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Internet English

Dr Bean 02 Term 2

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The Internet as a way to learn English

▶ Pros:

▶ Same experience as in US (if you use English in your browser).

▶ Cons:

▶ Unnatural, not as close, intimate as face-to-face. No body

language.

▶ Communication is narrow, restricted. ▶ Disables learners. Like blind people, learners- have to use

machines to work around their disability.

▶ Breaks easily. Not permanent. Web pages disappear. It’s

harder to lose books or CD’s.

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Identity on the Internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,nobodyknows_you%27re_a_dog ‘dog’ can have many meanings: good, as in the cartoon

• r bad: eg, it can mean an ugly woman or man:

▶ http:

//www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dog

▶ What identity do you have on the Internet? ▶ What character do you portray on the Internet?

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Care needed on the Internet

Like in real life,

▶ viruses ▶ hackers ▶ scams ▶ spam

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Internet use

▶ Finding information ▶ Facebook ▶ Keeping in touch ▶ Chat ▶ Playing games ▶ Movies ▶ Music ▶ Shopping

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Internet activities in class

▶ Recording webcam videos and uploading them ▶ Downloading soundfiles, transcribing them and writing

questions

▶ ESL chat rooms (text, not skype) ▶ Internet surveys? ▶ Blogs eg Twitter (no Facebook)

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urbandictionary homework

New word Check on urbandictionary Post link Internet_english site say something aBbout word Estimate reliability of definition, eg believable? lie? 50% 70%

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LiveABC

▶ 應外系 LIVE ABC 專用網址 (Liveabc 英檢網專用帳號：學

號、密碼：1234) http://120.105.49.211/livegept/ Department competition Dr Shia recommends we do some Liveabc activity, CNN perhaps, to prepare for the competition.

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Homework: Find an interesting exercise on LiveABC

post a description of an exercise which will help prepare for the GEPT, on

▶ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/internet_

english

▶ You can start from

For homework, look at the site and choose an activity, write the title in a post to the Internet_english google group. Include your name and ID. The week after, we will choose the activity which everyone will do for homework.

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Homework

Dr Shia says, besides LiveABC, and CNN in particular, there are

• ther Internet resources at Minghsin, eg for practicing TOEIC, etc.

Post a link on ec.must.edu.tw to a particular exercise on one of these sites, and post a screenshot of the question and your answer to the exercise. If someone has already done one exercise on a site, you cannot do another exercise in the same section on that site. You must choose a different section.

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Self-introductions not uploaded

Dr Shia said you had some concerns. But he didn’t really say what those concerns were. The previous week, one student said she didn’t want her self-introduction in a public place, why, I’m not too sure. I myself try to keep my name, Greg Matheson, off my Internet presence as Dr Bean. Are you willing to post a message expressing your concerns on the Internet_english google group? Would you be happier if the videos or links were on ec.must.edu.tw? I am not really keen on using ec, if we can put them on google and youtube. Was: Do it before next week (next Tuesday morning 8am, March 4), or lose points You are preventing your group from doing the homework for week 2.

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Homework

▶ http://web.nuu.edu.tw/~greg/AFB1J0.html

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What do you use the Internet for?

Write it on the board.

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Seating chart

▶ (http://web.nuu.edu.tw/~greg/AFB1J0f.html)

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Textbook

▶ CALL Course Book ▶ http://www.languages.dk/archive/pools-

m/manuals/final/call.pdf

▶ Download and print the first 15 pages – but not now ▶ ▶ pools-m www.languages.dk 2010

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Treasure (scavenger) hunts

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http://www.google.com/search?q=internet%20treasure%20hunt%20esl&num=100

▶ http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/mapp.htm

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Beginner scavenger hunt

http://iteslj.org/th/1/sg-begin.html

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Weather forecast hunt

▶ What is the weather like in Mexico City today? ▶ Is it raining? ▶ You can use http://weather.yahoo.com

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Exchange rate hunt

▶ How much is one US dollar worth in Taiwan NT dollars today? ▶ Is it more or less than 30? ▶ You can use http://xe.com

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Movie which made most money

The highest grossing movie in history Did it make more than 3 billion dollars?

▶ You can use http://www.ssonlineuniverse.net ▶ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films

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Twitter

Famous people on Twitter

▶ Dywane Wade http https://twitter.com/DywaneWade ▶ Lady Gaga https://twitter.com/LadyGaga ▶ Beyonce https://twitter.com/Beyonce ▶ The pope https://twitter.com/Pontifex ▶ Obama https://twitter.com/Obama ▶ The White House https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse

Who else of the rich and famous (and not so famous, eg, your friends) are on Twitter?

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== Twitter people

▶ Post message on http://ec.must.edu.tw ▶ Ask questions about another group’s Twitter person ▶ Show tweets and tell about your group’s Twitter person ▶ The best show and tell sessions get 3 points.

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Homework

Retweet someone’s message on Twitter so I (and your followers) can read it.

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Homework Week 7

▶ One message to internet_english@gmail.com ▶ Post a link to a message you posted in English on a discussion

board related to an interest.

▶ Eg, Jeremy puts a message on http://espnfc.com ▶ and posts the link in an email to internet_english@gmail.com

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Homework results Week 7

http://web.nuu.edu.tw/~greg/AFB1J0/homework.yaml

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Classwork Week 8

Chat on freenode

▶ Connect via http://webchat.freenode.net ▶ Choose a nickname, (tell Dr Bean so he can give you a score) ▶ Enter channels:

▶ ##AFB1JO

▶ Copy the letters ▶ Connect ▶ Ask questions, answer questions

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Classwork grade

▶ Every question/answer gives 1 point to the questioner and 1

point to the owner of the room, unless the questioner owns that room.

▶ The 4 groups with most points get a grade of 3, the other 4

groups get 2.

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Homework Week 8

6 questions and 6 answers to someone else’s questions on one or more of:

• ##AFB1JO-Black
• ##AFB1JO-Blue
• ##AFB1JO-Green
• ##AFB1JO-Charcoal
• ##AFB1JO-Orange
• ##AFB1JO-Pink
• ##AFB1JO-White
• ##AFB1JO-Yellow

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Exam Week 9

A bio-dad, biomom and single man with adopted child Minghsin self intros Questions about self-intros again

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Discussion with people outside 台灣 in English

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Penpals (via email)

Penpal sites ESL Penpal sites

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Web discussion forums

Sites for discussion of topics which interest us. Dr Bean: Soccer discussion forums Basketball discussion forums Pet discussion forums

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Emily1’s suggestions

Baseball discussion forums Music discussion forums Movie discussion forums Dance discussion forums

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Peggy’s suggestions

Fashion discussion forums Story discussion forums Group Discussion forums Cat discussion forums

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Classwork Week 15

▶ Find some kind of way of communicating with people outside

臺灣, eg chat, email, website.

▶ Send a message to as many sites as you can.

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Message to send

Just an example. Do it the way you want. "Hi. I am a student from Taiwan. I've been thinking about X. I think X is y, a, and b. Because it/she/he is c, d, and e. I'm really f, g, and h about X. What do you think? Name"

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Homework Week 15

A reply from someone to one of your messages posted as classwork in Week 15. With a link, or copy posted on ec.must.edu.tw. I will open the site after the clas is over.

▶ kiss and tell

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Sit back and wait till communications roll in.

▶ They won’t roll in.

▶ Perhaps they are not interested in your topic. ▶ Perhaps they are shy. ▶ Perhaps they feel you aren’t a member of the group.

▶ Think about how you can get in touch with the thinking of

the group.

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Recommendation for one discussion forum

▶ One or more persons from each group comes to front ▶ Introduces discussion forum

▶ types of messages, eg on a clothes site: about jackets, pants ▶ participants eg fashion designers, clothes buyers ▶ types of communications eg light/heavy,

conversational/academic, short/long, etc

▶ number of messages eg many messages a day, 1 or 2 a month ▶ types of interaction eg long-running threads/little response to

individual messages

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Unhappy about Week 14 homework

I could only find one post by Betty on the Internet.

▶ http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-metal/77276-rock-

bank.html And one post by Emily1

▶ http://thethingamongst.us/index.php?threads/taiwan.1817/

Peggy wrote a message but I don’t think she posted it.

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Posting competition

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Claiming site

Each person claims one site on http://ec.must.edu.tw

▶ The first person to claim the site has exclusive use of it. ▶ You cannot post on the site if someone has already claimed it.

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Posting on site

▶ Each person posts a message on his/her site. ▶ Each person posts a clickable link on ec.must.edu.tw in reply

to their claim of their site.

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Replying to message on site

▶ Each person replies to a message on his/her site. ▶ Post a clickable link on ec.must.edu.tw in reply to their claim

• f their site..

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Posting 2nd, 3rd message, replying to 2nd, 3rd message in a different thread.

Continue

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Winners

The group with most (reasonable-length) messages and replies in different threads on their three sites.

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Understanding discussion forum posting behavior

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Homework

▶ Emily1 last week ▶ Oliver ▶ Betty ▶ Peggy ▶ Avis ▶ Emily1

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Who got the best response?

You have 5 minutes to post an answer on http://ec.must.edu.tw - One group, one answer, put the name of the group in the subject line.

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Who did the most work?

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Why might the responses to Emily on http://thethingamongst.us be making fun of her?

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What do the posts of the women have in common and the

• ne guy, Oliver’s, not?

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What do Peggy’s post and Betty and Emily’s messages have in common?

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What do Avis’s post and Betty and Emily’s replies have in common?

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Is http://thethingamongst.us an appropriate place for Emily’s message about Taiwan?

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Why might the website staff have removed replies to Betty’s messages about surfing in Bali?

Local Style - Best Surf Breaks in Bali Indonesia, Episode 9

▶ One message was removed by the author’s request. ▶ Two messages were regarded as inappropriate.

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Why did staff want Emily to repost her message about places to go in NY?

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Classwork Week 16 (no class Week 17)

▶ Post on ec chat content ▶ As many questions as possible about the questions on

http://ec.must.edu.tw

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Final exam–same form as Midterm about Simon and Ariel

But the content will be about the chat in class on Week 16. “Does Simon’s partner say that they are in Switzerland” Yes/No The questions must be grammatical. One point for a question. Two points for a grammatical question. Three points for a grammatical question with a correct answer. The person with most points get a perfect final grade. (But finals are only worth 10 percent of overall grade.) Everyone who attends gets at least 60 percent. Non-attenders get zero.

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Homework Week 16

Send email to drbean@freeshell.org, asking when the site is ready to start practicing for the exam I will reply with the address when there is something you can do on the site.

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