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After the game Argentina - Venezuela (final score 4-1) in the COPA AMERICA of soccer.

The Argentine team....

 

 

Due June 24: PAROLE PAROLE PAROLE

Screen this video and in COMMENTI write down 5 words, nouns or adjectives or verbs/actions associated with the content.

The next student to comment, will copy the first 5 words and add 5 more (different ones.)

I will publish the full list in a future compito/lezione.

 

LINK

 

CAPTION under the video:

 

(Edited)
I newyorkesi hanno un rapporto di amore-odio con la metropolitana e questo video cattura gran parte della seconda parte di questa equazione.

Ecco come pendolari e turisti trovano le porte sbattute in faccia e, in alcuni casi, sui piedi. Il tocco geniale del video creato da Gothamist è la musica classica che funziona bene con la frustrazione \ dei poveri passeggeri.

IL VOSTRO VOCABOLARIO Due June 23

EACH ONE OF YOU will select a different  "SEMANTIC AREA" (see below) and will write 10 NOUNS and 5 VERBS associated with it.

*SEMANTIC AREA is a term used in linguistics and language teaching/learning: it means 'the topic' of a language lesson: for instance, HOUSE, SCHOOL, CITYSCAPE, WORK, ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, GROCERY SHOPPING, MEALS, etc.

Choose a CONCRETE topic, either an environment or an activity that you encounter daily.

I will post the first COMMENT about school, so you can have an idea.

IL TUO OROSCOPO ITALIANO scadenza 21 giugno

So, what did you learn from your Italian horoscope?

List the words you understood from your weekly horoscope.

SEPARATE paragraph: do you follow horoscopes or do you know anyone who does? And what do you think of it? IN INGLESE and for fun.

Discussion n. 4 IS THIS WHAT COLLEGE SHOULD BE ABOUT?

Watch the video and COMMENT below:

 

A Ray of Hope

Strangers on a train: “Diverse group” of bystanders stop ranting racist from harassing Muslim women on New York City train

LINK

DIscussione n. 3: WHAT AM I LEARNING FROM MY MISTAKES Scadenza martedi 14 giugno

Now that you received the first compiti with i voti, it's time to think it over:

1)  Are you studying the right way?  What are your mistakes caused by? Lack of attention? Lack of understanding of the rules? Insufficient memory work? Lackadaisical attitude?

2) explain how you study and what you should do differently to improve your grades.

3) given that the complexity of the material is very very low (at least right now), what is missing in your strategy?

COMMENT ON EACH item and REPLY to your classmates, either with suggestions or questions.

REMINDER: copy your COMMENTS (do not copy your replies) into a file. At the end of the semester you will submit it for evaluation of your blog work.

Italian names?

check this out

 

HERE

Discussione n. 2: PIZZA ALLA RUSSA. Scadenza 6 giugno

COMMENTO in inglese:

how hard was it to understand? how many Italian words did you catch? how would you like to try that pizza?


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LEZIONE DI LINGUA: when I assign videos or news items or whatever, take a few minutes to read EVERYTHING on that page. You will recognize some words and by association you will figure out some more.

Preposition ALLA, special use of this preposition, it means IN THE STYLE OF...


so, ALL'AMERICANA means.......  ALLA NAPOLETANA....... ALLA SICILIANA ......

ALL'ITALIANA.

Two famous films from the past were:
MATRIMONIO ALL'ITALIANA followed, of course, by
DIVORZIO ALL'ITALIANA
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Discussione n. 1 BAD KHARMA. Scadenza trentuno maggio duemila sedici

1. LEARN the dates.
2. Che cosa vuol dire 'scadenza'? Use http://www.wordreference.com/ to find out.
3. Under the word 'scadenza' you will see the initials nf. What does that mean?
4. In wordreference.com enter: "like". Find the translation of the adverb.


COMMENT: On the course homepage open the "Bad Kharma" link.

COMMENT: the first 5 students to comments will earn extra credit (will be excused if  you skip a blog comment in the future.)

You can be humorous, serious, severe, silly. Anything as long as you do your work well (I will delete below-standard fluff.)

Blog comments do not need to be long. Your AUDIENCE is your classmates. Short but incisive is better. Rely on short sentences.

Use a  login ID that clearly shows your name. No nick names. This is how you will get to know the other people in the class.

Avoid  being banal, predictable, unoriginal. No boilerplate fillers.
You want your ideas, your perspective, your Weltanschauung to come through.
You don't know what Weltanschauung means? Look it up. (Required)

REPLY: wait until at least 10 students posted their comments.
Choose ONE of those comments and REPLY to it.
DO NOT START WITH "I agree" or "I disagree". 
Say something meaningful, like: "Your comment made me think that......" "It's interesting how you look at this issue...." "I will be a teacher, and I think....."  "Unfortunately I was in one of those situations...."

SAVE YOUR COMMENTS: Create a file (FILENAME: yourlastname.blog   format: docx, doc or rtf). Copy and save ALL YOUR COMMENTS (COMMENTS ONLY - NOT YOUR REPLIES).
You will turn it in at the end of the semester.