Thursday January 14, 2010

We finished unit 8b on transportation, including the grammar section. I handed out the vocabulary list for unit 8 which I also uploaded to wrts. You can access the lists I uploaded here (click on the blue, underlined link).
The wrts programme is not very complicated. You have to create an account by giving an email address and a password and after that it is more or less self-explanatory. How to work the programme is in any case explained in Dutch. Just give it a go and play around with it. You can not do anything wrong, really.

Thursday January 7, 2010

Only our sixth meeting due to (mostly) unforeseen circumstances. First of all a Happy and Blessed New Year to you and your loved ones! I hope 2010 and the new decade will bring you love, health and happiness.

Last session had to be cancelled because of the wintery weather and we have had snow and ice for a few weeks now. Today we talked about this and other traffic and transportation problems after reading the text 'Cabinet finalises kilometer tax plan' I handed out on December 3rd.

• What are your views on kilometer charge?
• What problems does it intend to solve?
• Can you think of any other solutions for those problems?

Then we started unit 8b.
The self-study section with unit 8 on pp. 108-109 is the homework for next session on 14 january 2010.

Thursday December 3, 2009

We continued with unit 8a from Let's Talk 2. We revised comparatives and superlatives with the text 'Comparing Transport' I handed out last week. We also had a look at a wordweb on transport by playing the Word Associations game.
A fun way to learn new vocabulary is by using wrts
Subscribe by giving an email address and a password and the program will explain how to use it in Dutch. You can import the vocabulary list I gave you for unit 7 from this page. Use it to play with the wrts program. You can also add to this list and/or create your own lists. Enjoy!

Thursday November 26, 2009

I updated and handed out our 'phone circle' so that, in case of an emergency or anything else unforeseen, we will be able to cancel a session on short notice. Please check your data on the list and let me know if there are any inaccuracies.
We started unit 8a on transportation. If you would like to practice some more with texts on transportation, follow this link to the great BBC Learning English website with a section on transport to and in London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/unit1/