Term 3: Being Connected - our Learning Places

Welcome to Term 3 in ESL3

It's awhile since I posted here at the Class Blog so it's a good time to review our Learning Places on the internet to get ready for our term Topic: Being Connected.

Our Learning Places

ESL Three Class Blog

• is a starting point for all other places (see the links to those places in the Sidebar on the Right?)
• explains whole term activities
• is for catching up on missed work and doing extra work
• will direct readers to the latest posts in our Class Record
• is PUBLIC

Are you having trouble locating this blog by searching for: ESL3 at CNLC? Then you can type the QUICK link into the Address Bar in your browser: bit.ly/eslthree 

Welcome to ESL 3 Class blog in 2014

Welcome to our Class blog where we will post work and links to the internet each week.

This will help you revise what you did in class OR catch up work you missed if you were away OR do extra work for independent learning away from class.

Our places on the Internet

We will use a Class Record to keep a record of new language learnt in class. You can visit this Google Presentation any time and anywhere!



We had a similar Google Presentation in 2012 but this one will be more accessible - you can view it as long as you remember how to find the Class Blog.

Your Independent Learning Record in 2014

We kept track of your Independent Learning in 2013 with a Google document. This was successful because it is a list of all independent learning topics that students choose to write about in the Learning Journal or in Kidblog. Here is a link to the new document in 2014 and the link will always be available for you to access in the right Sidebar of this Class blog.

Our Kidblog

We will continue the wonderfully successful ESL3 at CNLC Kidblog in 2014. It is open to the public to view but you will need to join up to write posts.

You can post your Independent Learning here INSTEAD of in your Learning Journal. Can you see how many visitors have viewed our Kidblog?

Screenshot taken 2 February 2014

CNLCTalks Students' wiki

Last but not least, is our learning place for the whole of CNLC, here: CNLCTalks wiki.

The HOME page is open to view but you'll have to sign in to view Our Photos and Slideshows Page (do you remember the username and password to sign IN?) and ESL3 Pages.

Grammar corner - extend yourself

Reported Questions:

We practised reporting questions that were asked earlier. Look at our Class Record, Slide 3 for examples.

Here is a great lesson on Reported Questions at BBC Learning English: it includes a conversation and some worksheets.

Week 6 - Learning goals and Independent learning record

Individual Learning Plans (ILPs)

This document is an important planning tool for you so keep it handy in the Learning section of your folder. Bring all your Learning notes to class on Wednesdays and Fridays so you can look at them and maybe add to or revise the contents.

Learning Goals, Barriers to learning and Strategies to overcome them

Here is the Presentation with our work on goals, possible barriers to learning and strategies you can use to overcome your barriers.





Here is the link to our Independent Learning Record: I'll try to keep it up to date. The purpose of this record is to share ideas about the types of activities you can write about in your Journal as a record of your Independent Learning.

Don't forget to add examples of different types of independent learning to your Green front page in the Journal with the DATE of the activity.

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Of course you can! (I love this picture.) Any time is the best time to learn something new....

Welcome to ESL Three - the blog for our class at CNLC

This blog is a record of our work in both ESL 3 and Computer Group 3 at CNLC.

It will be useful for reviewing your learning and catching up on things you might have missed if you were away from class. It is open to the public and may be of wider interest to other students of English.

We will include all important links to other places on the internet as well as some of our worksheets and learning materials.

We will also try to put extra work here that wasn't covered in class for those who wish to extend their online learning.

The blog replaces the ESL 3 Learning Record that we had in 2012 as a Google Presentation. You can still visit that Learning Record - we won't update it and it will be useful for awhile yet.

Don't forget to check in regularly at our CNLCTalks students' wiki too:  we will continue to put important events there on the HOME page.

Souvenirs from the classroom

We will include some souvenirs from the classroom. Here is an example.

Did you take away these new phrases so that you can learn them and re-use them in your speaking and writing?