MY ENGLISH DIARY

STRATEGIES TO EMPOWER LANGUAGE LEARNING 2022

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First Term

Today in the English class we dealt with different topics such as vocabulary or questions that made us think a little, but for me the topic to highlight was "multiple intelligences". Teacher Antony explained the different types of these using an article and different activities to help us understand what ours might be, and after that, we did a test to see what smart we have. The class was very interesting, but I felt a bit bad because I was sick. These were my test results:

In today's class we made different activities, first the teacher explained the important points for made this diary, after that, he started explained the class. First, we form groups and each had an image, in this image we have to found hidden words, then, one person of the group has to be the leader for saying to the other groups where were the words, after that, a song started and all the teams have to rotate and guess the words, and this process was repeated until all the groups had passed through all the stations. When we end up this, we made another dynamic, in this we have to create phrases talking about an imaginary party in a camp using "going to". The class was nice, because we practice many skills and we work in team.

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August 17th /2022

Today's class was really dynamic. The teacher did different activities on a piece of paper, alone and in groups. And again, the class was related to personal questions for you to think about. Also, in some activities, we used our creativity to make a random drawing, in others we learned the parts of a speech, and in others we expressed our personal opinions or our position on different social topics for debate. This class was really cool, active and interesting. I like it because the teacher is always making you think and reflect while you learn new grammar and vocabulary and we are also working o all the time, in differe working our own skill And the final objectiv was to propose a goa term with specific characteristics.

S.M.A.R.T

This year I want to do many things in my life, but especially those related to learning other languages. I want to obtain the highest level in English, which is C1 in the Smart Academy. This goal could be achieved in four months, and when I finish it, I'd love to study French to C1. To improve, I've got to work on learning every day with different exercises. And if I could do this in the long future, I would really love to travel to other countries to learn about different cultures and improve more and more.

Mymascot

This is an activity to work on our creativity.

And this is my drawing:

TRINITY

This class was really interesting; the theme continues to be introspection with questions like, "Do we really own anything in this world or are we just renting everything from nature, the universe, the planet, etc?"; but in this case, we work especially on self-monitoring, not only in the field of learning but also in everyday life.

There are 3 important keys in this path of self-monitoring:

1.Connect with the past. knowledge with present experience.

2. Create an action plan. To plan, organize, strategize, pay attention to detail, and manage time. 3. Developed time.

What I took away from class is the importance of constantly evaluating yourself in your life, learning how to make or complete your goals, and evaluating how well you are doing it.

ELISAApp

Here we have my progress in the app:

August 31st /2022

Second Term

This day the main theme was note taking. The teacher explains what note taking is, how we can use it, and different tips for taking notes . And we make and introspection in it and we answer this question: ¿How do I take notes? And my answer is that I take notes with a lot of drawings, visual elements like arrows, points, strips, and this is because I'm a visual person. Also, we learned a way to organice ideas or feelings with symbols, so we made this exercise:

Thoughts Desire Impulses

I'm thinking about the class and also about my lunch and my tasks.

I went to eat and lie in my bed with my cat.

I'm biting my fingers.

This day, the theme of the class was how to create the database and the strategy of: define, search, and match. The database is a way to organice information, in this case, this journal. It's basically organice the info in charts like categories, for example: reflection, new words, new pronunciation, games, activities, tips, etc. This is a useful way to organice information. Teacher also explains the Index, we have it for books or texts with a lot of pages to make the search for a specific theme easier.

On the other hand, the strategy of define, search and match, this was a really interesting activity. First, T. Anthony put into discussion 2 questions:

¿What's love? Here we define for ourself the concept, then we search a partner with the same meaning and after that we socialize it.

¿What's attraction? We made the same, define for ourself, then we search people for express Ideas and after that we see a video that give a concept.

In this class we learned a lot of things, first the teacher explained us the K W L dynamic with this we evaluate what we know about a n specific topic, example:

Topic: Art. K: Is an expression that you create. W: what is art?. L: I learned that art is all the artwork that represents a concept

In the other hand we work on the concept of ELABORATION, basically the teacher explained what is it, and he said that elaborate is giving details, the most amount of details that you can give for a word or a short phrase, for tell a history or write better. For it we made different activities, first was make a random drawing on the basis of a circle, in my case I draw this:

After it we elaborate de character give them a history, a name, feelings, situation, where is it, who is, what's he doing, when, what's he feeling.

Before it we work with this image:

And in groups we elaborate this image and we make it a elaborate history.

Then we say our history to the classroom and we listen how the others interpretate the same image, some said that the woman dead, others that all was great, and it's pretty interesting the way that we can interpretate an image.

Elaboration it's good for be more detail and for improve the creativity.

In this day we work on SUMMARRIZING this topic is the complete contrast of the last class theme, so this is basically the way of explain something in few words, it's just take the key elements about something, we worked on the activity "a mistery" and we read a problem and after this we summarize it in grupos. Also we learned two strategies for summarize, they were:

In the other part of the class we work in a new topic that was INFERRING, basically inferring or deduction is the superior process that your brain do for create possible answers about a situation for create an hypothesis and predict what are happening or what are going to happen.

LOOK THINK INFER

PREDICT

In this topic we made two activities for practice and understand the complete theme, in the first we see an image about two kids and we have to create the history about the kids only seen the image.

In the other activity we listen a strange audio, after this we have to thing about an hypothesis about what is happening in the audio, we search the ideas in the group and it was a really interesting day of class.

Third Term

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October 26th

In this day we work on SELF- TALK and MINDFULNESS, this class we started talking about the brain, What's the brain? Where is it? What does he do?

And the teacher also explains the different functions of the hemispheres of the brain, so we have:

The left is for racional things and right for artistic things. In this class we also work on different questions and strategies about mindfulness and introspection. Am I a friend with myself?

I know really how I feel?

We continue to deal with issues of introspection in relation to learning. Specifically, this class was about SELFREINFORCEMENT; basically, this topic is about a very useful strategy that you can use when you need to complete a goal that you really want for your work, personal life, school, or any other goal that you have in your life. So for this strategy, we have to give ourselves little rewards when we advance on the road to the big achievement. This is because when you give yourself a little gift, you keep the motivation to continue the process.

This strategy works well when applied with a ladder, so you could use the ladder in your homework. At the top, we put the biggest goal, and you put 1 step with a goal and the next step with the reward. When you complete the goal, you fill it in, and you receive the reward that you prefer.

CrimeScene

After the explanation, in this class we start with an individual activity to practice the language a little. Basically, this activity was about a crime scene. The teacher shared the steps of the activity with us, and we started with it. This had several parts or steps that were a guide to completing the mystery about who had murdered a person in a hotel. First, they showed us the list, on which there were 32 suspects. We start with activity one, and for this we have to resolve some mathematical calculations, and the result tells us what the murderer was wearing. There were activities such as organized letters and i letter games in the second and subsequent ones. I discovered the name of the murderer in 36 minutes. This activity was really fun and interesting; I like it, and those are nice strategies to practice English.

Graduation'sDinner

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When: Friday,may20th(8:30P.M) Where:Storiada'amore'

On 13th street and the cornerpharmacy

phone ringing..................

V: Hi? What's happening?

D: Hello, girl, How are you doing?

V: Pretty good, dear; thanks for asking. And you?

D: Everything is nice. I'm calling you for one thing.

V: Okay, tell me, what's wrong?

D: I received an email with the invitation to my graduation dinner, and I want to know if you want to go with me.

V: OMG, really? Of course I want that, but when is it?

D: It's the twesnqodnntieth day at eig....

V: Sorry, I missed that. Could you repeat, please?

D: Sorry, I'm so excited. It's the twentieth day at half past eight.

V: I get it, The twentieth day is at half past eight. Fortunately for this date, I am already on vacation, so go go go!

D: I'm so happy for this, and also that it is going to be on Storia Da Amore, which is an Italian restaurant, I love this kind of food, don't you?

V: OMG, that's amazing; I love Italian food.

Today's class was about COLLABORATION, The teacher explains what it is and says that this topic is really important and useful for classes and learning strategies. Following that, we created an activity that consisted of three phases. The instruction was to listen to a phrase and remember it. In the first phase, he gave us the complete sentence, but we can't write. On the second one, he said the sentence in parts, and we can write what we catch after he finishes the sentence. In the final phase, we must compare ourselves to a random partner to see if we can complete the sentence.

After this, we go back to our chairs, and the teacher continues with more theory. He explains what is meant by communication, and he makes a reflection about the topic. He says that communication is fundamental to the human condition, and in the learning context, it is one of the most important things: working with others, meeting people, listening to people, because we live in society and we can't live without others.

We work on another collaborative learning activity; in this case, the teacher uses a website to form random teams, and he gives us another website with random questions, such as: do you prefer to find true love but have him break your heart, or never find true love and only have passenger loves? Or what is your most terrifying fear? As a result, we must discuss our ideas with the random partners. This was a really nice activity because I like this type of conversation with random topics. Then he continues with the theory again and explains the five keys to collaborative learning. In this hole, we do a human knot with a random group of partners, and my group loses because we were very tangled, but it was really fun. He continues and explains the differences between collaboration and cooperation: And finally, we work with a random pair, and we just play traditional games like "cuadrito," tic-tac-toe and pen races. I love this, I feel like a little child playing:c

Class evaluation

For this final section I want to write a reflection about different aspects of the class. First, It's nice to say that this course is a really nice space for practice english, but more than that is a really good place for gain new knowledge that I never thought to learn, and I love that the class is also really philosophical and introspective, also it's a good space for meet others and in my case lose a little the shyness. This was a nice experience. I really like the course, and I like it because it fulfills its mission, which is to download the academic load for the rest of the career