Back to business Thursday, January 8, 2009

In today's class I asked you to come up with some ideas for improvement of the blog. How can we use the blog for you to learn more English? These are some of the ideas that you came up with:

  • More discussions in the blog
  • Post short stories and news items in the blog
  • 15 new words each week
  • Write short essays in the blog
  • Read books and write about them in the blog just for fun and for the learning experience
  • Use songs in the blog (for example hip hop songs)
  • For example every Friday we summarize our week and what we did during the week
  • Watch a movie or a TV show and write about it in the blog
  • Post all of our homework in the blog
  • Watch YouTube clips and write about them
  • Different quizzes
  • Entertainment clips or pieces of news
  • Ghost stories
  • Write about a topic of your choice that you find interesting
  • Give us different tasks to make reading each other's posts more interesting
  • Post jokes and fun links that make you laugh
  • More corrections of our writing
  • Some of the tasks could be typed in the blog and some can be handed in the old-fashioned way for more variation
  • Comment more on each other's posts

I will definitely take these ideas into consideration. Thanks for contributing.

Your homework for Tuesday Jan 13 is to read the chapter "A Teenage Love Story" (page 62-64) in the book Toolbox. Make sure you understand everything. I left some books in the classroom for you to pick up.


Do not hesitate to comment and add more ideas to the list. They are much appreciated. Also please note the change of schedule in my post below.

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