Story time...

Hi Dear Students,

I´ve heard that you had a great time last class with your stories; yet, you wish to re-live this magnificent moment. I suggest the following in a brief part of tomorrow´s class:

 

Select the core, the spirit of your stories, that part that represents them all and have it ready to share tomorrow again, so that we can see... and hear... and feel the "dragon" together...

 

 

American English - Tab 2, now in our blog

This should give you access to the mp3 audio file of the same video...
Could you please let me know if you could open it?
Thanks!




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American English - Info in Tab 1, now posted

Steve Job´s  Stanford Commencement Address  - 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc



Features to mark:

Different realisations of /t/

Dark /l/

Uses of /r/ and cases of retroflection

“r-coloured” vowels

/j/  +  /u:/

Centering diphthongs

The diphthong in “go”

The vowels  in “block”, “floor” and “ask”

Stressing of polysyllabic words

There´s always a reason

Yes, there´s always a reason in life... This time the delay in posting the material was caused by the unexpected swerve with the material. Mind and soul in peace now.

American English Accent - Assignement

Hi people

In the section Class Material find a tab named Am Eng: there is a folder with a speech from You Tube in Mp4 and Mp3 formats.

• This speech has these parts:       . Introduction,

                                                             . 1st part -  Connecting Dots
                                                             .  2nd part - Love & Loss, and
                                                             .  3rd part  - Death

1. Select the part of this speech that attracts you the most, discover the leading idea that strikes you positively and
2. in that part of the speech where your idea is, mark at least 6 features - listed in the tab- of the American English accent;
3. get this leading idea and a few lines before and after it, ready to be shared in this accent.

REMEBER... this is to be marked once you´ve handed it in. I suggest doing it in pairs or groups.

No class tomorrow, Sept 3rd

Dear students,
Tomorrow we won´t be meeting. See you all next class.

Prof. Jo Anne Kleifgen at the Joaquín June 24

We have the pleasure to invite you to Prof. Kleifgen´s open discussion on June 24 at 11 a.m. She    specializes in TEFL and she is currently developing a project on a software design to help students write in English.        

See the flyer below