ENGLISH CENTRAL IS BACK

This is the fourth consecutive year that I'll be using English Central with students to help you improve your speaking and listening skills in English.

English Central offers a unique speech recognition platform which allows you to practice PRONUNCIATION with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing. It also has other possibilities of study such as phonetics and vocabulary.

First of all, enroll in my class by clicking here. You need to register with your full name, valid email address and password. Now you are part of my group of students.  

You'll be assigned different challenges each week and your performance will be part of your marks this term. Remember you must watch the videos within your class. 

GOALS

WEEK 1: from Monday 14th January to Sunday 20th January.  

APLE1: 5,000 POINTS - 5 VIDEOS

WEEK 2: from Monday 21st January to Sunday 27th January.

APLE1: 6,000 POINTS- 6 VIDEOS

WEEK 3: from Monday 28th January to Sunday 3rd February.

 APLE1: 7,000 POINTS- 7 VIDEOS

WEEK 4: from Monday 4th February to Sunday 10th February.

APLE1: 8,000 POINTS- 8 VIDEOS

WEEK 5: from Tuesday 12th February to Monday 18th February.

APLE1: 9,000 POINTS- 9 VIDEOS 

ENGLISH CENTRAL 2012

Happy 2012! Welcome back after the Christmas break to practise your listening and speaking skills. This term we are going to use English Central for this purpose.

English Central offers a unique speech recognition platform which allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing. This year it comes with new features which include phonetics and vocabulary study.


First of all, enroll my class (http://class.englishcentral.com/amef) by clicking here.
You need to register with your full name, email address and password. Now you are part of my group of students.


If you are already familiar with English Central, you just need to login using the nickname and password you registered with last year and go straight into videos to start adding points to your account.

I will set different goals for you to reach along the term. The goals are based on videos, words and points. Each new goal will be set weekly. 

English Central will be part of your final marks this term.

GOALS


WEEK 1: from Saturday 14th January to Friday 20th January.


3rd ESO: 2,000 POINTS

4th ESO: 3,000 POINTS


WEEK 2: from Saturday 21st to Friday 27th January.

3rd ESO: 4,000 POINTS + 5 VIDEOS MINIMUM 

4th ESO: 5,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 3: from Saturday 28th to Friday 3th February.


 3rd ESO: 5,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO: 6,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 4: from Saturday 4th to Friday 10th February.


 3rd ESO: 6,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO: 7,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

WEEK 5 and LAST: from Saturday 11th to Friday 17th February.


 3rd ESO: 7,000 POINTS + 6 VIDEOS MINIMUM

4th ESO:  8,000 POINTS + 7 VIDEOS MINIMUM

ENGLISH CENTRAL CHALLENGE

I'm back after the Christmas break with new projects and ideas to help you improve your English. This term you are going to work on your listening and speaking skills with English Central 




English Central offers a unique speech recognition platform which allows you to practice SPEAKING with any video you choose and then get INSTANT FEEDBACK on how well you are doing. This year it comes with new features which include phonetics and vocabulary study.

If you have never used English Central, first of all you'll need to register with your nickname (use your whole name as nickname),  mail account and password. Now you are part of my group of students. Go to Videos and click on Ana Mendez (Galileo Galilei) Channel. 

If you are already familiar with English Central, you just need to login using the nickname and password you registered with last year and go straight into videos to start adding points to your account.

Check the FAQ section to learn about rankings and scoreboard.

GOALS:

Week 1: from Saturday 15th January to Friday 21st January

APLE2: 6,000 points
4th ESO: 3,000 points
3rd ESO: 2,000 points

WELL DONE! MOST OF YOU REACHED THE GOAL

Week 2: from Sunday 23rd January to Saturday 29th January

APLE2: 7,000 points

4th ESO: 4,000 points

3rd ESO: 3,000 points

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO REACHED THE GOAL THIS WEEK!!!

Week 3: from Monday 31st January to Sunday 6th February

APLE2: 8,000 points

4th ESO: 5,000 points

3rd ESO: 4,000 points 

Week 4: from Tuesday 8th February to Monday 14th February

APLE2: 9,000 points

4th ESO: 6,000 points

3rd ESO: 5,000 points

                                  
                                                            

Week 5 and LAST: from Friday18th February to Friday 25th February

APLE2: 10,000 points

4th ESO: 7,000 points

3rd ESO: 6,000 points

                                                                       

THIS WEEK ENGLISH CENTRAL CHALLENGE

As you all seem to have enjoyed the previous week's challenge, here I go again. This time things will be easier and faster since you already know how it works and I'm sure you will have improved your pronunciation. This week's challenge is 4,000 points from 15th April to 21st April. Don't forget to connect to my channel and watch the new videos I have selected for you at English Central .

But this time I am going to ask you something else. I want you to make a comment about the activity itself and the videos you have watched on the Voicethread below. Due date for yourVoicethread: April 22nd.

ENGLISH CENTRAL

Welcome back after the Easter break to practise your listening and speaking skills. This time we are going to use English Central.

First of all you'll need to register with your nickname (use your whole name as nickname),  mail account and password. Now you are part of my group of students. Go to Videos and click on Ana Mendez (Galileo Galilei) Channel.

Choose at least three videos in my channel of your interest and record your voice to obtain the highest number of points over this week. To start with, your challenge for this week is 2,400 points.

Instructions:

To do it properly, the best way is:

1.- Try watching all the video hiding the subtitles. If it is too difficult, you can make use of the subtitles the second time you watch it.

2.- Click on "Pause video after each line", play the line as many times as you want (you can even hear the line slowed down) and then click on the red "record" button to record your voice.

3.- When you have finished, click on stop and see the result. If the words are yellow, it means you didn't pronounce them properly. If you click on the yellow word, you will listen how it should be pronounced and how you did it.

For the moment, use practise mode and not quiz mode, which is a bit more difficult.