Do you find it easy or difficult to answer the question about who you are?
What are the elements that make you the way you are? What’s your IDENTITY?
Continue reading1.en.04 Identity: Who am I? Stereotype? Stereotyped?
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1.en.03 Let’s talk about people: Describing an image
This post will help you when you have to talk or write about a photograph or an image.
Have a look at David Mainwood’s presentation below. He’s the English teacher and a blogger, who made this excellent presentation that will surely help you improve your oral skills and face the oral exam with much more confidence. Copy the useful language that appears in slide 28 and have it at hand. You can use the pics in David’s presentation or some others of your choice. The aim is to internalise the steps in picture description until it comes out naturally. It will take you more than one try. You have 18 slides to get you started.
You can also visit David’s blog by clicking on the image below
The more you practise the skill the easier it’ll become for you. Here you are some useful tips:
Continue reading2.en.06 Homes Of The Future
What do you think the homes of the future will be like?
Click on the image below and find out what the people in the BBC would like to teach us:
2.es.12 Trabajamos en clase. Lo que necesitas es amor.
1.en.05 Once upon a time… The Art of Storytelling
1.en.05 Gender Stereotypes
Images used in the media to portray men and women are essential to build up our perception of gender stereotypes. Some brands have adopted new strategies such as challenging gender stereotypes brand themselves have contributed to build up. Building up women’s confidence and self esteem is part of their aim.
Always is a brand of sanitary pads. Therefore, it is not difficult to guess what their target group is. Recently, it launched a campaign that went viral. Have a look at the video. Do you think it is effective? Did it make you reflect? If you had been asked to run like a girl what would have been your answer?
1.en.04 Identity: Who am I? Stereotype? Stereotyped?
Do you find it easy or difficult to answer the question about who you are?
What are the elements that make you the way you are? What’s your IDENTITY?
Genes?
Education?
Family?
Environment?
Background? (més…)
1.en.03 Let’s talk about People. Describing People
This post will help you when you have to talk or write about a photograph or an image.
Have a look at David Mainwood’s presentation below. He’s the English teacher and a blogger, who made this excellent presentation that will surely help you improve your oral skills and face the oral exam with much more confidence. Copy the useful language that appears in slide 28 and have it at hand. You can use the pics in David’s presentation or some others of your choice. The aim is to internalise the steps in picture description until it comes out naturally. It will take you more than one try. You have 18 slides to get you started.Shortcode
You can also visit David’s blog by clicking on the image below
The more you practise the skill the easier it’ll become for you. Here you are some useful tips:
- Practise picture description with a friend, you’ll be able to help each other by prompting, asking questions, giving feedback and interacting.
- Follow the steps, but be natural. If a pic surprises you, you can say so! You do not have to wait until the very last stage to express your surprise.
By practising oral description of pictures you will also improve your writing skills. The language used in picture description is also useful for writing essays:
discussion/for and against / argument essays.
Continue reading1.en.02 Humans of New York (HONY): a mosaic of portraits and stories
In 2010, Brandon Stanton set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers. Seven years later, his photoblog is followed by more than 7 million people on social media. It has become so very popular among New Yorkers that now everyone in the city knows what the acronym hony stands for. Sometimes Brandon accompanies his pics with a caption, a quote or even a story.
Let’s look at one of his photos:
On the track D 