Sunday, June 22, 2014

Unit 3

>>>>assignment 1

a.  choose a hotel/resort anywhere in the world
that you would like to go to

b.  discuss the amenities that are important to you

reference: p23, ex 7b

1.  post a picture of the hotel/resort

2.  post a  text dialogue similar to that in the reference

3.  post an audio file of 2

>>>>assignment 2

a  pick a hotel/resort in Thailand

b  do a search on it

c  look at the tripadvisor.com

d  make a chart or write a paragraph summarizing the

positive and negative things people have said about the hotel/resort

1  post a picture of the hotel/resort

2  post the chart or paragraph (d)

3  post an audio file of 2

>>>>assignment 3

ref: p26, ex 1

a  think of a city you would like to vist

b  do a search for a guided tour of that city

c  make a chart similar to that in the reference

1  post a picture of the city

2  post the chart

3  post an audio narration of the chart


you can do it in video style if you want



Sunday, June 15, 2014

Unit 2

Unit 2  : do one or more of the assignments

>>assignment 1

reference: page 12, ex 2


1  search on the Internet for endangered species in Thailand.


2  post a report about 2 endangered animals in Thailand

Include picture, type of animal, natural habitat, what's endangering it


2  include audio narration


>>assignment 2


reference: page 14, ex 1

1  find a picture that shows people doing something good for the environment

(see p14, ex4a for ideas about saving the environment)

2  post the picture and the answers to the questions that appear on p14, ex1

3  include audio narration


>>assignment 3


reference: page 18, ex 1


1  record and post the dialogue between Matt + John;  one student is Matt; the other John

2  post pictures to illustrate the topic










Thursday, June 12, 2014

Intros


post 3 items

1  a captioned photo
of your blog members
or of you if you are
doing the blog alone;

Betty Boop_ http://bcc-language-lab-2014













2  an audio file

include your names, one like and one dislike; future university;
future major subject:




3  a text file of 2

I'm Betty Boop.  I like honey and I
dislike being very cold.  I plan
to study medicine at Chulalongkorn University.


***you can do it in video style if you want

I used Screencast-O-Matic



to add captions to the video make a notepad file , save it and name it on the computer




"Scoring Rubric"

0 if you copy from someone else's blog
1 if you copy from the Internet with no changes
2-3 everything but sound files
4-5 everything

***if you do not understand what you have to do
- ask - you will not be able to claim later that you
did not understand

how to embed  a sound file

1.  make audio file in .mp3

2.  upload to host : I like kiwi6.com

3.  paste HTML into blog page

<audio controls="" height="100" width="100">
  <source src="http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/0uuvcy9763/32_5_5s.mp3
" type="audio/mpeg"></source>

 4. change k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/0uuvcy9763/32_5_5s.mp3  to your file name which you get in step 2