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Oral Presentations

Hello students! Hello KWU!

Please visit our Moodle platform to check the Portuguese students oral presentations about Japan. Your teacher has the enrolment key.

Regards,

STEN Neto

The Holidays in Japan

The Japanese students write a little about how they spend their holidays.

End-of-course message

Dear students,

it was a pleasure having had the chance to work with you. Our course has come to an end, but that doesn't mean we should stop using this weblog as a communication tool to exchange viewpoints, share experiences and learn English.

In that sense, and because the English module is only a small part of your CFS course, I'd like to propose a new challenge: continue to use this blog, as well as the Moodle platform in order to maintain your good English level. I will post some activities every now and then both here and in Moodle. Use it if you want and also exchange information with the KWU students.

Take care and talk to you soon.
STEN Neto

Parting is such sweet sorrow......

To all the Portuguese students,

I believe your classes will be ending on Friday but unfortunately my students do not have class until Monday so they will not be able to vote on your lovely Christmas messages until then. I hope that you will take the time to visit the blog again next week, even though your classes will be finished. My students said they really enjoyed corresponding with you.

I also want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed all the Christmas messages and stories; congratulations to all of you.
When I was growing up, my mother always made a traditional meal for Christmas Eve: bacalhau, salada de polvo (one of my favourites), and of course the desserts!! filhos, arroz doce (another favourite), and rabanadas which I loved for breakfast Christmas Day. What great memories!

I wish all of you a very happy holiday season! and all the best in your futures.

If you have any questions you would like to ask me, please feel free to contact me at: emfernandes2@hotmail.com

Thank you.
elisabeth fernandes

Mission 10 | Poll for best e-Card

Now that each group has left its Photostory as a sort of Christmas e-Card, leave your vote and feedback.


Thank you.
STEN Neto

Mission 10.5 | Christmas e-Cards

Seaman Augusto and Seaman Marques
Merry Christmas!

Mission 10.4 | Christmas e-Cards

PO3 Martins and PO3 Semedo
Merry Christmas!

Mission 10.3 | Christmas e-Cards

PO3 Pineiro and PO3 Gonsalves
Merry Christmas!

Mission 10.2 | Christmas e-Cards

Seaman Viegas, Seaman Pires and PO3 Pancas
Merry Christmas!

Mission 10.1 | Christmas e-cards

PO3 Ramos and Seaman Pereira
Merry Christmas!

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan - Personal contact

Today the Japanese students are going to answers directly to questions asked by the Portuguese students.
They are looking forward to the presentations that will be done by the Portuguese students.
Although it was only for a very short time, the Japanese students enjoyed this experience.

Thank you,
Elisabeth Fernandes

Mission 10 | Christmas e-Cards

Now that we have given - in Mission 9 - some background information to the Japanese students as far as our Christmas traditions are concerned, let us prepare a photostory, publish it in our class blog and ask the students (and the rest of the community studying at the English Language Office) to leave some feedback.

Let's go for it...

STEN Neto

Mission 9 | History of Christmas

Visit the following link in History.com and write a short comment on your family traditions concerning Christmas:

http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=history_of_christmas

Regards,

STEN Neto

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan | Round 2.2

At this point, the Portuguese students are working on their webquests. They are compiling all the information and preparing their oral presentations. Once they have presented the outcome of their webquests on Tuesday and Wednesday, their Powerpoints will be available in Moodle and some video recordings will be available from here.

Also, on Monday, the Portuguese students are going to prepare and publish a Christmas e-Card for the Japanese students in the format of a Photostory. These will include their photos, some references to our tradition and a Christmas song they are going to choose.

See you soon and thanks for the useful information you've sent.

Regards,

Daniel Neto

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan | Information on the Japanese military

Samurai armour, and samurai everyday clothes.

As for the samurai, it is named social position of public servant in Japan from the ancient times to the middle ages. As for the etymology of "the samurai", it is from "saburai" meaning servant.

This is Japanese old flag but for navy and army.
Beginning of this flag is June 1870. 16red lines mean the morning sun’s beam.

This is formal Japanese flog today.
It was 701 that this flag was using first. But officially it was 1854 in the Japan－U.S. treaty of peace and amity.
White part means innocence, righteousness and sancity.Red part means loyalty, humanity and vigor.

This picture is Umeboshi box lunch. (Umeboshi is pickled plum.)
Japanese flag looks like this picture so, it is said Umeboshi box lunch is origin. But I think it is wrong.

The first military affairs are called Police reserve in Japan.
It began 1950.
http://yamato.kure-city.jp/english/e-index.html
http://www.jmsdf-kure-museum.jp/en/

The number of the Self-Defense Force is 240.812 people.
It force consists of the army 148.302, the navy 44.528, the air force 45.913, and supervision force 2.069.
They do:
Defense attendance
Disaster dispatch
Action for public peace and order
Nation protection dispatch
Overseas support
The transportation of the very important person by the plane for governmental use
The event support such as the Olympics or the National Athletic Meet
South Pole observation support
The support of public works and so on.

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan - Round 2.1

In Round 2.1 the Kobe students are addressing the issues put forth by the Portuguese students. They are working in groups to answer the questions in each of the 5 areas, to the best of their abilities. We hope this information will be helpful in webquests of the Portuguese students.

Regards,
Elisabeth Fernandes

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan - Round 1.2

While preparing for Round 2, students are now organized into groups and given a role for their webquest - each group will be an 'expert' in a specific subject related to the Japanese culture. At this point, the Navy students would like to find out more about some issues related to the subject or area they are exploring.

Areas about Japan:

Environment experts
Military experts
Media & technology experts
Facilities/services experts
History experts

Here are some questions about this issues, as well as about some references in 'A Family Supper' by Kazuo Ishiguru.

Regards,
STEN Neto

Mission 8 | Future Perfect - Practice activities online

Visit the following websites for further practice on the Future Perfect Simple and Progressive:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/future_perfect.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
http://www.past-simple.com/Future-Perfect.htm
http://www.past-simple.com/Future-Perfect.htm

Regards,
STEN Neto

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan - Round 1.1 - Our profile

This is the first round of 'Questions and answers'. Give a brief presentation about you, the place where you live and ask the Portuguese students anything you feel like asking about their culture. Feel free to send any pictures of your surroundings.

They will soon be replying...

Regards,
Daniel Neto

Mission 7 | Project Portugal/Japan - Intro

Hello everyone!

As you know, in a few day's time, we will set off on a journey in discovery of the Asian culture, namely on the Japanese, as part of a Webquest. The first thing involved will be reading the short story 'A Family Supper,' by Kazuo Ishiguru.

Then, we will be completing some online activities on the backgound of the story. You will have the opportunity to interact with some Japanese students: ask them questions about their culture, but also share something about yours.

We will have three sessions (asynchronous, unfortunatelly) - on the 19NOV, 26NOV and 3DEC. This is the outline of their content:

Session 1 - Brief presentation and general questions about most common features of each culture.
Session 2 - Specific search of information for the purpose of missions given in the webquest.
Session 3 - Preparing and publishing Christmas e-Cards for the Japanese students.

Hope you all feel excited about this project. I sure do!
See you soon,
STEN Neto

Mission 6 | The lecture - Suprasegmentals & reading aloud

Here is the audio file containing the dialogue 'The lecture' read by Ramos, Marques and Pancas. Leave your comments here regarding their performance, with particular emphasis to the analysis of suprasegmentals.

STEN Neto

Mission 5 | Role play - At a restaurant

Here is the recording of the role play 'At a restaurant' performed in class

Mission 4 | gLeander: Origins...

Hello group!

Both the name of our course in the platform and the name of our blog are gLeander. Have you ever wondered why? Use a search engine to look for background information on Leander, share it with everyone else and, then, try to think of a reason why a 'g' was added to this name.

The best explanation gets extra points...

Regards,
STEN Neto

Mission 3 | Progressives - Practice activities online

Hello everyone.

Following the study of the progressives on Friday's lesson, here are some links for extra practice on this issue.

Verb tenses - grammar explanation
Future Progressive
Present Perfect Progressive
Present Progressive, Past Simple, Present Perfect Progressive and Past Perfect Progressive
Present Simple, Future Simple, Present Progressive, Future Progressive
Verb tenses explanation + interactive exercises

Hope they are useful.
Regards,
STEN Neto

Mission 2 | Hallowe'en

Because today is Hallowe'en and because it plays an important role in the British/American culture, let us search for some information on this.

Task 1. Use a search engine to look for background information concerning this festivity and post a summary of it here on the blog.

2. Search for a ghost story / spooky tale and prepare a summary of it to tell the rest of our group

Regards,

STEN Neto

Mission 1.5 | Interview to an angry customer

Authors:
PO3 Gonsalves
Seaman Pires

Mission 1.4 | Interview to a politician

Authors:
Seaman Pereira
Seaman Augusto
Seaman Marques

Mission 1.3 | Interview to member of a trade union

Authors:
PO3 Pancas
Seaman Ramos

Mission 1.2 | Interview to a businesswoman

Authors:
PO3 Pineiro
PO3 Semedo

Mission 1.1 | Interview to a famous rock star

Authors:
PO3 Ramos
PO3 Martins

Mission 1 | Interviews

In class, students read an interview from the ALC book and had to write one with a similar structure, though regarding a different situation. Each group worked on the following situations:

Martins and Ramos - Famous rock star
Pineiro and Semedo - Businesswoman
Pancas and Viegas - Member of trade union
Marques, Augusto and Pereira - Politician
Pires and Gonsalves - Angry customer

Listen to the interviews recorded in class!
STEN Neto

Welcome to gLeander!

Hello everyone!

This blog is intended to work as a complement to the educational platform being used with Module 3 students, as it contains features which are not available in Moodle.

(Group D - Module 3 - 22OCT2007)

It will also be a useful tool for the teaching/learning process and its main purpose is to motivate students to send their contribution (texts and other multimedia input on varied issues), to develop, therefore, their writing skills and to allow them to receive a constructive feedback from people outside or inside the military community.

So, to all of you reading this first post, don't forget... help making gLeander an enjoyable blog which can be relevant for the improvement of English learning amongst our students and amongst the Portuguese Navy.

Be creative! Keep plugged in...
STEN Neto