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Step 1: Watch the videos and take down notes of KEY CONCEPTS concepts are always expressed in noun phrases. make sure you are able to see the parts of the writing process, the 3 steps of any written piece (most genres). According to those videos, there are three universal steps to write properly. Pre-writing step: Sub-skills building (topic, vocabulary, grammar and discourse). Some tools to develop this: Associagrams/brainstorming: They provide the vocabulary needed to deal with the topic. Prompts (images, music, realia): They provide a context to students think about and make easier learners to visualise the topic. Interviews These sub-skills are chosen depending on the audience: what the writer wants the audience to convey. During-writing step: Structure organisation:  Write paragraphs in order to get a straight narration Self-questioning about the relevance of facts in order to use them as a guide. Post-writing step: Re-reading of t...

 The main Characteristics of a well-written paragraph Topic sentence:   you have to say something interesting and global about it and to state your subject. Body:  -order of importance or chronology- It is the heart of your paragraph and the one on which you present your supporting arguments and details for your topic sentence. Closing sentence: It has two functions; to remind the audience what you are writing about and to keep them thinking about the topic. Source: Learn English with Alex (May 19th, 2009). Parts of a Paragraph - English Academic Writing Introduction. Available at: https://youtu.be/cCuExRE6N-4 1) TOPIC SENTENCE: It is used to tell the reader what it's that you are going to be talking about in that paragraph. This sentence is important because it leads the reader into the points that you're trying to explain without leaving them confused. There are some qualities that make for a good topic sentence: ...

Brief summary: According to J.L. Austin, there are different types of statements. Those that describe and those that command. On the one hand, "constatives" are those utterances which describe something true or false; classifying them will depend on the reality assessment of the message's receptor. On the other hand, those statements that command, are called "performatives" which denote an action, this means that they inspire actions in people. As a consequence, performative utterances change the social reality they are describing. Also, I have to mention that there are words that bring about actions and words that themselves are actions; the last ones are defined as "speech acts" . A successful performative statement has to be: - Authoritative - Understood. - Clear - Able to be executed Source: Colleen Glenney Boggs (2013). Speech acts: Constative and performative. Retrieved  from TEDed. Last visited: June 3rd, 2020. Availabl...

HOW TO CITE SOURCES There are several ways to cite a source (MLA, Turabian, Chicago). Here you have  APA Citation Style Author(s). (Date).  Title of Book / "Title of Article"/ Title of Periodical/ Volume. Pages. Place of Publication. Publisher.   In alphabetical order: Newspaper Arti cle Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). "Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times, p. A3. Journal or Magazine Article Dubeck, L. (1990). "Science fiction aids science teaching." Physics Teacher, 28, 316-318. Article or Chapter James, N. E. (1988). "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth according to Kirk and Spock," in D. Palumbo (Ed.),  Spectrum of the fantastic  (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood. Article from an Internet Database Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). "Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds." American Scientist, 86, 585. Ret...

Metacognitive analysis. Please click on "read more" to see the presentation I have to confess that I found difficult to summarise this piece of text and to express the main idea through PowerPoint, nevertheless, I consider this tool very useful to study and to focus only on the relevant points. I do not use it for any of my practical works, instead, I often use Prezi to make attractive and concise presentations for the primary school I work.  PowerPoint is a bit more complex than Prezi. According to SlideShare I did not know about its existence, but it is a good option for students to share their works and to see their partners' simultaneously. Regarding the content of the presentation I believe that it's so important for students to keep it in mind because I consider that it will be useful for their future lives, even if they decide to go on studying at a college or not. I think it never hurts to have this type of knowledge.

"These Days" One of these days the ground will drop out from beneath your feet One of these days your heart will stop and play its final beat One of these days the clocks will stop and time won't mean a thing One of these days their bombs will drop and silence everything But it's alright Yeah it's alright I said it's alright Easy for you to say Your heart has never been broken Your pride has never been stolen Not yet not yet One of these days I bet your heart'll be broken I bet your pride'll be stolen I bet I bet I bet I bet One of these days One of these days One of these days your eyes will close and pain will disappear One of these days you will forget to hope and learn to fear But it's alright Yeah it's alright I said it's alright Easy for you to say Your heart has never been broken Your pride has never been stolen Not yet not yet One of these days I bet your ...

My name is Julieta Dattoli and I'm 23 years old. This is my fourth and hopefully last year at the Teaching Training College. Before choosing this profession I've been in other places searching MY definite place. A few words Learning is a process which is difficult to define under one perspective ... for some, learning is just acquiring knowledge, for me learning is also a journey, in which people have to be guided and accompanied; it is an experience with obstacles, descents and ascents; a ride that sometimes requires pedalling hard and many others only to be carried away by the inertia itself.  I'm sure of something, learning is a path in which a person always has to leave his/her mark. It is a journey and, like any journey, it involves a challenge: "let yourself be surprised". This year I've got surprised by this new proposal: the production of my own blog.