Welcome to our EFL Center Speaking Group!!!

Hello! Welcome again to our Speaking Group!Hope we can learn and practice a lot. Well, these are the things you have to do.

First thing... join our community: EFL Center Speaking Group. There you'll find hand outs, and files. Also, you can leave messages and receive messages from your partners.

Well, The program we'll be following is this:

Introductory class
Getting a blog
Registering to Yahoo groups

Unit 1
Introductions
Describing yourself ( personality and physical description)
Reading: Are you good looking?
Video: unpretty , The evolution of beauty, Medical Tourism, Beauty

Debate: What's beauty? Read this description by wikipedia

Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction to the mind or to the eyes, arising from sensory manifestations such as a shape, color, personality, sound, design or rhythm.[1] Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. Beauty, as a cultural creation, is also extremely commercialized. Beauty is a common form of chemistry, mixing chemicals together to create the perfect element. This contrast when beauty can be inner beauty, when one expresses deep sense of self.
The subjective experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a common phrase attributed to this concept.[2]
In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. An "object of beauty" is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Hence religious and moral teachings often focus on the divinity and virtue of beauty, and to assert natural beauty as an aspect of a spirituality and truth.

Blog Tasks. Describe yourself and write what your definition of beauty is.

TLC - Unpretty

T-boz:
I wish I could tie you up in my shoes
Make you feel unpretty too
I was told I was beautiful
But what does that mean to you
Look into the mirror who’s inside there
The one with the long hair
Same old me again today (yeah)

Chilli:
My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Everytime I think I’m through
It’s because of you
I’ve tried different ways
But it’s all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I’m just trippin’

Chorus:
T-boz & chilli:
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make-up that mac can make
But if you can’t look inside you
Find out who am i, too
Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty

Left eye:
Find the reflection you see to be so damn unpretty

T-boz & chilli:
Never insecure until I met you
Now I’m in stupid
I used to be so cute to me
Just a little bit skinny
Why do I look to all these things
To keep you happy
Maybe get rid of you
And then I’ll get back to me (hey)

Chilli:
My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Everytime I think I’m through
It’s because of you
I’ve tried different ways
But it’s all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I can’t believe I’m trippin’

Chorus:
T-boz & chilli:
You can buy your hair if it won’t grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the make-up that mac can make
But if you can’t look inside you
Find out who am i, too
Be in a position to make me feel so damn unpretty



Unit 2
Technology
What's your favorite gadget?
Reading: Changing Communication
Video: Gadget from Creative, Me, myself and my gadgets (part 2 of 3)
Debate

Assessment
Oral Evaluation 30%
Oral presentation

Unit 3
Movies

What are your ten top movies of all time. Watch the video. 100 Best Movies Ever Made


100 Best Movies Ever Made - The top video clips of the week are here

Video: Reign Over Me Review, 300 Hundred Review, Charlotte's Web, The Number 23 Review
2.Debate: What's the best movie?
3. What's your favorite movie? Make a movie Riddle. Complete the following hand out: Movie Language. You can find information about your favorite movie at IMDB Biggest Movie Data Base

4. Podcast: Movie
5. Dramatization of your favorite movie's scene.

Assessment

Oral presentation 30%

Prepare an oral presentation using the model the teacher gave you. You can find the model in our community


Unit 4
Podcasting
What's podcasting about?
Listening to a podcasting. Leaving a comment.

2nd Evaluation
Oral presentation 30%

Unit 5