Year 3 Number 55 June 30th 2001
________________________________________________________________
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being SHARED
________________________________________________________________
Dear SHARERS,
How was
your week? Ours was a bit complicated . Of course, there was all the excitement
of the new Website and the slightly more than 1,000 visitors we had in less
than a week. Thank you for your never-ending enthusiasm and your trust in us.
But… more than 1,500 SHARERS clogged our machine with messages asking to
receive SHARE the traditional e-mail way.
And
more messages keep piling up. In a way, this IS a big complication: we had
thought of the Website as a way of saving time and money we normally used to
spend sending the almost 4,000 mails every weekend .Anyway, don´t worry we will
find a way. Where there is a will there is way, they say ( and we hope).
Today is Omar´s birthday and tomorrow is Sebas´s . The “official celebration” will be next Saturday but we will surely have some family around and virtually you will also be close to us: in our hearts.
Omar and Marina
In SHARE 55
1..- A Reminder from a Fairy Godmother.
2..- New Title on Language Testing.
3..- Seminar at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
4..- Very Technological Quotes.
5..- Congreso Internacional en Arica, Chile.
6..- Teacher Required in Bello Horizonte.
7..- An Update of APIBA SIGs.
8..- Brainteaser (with answers !)
9..- An Invitation from the HERALD
10.- Joining ARTESOL.
11.- Care for some tongue-twisters?
12.- Muestra de Cine y Video del Mercosur para
Niños y Jóvenes.
13.- Theatre in Good Company.
14.- Seminar on Contemporary and Colloquial English in Santa Fé
15.- Evolución de la Enseñanza?
16.- FAPPI 2001 Congress in Buenos Aires.
17.- The best is yet to come.
18.- Segundo Congreso del MERCOSUR sobre la
enseñanza de lenguas
19.- Business English in Rosario.
20.- Omar´s next presentations.
1..- A
REMINDER FROM A FAIRY GODMOTHER
Our fairy
godmother and founding SHARER, Elida Messina, writes to us about our
Website…and as usual she has got something splendid to SHARE:
Thank
you, dear Omar and Marina for this new effort and congratulations on
the
great results. Here's a little poem I received and am sharing with you, who
know so well what the very last sentence means.
WHEN I
WHINE
Today,
upon a bus,
I saw a
girl with golden hair.
and
wished I was as fair.
When suddenly
she rose to leave,
I saw
her hobble down the aisle.
She had
one leg and wore a crutch.
But as
she passed, a smile.
Oh,
God, forgive me when I whine.
I have
2 legs, the world is mine.
I
stopped to buy some candy.
The lad
who sold it had such charm.
I
talked with him, he seemed so glad.
If I
were late, it'd do no harm.
And as
I left, he said to me,
"I
thank you, you've been so kind.
It's
nice to talk with folks like you.
You
see," he said, "I'm blind."
Oh,
God, forgive me when I whine.
I have
2 eyes, the world is mine.
Later
while walking down the street,
I saw a
child with eyes of blue.
He
stood and watched the others play.
He did
not know what to do.
I
stopped a moment and then I said,
"Why
don't you join the others, dear?"
He looked
ahead without a word.
And
then I knew, he couldn't hear.
Oh,
God, forgive me when I whine.
I have
2 ears, the world is mine.
With
feet to take me where I'd go.
With
eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With
ears to hear what I'd know.
Oh,
God, forgive me when I whine.
I've
been blessed indeed, the world is mine.
This
poem is just a simple reminder that we have so-o-o much to be thankful for!!!
Give
your best to the world, and the best will come back to you.
Have a
blessed day!
Elida
2..- NEW TITLE ON
LANGUAGE TESTING
From: Paul Peranteau from John Benjamins
Publishing:
<paul@benjamins.com
To: The LINGUIST List - Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/
Subject: Language Testing: Talking and Testing by
Young & Weiyun He (eds.)
Talking and Testing.
Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency.
Richard
YOUNG (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Agnes Weiyun He (State University
of New York, Stony Brook) (eds.)
Studies
in Bilingualism 14
This
book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral
proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the
language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume
addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency assessment: the ways in
which the language
proficiency
interview is accomplished through discourse.
Contributors
draw on a variety of discourse perspectives, including the ethnography of
speaking, conversation analysis, language socialization theory, sociolinguistic
variation theory, human interaction research, and systemic functional
linguistics. And for the first time, LPIs conducted in German, Korean, and
Spanish are examined
as well
as interviews in English.
This
book sheds light on such important issues as how speaking ability can be
defined independently of an LPI that is designed to assess it and the extent to
which an LPI is an authentic representation of ordinary conversation in the
target language. It will be of considerable interest to language testers, discourse
analysts, second language acquisition researchers, foreign language
specialists, and anyone concerned with proficiency issues in language teaching
and testing.
Contributions
by: Marianne Celce-Murcia; Agnes Weiyun He & Richard Young; Marysia Johnson
& Andrea Tyler; Heidi Riggenbach; Dale April Koike; Agnes Weiyun He; Carol
Lynn Moder & Gene B. Halleck; Maria M. Egbert; Bernard Mohan; Yumiko
Yoshida-Morise; Lucy Katona; Catherine E. Davies; Kyu-hyun Kim & Kyung-hee
Suh; Steven Ross; Richard Young & Gene B. Halleck.
John
Benjamins Publishing Co. Websites: http://www.benjamins.com
http://www.benjamins.nl
3..- SEMINAR AT
COLEGIO NACIONAL DE BUENOS AIRES
Our dear friend Barbara Grodsky has sent us this invitation to SHARE with all of you:
El Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades “Dr Gerardo H Pagés” y el
Departamento de Inglés del Colegion Nacional de Buenos Aires tienen el agrado
de invitar a docentes y alumnos a participar en la Jornada de Talleres sobre
la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés en
el Colegio el día 25 de Agosto del corriente año de 13:00 a 17:00 horas.
Los talleres serán coordinados por profesores y ex profesores del Colegio y
versarán sobre : Fonología, Literatura, Lengua y Metodología.
Inscripción libre y gratuita desde el 6 de Julio al 15 de Agosto de 2001
personalmente en la Vicerrectoría del Colegio, Bolivar 263 Planta Baja de 8:00
a 21:00 horas o por e-mail a : instituto@cnba.uba.ar
4…- VERY TECHNOLOGICAL QUOTES
Our
Dear SHARER José Luís Laturu sends us this collection of quotable quotations:
Favourite
Technology Quotations
Everything
that can be invented has been invented.
-
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
640K
ought to be enough for anybody.
-
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
I think
there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM
Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
Get
your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy
your product.
- Joe
Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him
rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed
Computers
in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2
tons.
-
Popular Mechanics, 1949
There
is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken
Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the
World Future Society in Boston in 1977
The modern
computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
-
Sydney Brenner in 1927
The
real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F.
Skinner
Computers
make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it
easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy
Rooney
In a
few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken
many men many months to equal it.
-
Anonymous
One
machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of
one extraordinary man.
-
Elbert Hubbard
Any
teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David
Thornburg
If
computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do
them in.
-
Bradley's Bromide
There are
two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe
this to be a coincidence.
-
Jeremy S. Anderson
Those
parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those
program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-
Anonymous
We live
in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly
anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl
Sagan
If you tried
to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a
year further behind in your goal.
-
Anonymous
The
most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's
no law against whacking them around a little.
-
Porterfield
Any
science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from
magic.
-
Arthur C. Clarke
Never
let a computer know you're in a hurry.
-
Anonymous
A year
spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan
J. Perlis
I have
not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-
Thomas Edison
Technology
is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
-
Andrew Heller, IBM
AOL is
like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan
Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
How
could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al
Gore on Y2K
During my
service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
Internet.
- Al
Gore describing his 1986 legislation to interconnect five supercomputer centres
(17 years after the first Internet servers hooked up)
The day
I made that statement, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the
Camcorder.
- Al
Gore attempting damage control
If Gore
invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.
-
Former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle
________________________________________________________________
5..- CONGRESO
INTERNACIONAL EN ARICA, CHILE
Our dear friend and SHARER Gladys Aguilera writes to
us :
Dear Collegues:
You are
cordially invited to participate in our VII Congreso Internacional de Profesores de
Inglés- October 10, 11, 12 del 2001
We
anticipate a big crowd this year, so we hope you see you in October.
Sincerely.
Professor
Gladys Aguilera,
Departamento de Idiomas Extranjeros – Facultad de Educación y Humanidades
Universidad de Tarapcá - Avenida 18
de septiembre 2222 -Arica Chile.
Call
for Papers
Abstracts
for papers (30 minutes) and workshops (90 minutes) are being solicited for the
Sixth International Conference for
English Teachers organized by the University of Tarapacá in Arica Chile, an
event which regularly draws
secondary and University English
teachers from Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia, with
speakers from Latin America, the United States and Great Britain. You are
cordially invited to participate in
academic sessions, in folklore exhibitions, and in regional travel
through out this breathtaking Andean region in Northern Chile ! Abstracts for
90 minutes workshops (250 words) on TEFL, TESOL, EFL and Applied Linguistics,
as well as related topics on ESL, should indicate the objectives, process, and
the expected outcome of the program. Abstracts for 30 minute papers (200 words) on the same topics,
should clearly state thesis and conclusion of the paper to be presented
at conference.
fax to : 56 58 20- 52 -31, or e-mail as attachment
to: gaguiler@uta.cl or gverdugo@uta.cl or jgomez@uta.cl
6..- TEACHER REQUIRED IN BELLO HORIZONTE
Dear
Sharers,
First of all, thanks a lot
for sending all those interesting and beautiful things. I love receiving your e-zine.
And second, a call for help: I am a teacher of Portuguese and English, and a
student of mine has been moved to Bello Horizonte in Brazil, and he needs a
good place to study English there. As I know there are SHARERS all around the
planet, I thought that if perhaps any of you has a connection with that city
and could recommend a teacher or place there, it would be of great help.
I'll be
looking forward to your answers!!
I have
already tried this way once another student moved to Cordoba and Christian
Fernando Duarte Varela sent me a lot of information which was of great
help.(Chris: receive my "public
thanks" through this publication).
Well,
that's all for now.
Cheers,
Lucila Barbero de Bermúdez -Campana - Bs.As. - lglp@utenet.com.ar
________________________________________________________________
7..- AN UPDATE OF APIBA SIGs
Our
dear SHARER Analía Kendel sends us an update of three of APIBA Special Interst
Groups
*Business SIG*
Co-ordinators: Alejandra Jorge
- Silvia Tubio
Date: Tuesday, July
10, 2001 -- Time: 10.30
- 12.30
Venue: Asociación
de Ex-Alumnos de Lenguas Vivas, Paraguay 1935, Buenos Aires
Agenda:
1. Language corner: Finance and Economics
2. Methodology corner: Business English vs. General English (presentation
by Virginia Lopez Grisolía and Silvia Tubio)
3. Report on ARTESOL convention in Cordoba by Inés Correa.
4. Progress report on preparation of poster presentation by
Business SIG at FAAPI 2001 Congress.
*Grammar /
Linguistics SIG*
Co-ordinators: Carolina
Fraga - Sergio Rodriguez
Date: Friday, July
20, 2001 -- Time: 18.30 to 20.30
Venue: IES en Lenguas Vivas "J.R.Fernandez", Carlos
Pellegrini 1515, Buenos Aires
Agenda:
1. Analysis of problem sentences suggested by SIG members.
2. Free relative clauses. Discussion of Ms. Ines Rodriguez
Bauza’s paper
3. Presentation by Sergio Rodríguez: ‘Unergative and
unaccusative verbs in Spanish and in English’
4. How to write a paper for an "adscripcion"
in Grammar/Linguistics: format, approaches, organisation of contents, etc.
*Phonetics / Phonology SIG*
Co-ordinators: Roxana Basso -
Isabel Santa
Date: Saturday, August
18, 2001 -- Time: 9 to
12
Venue: IES en Lenguas Vivas "J.R.Fernandez", Carlos
Pellegrini 1515, Room 19 Agenda:
1. "The Phonology of English as an International
Language" by Roxana Basso (continued), followed up by discussion.
2. "NLP: Contributions to Phonetics" by Mónica
Martín (continued)
3. Sharing moment: exchange of printed material, photocopies
and audio tapes.
Paid-up
members of APIBA or FAAPI Associations, and
teacher trainees can participate free of charge. All others: $10
contribution per session.
Pre-enrolment
is not essential, but it is desirable. If at all possible, those interested in
participating in SIG meetings please e-mail apibasigs@apiba.org.ar to confirm their attendance. Those who
can't confirm, please come anyway.
For
further information on APIBA SIGs contact Analía Kandel, APIBA SIGs Liaison
Officer, at apibasigs@apiba.org.ar
8.- BRAINTEASER (WITH
ANSWERS!)
Do you
remember the brainteaser we published a few issues back? Well today we are
publishing it again (just in case…) together with the answers that our dear
friend and SHARER Elisabet Sandra Guber now sent us:
Questions
1. There
is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What
is it?
2. A
man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. A
boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom
rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes.
High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs
are under water?
4.
There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in
each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What colour is the bear?
5. Is
half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6.
There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the
floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is
Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How
much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with
a square edged shovel?
8. If I
were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees
F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at
30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of
the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?
9. What
is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes
past noon on May 6th.
10.
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? (hint... chim
chimminy)
11. If
a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many
haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the centre field?
12.
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
Answers
1. The
word "incorrectly." {Almost cracked your brain, didn't you?}
2.
1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people.
Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
3.
None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.
4.
White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the
bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
5.
Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the
mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So...
half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
6.
Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his
goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him. {Poor Sloppy.}
7.
None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. (And
those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would
have needed the length measurement too. So you don't even know how much air is
in the hole.)
8. Both
questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the
bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F
bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket
having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball
down...
9. The
time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. An
umbrella.
11.
One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
12. The
temperature.
9..- AN INVITATION FROM THE HERALD
Hello
everyone,
I would
like to make an open invitation to all the teachers in Argentina to subscribe
free of charge, to the Herald Education News: the Buenos Aires Herald
monthly
newspaper for teachers.
The
Herald Education News is a printed newspaper which offers feature articles,
inside the news, the newspaper in education, activities, lesson plans, debates,
current events and much more.
We
welcome your letters, queries, suggestions, stories, jokes, and anything that
may contribute to teaching.
If you
wish to subscribe to the Herald Education News please contact :
Fernanda Gonzalez at fgonzalez@buenosairesherald.com or Fernanda Page at
edu@buenosairesherald.com
Thank
you
Fernanda Page -Fernypage@yahoo.com.ar - Azopardo 455 C1107
ADE - Buenos Aires
10.- JOINING ARTESOL
Dear
SHARERS:
You can
now become an ARTESOL member.
It is only
15$ a year and you can benefit by networking with colleagues, growing
professionally
receiving the newsletters, attending the annual conference and
the new
On going Professional Development Sessions delivered free for members
once a
month at different locations and on different topics to be announced.
You can
also send a proposal to be a presenter.
Either
fax or email ARTESOL Fax #: 011 4394 2979 E-mail: la@bcl.edu.ar
Warmest
wishes,
Mabel
Chena,
ARTESOL
President
11.- CARE FIOR SOME TONGUE TWISTERS?
Our dear SHARER Patricia García Funes
from beautiful Concepción, Chile sends
us this collection of Tongue Twisters. I guess you can think of more than one
way to put them into use:
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
The seashells she sells are seashells she is sure.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck,
If a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
Was he?
A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy
noise annoys an oyster more!
To begin to toboggan first, buy a
toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
Cos the pheasant plucker's running late.
I am not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I am only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucker comes.
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
That ever plucked a mother pheasant!
I'm not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig pluckers' son,
But I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt.
Not a punt cut square,
Just a square cut punt.
It's round in the stern and blunt in the front.
Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt.
Mrs Hunt had a country cut front in
the front of her country cut pettycoat.
12.- MUESTRA DE CINE Y VIDEO DEL MERCOSUR PARA NIÑOS Y
JÓVENES
Official Invitation
We have
the pleasure of inviting you to present your film and/or videographic production
at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE to be
held in the city of Mar del Plata, from November 1 - 7, 2001, organized by the
General Bureau of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires through
its School Cultural Program.
This
Festival forms part of the "Motion Pictures at School" project aimed
at
promoting
education through audiovisual means. The project involves a series of
activities including itinerant exhibitions in the different educational districts
of the Province of Buenos Aires, training workshops in audiovisual language
offered by local and foreign specialists to both teachers and students, free
attendance at movie theaters to participate in pre-programmed cycles,
conferences and seminars.
The
works must be handed in before July 30, 2001, in order that a jury of
specialists may select the pieces to be included in the Festival program.
Looking
forward to your valuable participation, we remain
Yours
sincerely.
Lic.
Susana Velleggia
Director
First International Film Festival for Children and Young People
SchoolCultural
Program National Bureau of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos
Aires Argentina
Information
and registration:
Festival
E-mail: festival@ed.gba.gov.ar -
Program E-mail: cultesc@ed.gba.gov.ar
Telefax:
(54-11) 4382-4105/4382-4083/4382-4095
13.- THEATRE IN GOOD
COMPANY
Our
dear SHARERS from the GOOD COMPANY Entertainment Group send us this piece of
information to SHARE with you:
GOOD
COMPANY presents
NOISES OFF , A comedy in 3 Acts
At the
Walter Liebling Theatre, Paraná esq. Andrés Ferreyra, La Lucila.
The
story concerns a third-rate British touring troupe who are performing a play
called "Nothing On" in three different cities. What happens with cast
members' love/hate relationships with each other and how these affect the
cast's production of NOTHING ON is what the audience will discover during 90
minutes of ROLLICKING FUN, throughout which nobody comes off unscathed -
neither actors nor audience!
Considered
by most critics as quite possibly the FUNNIEST play ever written about theatre,
it reveals the intricate and quite unexpected events encountered in theatre
production which are normally never evidenced by audiences.
Hilarious,
with humour apt for all family members, in simple dialogue, it is
understandable even to students and those whose English is not fluent.
Become
the actors' accomplice and share a night to remember for a long, long time!
Cast:
Anne
Henry, Alan McCormick, Sebastian Percival, Janine Wilson, Roman Chlapowski,
Fernanda Bigotti, Martin Grisar, Vanessa Brizuela and Leandro Cruzate.
Direction: Isabella Entwistle
Set
design: Alvaro Luzuriaga - Graphic Design: Ian Gall
Production: Charlie Fox
Shows:
June
Sat 30th - July Sun 1st , Thu 5th , Fri 6th
, Sat 7th , Sun 8th , Wed 11th , Thu 12th
, Fri 13th and Sat 14th.
Tickets:
Wednesday
at 8 p.m. ($8) - Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9 p.m. ($12)
Sundays
at 7 p.m. ($12)
4793-1093
or tickets@goodcompany.com.ar
Free
delivery from Vte. López to Beccar. Minimum added charge for delivery
elsewhere.
14.- SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY AND
COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH IN SANTA FÉ
Our dear friends Susana
and Claudio Beruti from ADVICE send us this invitation to a most interesting
course:
SEMINAR
on Contemporary and Colloquial English (with
"reconocimiento ministerial” )
Led by
JOSEPH PERSICO, a TESL-certified teacher from the United States.
The aim
of this course is for conversationally fluent non-native speakers to develop
native speaker sensitivity by analyzing trends in modern, spoken English.
In
interactive classes, all aspects of discourse and extra-linguistic elements
that affect spoken language will be dealt with, including:
slang, pronunciation , lexical variants, phrasal
verbs, idioms/sayings, cognates
collocations, etymology, vocatives , hand gestures
To help
meet this objective, a wide gamut of authentic source-material will be used
during the course's forum-styled discussions, including : Excerpts from: movies, television shows,
popular music, radio programs, newspapers, books and even Packaging!
Throughout
the course, particular emphasis will be placed on the pitfalls that English
typically presents for Spanish speakers.
In addition, culture-specific topics and relevant vocabulary will be an
on-going focus of study. Scheduled topics are: U.S. holidays, currency,
etiquette, foods, educational system and
folkloric characters.
Venue:
Advice Prep School - San Jerónimo
3127
Course
timetable: 2 meetings every 15
days up to October 2001
2nd and
4th Tuesdays of each month 2:00 to 3.30
p.m. Or 8:00 to 9.30 p.m.
Fee: $ 30 per month
15.- EVOLUCIÓN EN LA ENSEÑANZA ?
Our dear friend and SHARER, Adrián Quevedo sends us this interesting piece for reflection:
1- La enseñanza en 1950. Primer grado superior
Problema: Un campesino vende una bolsa de papas por $1000. Sus gastos de producción
se elevan a 4/5 del precio de venta. ¿Cuál es su beneficio?
2- La enseñanza en 1960. Tercer grado
Problema: Un campesino vende una bolsa de papas por $1000. Sus gastos de
producción se elevan a 415 del precio de venta, o sea $800. ¿Cuál es su beneficio?
3- La enseñanza moderna en 1970. Quinto grado
Problema: Un campesino cambia un conjunto P de papas por un conjunto M de
monedas. Sus gastos de producción corresponden a otro conjunto Q de monedas, El
cardinal del conjunto M es igual a $1000 y el de Q es $800. Cada elemento que
pertenece a M y a Q vale 1.
Dibuje: 1000 puntos gordos que representan los puntos del conjunto M y 800
puntos gordos que representan los puntos del conjunto Q, y dé respuesta a la
cuestión siguiente: ¿Cuál es el cardinal del conjunto de B de los beneficios?
Dibujar B en color, de preferencia rojo.
4- Enseñanza reformada en 1986. Sexto grado
OBJETIVOS PARA EL ALUMNO: Memorizar el nombre del profesor. Transcribir el
texto del pizarrón al cuaderno. Analizar el texto. Utilizar correctamente la
regla y el subrayado. Diferenciar las palabras. Seleccionar los datos
importantes, Transferir los conocimientos anteriores. Recuperar el tiempo
perdido Con otros objetivos.
OBJETIVOS PARA EL PROFESOR: Consultar el manual de objetivos. Taxonomía de
los objetivos de la educación de Benjamín Bloom.
ACTIVIDAD PLANTEADA: Un campesino vende una bolsa de papas por $1000. Los
gastos de producción se elevan a $800 y el beneficio es de $200. Señalar la
palabra PAPA. Discutir sobre ella con los compañeros de curso.
5- Transformación educativa 1999. Octavo año
CONTENIDOS CONCEPTUALES: Las papas: papas blancas y papas negras; la
discriminación. Puré de papas. Papanatas, papas fritas de ayer y de siempre.
CONTENIDOS PROCEDIMENTALES: Adquisición de habilidades y destrezas para la
comprensión de la función de la papa en este mundo globalizado, Adquisición de
destrezas para la comprensión de la necesidad de flexibilizar las papas en
función de mejorar su calidad.
CONTENIDOS ACTITUDINALES: Sensibilidad y respeto por las papas. Valoración
del papel central de la papa, en capacidad transformadora y vinculada con la
actividad productiva. Valoración del uso racional de la papa. Reconocimiento de
la capacidad transformadora vinculada a la globalización de la economía.
16.- FAPPI 2001 CONGRESS IN BUENOS AIRES
Dear
Omar,
Glad to
see you're back. I think it's a much better idea for us to check your web site.
Good luck.
Here's
an update on the FAAPI 2001 Conference.
Thank
you.
Analía
--------------------------------------
Analía
Kandel
APIBA
Executive Committee Member
Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires
----------------------------------------
News from the FAAPI 2001 Conference
The
preparations for the FAAPI 2001 Conference (20-22 September, Universidad
Católica Argentina) are well underway and it is now possible to confirm the
following guest speakers: Ana
Armendariz; Alicia Camillioni; Dr. Cristina Elgue de Martini; Dr. Christine
Helot; Dr. Pascual Masullo; Claudia F. Moi; Dr. Robert Phillipson; Daniel
Reznik, MA; Maria Stagnaro, MA; Dr.
Brian Tomlinson; Ron White, MA.
A host
of papers and workshops will also be part of the Academic Programme as well as
film showings and other surprises.
Four
Pre-Conference Events have also been organized for Wednesday, September 19th.
This will be an opportunity to concentrate on your subject of preference for a
whole day, with recognised experts in each area.
* Management: Inés Cambiasso, Ofelia Veltri and Ron White.
* Literature (in honour of Prof.
Anita Monner Sans): Susana
Groisman, Delia Malamud, Susana Mayorga and Claudia Moi.
* Phonology (in honour of Prof. George Lewis): Roxana Basso, Zulima Molina, Lidia Soler
and Nilda Zenobi.
* Materials Design (in honour of Prof. Susana García Posadas): Brian Tomlinson, Hitomi Masuhara and Dave
Allan , plus a panel of Argentine materials designers
Registration
fee for PCEs: APIBA MEMBERS: $50 (if registered for FAAPI 2001 Conference
before 15 August, $25). NON-MEMBERS: $60 (if registered for FAAPI 2001
Conference before 15 August, $30).
The exhibition of resources and materials include the following confirmed
organisations: 37 Warren Road-Pitman Qualifications; AACI, ACME, Advice
Bookshop, Australia & New Zealand Travel, Cambridge University Press, EF,
Estari Libros, Eurocentres, IACA, Interlink Language Centre, KEL, Learning
Centre Institute, Lenguas Educational Counseling, Macmillan-Heinemann, Netizen,
NILE-TSEliot, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, Librería Rodriguez, Santillana,
Scholastic, The Buenos Aires Players, Thomson Learning, UCA, UCLES, VIC,
Librerias Yenny.
For
further information, please contact Ma. Elena Iturbe & Silvia Zarate at the
Conference Office: Sarmiento 835 - 1st floor , Buenos Aires.
E-mail:
faapi2001@apiba.org.ar
Telefax: (011) 4326-3927 Office hours: Tues. & Thurs. 10.30am to
4.30pm
For
up-to-date information, please check the APIBA Web site: www.apiba.org.ar
17.- THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Dear
Omar and Marina,
I would
like a friend, Silvia Grimaldi, from Rafaela, Santa Fe, to receive SHARE, and I would like to SHARE this
with you (how many times have I repeated the word SHARE! ), I am really sorry
if I have already sent it to you but I believe this is not the case. It was
sent to me, together with many other things which I liked and which
I can
SHARE with you if you agree, by a South
African boy who used to correspond with me and to tell you the truth I do not
know where he took them from, but the truth of the matter is that I liked this
and I hope you will like it too.
My name
is Analia Angeletti de Berrone, I'm from the province of Santa Fe and I really
enjoy reading your magazine, I print some of the things you send me and I use
it with some of my students, so thanks very much for your help.
Here it
goes:
KEEP
YOUR FORK, THE BEST IS YET TO COME:
There
was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given
three months to live. So as she was getting her things "in order,"
she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain
aspects of her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at the
service, what scriptures she would like to be read, and what outfit she wanted
to be buried in. The woman also requested to be buried with her favorite Bible.
Everything was in order and the pastor was preparing to leave when the woman
suddenly remembered something very important to her. "There's one more thing,"she said
excitedly."What's that?" came the pastor's reply. "This is very
important," the woman continued. "I want to be buried
with a
fork in my right hand."
The
pastor stood looking at the woman, not knowing quite what to say."That
surprises you, doesn't it?" the woman asked."Well, to be honest, I'm
puzzled by the request," said the pastor.
The woman explained. "In all my years of attending church socials
and potluck dinners, I always remember that when the dishes of the main course
were being cleared, someone would inevitably lean over and say, 'Keep your fork.'
It was my favorite part because I knew that something better was coming...like
velvety chocolate cake or deep-dish apple pie. Something wonderful, and with
substance! So, I just want people to see me in my casket with a fork in my hand
and I want them to
wonder,
'What's with the fork?'. Then I want you to tell them:'Keep your fork....the
best is yet to come.'
The
pastor's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the woman goodbye. He
knew this would be one of the last times he would see her before her death. But
he also knew that the woman had a better grasp of Heaven than he did. She knew
that something better was coming. At the funeral people were walking by the
woman's casket and they saw the fabulous dress she was wearing and her favorite
Bible and the fork placed in her right hand. Over and over, the pastor heard
the question
"What's
with the fork?" And over and over he smiled. During his message, the
pastor told the people of the conversation he had with the woman shortly before
she died. He also told them about the fork and about what it symbolized to her.
The pastor told the people how he could not stop thinking about the fork and
told them that they
probably
would not be able to stop thinking about it either. He was right.
So the
next time you reach down for your fork, let it remind you oh so gently, that
the best is yet to come.
18.- SEGUNDO CONGRESO DEL MERCOSUR SOBRE LA ENSEÑANZA DE
LENGUAS
Our dear friend and SHARER Susana Schlak writes to us
with this very important announcement:
Segundo congreso del MERCOSUR sobre tendencias y
responsabilidades en la enseñanza de lenguas en el sistema educativo formal
Organizado por el Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras con el auspicio de la
Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, la Embajada de
Francia, la Alianza Francesa de Resistencia y la Asociación de Profesores de
Francés del Chaco.-
objetivos
Presentar el estado actual del avance de los estudios sobre las lenguas.
Propiciar la presentación, debate y análisis de las tendencias en la
enseñanza de lenguas y aspectos específicos de la enseñanza de cada lengua en
particular en los diferentes niveles educativos.
Realizar propuestas que contribuyan a la formulación de políticas
lingüísticas y educativas dentro del espíritu de la pluralidad lingüística y
cultural.
Elaborar documentos que serán enviados a entidades educativas y
gubernamentales como sugerencias para la enseñanza de lenguas respecto de
tendencias, necesidades, responsabilidades y competencias profesionales.
Temas
Políticas lingüísticas y educación: lenguas maternas, lenguas segundas,
lenguas extranjeras, lenguas en contacto, lenguas clásicas, lenguas en
peligro.-
Estudios sobre el lenguaje desde la perspectiva de la Filosofía del
Lenguaje, la Lingüística, la Semiótica, la Psicolingüísitica, el Análisis del
Discurso, la Pragmática, la Lingüística Computacional, la Literatura y la
Historia.-
Didáctica de la Lengua: aportes y tendencias.-
La formación docente en lenguas y las nuevas propuestas de formación
docente continua y a distancia.-
El Análisis del Discurso: ¿moda o requisito indispensable en la formación
de docentes en lenguas?
destinatarios:
Docentes de Lengua española, lenguas aborígenes, lenguas clásicas y lenguas
extranjeras.
Directivos y/o responsables de unidades educativas públicas y/o privadas.
Estudiantes de los últimos cursos de formación en lenguas.-
Investigadores
metodología:
Exposiciones de especialistas, talleres, paneles de debates y reflexión.-
Fecha: del 12 al 15 de
septiembre de 2001.-
Sede: UNNE- Aula Magna, - Av. Las Heras 727, (3500)
Resistencia, Chaco
pautas para la elaboracion de abstracts :
fecha límite: 15/07/01 - extension: una carilla, hoja tamaño a4 (dos
copias)
diskette 3 1/2, word 6.0. o superior - letra arial , tipo 12 - bibliografía
en anexo
curriculum (de una extensión limitada a 3 páginas a4, arial 12, espaciado
sencillo, indicando datos personales y antecedentes más relevantes (dos
copias).
El tiempo de lectura del trabajo en el congreso tendrá una duración máxima
de 20 minutos para paneles, ponencias: 40 minutos y talleres: 120 minutos.-
Indicar si la actividad en la que se desea participar es: panel, taller o
ponencia individual
Contactos:
Emilio J. Chuaire,
mailto:echuaire@hum.unne.edu.ar , lenguas@hum.unne.edu.ar
jcontte@corrientes.rffdc.edu.ar bpjcontte@radar.com.ar
Telefax
+54 - (0)3722-446958
Telf.
Particular: +54-(0)3783-155 42349
Susana
Schlak
mailto:mschlak@hum.unne.edu.ar Telefóno: +54-(0)3722-438285
Aranceles hasta el 15 de julio:
50$ para expositores - 40$ para
asistentes docentes
20$ para asistentes alumnos
La Alianza Francesa de Resistencia en coordinación con la Embajada de
Francia en Buenos Aires ya confirmó la presencia del sociolingüista Jean Claude
Béacco quien dará apertura y cierre en el Congreso.-
19.- BUSINESS ENGLISH IN
ROSARIO
Our
friends at Ce y Ce Institute send us this announcement:
BUSINESS
ENGLISH AT COMPANY TRAINING LEVELS
The days
of the rigid syllabus . Business English trainers have had to adapt to the
changing needs of heads of ELT departments and company training managers.
If you
are one of those trainers who would like to:
* focus
on designing more learner centered business courses
* give
more attention to needs analysis and tailor-made programmes
* use
authentic material and documentation for the increasing number of objective
specific courses which cannot be covered by a coursebook
*
provide plenty of opportunities to practice the language and skills in the most
appropriate specific business context
Join us
at: Ce y Ce (Inst. de Idiomas)
FUNDACION LIBERTAD, Mitre 170 - 4to Piso - TE. 4245111 (de 9:30 a 12:30)
E-mail:
idiomas_ceyce@citynet.net.ar
Course tutors: Mary C. de la Vega,
María del C. Fernández B., Alejandra Garré, Ma. Belén González Milbrandt,
Mariela Rodríguez, Julieta Zavalía
Course
Schedule :Fridays 9:00 - 12:30 am
Stage
2: August 10 - October 5 (8 sessions) focus on In-company
Course
fee: $ 75 / month - (20 participants) Certificates will be issued in compliance
with Ministry requirements
Assessment
(optional): The course enables those who are willing to take the FTBE exam
(Foundation Certificate in the Teaching of Business English) of the London
Chamber of Commerce and Industry after their course.
This
exam is not required to obtain the course certificate
20.- OMAR NEXT
PRESENTATIONS
Just a
short note about Omar´s next presentations. More details in our next issues of
SHARE
Saturday 11th August : Resistencia, Chaco
Activities
for all ages and all levels –
Further
Information and Registration : Advice Corrientes – Advice Resistencia
advicecorrientes@ciudad.com.ar
Friday 24th & Saturday 25th August : Rosario
Testing
– The assessment of English as a language for international communication
Further Information and Registration: APRIR - Asociación de Profesores de
Inglés de Rosario : seculi@citynet.net.ar
Saturday 1st September : Santa Teresita, Pcia de Buenos Aires
Video for
ELT - Grammar Games for your Classroom
Further
Information and Registration :Colegio Modelo de Santa Teresita
colegiomodelo@sanbernardo.com.ar and tamaracoslovich@ciudad.com.ar
Time to
say goodbye again . This time we want to use the words that a real friend sent us from Catamarca: José Luís García
.
SIMPLE VS REAL
A simple friend has never seen you cry
A real friend has shoulders soggy from your
tears.
A simple friend doesn't know your parents'
first names.
A real friend has their phone numbers in his
address book.
A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to
your party.
A real friend comes early to help you cook
and stays late to help you
clean.
A simple friend hates it when you call after
he has gone to bed.
A real friend asks you why you took so long
to call.
A simple friend seeks to talk with you about
your problems.
A real friend seeks to help you with your
problems.
A simple friend wonders about your romantic
history.
A real friend could blackmail you with it.
A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a
guest.
A real friend opens your refrigerator and
helps himself.
A simple friend thinks the friendship is over
when you have an argument.
A real friend knows that it's not a
friendship until after you've had a
fight.A simple friend expects you to always
be there for them.
A real friend expects to always be there for
you!
HAVE A
WONDERFUL WEEK !
Omar
and Marina.
SHARE is distributed free of charge.
All announcements in this electronic magazine are also absolutely free of
charge. We do not endorse any of the services announced or the views expressed
by the contributors.
E-mail addresses
are normally withheld unless the people or institutions concerned explicitly
express in their postings to us their wish to have their electronic address
published.
If a friend
wishes to receive this electronic magazine tell him or her to send an e-mail to
us with his or her details. We love to hear from the people with whom we SHARE
but for subscription purposes NAME and CITY are enough.