Practice Your English & Forum

As anything in life, practice makes us better, and English is not the exception. This blog has been designed to help you improve your language skills in English, so please feel to explore it and contribute with your posts and comments. Remember to read the instructions first. You can also send suggestions to aariosvel@gmail.com.

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20110308

Diagnostic Test


Do you want to find out what your language level in English is? This is the link to take a free online test:http://placementtest.berlitz.com/cmd10/modPortalBerlitz.axrq.

Take this diagnostic test and see it by yourself. If you have any doubt, just write me. My e-mail address is aariosvel@hotmail.com.

Best,
A. Rios 

20110307

English by 2050

Hi A10 student,


This is the first online reflection you will need to do. Let's see how it goes. OK?
What sort of reactions does the piece of information on this page http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/04change/future.html cause on you? Please write a one-paragraph reflection as a comment to this post.


Best wishes,
A. Rios

20100617

Nice Quotation

"Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person."

Vernon Howard
1918-1992, Author and Philosopher

20100313

Listening Logs for my students

Hey,

Click here to go to your listening log tasks for this month

Regards,

A. Rios

20100302

Listening Logs

Dear colleagues,

How are you dealing with listening log activities? Can you share the ways you assign such activites? Do you think listening logs are helping our students? Thanks for your ideas.
Look at this site for some ideas.

Hugs,

A. Rios

20100117

Native-like Communicative Competence - A07 & A11

Hey A07 - A11 folks,

Take a look at this article on my site I have in Google (click on the title)and write your comments on this blog after clicking on "comentarios".

Regards,

A. Rios

20091125

Teaching English: A passion

Being in a class and sharing the big things and the subtleties of English with my students makes me feel rewarded and fulfilled. What about you? Do you feel the same?