UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT AMERICAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
Instructor: Johana Andrea Melo
E-mail: andreamelo18@gmail.com
Class time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Room: 302 Graduate Building
Office hours: Tuesdays-Thursday 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Room 317
Course Description:
Join this class to develop your linguistic and communicative abilities in English while interpreting, analyzing and discussing current events in the United States and in the world. This course is an opportunity to work on different skills by:
Reading: regularly from local newspapers and internet news-sites
Speaking: students will present short weekly oral reports on news from a country or region (not your own), using English language news sources and internet
Listening: once a week we will discuss CNN Newsroom, a broadcast for International News.
Writing: Students use internet as a research tool but also as a means to write their comments and opinions on specific topics
Research: Students will choose a country or region of their preference and will present a brief weekly report of top events in this country. There will also be special research projects for presentation
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Comments (6)
HYUNSEONKIM said
at 4:07 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I always enjoy in this class. I usually don't read an article except Korean one, so I don't know well about the event of around the world. I got to know a lot of issues and have a chance to think about it. I was really interested in Al Gore's movie 'inconvenient truth' and Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine.' Global warming and gun incidents were not interesting topic for me in the past because I couldn't feel it is serious. However, I could figure out there are many serious problems not only in America but also around the world. After we watch a movie, we usually talk about it and share our ideas. I really like that moment. Also, we can see other people's ideas and opinion on Pbwiki. This is a kind of special for me. New style of class and teacher who always encourages students make me take part in the class eagerly~~!!
Nikita said
at 5:47 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I like this class a lot. I'm always have a good speaking practice during this class. We are always have a good interesting topics, not boring. We discussing events all around the world, relevent problems of modern society. The environment at this class always friendly. Obviously other people like this class, even it is after lunch time, we have a high activity!! Johana is very creative and interesting person, she always know how to get our attention.
sanghyup said
at 6:07 pm on Nov 29, 2007
This class was very helpful for me to have chance to listen and read about various and important topics. Also, I could know other students' ideas. It was also really good that we had opportunities to talk about waht we understood and to discuss a topic related to one that we watched after watching some movies, documentaries, news and stories. Johana has made efforts a lot to make our class more effective and intersting;therefore, we all could enjoy this class a lot. Johana always prepared many materials like questions, websites and handouts for us. I appreciate Johana and want to thank to students who participated with enthusiasm. One thing is a little sorry, we don't have enough time to deal with them more.
woosug said
at 7:40 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I like this class very much. I learned many important thing in the class. I didn't know about 'how many interesting things in the media' before took this class. Also, my teacher, Johana is very kind and passionate. Everyday she bring some interesting and important topic. We always discuss about topic and we learned other people's idea. Thereby, I could improving my english skill. I'm very thanksful to Johana. Thank you!!
Moon Sook Lee said
at 10:30 pm on Nov 29, 2007
Shortly, this class is fantastic. Johana is an enthusiastic teacher to prepare for the class perfectly.
Every time she brings precious materials for class, and
she often tries new things to attract students' attention. She used movies, news, documentaries and used website to practice vocabulary which was really interesting and effective. The materials she used were representing current American issues and were helpful for me to understand America better. They were really informative. She also combined many skills to develop speaking, listening, and writing. We had chances to make a short casual presentation many times,to listen to all kinds of media,to write a short review about movies,and
to decorate our own website in English. Johana tried to give students everything in one class. To make it better, she sometimes fills classroom with sound music which makes me comfortable. I really appreciate her efforts and new
ideas. However, she proceeded the class a little bit fast
and we didn't have enough time to savor the valuable
materials. Except that, every thing is perfect.
fatih said
at 4:01 am on Nov 30, 2007
I like this class very much. We always have a lot of different activities in this class. All the topics are very interesting. I dont understand how she can find that interesting topic in every class. There is no way that you dont want to join class. The teacher makes everybody talk during the class. She uses a lot of materials like tv, dvd player... so we never get bored in the class.
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Comments (6)
HYUNSEONKIM said
at 4:07 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I always enjoy in this class. I usually don't read an article except Korean one, so I don't know well about the event of around the world. I got to know a lot of issues and have a chance to think about it. I was really interested in Al Gore's movie 'inconvenient truth' and Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine.' Global warming and gun incidents were not interesting topic for me in the past because I couldn't feel it is serious. However, I could figure out there are many serious problems not only in America but also around the world. After we watch a movie, we usually talk about it and share our ideas. I really like that moment. Also, we can see other people's ideas and opinion on Pbwiki. This is a kind of special for me. New style of class and teacher who always encourages students make me take part in the class eagerly~~!!
Nikita said
at 5:47 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I like this class a lot. I'm always have a good speaking practice during this class. We are always have a good interesting topics, not boring. We discussing events all around the world, relevent problems of modern society. The environment at this class always friendly. Obviously other people like this class, even it is after lunch time, we have a high activity!! Johana is very creative and interesting person, she always know how to get our attention.
sanghyup said
at 6:07 pm on Nov 29, 2007
This class was very helpful for me to have chance to listen and read about various and important topics. Also, I could know other students' ideas. It was also really good that we had opportunities to talk about waht we understood and to discuss a topic related to one that we watched after watching some movies, documentaries, news and stories. Johana has made efforts a lot to make our class more effective and intersting;therefore, we all could enjoy this class a lot. Johana always prepared many materials like questions, websites and handouts for us. I appreciate Johana and want to thank to students who participated with enthusiasm. One thing is a little sorry, we don't have enough time to deal with them more.
woosug said
at 7:40 pm on Nov 29, 2007
I like this class very much. I learned many important thing in the class. I didn't know about 'how many interesting things in the media' before took this class. Also, my teacher, Johana is very kind and passionate. Everyday she bring some interesting and important topic. We always discuss about topic and we learned other people's idea. Thereby, I could improving my english skill. I'm very thanksful to Johana. Thank you!!
Moon Sook Lee said
at 10:30 pm on Nov 29, 2007
Shortly, this class is fantastic. Johana is an enthusiastic teacher to prepare for the class perfectly.
Every time she brings precious materials for class, and
she often tries new things to attract students' attention. She used movies, news, documentaries and used website to practice vocabulary which was really interesting and effective. The materials she used were representing current American issues and were helpful for me to understand America better. They were really informative. She also combined many skills to develop speaking, listening, and writing. We had chances to make a short casual presentation many times,to listen to all kinds of media,to write a short review about movies,and
to decorate our own website in English. Johana tried to give students everything in one class. To make it better, she sometimes fills classroom with sound music which makes me comfortable. I really appreciate her efforts and new
ideas. However, she proceeded the class a little bit fast
and we didn't have enough time to savor the valuable
materials. Except that, every thing is perfect.
fatih said
at 4:01 am on Nov 30, 2007
I like this class very much. We always have a lot of different activities in this class. All the topics are very interesting. I dont understand how she can find that interesting topic in every class. There is no way that you dont want to join class. The teacher makes everybody talk during the class. She uses a lot of materials like tv, dvd player... so we never get bored in the class.
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