Here is a list of updates on this website. For students coming to class, there could be updated info also in our section eCampus (on your left).
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Sections with updated contents |
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Top Nav. Bar |
| July 17 |
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Podcasts - TP Podcast - new episode for the "Everyday language" segment |
| March 30 |
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Podcasts - TP Podcast |
| Jan 7 |
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Skills - Writing - Reports |
| Dec 26 |
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The World - People & Culbure - American Indians - Sherman Alexie (also via Literature) - Dakota's Power Point with Q&A on one of his novels! |
| Dec 8 |
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Skills - Writing - Proposals
The World - People & Culture - the World of Work |
| Nov 23 |
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Podcasts - The Talking People Podcast - New segment in Useful Language: Everyday Language 001 |
| August 28 |
In class |
Library - Reference
Library - Literature
The World - People & Culture - Obama
The World - People & Culbure - American Indians |
| June 13 |
Thanks! (Credits) - Course 2008-2009 |
Literature - Nancy Drew |
| April 30 |
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Useful Language, Podcasts - fixed links |
| April 28 |
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Functional Grammar |
| March 24 |
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Useful Language - Money & Banks (with audio at TP Podcast) |
| February 28 |
In Class |
The World - People & Culture - The Vagina Monologues |
| February 26 |
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Podcasts |
| Winter holidays |
In Class - updated the Lesson Plans for our first week in January for Básico 1 and Avanzado 2
Thanks! - redesigned this section. Check it out! It includes new section: Webpages for Contributors - Check out Valéria Souza's webpage!
Your Stuff! - I worked on fixing all the old pages and arranging its homepage.
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Your Texts:
In Letters, Nieves's letter to the editor: An Ideal Father, In Poems, michelle's poem Dec 31.
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Useful Language - added the link to the audio of Talking About Our Winter Holidays
Skills - Speaking - new stuff in: Oral Presentations & Communicative Strategies
Resources - How to Learn: the Learning Diary in connection to Speaking and Listening activities
Writing - The World of Work
The World - People & Culture - The World of Work:
Mayte's Template for CVs. +
The World - Countries, Places: Iguazú |
| Dec 23 |
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The World - People & Culture - American Indians - Joy Harjo, a poem (also at our Literature section) |
| Dec 20 |
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Podcasts - EFL Podcasts - The TP Podcast - new episode! Making Suggestions... |
| Dec 14 |
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Movies & More - Documentaries - The Baby Human
Also at Exercises - Listening Exercises here |
| Dec 6 |
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Resources - Literature - Carson McCullers - Audio of one of her stories! |
| Dec 5 |
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Skills - fixing it up a bit
The World - Work - fixing it up a bit
Resources - Exercises - fixing it up a bit |
| Nov 9 |
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Resources - Exercises - Vocabulary (plus audios and useful language!) |
| Nov 7 |
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The World - People & Culture -
Barack Obama
Audrey Hepburn
Audios - Music - Amy Winehouse
All with bios and audios |
| Oct 26 |
In Class - Avanzado 2 - Summary of what we've been doing (example)
Your Stuff! - Your Texts - Bios - Sheryl Crow
Thanks to Denise |
Audios - Podcasts - TP Podcast - new episode with Useful Classroom Language
Audios - Music - Sheryl Crow
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| Oct 13 |
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Audios - Music - 2 authors: Carole King and Frank Zappa |
| Oct 3 |
In class - Announcements and info for Básico 1, Avanzado 2 |
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| Oct 2 |
Your Stuff - Your Texts - Reviews - Smoke Signals, by Carlos |
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| Sept 27 |
In Class |
Library - Literature - Translations - Sorrentino |
| Sept 26 |
Thanks - Permission granted! A thank you to authors and publishing houses... |
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| Sept 21 |
In Class - list of techniques you should master |
Audios - TP Podcast - A story |
| Sept 10 |
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The World - People & Culture - American Indian People (Joy Harjo, Leonard Peltier, List of Resources) |
| Sept 1 |
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Useful Language - Traveling |
| Aug 31 |
In Class: Books & Movies
Thanks: Ana Otto's page
Projects: The Robin Hood Project
TP Forums (rearranging categories)
FAQ - About the author 1 (TP) & 2 (EOIs)
Email ReadMe!
Cover Page (pre Homepage) |
Literature: The Robin Hood Project
Speaking: Pronunciation
Exercises: Pronunciation (Listening, Speaking)
Library: Dictionaries
Useful Language: At the Train Station |
| Updates *
2007-08 Course |
| June 11 |
In Class |
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| June 10 |
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How to Learn - Vocabulary - verbs of the 5 senses |
| May 31 |
FAQ - the TP leaflet! |
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| May 28 |
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Library - Literature - Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft
Resources - Exercises - Writing: 1. describing people/telling horror stories; 2. writing letters from classifieds |
| May 26 |
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Resources - Exercises - Writing - adding exercises taken from classified ads from Boston papers |
| May 20 |
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Resources - Exercises - WebQuests: How to use an on-line forum |
| May 18 |
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Audios - Podcasts &
Resources - Useful Language: Making Requests
Functional Grammar - Useful Linking Expressions |
| May 16 |
Your Stuff! - contributions everywhere! |
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| May 10 |
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Audios - Podcasts - The TP Podcast - new episodes! |
| May 4 |
In Class - La Reforma (CEFR) "The New Language Learning System" |
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| May 3 |
In Class - Y5 - Surviving Exams (also linked from How to Learn (top-navigation bar) |
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| April 9 |
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Useful Language - Useful Language in Conversations - Part III of our TP Podcast series on this |
| March 31 |
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The World - People & Culture - Jewish and Arab Together (new webpage) |
| March 26 |
Tidying up...
Projects
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New TP Podcast audio: Margaret Atwood (story)
Literature - Writers - Wilkie Collins!
Tidying up...
Library - Reference (lists)
Literature - Writers (plus new audio for Margaret Atwood) |
| March 15 |
Tidying up the "In Class" homepage |
Fixing some links at Skills - Speaking and Resources - Useful Language |
| March 14 |
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The World - People & Culture - American Indian People
Library - Literature - Dian Million - a poem published also as a TP podcast episode |
| March 11 |
Projects - new projects for TP!
In Class - check out the homepage, just in case!
eCampus - fixed link. Thanks, my María! :) |
Audios - Podcasts - The TP Podcast has new episodes connected to March 8 and also to Saying Thanks.
Skills - Writing - Thank you letters and notes
Resources - Useful Language - Used in conversations - Saying Thank You |
| Feb 27 |
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Library - Articles & More - House of Light & Shadow |
| Feb 23 |
In Class - Y5's and Intermediate 1's |
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| Feb 18 |
In Class - Y5's - February - please check it out |
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| Feb 16 |
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The World - People - YouTube videos with two new people speaking!
(I'm starting the American Indian webpage) |
| Feb 14 |
Your Stuff - fixing the sectionYour Activities
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Audios - The TP Podcast has just posted a new episode, a poem |
| Feb 10 |
In Class - updated texts in Surviving Exams
Your Stuff - worked on old templates still in Your activities |
Speaking - Communicative Strategies |
| Feb 9 |
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Audios - Podcasts - Podcast episodes used in class: Helen Mirren worksheet |
| Feb 5 |
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Exercises - Listening ex. (the one below)
Audios - Pod epi used in class - Full moon worksheet |
| Feb 3,4 |
In Class - This section is Public again
New stuff: Y5 (February), Announcements section in Spanish, Surviving Exams section for Y5's |
Useful Language - redoing section, upcoming TP pod episode using that
Speaking - Discussions - new intro |
| Jan 28 |
In Class - Intermediate 1's: 3C and ending the unit this week at home and in class |
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| Jan 27 |
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Library - Literature - Writers - Dorothy Parker, plus audio reading at the TP Podcast!
Audios - Podcasts - Stories |
| Jan 19 |
Homepage: found a plugin to voice text in Spanish! |
Skills - Listening - improving this section and updating it |
| Jan 18 |
Sorry, I forgot to upload January!!! Here it is now:
In class - Intermediate 1's - 3A and 3B and lesson plans for next week |
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| Jan 13 |
In class - Intermediate 1's - 3A and 3B and lesson plans for next week |
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| Jan 12 |
Thanks (Credits) - Lots of contributions! |
The World - People - Civil Justice
The World - Countries, places - Tasmania
Audios - Music - The Police
Audios - Podcasts - a new Science (Nature) pod sent in by Isabel! |
| Jan 9 |
In Class - Intermediate 1 and Year 5 |
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| Jan 6 |
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Useful Language - talking about your holidays
Functional Grammar - How...? and What ... like? (from the TP Podcast) |
| Jan 4 |
In Class - Intermediate 1 - answers to tests in unit 2 |
How to Learn - Personal Spelling Chart Functional Grammar - Use of tenses
Exercises - Cloze tests and Use of tenses
Useful Language - new audios (from the TP Podcast) and sections |
| Jan 3 |
Your Stuff - Your Texts - Your Stories - an NGO in India
In Class - Y5 - lesson plans for unit 3 and our comeback!!! |
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| Jan 1, 2008 |
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Literature - Writers - Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath |
| Dec 26 |
Your Stuff - Your Texts - Mini Sagas - Fear |
Literature - Writers - The TP Podcast  published Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" |
| Dec 21 |
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The World - People - YouTube Videos - Hawaian singer Iz |
| Dec 15 |
In Class - Y5's, Intermediate 1's |
Audios - Podcasts - 3. Audios used in Class |
| Dec 10 |
Your Stuff! - Your Texts - Stories - 100-word past (narratives) |
Language - World Englishes - Accents in the UK (audios) |
| Dec 9 |
In Class - Y5's |
The World - Dates - Dec 10
Skills - Writing - Avoiding Sexist Language
Resources - How to Learn - Error Correction - LoM Y5's |
| Dec 8 |
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Skills - Writing - Printer-friendly versions of "How to Write Compositions" and "How to Improve your Writing" plus other stuff
The World - People & Culture - Games (How to solve Rubik's Cube) and the CIA Book of Dirty Tricks |
| Dec 6 |
In Class - Y5's - updated lesson plans!
Your Stuff! - Your Activities - Music - Madeleine Peyroux and Pink Floyd |
Audios - Music - Madeleine Peyroux and Pink Floyd
The World - Countries - People's Voices Peace Initiative for the Middle East
Skills - Writing - Writing Guides |
| Dec 3 |
In Class - Y5's and then for Intermediate 1's - Plan for ALL DECEMBER! |
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| Nov 29 |
In Class - Y5's, Intermediate 1's |
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| Nov 25 |
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The World
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Special Dates: Nov 25 |
| Nov 24 |
In Class - Intermediate, Y5's
Projects - one new one, and likely reactivation of others! ;)
Credits |
Language
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Spanish/English - New project!
- Language Stories - fixed broken links! Thanks! |
| Nov 21 |
In Class - Intermediate 1's |
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| Nov 16 |
In Class - Intermediate 1's, Y5's
FIXED LINKS |
Functional Grammar
Modals of obligation/need and uses of "must" |
| Nov 15 |
In Class - Y5's
Lesson Plans for next week plus link to audios we did
Also: Intermediate 1's update |
How to Learn - I fixed the mistakes on the 1-page copy describing the S&S Reading Comprehension technique |
| Nov 14 |
TP goes public! (But I need to improve tons of pages still!, plus the Avatar thingy) |
| Nov 12 |
In class- Y5's, november ; Intermediate 1's, this week |
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| Nov 11 |
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Func. Grammar
reorganizing the section & including new notes |
| Nov 8 |
In class- Interm 1's - plans for november |
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| Nov 4 |
In class -Y5's recap on Oct, and plans for Nov |
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| Nov 3 |
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Audios - more changes everywhere - new songs and podcasts |
| Nov 2 |
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Audios - Podcasts - How to subscribe and new episodes in the ESL pod The Talking People Podcast
Exercises - Listening Comprehension exercises - WITH WORKSHEETS - in "Listening ex. here" - ON-LINE as "Hotpotato" exercises |
| Oct 31 |
In Class: Interm 1's - news |
Resources - Functional Grammar - Modals and language functions (can - be able to, be allowed to, could, may, might) |
| Oct 30 |
In Class: Intermediate 1's - lesson plans to finish unit 1 |
Exercises - Listening - Ex in other sites |
| Oct 29 |
In Class: Y5's |
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| Oct 28 |
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Audios - Podcasts - YT's Podcast! |
| Oct 27 |
How to Use TP |
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| Oct 23 |
In class: Elena's request
Intermediate 1's october what we did |
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| Oct 22 |
In class: Year 5, october (plan for 3 lessons) |
How to Learn - Reading - Skimming and scanning Reading Comprehension exercises |
| Oct 21 |
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Resources - Functional Grammar - Grammar Teams (lost links recovered!)
Resources - Exercises - Reading
Resources - Exercises - Vocabulary (+audios) |
| Oct 20 |
Changes. I changed the vertical bar a bit. Updates are topping the bar and then the eCampus has moved upwards too. I deleted the bottom European section on Language policies, because I could include it in the "In Class" section. |
Resources - Useful Language - In conversations
I had deleted this section without realizing! Now it's back!, with interesting material linking to the BBC
Audios - Podcasts
I just remodelled this section, so it's much better! Send your feedback to the TP forum |
| Oct 18 |
In Class, Intermediate 1's and Y5's - reminder of your homework! |
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| Oct 15 |
In Class, Y5's
TP Forum: pregnancies and things you've never done |
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| Oct 12 |
In Class: draft lesson plans for next week and info on what we did this week
eCampus: I uploaded all the copies I gave out in class |
How to Learn - How to Listen - The Skimming and Scanning technique for listening comprehension (also on eCampus) |
| Oct 9 |
Eve: In class - Interm. 1's
Morn: In class - Y5's |
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| Oct 6 |
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Resources  HotPotatoes |
| Oct 5 |
In class |
Resources How to Learn |
| Oct 4 |
In class
eCampus
FAQ: How to register in the eCampus (page 6 of FAQ) |
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| Oct 3 |
FAQ
email ReadMe! |
Audios - reorganized a bit
Resources - How to Learn - reorganized Listening a bit
How to Learn - check out the How to Listen section, because it's full of new docs about how to learn to listen |
| Sept 26 |
TP Forums
remodelled, we included new forums for this year's discussions on what we do and read! Check them out and register!
Thanks!
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Audios Movies & More
The Day the Earth Stood Still (complete script plus free downloadable movie!) |
| Sept 23 |
In Class
Course Overview for Y5's and Interm. 1's (copies in class)
Suggested Materials for Y5's and Interm. 1's (copies in class) |
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| Sept 16-17 |
In Class
Rules for Compositions
Getting Along with YT
Projects Free Resources Make Internet TV and Free Webquest Hosting
Projects Invited Guests |
Audios
Movies & More Documentaries
The Bassibus in Barcelona
Movies & More Bewitched (the 2005 movie) + songs + 1st episode of the original TV series! + 1 webquest designed by YT for before watching the movie
Audios
Music Rupert Holmes
Music REM
Music Police
Music Sinead O'Connor |
| Sept 12 |
In Class
Course 2007-08: Rules for Compositions
Completed the Answer Key for Y5's Gold textbook: units 1, 2, 4. |
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| Sept 11 |
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Library Literature Writers
Hornby, Nick (with novel and movie to work on in Y5 this year) and
Stein, Gertrude (a book review with its audio on The World Is Round)
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Audios
Movies & More Hi Fidelity (with YouTube videos from the movie and the complete printer-friendly script!) |
| Sept 02 |
In Class: Announcements
e-mail ReadMe!
Projects |
Library: Reference |
