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Welcome to Kip’s video and content.
View Kip's pre-class task here.
PRESENTER: Kip Boahn
PRE-CLASS TASK INCLUDED BELOW the class description.
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An overview of VIRTLANTIS, a free and open language learning community in the virtual worlds of Second Life® and Avination®. In specific, we will discuss how you can practice speaking and pronunciation in this immersive virtual environment with people from various countries and cultural backgrounds. Everyone is welcome!
Pre-class task
1) Have you ever been in a virtual world online? If so, which one(s)?
2) What is an avatar?
3) Have a look at the following website and write down as many questions as you can think of. We can try to discuss them in tomorrow's class!
–> http://www.VIRTLANTIS.com
Class recording on You Tube
Welcome to Jennifer’s post-class activities
Here is Jennifer's post-class assignment.
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Welcome to Jennifer’s video and content.
PRESENTER: JENNIFER LEBEDEV The PRE-TASK is INCLUDED BELOW. Please post your response in a comment on THIS PAGE and comment on your colleagues' posts.
Jennifer will share key principles that have guided her own creation of content for pronunciation lessons. Participants will be invited to study and discuss models that allow for meaningful practice, personalized content, and multiple encounters in different formats.
Pre-lesson task
Look at this list. http://www.morewords.com/most-common-ends-with/ing/
1. Choose 10 “-ing” words for a group of high beginner students to practice.
2. What would you do with these words? Name two possibilities. (For example, “I’d ask the class to read the list with me. Listen-repeat.”)
[Note the site www.morewords.com was created by Robert Hoare. Click for more info.]
Class recording on You Tube.
