The Scarlet Letter

These days we’re working the universal literary masterpiece The Scarlet Letter created by the north American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Here’s a word cloud resulting from this famous novel. In class we’re going to talk about the main ideas you’ve come up after reading the story and these words might help us.

Wishing you well!

Before we started Christmas holidays the students from SO2n created what we called "Wish Trees". We cut out coloured cardboard strips and we wrote a general wish on the front side, on the back we wrote a more personal wish and a resolution for the New Year! Here's is the result.

Dragons don't write, knights do!

Here I leave the presentation we saw in class to get ready for the writing task. Remember the deadline to hand in the assignment, through the online platform, is on December 3rd.

Dragons don't write, knights do! from Mon Vall

A special Advent calendar!

According to Wikipedia ''an Advent calendar is a special calendar used to count or celebrate the days in anticipation of Christmas. The days often overlap with the Christian season of Advent.'' The typical calendars we have at home are the ones where we find a message o a chocolate when its windows are opened.

This time I share with you the ESL Advent Calendar 2013, from which you'll be able to practice English by discovering one activity each day!

Click onto the image to get started!

Let's voki again!

This is the fourth year students from the speaking course use voki to introduce themselves! Here's the result, hope you like them!



  

Don't forget we all have a brain!

Source: Google images

You have just read a text about the memory capacity of the human brain and we have worked some vocabulary around this topic. This theme is very interesting, there are numerous studies going on about it in order to try to understand and explain the complexity of the human brain.

Some time ago there was a piece of surprising news about Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man who has an incredible ability to draw buildings in specific and accurate detail after seeing them just once. In fact, some scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius.

Watch this amazing case (click the link below the image).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8327199.stm

You can now work some idioms on memory here and when you are ready, do the quiz.

The importance of using a proper punctuation.

Using punctuation correctly makes your writing easier for the reader to understand. Proper punctuation is essential in written English to enable the reader to understand what it is you are trying to say. Spacing with punctuation is also important to make your writing readable. Here you have a couple of links that can help you understand the English punctuation rules.

Simple Punctuation Guide: http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/punctuationtext.htm

Punctuation game (for the playful ones): http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/punctuation/play/

My favourite punctuation mark is the semicolon. What is yours? Click the link below the image if you want to start using the semicolon properly. 

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon

And if you want to practise before you start writing your essays and stories, here’s an interesting page that can help you.