Tuesday, December 2, 2008

DIFFERENT KINDS OF QUESTIONS

On this reading you could try to different kinds of questions exercises:

Multiple Choice:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/490/wchild/wchild1.htm

Cloze reading:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/490/wchild/wchild2.htm

CRITICAL READING EXERCISE

On this link you can improve your reading comprehension by practicing critical reading theory:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/570/pulp/hemp11.htm

Review of Cause and Effect Linking Words

Check out this link and practice cause and effect patterns:

THEORY

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/570/pulp/hemp5.htm

PRACTICE

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/570/pulp/hemp6.htm

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

SINCE VS FOR PRACTICE

Practice the difference between for and since:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf1.htm

MODALS PRACTICE

If you want to review some structures related to modal verbs check out these links

CAN
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit18_dialogues.htm

SHOULD AND OUGHT TO (You can use ought to instead of should, but it is less common)
http://www.1-language.com/englishcoursenew/unit44_grammar.htm

MUST
http://www.1-language.com/englishcoursenew/unit43_grammar.htm

Have a nice day!!!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

READING STRATEGIES: TAKING NOTES

Hi everybody,

Taking notes is an useful tool to understand complex material.

THEORY

http://www.studygs.net/booknote.htm

Here you have one of the systems used to organize your notes

CONCEPT MAPPING

http://www.studygs.net/mapping/index.htm

PRACTICE

Analyze a short story

1. Go to this link and choose one of the fables, read it and do the story mapping:

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/chinese-fables/load.htm?f

2. Let's do the story analysis in a story map:

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/


Have fun!!!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

READING EXERCISE

Hi everybody!

This is an excellent website to practice listening, build vocabulary and check your reading comprehension skills:

http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage

Activity:

1. Choose a topic (working, family, school, science, technology, etc.)
2. Select two stories of the story list
3. Read and listen the stories
4. Do the proposed activities (When you finish all the activities, you can see your score)
5. Write down your score in each activity on your bitácora format.

Enjoy the activity

PRESENT PERFECT

Hi Everybody,

This grammar exercise is going to help you to understand how to work with present perfect.


http://www.inglesmundial.com/I10/grammar.htm

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES EXERCISE

Good morning


On this link we are going to learn some irregular forms. Click on this link and do exercise number 4

http://www.english-4u.de/comparison.htm

Comparatives and Superlatives

Hi everybody,

Check out this link in oder to learn more about adjectives forms.

Comparatives

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I13/grammar.htm

Superlatives

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I14/grammar.htm

Have fun !!!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

ADJECTIVES

In order to learn new vocabulary about adjectives click on this links


Vocabulary

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I3/vocabulary.htm

Reading exercise

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I3/reading.htm


Vocabulary

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I13/vocabulary.htm


Reading exercise

http://www.inglesmundial.com/I13/reading.htm

GUESS THE MEANING OF UNKNOWN WORDS 2

In the following web site you are going to know and practice how to guess the meaning of unknown words. Open the link:

http://vclass.mtsac.edu:920/readroom/context.htm

Read all the information and do the proposed exercises, then do the context clues workshop

Context clues workshop

In order to know if you understood the reading about context clues, answer the following questions:

1. According to the context, what’s the meaning of “skip over”? (Do not look up the word in the dictionary, try to guess it by context)

2. What are the steps to follow when you want to guess the meaning of unknown words?

3. What’s the definition of direct context clues?

4. What’s the definition of indirect context clues?

5. How do you know if a word in a reading is important or not?

6. Why are context clues important for a reader?

PAST TIME

In order to practice past time check it out this link

http://inglesmundial.com/I5/grammar.htm

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

GUESS THE MEANING OF UNKNOWN WORDS

In the following web site you are going to practice how to guess the meaning of unknown words. Open this link and do the proposed exercises:

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=7&act=1