Unit 5: Antarctica

Please check out the required vocabulary words of Unit 5, shown on the image above.

To find the meaning of any of the words shown on the image, please use the spelling Thesaurus at: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/bee/


Have fun while learning :)

Shocking Heath Ledger Revelation

This video is hilarious! I actually couldn't stop laughing when I was watching it. I recommend that you watch and carefully hear the video to improve your listening skill. Enjoy!

Practice Quiz 4

Hi all,

The following are practice quiz 4 part 1 and 2:

1) Practice quiz 4-1

2) Practice quiz 4



And here is the official Kuwait University English 090 website.



Best!

What Is Your Favorite Song Now?

Play the video to watch my favorite song at present :)



When you finish watching my favorite song, it will be your turn to share with us your favorite song at the moment.

All you need to do is click the comment tab at the bottom of this post, and then embed the code of your song or add a link to it.


Thank you very much for your participation!

Kuwaiti Inventions!

Hi Class, I saw this poster in my way out of Engineering College and thought you might be interested in attending the event shown on the picture. I am glad to see such an activity taking place in our campus as it really makes us feel proud.

If you are interested we can go together tomorrow; it's near our class at the Sabah Al-Salem Theater. Well, we'll see; we can talk about this in class.

Later!

Learn New Vocabulary and Donate Rice!

Hi Class,

The following website helps you to learn new English words while you donate rice.

How it works? For each correct answer you select, you will automatically donate or give a free of charge amount of rice through the UN World Food Program!

Start playing and feeding hungry people at: http://www.freerice.com/index.php

If you have a question or comment on this activity, please send it here or email it to me.

Thanks!

Food You Need to Have Everyday!

Watch the following video, and then send your comments to this blog, please.

Thanks!

All You Need to Know to Live Healthy

Hi Eid, Yousef, and Abdelrazaq,

Hope you guys are doing well.

I've just come across the site below about healthy food and the kinds of food we need to avoid to have a healthy heart:

http://cardiophile.com/

Hope you find it useful and helps you to better understand Unit 3 in NS.



Ms Buthaina writing you this from New York City :)

Hello from New York!

Hi Learners,

Hope you are doing well. How are your classes going? I miss you all.

I'm having a wonderful time here at the Convention, TESOL 2008, as I've learned a lot today. I participated in a long but very useful session from 9 am to 4 pm, titled "English Language Learners as Writers in a Digital Age", and I'm going to attend another one in 30 minutes; it's going to start at 5 pm to 9 pm.

The first session was really great and I've already learned a lot about how we can use Google Documents for our writing activities, and how to create podcasts using the program GaragBand (it's for Mac computers) and I'm very happy about it. We did a hands-on or a practive activity, and I've managed to record my first podcast using GarageBand. I will try to upload it to this blog later so that you can listen to it, and then, let me know what you think.

I'll talk to you more about the convention or conference, soon but I have to go to the second session now.

Best regards!

A Grammar Presentation on Perfect Tenses

To learn more about the Perfect tenses, including the differences between Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense, and the Present Perfect Progressive in terms of meaning, form, and use, please visit the following Grammar page, and then look at the power point presentations or links next to Unit 3:

http://alothman-b.com/grammarpage.htm


Please visit other grammar presentations provided for you to learn more about the use of adverbs, like:
For and Since, Already, Yet, Ever, and Never.


Enjoy!

How to Write a Paragraph?

Hi, again Learners,

Here is a link to a website that explains the parts of a paragraph and how to write one in a simple way:

http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm



Hope this helps!

Have FUN Learning English On Line!

Hi Class,

The following link takes you to a page with customs, songs, and movie activities from different cultures in the word. Please try to do one of the activities and then write a comment or your opinion about the activity you select.

Here is the link to Different Cultures in the World: http://alothman-b.com/culturespage.htm

And a direct link to one of the lessons/activity on a North American movie:

http://alothman-b.com/culture_vinny.htm



Hope this is helpful!

NS Unit 3: A Miracle Cure?

Hi Students / Learners,

Please visit the following link to learn more about the required vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills for Unit 3:

http://alothman-b.com/week-4-2.htm

Please note that to view the Grammar presentation on Perfect tenses, you need to use the browser, IE (internet explorer) not Firefox.

Also, don't miss watching the videos that show certain delicious recipes, and try to do the fun quizzes at the bottom of the page.

Hope this is helpful!

Interesting & Useful English Websites!

Hi Class,

I'd like to welcome you to our Class Blog, hoping that you find it helpful to you throughout the course.

The following is the URL of Rome English Blog, which is a blog created by my colleague, Michael Ivy who lives and works in Rome, Italy: http://romelfblog.blogspot.com/

Michael has created the Rome English Blog for his English classes, and I found it very useful in terms of the links he adds every now and then, in addition to the announcements and comments he publishes usually.

I suggest that you start with the Oxford University Press links shown on the right top corner.

Enjoy!

Unit 6: Ecotourism

Hello Students,

Please do the following activities:

1) Read the article about Antarctica at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

2) Then go to our Wiki to watch the video clip by the CNN on the latest news about Antarctica

Thanks

English 090 Final Group-Presentations, (Spring 2005)

Hello Students,

Here is a webpage recently created to publish your final CALL projects and your photos while presenting, in-class:

http://alothman-b.tripod.com/090_sp2005_finalprojects.htm










Enjoy,

English 090 instructor:Buthaina

Final Students' CALL Projects

Hello Students,

This post is to remind you to put a sticker on your floppy disk with your name, course and section number.

Looking forward to attend you presentations in class, tomorrow, Saturday, May 21, 2005.

Good luck, :-)

English 090 Instructor: Buthaina al-Othman

URLs of Students' Blogs

Hello Students,

Please click on the "Comments" button below this post to send the URLs of your new Blogs.

Thank you,

Teacher Buthaina

Creating Studet-Photoblogs

Hello students,

Please go to this page, Steps to create your own photoblog.

Try to follow the steps from that page. When you finish, send me the URL of your photoblog via an email to our Yahoo Group

Please don't hesitate to send me an email to our Yahoo Group should you need any kind of help or assistance.

Good luck!

Teacher_Buth

Assignment of Week 4!!

Hello Students,

I've noticed that two students only, Ahmad K. and Abdallah Gh., managed to complete Activity (1), included in the CALL lesson of week 4!!

Please let me know if you need any kind of help to finish that assignment. For faster cmmunication, kindly post me a message to this blog to explain tthe reasons for not finishing that activity.

If you were absent on Sunday, October 31, here is the URL of Activity (1) of week 4:

http://alothman-b.tripod.com/week-4-2_new.htm

If you need any knid of assistance ask me or your group.

Best wishes,

TeacherButh