Margarita Jara

Margarita Jara

I want to improve my English knowledge, learn more about it, and to be in contact with any of you.

If you want to know about Peru, I will be delighted to share what you want to know about my country.

Location Lima, Perú

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Activity

  • My country of over a million square kilometers and more than 32 million inhabitants, we are a diverse country with a large dessert which is our coast, our mountains, and a jungle as well different in our income low, medium, and large, our children also receive a good, medium and bad education. For example, the internet connection is not similar in our whole...

  • Congratulations Santhana, your explanation about what should be done at the different levels is very well presented.

  • Hany has clearly explained the different levels on which children grow up. Regarding the Peruvian reality, it is due to our lack of education of a great quantity of our population, the children distress starts at home. Our homes are small so there is no privacy and children in some cases are exposed to the mistreating of their parents either for not...

  • With respect to some measures issued by the Peruvian government due to IDO’s presence, it is that in the far areas the communities do not have access to potable water, in some cases people must get it from wells, in others they must buy it so its consumption is expensive, and they cannot get wash their hands constantly. In reference to the containment, I...

  • Due to that our population of over 50 years has received the vaccine our Peruvian government has diminished the restrictions in many of the private and public commercial centers as well as the curfew has been reduced. All these measures made me think we are in the transition and recovery stage but just for adults due to that schools maintained closed. I...

  • Talking about my reality I would say that COVID 19 surprised our health system which was not well equipped to face the great number of cases mainly due to some rules issued by our government. Many people lost their job due that some companies closed, and these people to survive went to the streets as streetsellers without following the rules like social...

  • You are right Claire, I remember to have slept under a mosquito net when I visited the jungle of my country and also they suggested we wear long sleeve shirts during the day, besides the repellent to avoid being bitten, and also when walking on a tour we had to take our boots.

  • The information provided is useful to know how to prevent them. It is also important to know which diseases are transmitted person-person like COVID and those transmitted by a vector that lives mainly in warm climates. Besides, I have learned also the importance of being vaccinated against some of these diseases

  • Thank you for all the information you are providing to us, which means alert our children not to be in contact with people who are infected or stay in a place when they were there like measles or be vaccinated to avoid getting malaria or cholera due that either mosquito may bite them or take water that is contaminated. Thanks a lot for this alert.

  • Thank you Achieng and Claire for letting us know the preview of this topic.

  • Hello Thandazile, really I cannot imagine the nerves you would have experienced when seeing this infection spread fast while being far away from your country. Did you get COVID-19?

  • Good morning everyone. It's always a pleasure to have experienced people who will lead this topic so present in today's world as Futurelearn use to provide us like Achieng and Claire.
    Well, my interest in taking this course is due that I am going to participate in a TESOL convention and it is a requisite to present a project, so I chose this topic that for...

  • I am sure this course will help me to prepare a project related to this topic. Thanks in advance.

  • MY dearests Lyndsay and Marie Therese, thank you so much for all the effort and heart that you put on this online lessons, which at least for me have been excellent and great to develop ideas on how I could start producing online lessons. First, I have to prepare myself since as I'm not a native speaker I have some difficulties on everything, starting my...

  • After reading this lesson and following your suggestion I opened my twitter account, which I am not used to open it, I found the app. Busy teacher and I expect to follow it since it is one of the ways to connect with others and improve our way of teaching. I also opened IELTS and I foud there different materials and ideas to highlight and enrich our vocabulary.

  • When planning an online lesson I shouldn't write only the lessons I plan to share with my students but also the results I expect my students get after a given lesson I teach, so If I see that my students are not increasing their English abilities I must reflect and try to find the reasons for which I am not getting the objectives I expect from my students...

  • The ideas our teachers, Lindsay, Marie Therese and Mary, to improve our English online classes are very useful, although, at present I am not teaching, reflecting on my classes it is a valuable way to improve my way of teaching, analysing it to correct what is not given in a good way. One of the ways to better my professional career is to take the English...

  • In general and in my humble opinion I dare to answer your questions: 1. Forvo helps learners to produce words (not only in English but from different languages) 2. Sounds the pronunciation app, helps learners to produce sounds 3. English Central focuses on intonation and sentence stress and for self study 4. BBC learning English provide a reference for...

  • I consider that all the apps could help me and the prospective students to better our pronunciation since they help us to get a better way to speak correctly. Although, particularly I prefer English Central due that it contains videos connected with exercises.

  • What Professor Adrian says is true, first, I think that we as teachers have to improve our pronunciation, trying to follow the phonetic sounds as he says closing our lips when we have to pronounce the "m" and when pronouncing the "b" it is like an explosion of our lips to make this sound like in branch and so on. So, then what we as teachers have to do it is...

  • When facing the speaking skill practice is very important, so as much time our students dedicate to this area it will end in a benefit for them, as the teacher says we can suggest them to continue the practice with YouTube videos so they can listen different accents, intonation and adopt their own way of speaking. I like the way Ana asks her students to...

  • After reading the comments of my colleagues I should recognise that as a teacher I have to improve not only my pronunciation but also the intonation since I have to be a model for them.
    For Spanish students, the problems we usually face are a strong pronunciation of the "r", the "th" and mainly the vowels especially the schwa, among others. Finally what I...

  • Thank you for sharing these applications which make our class more entertained, although I have never used with my students but I have used Kahoot as a student in a workshop.
    Regarding Quizlet I have never used it however as some of the members say it might be useful to learn new vocabulary and also to evaluate our learning.
    Additionally, some of the...

  • Thank you so much for the different alternatives to induce the English learning in our students.
    I have never created a video nor a screencast, although to be sincere what I would like to try it is to know how to create a screencast. I like it the most.

  • As I am not working at present and after reading the different comments of my colleagues, I agree that it is very important to make a plan before presenting a lesson to our students and if we have to use a whiteboard, it might be useful to be organised, setting in advance where to put the new vocabulary with its phonetic symbols, in this way we are helping our...

  • After reading the other participant's comments, I would definitely choose Educreations application since image and movements of a video create a great impact on our students; additionally, videos are rapidly cached by our learners.

  • I agree with you, Storybird incentives the imagination of the students.

  • With the aim our students learn English we have to set into a context the new lesson with the help of images, videos, short sentences or even asking them to create a dialogue using comics, in that way it will be easy for them to learn the new vocabulary and reinforce the tenses in a practical way.

  • Hi Anca, I remember to have used an application to short a video so I could share with my students only the most important.

  • What I mostly use to set context are pictures and videos, and also what the learners request, for example, role plays for certain situations. For example, for basic learners, I also use realia and films about comics.

  • Thanks a lot for sharing those links, some of them are familiar to me although not all of them. What I would like to know if in any of those webs include the speaking part, I mean, find someone to talk with.

  • Thank you Fulvia, I enjoyed repeating the tongue twisters.

  • I am really excited about what I will have during this week, especially about professional development. Let me share with you that I could enter to Zoom thanks to a mission group which let a group discuss the Bible. It was nice how we could interchange ideas during an hour since apparently, that is the time Zoom provides its link in a freeway.
    Thanks a lot...

  • What I foresee it is that in part three, our teachers are going to internalise the application of teaching methodology through technology.

  • Thanks, Lindsay and Marie Therese, both are awesome teachers, I liked that speaking activity, giving the students some keywords and ask them to relate a story. Blessings to both of you.

  • First, thank you so much for all your lessons and the links you shared with us for all the English skills.
    Regarding your question, I would appreciate very much if you could give us some tips to grasp easily the content of a version when reading, and please give us more tips when dealing with error correction. Blessings.

  • As my economy is very limited what I would choose those applications where my students can use without paying and at the same time expand their creativity and those are: Storybird and Write & Improve.

  • In my humble opinion, the word processing document let the student to grasp in a better way the teacher's feedback due that it has the tools to highlight the student's mistakes as well receive in an in-depth way the teacher's suggestions to improve the written task.

  • Through an online lesson what I would do it is first to congratulate the student for the effort he put on doing it and later make the necessary corrections, especially for those mistakes that he makes in a repeated way.
    Although, in order to capture his interest in writing, first, ask him to write on a topic that fascinates him.
    In resume try to make the...

  • I consider that in an online writing lesson, I have to be very careful in giving my student writing models starting with easy genres like tweeters, emails, informal letters, giving them models and asking them to analyse them.
    I would also emphasize that all the ideas written on it, they have to focus on the main idea.
    Writing skill is not easy, for this...

  • I watched all the applications suggested, but I have seen that they are free just for a short time. The only one that I consider it is free is Padlet. I used it in another course and when I entered I could see the files I submitted around a year ago. Thanks anyway.

  • The three of them, Julia, Joanna and Carolina made a good report about their childhood, so I would congratulate them. Now, I want to express my viewpoints to each of them.
    Julia commented to us about her childhood in a very short time so her fluency in speaking was good although she made only one grammar mistake.
    Joanna spoke more and for that reason, she...

  • One of the common activities to stimulate the speaking skill is through showing them pictures so they can describe the scene. Another technique could be through the representation of a scene, for example, let them imagine they are at a restaurant or at a party, what kind of vocabulary they should use according to the situation. Or let them imagine they are...

  • As the teachers comment, we need to have a plan on how to develop the speaking skill, preparing a plan based on the necessities of our student.
    For example if our student plans to make a trip, we need to prepare him on the different scenarios he is supposed to stay and practise role plays on different locations like at the airport, at a restaurant, at a bank,...

  • After watching all the ten webs to improve listening skills, which I consider very valuable since the majority of them were new for me, I looked for on the Internet for webs that I could share with you, for example, one that I found some time ago and I liked it a lot which contains beautiful stories for children is...

  • I am sorry for not continuing my lessons since I was involved in other tasks and now, reviewing this lesson on listening, I have to confess that it is one of my lack of receptive skills, so after reading an article about it I would say that there are different ways to improve it, for example, telling our students the topic about what they are going to listen...

  • Thank you, Julian, for sharing CBeebies, it is the first time I see it. Blessings.

  • Hi Jonathan, thank you for sharing that video, it made me laugh.

  • One activity which is commonly used to focus attention and understanding of the kids it is to read a short story where they have to draw some of the vocabularies. It does not matter if the drawing is perfect. What matters is if it represents what the child listens.

  • I appraise the use of a recorded material in a lesson in the way David uses it since it is a key factor for the learners to listen to authentic pronunciation, especially when we are not native speakers of the English language.

  • Thank you Adrienn for sharing these links, I have just watched a video with the Monkey song. I liked it and for sure the children will love it. Thanks.

  • Thank you Myriam for sharing these webs.

  • Listening is one of the skills that help learners for concentration. One activity would be that parallel to listen to an authentic text, give also some questions about it, so at the same time they are listening to the text, they are also trying to answer the proposed questions.
    Another activity could be to find three or five lies that we on purpose change...

  • All of these tools seem useful, but I think Scrible is a good tool to highlight the most important part of a text.

  • After opening all the suggested webs, the one I liked the most it was <News in English>, then Cambridge Assessment English (although I found quite difficult to open it).
    The webs I recommend my colleagues to use are [but you have to prepare -your lesson (for adults, intermediate/advanced...

  • The pieces of advice from Hellen are quite useful, especially to be sure that the learner is following the reading of the lesson. I consider that chunking the article into paragraphs is a good idea. Finally, what Hellen did not mention and I reckon is very useful it is to put the article on Google Drive, in this way both, Teacher and learner have the material...

  • Ingrid, this is what I found out about Edmodo: As the largest learning network for K-12 users, Edmodo empowers you to build relationships with your students in an environment they know and love. Edmodo is free for teachers and students. ... Available online and for Android, iOS, and Windows, Learn why educators trust Edmodo: Easy. Aug 2, 2018

  • As the educators express, the structure of f2f reading is almost the same as on online. The difference would depend on two factors: the age of the learner and/or the type of text. What we as teachers have to do is to look for a reading that might be according to their interests so they feel comfortable and motivated with the reading but with the purpose of...

  • Speaking is the skill I consider more exacting in case I don't count with a convenient platform like Zoom, since Skype that I have used years ago when studying, I think it does not have a recording so the learner can reward it, but think I can write in the chat box some feedback. The ideal, I think it is to have a good platform.

  • Thanks in advance for letting us know the outline of Week 2. I am anxious to know the resources about speaking as I commented before I am not an English native speaker so I am interested in providing the learners with a good pronunciation.

  • The message of our educators it is that we do all the planning of the lesson at home and when we are in touch with our learners we focus on the topic, combining with the practice of the four skills. giving them a lot of pieces of advice on how to get most of their online lessons.

  • Thank you, Lindsay and Marie Therese, both really a great demonstration about how to make an online class with Zoom. Especially, Marie Therese is a good actress, congratulations. Thanks again for this representation of an online class.

  • Thanks again to our Educators, but are you going to give us some links about phonetics? I am not a native English speaker and sometimes I think I am not speaking properly. Thanks.

  • Janet, after reading the comments of our Educator Lindsay, this is another application which can help you to create a web.
    https://education.weebly.com/?session-expired=1&redirect=%2Fhome%2F#login

  • Hi Janet, I consider tutorials a good option to know and discover new things. So, I share with you this web from YouTube which I suppose can help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JluqTojuME.

  • Dear Ticiana, I suppose asking them sign the policy before starting the agreement.

  • Thank you so much for all the tips you, as professors are sharing with all of us. I have to express my special thanks to Cecilia Nobre for your articles and in connection with the breakout room, just in case any of us want to work with a group, can you tell us if this feature is included in the free start usage. For example, I have been surfing on the...

  • Dearest Paula, I am sure you will overcome your fears. Be confident in yourself.

  • First, thanks to all the teachers providing tips when we opt to teach online. The biggest defiance would be how to fill all the lesson with activities and maintain the calm when difficulties arise. Before teaching online I would have to practice with the platforms with friends until I feel confident, then I would follow the suggestions for publicity as...

  • Dearest Natalia, I only want to refer to what it was mentioned in the comments above, when one student wants to participate a lot in a group session they suggest that at the end of the class we talk with the student, first praising him for his desire in participating, but at the same time tell him that the teacher expects that all the students participate in...

  • One issue that comes to my mind is in case the participant ask me a query that I cannot answer at that moment, so I would tell him that I will answer next class after I found out a little more about the subject.

  • The other problem would be when not all the students have in their PC's the same speed, and this would be a technical problem. Another difficult situation might be when one of the participants wants to participate in answering all the questions without letting the others engage in the group. For this last point, as Helen says it is very important to set the...

  • Dear Andrejus, what I liked most of your comments is the last part, helping each other to get their goals.

  • After reading your ideas I coincide on that the questions depend on the age of the learner. I was thinking of adult students and the questions I thought were if they were planning to make a trip outside where he/she has to communicate in English or if he/she needed it for graduation purposes or just show an interest in learning English.
    But after reading...

  • Dear Grace thanks for sharing en.linoit.com but when I tried to open it, it appears that it is not a secure page and I couldn't open. Thanks anyway.

  • As we have to classify in which level our student is, we need to prepare questions to know it, I suggest to include also, in addition to his/her personal data the kind of music he/she likes so that in the first online lesson we have, we include it as a background. Another idea that I liked from one of the teachers is trying to show a big smile and compliment...

  • After scanning the GPDR for working with learners from Europe and probably these regulations are in force all over the world, I consider this is an important matter that we have to take into consideration to avoid any problems. So it is necessary for us to pay attention to this notice, especially if we are not working through a company. Additionally, we need...

  • Yes, as Professor Marie Therese says, coursebooks are a good tool to create our lesson plan as in the example shown, there is a role play where both students act the two parts, first as a son and then as a father.

  • It was nice to remember how to post using Padlet and also when I worked with Google Drive in the past.

  • In order to create a study group, we need to know if the people who form a group are in the same time zone. For example, I see that some of the colleagues are from Russia and for example me, I live in Perú. At this time, it is Thursday, August 16, 16:28, but in Russia, they are on Friday, August 17, 00:28, so it will be difficult to get in touch with them...

  • Cecilia has explained the different tools we can access when using Zoom.us.
    This application is very versatile since our students have access to videos, podcasts and participate due that we can chat. Also, if there is anything in the lesson to be highlighted we can do it. As the interactive has different tools, we can draw, write or show a text for...

  • I don't have any experience working with the interactive whiteboard, although I think it might be a great tool since we can project videos and make our class more interesting and the students can answer questions at their end. All my previous comments are what I suppose they do.
    Another tool that I liked, it was the possibility when working with groups that...

  • Dear Andrea, Skype has different options that you can see at the bottom of the page, like: send an image, a document, or a video.

  • Thank you, professors, for sharing the materials to start teaching online in a ludic way.

  • Great Daniel.

  • I feel identified with the Jade and Marek comments. I enjoy experimenting with new possibilities in teaching and also reduce the time in transportation.

  • Hi Katerina, that point about time zone is important, so I agree with you that I would like to work with students who are in a country with a similar time to mine.

  • @ElenaBondarenko - Hi Elena, I don't have any experience working online but please avoid that idea that it would be difficult. For example, through Skype I contact more than one friend at the same time. So I suppose in the same way you can work with a small group.

  • The experiences of these four teachers teaching online are very useful to us due that probably in the near future we can also adopt one of their ways of teaching English online. In case I would have to teach, I would prefer to teach adult students and I wouldn't care if he/she is in my country or any part of the world.

  • Hello María, I agree with you, Neuroscience from my point of view is an important topic that helps teachers to teach students better.

  • Hi Alessandra, I have never thought to teach online but for me, this new alternative to teaching sounds great due that transportation takes time and working from home for me would be perfect.

  • Hi Ekaterina, in the past I was a voluntary teacher, although I have never taught online, rather, I had online contacts with my students when I gave them some homework and they sent to a facebook I created for that classroom due that they only had two hours per week and returned to them the exercises with the corresponding corrections, feedback, and grades.

  • Hello to each of you. As I mentioned before I am a freelance teacher. I have just recently attended the TESOL Convention made in the North East part of my country, Iquitos, located in the jungle. This is my sixth year attending this convention, and the project I submitted was on teaching English through short films and specifically protecting our...

  • Hello everyone, from Peru. At present, I am a freelance teacher. My interest in joining this course is because I would like to get more students but without moving from my house and also because I would like to know what tools are necessary to transfer these dreams into a reality. Love and blessings to all of you.

  • I am Peruvian. I am a freelance teacher. At present, this course has helped me to prepared my project to participate in the 2018 TESOL Convention in Iquitos, Perú (a city located in the jungle of my country, where the widest river in the world is, The Amazonas River). My project is about the environment, so I chose the film "My home is green" which probably...

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    Well, as I did not enter this course for a long time. I am taking this course for a second time to see if, in this third week anybody can review my project so I can get my certificate, due that I paid for an upgrade course to get the corresponding certificate, but as nobody reviewed my work, I could not pass from 3.14 or 3.15 task. I hope that now, repeating...

  • Thank you, dear teachers, but up to now, my work has not received any reviews, even though I have marked as a complete lesson since I have reviewed around five works. I think that as the course finished months ago, there is nobody to review my work or are you going to review it. Thanks in advance. Thank you very much for the lessons, the additional...

  • The Effective Learning is an unvaluable reading for all of us.
    And, regarding your question, I would say that writing main concepts is my type of learning. An the type of teaching I used to have it was preparing presentations in ppt and giving exercises to students to reinforce what I transmitted in class.

  • What I understood from construction and co-construction it is that construction is the learning of a theme and co-construction is the application of that learning and the reflection a student does after a certain concept and also putting the new lesson in practice.

  • Apparently, the majority of us chose "easy", especially when are teaching the basic and intermediate class.