5th task: Describing your city

Go and find three photos of your city and save them in your computer. Go to Picturetrail and open an account. Remember to take note of your user´s name and the password. Once you have the account, upload the images and choose a nice flash presentation. copy the embed code in a new post and then write a bit about your city as the pictures are shown.

Here you will find a tutorial to learn how to use picturetrail. By the way it is in Spanish so that it will be easier for you to follow the instructions

4th task: how to embed a video

Go and find a video of a song you like (youtube.com is perfect for that) and once you have it copy the embed code in your blog (remember to do it in the HTML edition). Look for the lyrics and copy them in the same post and using the following on-line dictionary (which you must include in the side-bar using the list of links widget) you must translate it.
The url for the dictionary is http://www.wordreference.com/es/

3rd task: Let´s link our classmates´ blogs

Following the tutorial, link your classmates´ blogs and also the class blog so that from your own blog you can access and see what the rest of you are doing.

2nd task: physical description

In our first post we are going to learn to upload a photograph and we are going to use it to practise describing it. So, search for a photo of your favourite film star, singer...etc and use it to describe him or her.

But before you start writing, let´s remember how to do it. Revise all the information provided in the following links and do the quizzes to test your knowlege.

Vocabulary - List of English Words for Describing Looks and Appearance, With Example Sentences
http://www.elalmanaque.com/English/vocabulary/describing_people.htm
http://www.writeshop.com/article3.htm
http://www.talkeasy.co.uk/link/materials/esl11.htmlWords For Describing Appearance - Gap Fill Quiz
Describing People - Adjective Synonyms - Matching Quiz
Describing People - Adjective Antonyms - Matching Quiz

First task: Let´s introduce ourselves

I want you to have a look at this powerpoint and learn how to use voki and how to create a talking avatar for your blog.
Once you know how to do it, think about the words you would like your voki to say but it should talk as if you were talking to your blog´s visitors. So, say who you are and say something about what people will find in your blog.
You choose the alternative you like best: you can record your own voice ( in that case remember to have a microphone with you) or you can type the words so that the avatar will read them for you.

Once your avatar has been created, put it at the top of the fixed sidebar of your blog.

Voki

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