Week 3 and 4: Bridges around the World
Objectives
By the end of this week you will have:
- written a summary about the content presented in week 2
- learned about 4 famous bridges from Portugal, Argentina, Germany and Denmark through recorded presentations
- sent a written comment to the presenters
- practiced vocabulary and content related to bridges through interactive exercises
- collected materials for an oral presentation about a bridge of your choice.
- created an online presentation about the bridge
- commented on classmates´ presentations
Monday & Wednesday
| Finish writing your summary (week 2) |
Presentations:Bridges
The presenters
Learn about the presenters: they are users of the bridges they will be talking about. These presentations were given live in 2005 to my architecture students in id3125 before the programs were revised.
 Teresa Almeida d'Eça Portugal tmvaz@mail.telepac.pt | Hello, everyone! I have been an EFL teacher for 30 years and have enjoyed every minute of a career that has spaned from 5th grade to college. Since 1998 I have been committed to CALL and WELL: computer-assisted and Web-enhanced language learning. From email exchanges to task-based projects, custom-made interactive exercises and blogging, I've guided my students in broadening their horizons, learning English, and using new technologies and software hands-on. In the past two years I have found that young learners are very enthusiastic about these tools, and can achieve quite a lot in a short time through learning in a fun way! I met your teacher, Dafne Gonzalez, when I joined the Webheads in in 2002 and we have collaborated very closely on different projects since then. We have also met f2f twice. I was very happy when she came up with this challenge! So... it'll be a pleasure to talk briefly about a beautiful 7-year old bridge that is closely related to two major events in Portugal's recent past: the reconstruction process of the eastern end of Lisbon and Expo '98, the last World's Fair of the 20th century and millenium. |
| In case you can not access the pages through the flash video (at the bottom of this page, here are the links: |
Teresa's Web page for the presentation
Vasco de Gama Bridge PhotoStory
 Rita Zeinstejer Argentina ritazeinstejer@yahoo.com | EFL teacher, with 30 years' experience teaching English at all levels, mainly preparing students for Cambridge FCE and CAE. Cambridge Oral Examiner, Area Manager for Advanced Courses, and Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator at Asociación Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa. Computer SIG Coordinator, APrIR, for 5 years. I have given several PPT Presentations on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) for Language Learning in Rosario, Buenos Aires and in Brazil, after a course in Cambridge in August, 1999, on CALL. I have participated in online Conferences and Congresses, and belong to an online Community of practice doing research on CMC tools for Language Learning |
Rita´s Power Point on the Parana River
Recording of the presentation
You can also access Rita´s recording here, or check the video in the videos section below
Handout for the presentation
 Barbara Chap Germany barbara.chap@ettp.de | Born in Chicago, managed and owned her own financial planning firm in the United States. The last ten years have been spent here in Frankfurt where she has brought her financial, business, and management experience to her English language clients. Barbara's unusual background of sociology/psychology and business knowledge coupled with a relaxed and appealing teaching style allows her to provide her students what they need to communicate effectively in English, whether they require English for general use, English for specific purposes, or business communication skills in English. |
Eiserner Steg PhotoStory part 1
Eiserner Steg PhotoStory part 2
If these links do not work, go to the bottom of the page to watch the embeded videos
 Susan Nyrop Denmark s.nyrop@os.dk | She likes to be a mistery guest, take a look: http://mysteryguest.blogspot.com | In this blog Susan talks about her hometown, about Barbara Chap and about her presentation in 2005. |
Photoblog for the presentation
Videos
| To get to the presentations, you need to click on the buttons on the pages shown. To watch again, you need to refresh the page |
Link to the flash movie
Barbara Chap`s videos 1 and 2. Make sure to start with the first one. Once you have clicked on Start, roll over the mouse on top of the screen and you will see the controls
Rita´s presentation
Activities
1. Go over the presentations
2. Take notes of important aspects and write them on a wiki page called Bridges: Presentations
3. Compose a message about the presentations to send to the presenters (they will surely reply to you). Post your message to this forum in Moodle for correction before sending it. Once it is corrected, send it to the e-mail addresses given next to each presenter's information on this page. Send me a copy of your message (e-mail in the forum in Moodle). If you receive a reply, post it to your wiki, and let us know in the Moodle forum :-)
In order to write effective e-mails, please, check these sites:
4. Add new words to the Glossary in Moodle
5. Start preparing your presentation for next week (Week 4). Check oralpres-instructions for detailed instructions.
6. Practice vocabulary and content on bridges with the following exercises (you will have a quiz at the end of the unit).
Interactive Exercises
Quiz
This is the link to the quiz in Moodle
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