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I would like to begin the journey of the second trimonthly period with a few lines to encourage you to keep working hard to achieve one of the main goals in this year: to improve and learn more things about English… besides the verb to be.  Thank you for giving me the chance to meet you and letting me share fun and learning with you.

Introduction

To speak a new language well is one of the most challenging experiences a teenager could have.  This year you will have the chance to cover the four different areas, listening, speaking, reading and writing.  In class, we are going to write less and speak more.  This blog has the main objective for you to improve the four areas besides we will have the opportunity to talk in the class. 

Each of the units of “Easy English 8” have Grammar content and I decided to expand that material with more practices and theory for you to have a deeper understanding of the content.

Objectives:

The students will:

-Use technology as a tool to learn English.

-Improve the understanding of parts of speech and apply the knowledge obtained in each of the units of the book.

-apply every topic you learn to new material in the blog.

-Build affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences at ease.

-Have a short fluent conversation in English

-Create a brainstorming and an outline to begin building a paragraph based on the phrases of the outline.

-Have a clearer listening skill.

How to write a paragraph

Content:

A paragraph

A Paragraph is a group of sentences that show the student’s ideas, opinions, explanation or procedure about certain topic.  The majority of the professors need the students to write paragraphs.  This requires a process to be followed.  

To have an effective paragraph we need to follow some of these steps:

        --Write a BRAINSTORMING (a paper full of ideas written in phrases or words) in this part of the process, it is not necessary to write sentences directly.  At the beginning the professor can give a topic which will be too broad.

   - Narrow the topic with ONLY the most important ideas you choose from the brainstorming.

      -After you have selected the topic, you need to begin writing an OUTLINE in which you write just PHRASES.  Check capitalization in the outline. (figure)

4.   Following the outline, you write complete sentences.

Note:  Each of the steps have different topics, but you just follow the format of each step.

The paragraph must have:

-main idea or topic sentence: It is usually the first idea in the sentence.  This idea will determine what the paragraph will be about.

-supporting details:  those ideas that help the main idea to get more shape.  They complement the paragraph.  They are normally at the middle of the paragraph.

-conclusion:  the concluding sentence is usually paraphrased in this part of the paragraph.  It is a closing thought, idea or sentence.

THE SENTENCE

Syllabus 8th