CALL Session 4

Since I wrote my last blog post (read it here now if you haven't already done so), several students have produced last-minute homework, and now most of the presessional blogs are looking good.  Not everyone has written about their library experiences yet, but Sultan and Turki have both done so in an interesting narrative style, and Great has hidden a sentence about the library within a very informative (and worrying) post about fraud at cash machines. 


In today's CALL session, the plan is as follows:


1. Complete the online quiz to test your knowledge of how to use the Albert Sloman library.


2. Explore the university's myskills pages and write a blog post about your experience.  You should answer the following four questions:


- Which skill did you choose to focus on and why?  
- What tasks did you complete?  
- What did you learn from the tasks?  
- Would you recommend the task to your classmates?


3. Read each other's blogs about myskills and ask questions or make comments about anything you find particularly interesting.


4. Error correction tasks.  You can complete an MS Word-based correction task (download the task and the instructions), or find and correct the mistakes below.  There will be a huge reward for the first person to post (as a comment or on their own blogs) or email perfect versions of everything you find:

BLOG FEEDBACK : WORDS, PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS

A good dictionary, a collocations dictionary, and perhaps even a thesaurus may help you to find better alternatives to these 9 expressions:

1. ATM Skimming has made me lost thousands of pounds

2. It was borrowed by somebody to studied it

3. share these students their academic achievement.

4. I lost the the hope to find the book

5. my mentors Mark and Sandra

6. my colleagues in Lab class

7. a lunch party in my tower's flat

8. face with a serious problem

9. press your password

BLOG FEEDBACK SENTENCE CORRECTION

Check our comments on your blogs for suggestions on how to correct these sentences.  You can also refer to an online resource like The Internet Grammar of English, produced by University College London.

1. Finally, after might be 15 minute I was ready to live with my book, and thinking how simple it was.

2.ATM skimming is a kind of credit card fraud by using hi-technology.

3. To sum up, These steps are what we should aware of it when we use the ATM machine, and It seems like that we might not be able to avoid this problem, and it has been a serious problem in our society because some people are still using advanced technology illegally.

4. When I went there I saw strange lift at there.After which I went to third floor and I searched but Idid not fund it.

5. Being specialist in phonlogy and i need to do researches in this regard i chose book about acoustic sounds to have look about it .

6. It was not the first time that I go to the library where I went to the Library with my friend who study at university 

7. So I asked Mark about it where went us again to the shelf and looked for it 

8.Because of our different nationality, so it was the first international party

9. Most of all food were prepared by Arisa (thank you Arisa!). 

10. I prepared some Thai Food to share and the rest dished were cooked in the kitchen by a Super Chef from Japan (Naoko) and a Head Chef from Thailand (Great).