Do you like American Football?

Dear students,
This is the last activity of this Mentoring From Abroad; it was a great experience for me.
I want you to answer four questions about a video related to American Football and American culture.

1. Why does Tim like American Football?
2. Why is Football an American tradition?
3. Why does Felix like American Football?
4. What Felix does not like about American Football?

If you have any doubt feel free to send me an e-mail.
Best wishes.


http://learninginthestates.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html

Obama Celebrations Around The World

Listening Comprehension and Writing Activity

Hello dears students. I am sending you the second activity for our Mentoring From Abroad; what I want you to do is to watch and listen a video about the celebrations for Obama's triumph in the elections. As you must know this election was really important for American people and world in general.
I want you to answer some questions related to the video; also, I want to know your personal opinion about it. To help you to create your answers I give you a list of vocabulary related to give opinions.
You can post your answers in our blog or send me an e-mail to my personal account.

Here are the questions:

1. Why people all over the world were celebrating Obama's triumph?
2. Who said that Obama was a family member of the School? Why?
3. What are the desires of Kuzuhiro Oka?
4. What do you think about Obama's success?
5. What is the impact in our world and in our Chilean society?

This vocabulary might help you to create your answers;

I think (that)...

I don't think...

I believe (that) ...

I don't believe (that) ...

In my opinion...

I feel that...

I don't feel that...

From my point of view...

I can say

This is the link for the video.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/culture-places-news/obama-reax-apvin.html

You can watch it as much as you want. If you have any doubt feel free to send me an e-mail; I will answer as soon as I can. Good Luck!!!

English Winter Camp

Writing activity.

Each student have to write a report about the English Winter Camp. You can write about any academic experience or about some presentation that caught your attention.

You can do it as a Word Document or create a Power Point Presentation. You are allowed to use pictures, drawings or any graphic representation, but remember THIS IS A WRITING ACTIVITY; so you have to write in both the Word Document and the Power Point Presentation.

You have to send the file to my e-mail address fcorld@gmail.com . The deadline for you is on October 20^th

Let me know if you need help. Feel free to send me an e-mail at any time. I will be glad to answer your questions as soon as I can. I can give you more information in Spanish if you want to, but I prefer doing this in English.