domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2007

Telephoning

The last Monday we did the sixth practice which consisted on telephoning in english. In that practice we learned some aspects like:

  • Introducing yourself
  • Asking for someone

  • How to reply when someone is not available

  • Asking who is on the telephone

  • Connecting Someone

  • Taking a message

Then we did some exercises about telephone conversations.

On Tuesday we started the new unit called Busines. Firstly we did a small exercise about branding and brand names, and secondly we created a rank of motor-cars, food, beer and new technologies.

At the final of the class we did a brief exercise about letterwriting.

domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2007

On monday on practice class we did the practice 4 which consisted on handling questions effectively and asking questions.
Then we did a practice about computers. We answered some questions finding information into the web and then we saw that two videos:
  • In the first video a man explains how to change a RAM memory. You only have to remove the old memory pulling the slides of the old memory and then introduce yhe new ram memory.
  • In the second video the previous man explain how must a good computer been. The processor must be the capacity of 2 GHz, the RAM a minimum of 512Mb. The size of the screen must be 1024x708, Tha hard disk must have a capacity of 80Gb. Also could have DVD reader and wireless network.
On tuesday we did the listening called a computer system and then we did some exercises about the reading.
On the letterwriting we did a little comparison about two different letters.
At the final of the class we did a role play in pairs where I was the shop assistant and my classmate was the customer which wanted to buy a new computer.