My Personal Plan of Work
Introduction
Learning a language is a process that takes time, effort and dedication. It is very important to know that learning is an individual process. Therefore, it is necessary you develop your own methodology or Personal Plan of Work in English based on your needs, your interests and the way you learn.
Objective: to reflect on my own learning process so I can develop strategies to become a lifelong learner.
August 18-23th
Task 1: The first step to start your Personal Plan of Work is to write a specific learning objective in English to achieve before September 29th. Before writing, take into account the diagnostic activities to evaluate your abilities in the language and consider your needs, your interest and the result you want at the end of this time.
Example of objectives
Example of objectives
Linguistic and Social Abilities
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Describe
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Narrate
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Explain
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Give an opinion
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I want to be able to describe my family, their physical appearance, their personality, their likes and dislikes in English. At the end, I would like to describe my family orally without using a translator or any other external help.
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My objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite book “Playing the Enemy by John Carlin”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this book.
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I would like to be able to explain in English how a star is born because I love astronomy. I want to create a Prezi presentation in my words and to record my voice speaking about it.
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My objective is to watch the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” in English and to be able to give my opinion on global warming. At the end I am going to present my recommendations to this topic in a short video.
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Write your objectives in comments
August 25th
Task 2: The second step to start your Personal Plan of Work is to design a personal plan to achieve your objective. Remember that it is very important you include in your personal plan different kind of activities (vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, writing and speaking activities), different strategies and different materials.
Check this page to come up with some ideas:
http://english4unal8.blogspot.com.co/p/august-16-2016-in-order-to-prepare-your.html
August 26th - September 23th
Task 3: During this period of time you will be implementing your personal plan of work.
September 29
Task 4: Your last task is to present the product of your work. In this step you need to design an audio, a text, a video, a Power Point presentation or any other product to present your final result and the conclusion of your work. For the conclusion, you can answer these questions:
Did you enjoy the activity? why?
Did you achieve your objective? why? why not?
Did you face any difficulty?
What did you learn from it?
Activity proposed by Alejandra Jiménez
Adapted by Deisa Gómez
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I want to do a report of a book, that is named “The road to reality”; I’m planning to read a book in English 20 minutes every day and then I’m going to try to write ideas about the part that was read, or things that are remembered, at the end of the week I’m going to organize it; I’m going to present the summary in the blog at the end of the activity.
ResponderEliminarGreat objective Andrés! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of the book “The road to reality”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this book.
my objective is to read the book "united as one" in English, then I going to write my opinion about this, describing my favorite parts, and at the end I will realize a conclusion of the book.
ResponderEliminarGreat objective Danny! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of the book “united as one”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this book.
I want to be able to watch "the raven" in English without subtitles. I want to be able to understand completely what the characters say and do not miss any part of the movie.
ResponderEliminarGreat objective Angie! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to watch in English, without subtitles, my favorite movie “The raven”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this movie or I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to record my voice speaking about it (you choose).
My goal is to improve my vocabulary and my listening, so I'm going to take advantage of the link Lyric Training to practice.
ResponderEliminarNice objective Alejo! and you can also add the activities to achieve your objective. So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to understand 2 songs in English and to write a personal opinion of these 2 songs. To do this, I will do the transcriptions of the songs by using Lyrics training.
My objective is to be able to describe the characters and my favorite scenes of one of my favorite TV series. And try to watch the previous chapters in english understanding the dialogues.
ResponderEliminarNice objective Sara! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite tv show “....” (what is your favorite tv show?). I would like to summarize the plot of the story in my own words and to write a short review about this tv show.
I hope to be able for reading my favorite book "Journey to the centre of the Earth" and recording my voice speaking about this science fiction novel.
ResponderEliminarGreat objective Robert! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to read and recount in English the story of my favorite book “Journey to the centre of the Earth by Jules Verne”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to record my voice speaking about it.
I want to be able to understand all the words when I read a book. To achieve my goal I will practice with my monolingual dictionary, this will increase the vocabulary I have right now.
ResponderEliminarGreat objective Esteban! So you could express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite book “ ... ”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this book. Moreover I will do a vocabulary log with the unknown words, I will look up the definition and write an example with each word
I want to be able to listen a song,watch a movie or talk with somebody in English and understand everything and at the end i would like to speak about it or give my opinion in my own words without using a traslator or any other help
ResponderEliminarIt's a very good thing you have some objectives in mind, but it is better if you focus on one at a time. I suggest you to work on an objective like this:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite movie...(include here the title of your movie). I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this movie and record my voice recounting the story.
hello, My objective in this semester is to read a text and understand and improve my pronunciacion.
ResponderEliminarOk Camila, so which text are you going to read? and what are you going to do at the end of this activity?
EliminarI recommend you to define an objective like this one:
My objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite book...(I suggest you to read and listen to one of the audiobooks you can find in the Center of Resources). I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to record my voice speaking about it.
I'll read the book "the golden stone" and every week I will have a summary of two chapters and hope to finish all
EliminarI want to be able to understand conferences that I will watch in the web page called TED and explain in my own words the conference (These conferences is about science).
ResponderEliminarVery good objective Mateo! so define which conference you would like to work with and how you are going to explain it!
EliminarI recommend you to define your objective like this one:
I would like to be able to explain in English the topic of the conference...(include here the name of the conference). At the end, I will record my voice speaking about it (or present it to my classmates).
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Eliminarmy objetive is to be able to read books, texts and news about the civil engineering and understand the different terms about it, also i would like speaking about the topic with other people,may be with partners that studing civil engineering.
ResponderEliminarVery good objective Sebastián! so define which chapter of book or article you would like to work with and how you are going to explain it!
EliminarI recommend you to define your objective like this one:
I want to be able to explain in English the topic about...(include here the name of the topic you read in a chapter of a civil engineering book or an article of a magazine). At the end, I will record my voice speaking about it (or present it to my classmates).
My objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite movie “The Notebook”. I'm going to search the unknown words and its definition in English. At the end I want to write a short review and read for my parents to practice my pronunciation.
ResponderEliminarI need improve my vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, well I'm going to suscribe to link "English Central" to practice everything and I'm going to use the "Cambridge dictionary" and "Macmillan Dictionary"
Excellent objective Vanesa! You understood how to write an objective, congrats ;)
EliminarOf course you can work in English Central but if you focus on your objective that is to watch the movie with or without closed captions, you will be able to improve your vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Now you must define how to work with the movie, which strategies you are going to use to achieve your objective.
My objective is to be able to listen an audiobook and i try to understand without need to read the book and say in my own words about what is the book.
ResponderEliminarOk Esteban, so which text are you going to read? and what are you going to do at the end of this activity?
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of my favorite book ...(include here the name of the audiobook). I would like to summarize the story in my own words, to write a short review about this book and to record my voice speaking about it.
my objective is leave subs when i see a movie or a tv show, these allow me improve listening and speak also i increase my vocabulary.
ResponderEliminarHi Jhonatan! rewrite your objective, it is very general. See your classmates' objectives and my feedback for them.
EliminarMy objective is improve listen and grammar for that i will listen a song and trancribe lyrics, also i will write the meaning of the unknown words.
EliminarMy objective is to trancribe 1 songs lyrics and to learn grammar through the songs. At the end, I am going to design one activity with 1 of the songs and include a grammar topic and present it to my classmates.
EliminarFor this English course I expect to improve my english grammar about the times in the language. For this reason, I choose do my personal plan of work about a history, where I need use the grammar times. But, just tell a history, would be so bored if the history was a simple narration, despite that I like the kid’s history. That’s why I decided tell the history of the universe, in terms that a child can understand. It’s very interesting to me, also a challenge.
ResponderEliminarIt's great to know that you have many interests and ideas to improve your English level but it could be more practical if you focus on one objective at a time.
EliminarI suggest you to start with an objective like this:
I would like to be able to explain in English how the universe was born. To do this I will watch 1 or 2 chapters of the documentary "Cosmos". I will create a (Prezi or any other) presentation in my words and to record my voice speaking about it (or present your explanation to your classmates.
My objective is to be able to understand the movie that i chose in the link learn English with tv shows, the movie's name is The Shawshank Redemption. After that i want to write a summary of the movie with my own worlds.
ResponderEliminarGood objective! you can improve it in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to recount in English the story of the movie “Shawshank Redemption”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words and to write a short review about this movie.
My goal for this month is watch and understand 2 english films (with subtitles to practice reading; then without subtitles to improve my listening). My products will be: a review of each of the films (to practice grammar) and recording of conversations with the boys of Resource Center to practice speaking.
ResponderEliminarGood strategies Dayana!
EliminarI suggest you this:
My objective is to be able to recount in English the story of the movie “include here the name of the movie”. I would like to summarize the story in my own words, to write a short review about this movie and record a conversation I will have with one of the assistants of the Center of Resources.
My objetive is to be able tell a story, this objetive could me to improve my level of English skills, I need generate a good discipline if I want to learn a new language.
ResponderEliminarMy strategy is read a short story in English every day, a story very short, also in this moment I have a beautiful streak with "Duolingo", this aplication in adition to the stories and some movies will form a big tool for learn English.
Great Sergio! so you can do this:
EliminarMy objetive is to be able to recount a story. To do this, I will read a story (I recommend you one of the audio books that you can find in the Center of Resources). At the end, I will recount the story (it can be to your classmates face to face or record your voice).
I want to be able to understand a documentary about the aviation’s history,at the end I would like to share what I learned from the documentary to my classmates in class.
ResponderEliminarMy objectives are to speak in English with my friends and watch my favorite serie (Homeland) in English with subtitles, these objectives could me to improve my vocabulary and fluency.
ResponderEliminarOk John! so express your objective in this way:
EliminarMy objectives is to speak in English fluently. To do this, I will watch my favorite tv show (Homeland) in English with subtitles. At the end, I will record a conversation about one of the chapters of Homeland with one friend who knows English (you can also have the conversation with one of the assistants in a tutoring session)
My objective of this month is to learn how to make difficult handcrafts by listening and reading tutorials on video and text in English.
ResponderEliminarMy objective is to be able to speak face to face in englishalso to understand quickly when someone talk to me and that include to think in engles which i think is the most important part of this.
ResponderEliminarGreat Juan PAblo! your objective could be expressed in this way:
EliminarMy objective is to be able to speak face to face in (e)English also to understand quickly when someone talkS to me and that include to think in English. To do this, I will participate in the conversation club once (twice or three times) a week. At the end, I will record a conversation I will have with one of the assistants in a tutoring session.
My goal is to be able to watch movies without subtitles, I would like to begin to understand very well that I love movies like science fiction more specifically begin with "independence day"
ResponderEliminarOk Diana! I propose you this objective:
EliminarMy goal is to be able to understand movies without subtitles; I will start with "independence day". To do this, I will do transcriptions of my favorite parts of the movie (15 minutes) and at the end I will record one conversation about the movie with one of the assistants in a tutoring session.
my objetive is realize a art object and explain the process and concept of this object an itroduce my expreince in the arts.
ResponderEliminarmy objective is be able express and speak good english for explain my work in the arts.
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