that are mentioned in the song and e-mail them to me to solibarrav@gmail.com... have any of them happened to you? :)


Deadline: June 22th

Did you like the song? She mentions many awkward situations!

If you have doubts or would like to read the lyrics, click on this link: www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html

Are you superstitious?

           





                   SUPERSTITIONS

Reading + Filling the gaps:

Some animals are related to evil things, for example “crows”. Do you know what crows are? They are ugly black birds. The American writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a famous poem called The Crow. You can read a rhyme below referring to crows:

COUNTING CROWS

One's bad,

Two's luck,

Three's health,

Four's wealth,

Five's sickness,

Six is death!!!

Here are some popular phrases related to evil things. Work with a partner and fill in the gaps of the sentences below. (Every dash corresponds to one letter).
REMEMBER to use an Online dictionary to check the meaning of the words you don´t know ;-)

1) To break a mirror means 7 years _ _ _ luck.

2) If a mirror in the house falls and breaks by itself, someone in the house will _ _ _ soon.

3) If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die _ _ _ _ _.

4) Walking below a _ _ _ _ _ _ will give you bad luck. 5) The devil can enter your body when you _ _ _ _ _ _. Having someone say, "God bless you," drives the devil away.
6) Sparrows carry the souls of the dead, it's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (not lucky) to kill one.
7) If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the _ _ _ _ (360 days) is over.Can´t guess the words? I took the rhymes from the following website: “ Info about Superstitions: old wives tales, folklore, bizarre beliefs, taboos, omens, lucky & unlucky things” Look for the phrases at: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

Please send me the complete sentences by e-mail to solibarrav@gmail.com and also tell me: are YOU superstitious??? Support your choice. The paragraph must take above 50 words. Remember to write your names and the course you belong to at the end of the e-mail! :)

Now, let´s do a listening activity! Some people are superstitious and believe in horoscopes. We will listen to this man giving his point of view. Is he for or against horoscopes?

Click on this link www.listenaminute.com/h/horoscopes.html Then, click on LISTEN (it is written in blue, below the word DOWNLOADS). A new small window will appear.

If the sound is not good the first time, do not worry. Play it a second time and it will be fine. Audio files usually take time to download.

DEADLINE May 31st

Your work, published at last! :)

Hello there Adults 4! Your work on the five-picture-story has been really fantastic! You have written creative, imaginative, funny, interesting stories! Congratulations to all of you!

On the top left-hand corner of the blog you will see a link called "WRITER´S CORNER". Click on it and there you have your work and your partner´s work published!! 


Task: Please, read everyone´s creations and then leave a comment here on your opinions of the stories and which one you think is the best.Remember to write your name at the end of your comment and to post it as "Anonymous" so it appears correctly

Note: next post coming soon... :)

Five-picture-story

Five picture story

This activity is called “the five-picture-story” because it is a story based on the following five images. Have a look:

These are five scenes in a story… that will be put together by a wonderful and imaginative writer: YOU!


So, look at the Pictures again and let your imagination run free!
Put them in the order that you prefer!


What do you see?
How can they be put together in a coherent line of thought?

Instructions:

• In pairs, make a pre-writing plan and start giving shape to your sequence of events. In pairs, you can brainstorm ( give different ideas and write them all together and then order the valuable ones. You can use e-mail or chat for this purpose) Think of an introduction (it can be informative, surprising, or descriptive), then events that happen, and then conclude the action.

• Now, the WRITING!! You will be writing in pairs or groups of three (remember, two heads or more think more than one!) Your English teacher will take you to the computer room.

TIP: use WORD programe for this purpose. Remember to customize your document in "English" language. How? go to the tool bar, click on TOOLS-> Language->select language. Once you have finished writing, check spelling and grammar by clicking on F7 and make the necessary corrections. MIND YOU, the grammar is not perfect and some phrases may be underlined in green but they are OK. So, if you are not sure about the WORD suggestion, ask your teacher!!

• After checking grammar and spelling, save your DOCUMENT !!!! You will get very angry if you loose your work.If you are at the computer room at school the best thing to do is to autosend your WORD document to your email account either in an attached file or as part of the message. The decision is yours.

• Always remember to edit your work after you finish: take a break, then go back to your writing and re-read it, it´s a good idea to write in Word and then improve it, make it more attractive, run a spelling test until you are happy with it.

IMPORTANT: Your work must have approximately 130 words. FORMAT: Font Arial 12,double space between sentences and justified text. DEADLINE: April 19th

• Send your writing to me by e-mail to solibarrav@gmail.com I´ll be waiting anxiously for your stories! I will correct, make comments and send them back by e-mail to you!

Your stories will then be published in the blog in a frame of honour place!!! So, Come on, do your best! :) Sol

YOUR COMMENTS

First of all, Happy Easter everybody! Hello there! Thank you for visiting the blog! Your comments were extremely interesting to read! : )

They were clear and informative. However, there were some little errors that were repeated in most comments. Here are some of these common errors so we all learn from each other:

I use internet with my childrens (children is plural, no final "s". The singular is "child")

I use internet for checking mails, search information and comunicated with my friends. (Careful! Choose a tense and stick to it! I use internet for checking mails, searching information and comunicating with my friends)

chek mails (Spelling: missing "c";"check". This is why the best is to write in Word and run a spelling test before handing in written work)

them I start my work (again Spelling: then)

I use it for comunication whith friends (Spelling: missing "m"> "communication". Extra "h"> "with")

I am going to used internet (Grammar. Tenses. I am going to USE internet. always TO + INFINITIVE)

I use internet everyday to reading and writing mails (TO + INFINITIVE verb; to read and write mails)

It´s a tool very important for me (word order: It´s a very important tool for me)

I search information about differents items (Careful! In English adjectives are NEVER plural> different items)

I hope it helped to see some common corrections. Anyway, your comments were great to read!

In our next post we will be writing in small groups and you will send your work to me by e-mail so you then receive a more personalized correction!

I´ll be waiting for your work! :)

Sol.

Adults4 Project Team wishes you
HAPPY EASTER!! 

Have a wonderful long weekend full of laughter and chocolate eggs!

Guardian Angel

Hello, everybody. Let me introduce myself : My name is Nelba Quintana and I am the ITC (Information and Communication Technology) Coordinator of the English Area. 

I am part of this Adults 4 blog project as a kind of guardian angel. Although you are in contact with me very often, I want to tell you that I am always "on the net" to give you a hand, I read your comments, check activities, add gadgets to the blog to make it more attractive, etc.

Soledad and all the teachers of adults 4 courses are in charge of the content and activities of this blog and I am here to help you with any technological problem you may have, so if you cannot work in the blog (e.g. leave a comment) please contact me by mail to escuelaunlp@yahoo.com.ar , write in the Subject of the mail: Problem with Adults 4 blog, explain your problem as clear as possible and identify yourself (name, surname and course you belong to).

This project team is doing its best to make this experience enriching for your English language learning and digital literacy acquisition. Unfortunately, sometimes technology does not work properly and you may experience some difficulties. But please, do not give up and whenever you have a problem, contact us as soon as possible.

Enjoy this online ride!  :-)

Welcome to our blog

Dear Students:

This year, tutorial classes will be a bit different. I imagine your teacher has already given you some information about this activity since you are now reading this blog. We are going to start a fascinating trip into the Internet world and by the end of the year you will reach surprising achievemets!

The aim of using digital technology in English courses is to introduce you to digital literacy which will be very useful either in your everyday or professional life.

Actually, this blog will be, in a way, like your class book and one of our means of communication - we will use e-mailing as well. I will upload a post every two weeks with new material for you to read and tasks to do.

FIRST ACTIVITY: To break the ice and start getting familiar with this tool, please,   click on "comments" at the bottom of this post and write about what experience you have using the Internet: Do you use Internet? How often? What for? (checking mail, chatting, reading the newspaper, etc.)





Dead line: March 30th.

Please, sign your comments with your name and the course you belong to. For example: Juan Sánchez- Adults4 C