Topics propositions

• Fame and fortune. Is it a good or bad thing? What would you do to reach your dreams of fame and/or fortune?
• Technology: how new gadgets and activities had changed our lives and our relationships. We can talk about how cellphones or Internet had changed the way we comunicate, and the concept of "privacy" nowadays.
• Is our society a loneleny one? (this is related with Unit 3, lesson 3) How modern life and new technologies help us to stay better or worse?
• We can share our experiences with important people in our lives, trying to make a chart like in Unit 4, lesson 3. And of course, we try to use conditionals.
• Our favourite everyday objects: clips, post-it, microwave... What we would do if they weren't developed?
• Talk about food and food descriptions.
•  Realism, fiction, drama? We can discuss about our favourite genera of books, movies, or plays. Last class we discovered not everyone reads a lot, but we see movies!

I propose we can think on some ideas about every topic, and share them on monday.

See you, and study a lot!

Lia.

My learning experience at Norteamericano Institute

I just started this year, at the half of the language program for adults. During the first semester of the year, I attended two levels, one with Professor Catherine, and one with Professor Paula.

Catherine has an interesting style of teaching. We reviewed the entire book, but we played a lot, and sang Beatles songs. The class was small (just five students), and we always had time to review the workbook and doing additional material.

After that, the study began to be more difficult, and we started with Paula. She is very sweet, just as Catherine, but she is always late in the schedule. We learned with Maria Elena, that if you want to be on date, you need to be fast (extremely fast. If you were five minutes later with her, you missed half of the class, really). But Paula is more relaxed. I had some classmates from previous level, so it was very easy to fit with the new scheme. The bad aspect of this level? The number of students. We were around ten, and the level of each one was very irregular. But we did presentations and compositions, to improve our written and spoken skills. That was absolutely in line with my objectives, because I plan to take an International Exam.

The remaining two levels experiences on a new post soon. Have a nice day.

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