Nicole M. Torres RosadoBasic English 3102

Prof. MedinaSec.905

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GOAL…GOAL…

Like I mention my learning goal is the reading comprehension. Because if you see was my lowest score in the diagnostic test.

I think if I can resolve this problem, I can improve a lot in another areas in the language.

Also my highest expectation was acquired all the material with English topics, but also in general knowledge.

Language Area

Level IIIAdvanced

Level IIIntermediat

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Level IBasic

Listening  SA- 5DIAG- 83%

   

Speaking    SA- 3DIAG- 66%

 

     SA- 2DIAG- 33%

Writing    DIAG- 62%

 SA- 2

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STAGE…STAGE…

( THIS PART YOU HAVED)

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LEARNING

LEARNING

PROGRAM…

PROGRAM…

Eliza. Master Spell. Mix. Fit up. The conversational hour. English Now. Practice your Reading. Practice your English. English4you. Live mocha.

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EVIDENCEEVIDENCE

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• English4you

Live mocha

MY WORKS…MY WORKS…

 Web Site Evaluation

Name: Nicole M. Torres Rosado. Date: February 14, 2008

Learning Goal: My learning goal is reading.

Go to Basic English Web Site and visit the entire page. You can also visit other area pages.

The results should provide you with a number of websites that can help you focus on your learning. The key goal here is to familiarize yourself with the website that interest you and you think can

help you achieve your goal.

You must find five web-sites that you think will help you and write the web address down on a word document. Then for each website write a brief 5 sentence justification on how this website will help you achieve your learning goal. Will it teach you and Test your learning or will it simply

teach or test? Is it interactive and appealing? These are just simply guide questions designed to help you think about the paragraph. Please use the document below. This assignment should

be submitted by Wednesday, February 13, 2008.

Web address: http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/stories/stories.html

  Summary: This web site I liked a lot because create a dynamic atmosphere. In this give story’s that are good content. One of the things that I like most is that in first part we can click and see a definition for the better understanding. This web I think that is a challenge for me, in the way of check what I understand. The only thing that I change in the web site or in the exercise is that is not have to be so longs, because the student lost the concentration.

 

Web address: http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=activity2&topicID=4&storyID=87

Summary: This site was different at the first one because have the option to read and listen the story. Also have picture that we can associate with the story. This site provides us the opportunity of a few option of exercise. Those exercises were fun and good for the learning purpose.

 

 Web address: http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz88bds.htm

Summary: I choose this site to try to prove my skills in the area of writing. The first impression that gave the side is like is a hard one. I toke two quizzes, the first was about question and I have to found the answer in a multiple choices. The second quiz was about finishing a few sentence, if a had a rung answer they give the opportunity to choose the best answer in a multiple choices. This site it is a site that can teach you new vocabulary, fix your spelling and the best part is that is in a fun way. The only thing a change has to be the front page of the site it could be more creative.

Web address: http://english-zone.com/verbs/lie-lay1.html

  Summary: The idea of this site is that we can difference what word use in the correct time. Also helps us to difference the words. The part that I choose was the verbs because this is a important part of the sentence and could changes the sentence meaning. At the time that I was doing the exercise I realized that I have more that one area to work because I did not have a lot good choices. I think that was a good site and challenging.

 

Web address: http://paginas.terra.com.br/lazer/TemporalGames/weblessonint01.html

Summary: I choose this site because looks fun but at the same time helpful. In the site shows to us like a story is movement but at the same time you are listening. I choose the l in term level. The story was short and precise. The exercise were easy but at the same time were entertaining.

 

Software Evaluation

 

Name: NICOLE M. TORRES ROSADO Date: February 22, 2008

 

Learning Goal: My learning goal is reading (comprehension).

 

Visit the ESL folder as explained in class. You can also visit other area pages.

The results should provide you with a number of programs that can help you focus on your learning. The key goal here is to familiarize yourself with the programs available and

offer alternatives that interest you and you think can help you achieve your goal.

You must find five programs that you think will help you and write the software title down on a word document. Then for each website write a brief 5 sentence justification on how this website will help you achieve your learning goal. Will it teach you and Test

your learning or will it simply teach or test? Is it interactive and appealing? These are just simply guide questions designed to help you think about the paragraph. Please use the document below. This assignment should be submitted by Wednesday, February

13, 2008

Sofwtare: ENGLISH NOW.

Summary: This software was good because is was informative and interesting. Also practice me if I understand the selection. In the software give us opportunity to select the way to prove that we understand. I choose multiple choices. It was tricky but like the end said the practice make the perfection.

Sofwtare: ELIZA.

Summary: In this software the dynamic was very interesting. Eliza was very funny but at the same time she tries to help us. Also this software is good to maintain a conversation. We can practice few topics that we can use in the real life. I think that all the purpose of this activity is to defend our self in real life.

3)Sofwtare: MASTER SPELL.

Summary: The software master spell was very helpful, because tell us some words that we have to write in base in what we understand. I think that this is the tricky part because; I did some horrors with that words. In another way helps us to try to listen better to the person that is talking to us. I liked because is a challenge for me. And like the teacher bird said I need really bad this program.

 4)Sofwtare: PRACTISE YOUR ENGLISH.

Summary: This was easy but at the same time tricky. It was easy because give the opportunity to see some good answer to fill the sentence. It was tricky for the simple reason that the answer that the program gives use was very confusing. It is a two-edge knife. At the same time a liked because had like music to motive you and this make me continues doings.

 5)Sofwtare: PRACTICE YOUR READING.

Summary: This software was very fun. I liked because teach us some word that we used day at day. This program read to you the word, illustrate the word and we can listen few time. The program has a lot of motivating things that make the student enjoy the assignment. Also help me in the right pronunciation of the words that the program presents. In conclusion I liked and I recommend this program because is a simple but effective way to learn.

Essay:

In the English class I hope that I can realized and complete my goals. In relation with this class my number one goal has to be speaking well the English. I hope the best of this course. With the

assignment we can improve our expectation. I wish that I can realize my purpose of this curse.

This class brings to us a style that no one has because this program goes direct to our needs. One of the examples is the project the “learning plan”. In the learning plan we can mixed the areas that we have more difficulty. In my cases I choose the reading area (reading comprehension) because

I think that if we really want to learn how to write and pronounce a word we have to read in different situation a word. The learning plan has different stages and in those stages we can put

the level of our necessity.

In my number one stage I put that I have the difficult of how use the words correctly. For this I choose the programs of Master Spell, because this program corrects the words that I did not

write well. Other program that I choose was Eliza because this help me to develop my skills and loose the panic that I have, that is speak with others in English. Also I choose other programs but

one that I had is my conversational hour, this is better because is a real people and in this we can practice all that we acquire. All of this practice I hope that helps me.

The programs of ESL and the programs of website are helpful. There are interesting and they can practice us. And now it is better because we have the opportunity to post our work in our own

blog. Is like I said this class has variety. To post all of our work we have to learn how some steps do. Those steps are the warranty to due right.

In conclusion I hope that all the work that we are been doing helps us through the pass of our experience universitary or better through the pass of our lives. Also I want finishing this curse

knowing how to use the word right and knowing when used. I wish that this learning plan develops few skills that I even know that I had. I want to finish been in entire American.

 

FIRST PARAGRPH: MY OWN STORY.

IN MY FINAL YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, ON MY ENGLISH CLASS I SUPPOSE TO DO A MONOLOGO. I DID THIS IN BASE IN STORY CREATE BY MYSELF, IT SUPPOSE TO BE FUNNY AND, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. THE MAIN IDEA OF THE STRORY WAS THAT A WOMAN WAIT FOR HER TRUILY LOVES BUT IN THE WAITYNG SHE GOES CRAZY AND SHE HAD A BEST FRIEND THAT WAS A TEDDY BEAR. I PUT SOW NERVEUS THAT I FORGOTE EVERYTHING AND THE ONLY THING THAT I REMEMBER WAS THE NAME OF THE TEDDY BEAR THAT WAS RAYMOND. FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR I TRIED TO FORGET THE SITUATION BUT THE ONLY THING THAT THE PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER WAS THAT PRESIDE MOMENT AND THE NAME OF RAYMOND AND THAT MOMENT I HAVE A NEW IDENTITY.

 

SECOND PARAGRAPH: MY FAVORITE CLASS AND WHAT WE ARE DISSCUTIN.

MY FAVORITE CLASS NOW IN THE UNIVERSITY I HAVE TO SAY IT IS (HUMANIDADES), BECAUSE GIVE ME NEW KNOWLEDGE. WITH THE PASTE OF THE TIME I TRULY UNDERSTAND THAT THE OLD THING CAN HELP US TO MAKE OUR DECISION IN OUR FUTURE. NOW IN THIS CLASS WE ARE DISCUSSING THE LIVE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, AND IF YOU BELIVE OR NOT IS VERY INTERSTING. HIS LIFE WAS FULL OF EXPERINCE AND CREATIVITY EVEN DOES ALL HIS PERSONAL PROBLEM. I THINK AND BELIVE THAT HE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF SUPERATION.

Jasey Gonzalez Rivera

Nicole Torres Rosado

Porf. Mario Medina

 

Short Story paragraph using Past Present Simple

 

Last summer Nicole and Jasey had visited Disney World. Between all the parks they visited, there favorite one had been Animal Kingdom. Nicole most exiting attraction was

the safari, but since it was raining she had missed most of the animals. For Jasey, the coolest thing for her that she saw was a Galapagos Turtle but she would have been happier if she had touched it. They had walked together all over the park. They had

collected all the signatures of the character from Disney. After a long day in the park they where hungry and since they had not slept at all they were very tired. Wend they woke up, since they had rested a lot, they were ready for another cool day in Animal

Kingdom.

CONFUSION:

About four months ago my mother told to me and my sister that maybe there was the probability that she can have cancer. When she tells to us this, the only thing that I thought was, what I can tell to her to make her feel better, in change I hug her and

prove to her that her girls were present. Also she told to us that this sickness can be genetic. In that point I think we’ll all of us have to die some day and in change to lose

our time in the complaining we have to enjoy the rest of our lives.

This situation was very sad, painful and tier. But this emotion end when in the next lab and visit to the doctor they told to us that everything was ok. Our live stay just like was

before but with better decisions. With this experience we learn to love more our mother and know that god give seconds chances. That makes us stronger and fighters, to battle

any situation. We learn that anything is possible in life sow enjoy live and time.

   

LEARNING EXPERIENCE:

 

At the beginning of this course I was supposed to create a learning plan, and work with it. This plan had to include things that helped me upgrade my knowledge. I

took an exam that demonstrated my weaknesses. My weakness is reading comprehension. Thanks to this exam I understand what and how to work my area

of reading comprehension.

In the way that I found that my weakest part was reading comprehension I look for areas that could help for my better. For me this area include a little bit of all area

in the English topic, Why? because if you understand what you are reading you know how to written a word well, is the same case with it if you understand what you write you know how to said a word and have good pronunciation. For resolve

this problem I chose programs that develop skill to help to lose afraid. For example a chose Eliza because is like a chat, but with a computer. She help in the writing

area in the error part like Master Spell, that gives me a word and the definition and then I have to writer, if my spell was bad she correct me and then I see was my

error.

In the learning activities my most relevant experience was the SIMPLE PAST PERFECT, because thank to this I knew that I had other area that I had to work, and how to use the times in a sentence. Also a other situation that revel something was THE

CONVERSATIONAL GROUP, in this semester my group was only girls and was more comfortable. We speak and do exercises, but focus in we have to improve. Thank to our guide that was our teacher Krystal, she helps us a lot to get better in our

English. The area that she was more helpful was in the pronunciation, the written and the meanings of the word that we do not know. In another hand the least

activities experience was on how to put my work on my blog, I had a lot of problem with this technology and this slow my work.

If I had the opportunity to begin this course again, I took more serious this lesson and practice a lot more. Because In my first essay I said that I want to

finish this course being an entire American, and I felt good with my improvement but not satisfied. Like we see this course is in the end part, sow our time with this practice is over, but if I want to wet better in my English I have to practice few things. This would not be a problem because I decide to

continue with my learning plan, in special in the grammar area, pronunciation, reading and listening.

Thank to this course I can defend my self with the language of English. I think that my improvement is not over but I wet better with all the practice that we did in class and in our independent learning. The better of this course is that

we can wet better because we work in our needs not is some one else.

POSITIVE POSITIVE

EXPERIENCESEXPERIENCES

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The conversational group. Practice my writing with the folder on

ESL. Also this course give to us the

opportunity to learn about different topics.

Most important that we can create our plan to our needs.

NEGATIVE NEGATIVE

EXPERIENCESEXPERIENCES

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The time. (this affect me in both way) The accounts, that we have to search

some times do not open when we needed.

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CHANGES…CHANGES…

In my learning plan I do not change anything, because covers all the areas that I think that I have problem.

But like I said I need a lot of time to have a good learning.

That we can have more access to the program or ESL.

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RECOMENDATION

RECOMENDATION

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I recommend you the programs of: Eliza, Master Spell and Live mocha. Of all the programs that I used they were not boring.