1. Convert the following acronyms:
i. CLT: Communicative language teaching
ii. ALM: Audio-Lingual Method
iii. LdL: Learning by teaching
iv. TBLL: Task-based language learning
v. TBLT: Task-based language teaching
vi. TBI: Task-based instruction
vii. ELT: English Language Teaching
viii. EFL: English as a Foreign Language
ix. ESL: English as a second language
x. TGIF: Thank God It’s Friday.

2. What is the purpose and the function of CLT?

The Communicative Language Teaching has the porpouse to emphazises the interaction between a second and a foreing language as a way of teaching.

3. How does the ALM work?

It's based on the behaviorism, an said that certain traits of humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement, that means that correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback and incorrect use of that trait would receive negative feedback.

4. What is the Notional Functional Syllabus?

5. Would you like to learn English by using the LdL method? Why/Why not? -3 reasons

6. What are the 5 features of CLT?

7. Name 3 differences between CLT and the ALM.

8. What are some of Noam Chomsky's theories about language learning?

Sections: Contributions to Linguistics, Generative Grammar & Chomsky Heirarchy

9. What is Dogme 95 movement?

10. What are the 10 key principles of Dogme Language Teaching?

11. How is Dogme Language Teaching different from TBL?

12. Why do you think (3 reasons) we are beginning to use CLT and TBL in Chile?

1. What is a Podcast?

The term Podcast comes from the words I-pod and broadcast. Is a series of digital media files, we use them to listen or download some files archives to learn something interesting about differents topics. The person who invented and trademarked the Podcasts is an ex MTV employee Adam Curry, but it is not exactly clear as to who came up with idea originally.

2. How do podcasts work? advantages/disadvantages.

How do you create them? detailed step by step explanation.

3. Possible uses in ELT (EFL classroom).

a. speaking-4 examples (advantages/disadvantages)

b. listening-4 examples (advantages/disadvantages)

c. reading-4 examples (advantages/disadvantages)

d. writing-4 examples (advantages/disadvantages)

4. What is the difference between TESL and TEFL?

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1. Define the the following words/terms:
a. food: is composed for carbohydrates, water and nutrients usually eaten (by people or animals of any kind) for nutricion or just plesure.
b. nutrition: is the way you do an optimal diet careing aboput a list of diseases coused by a bad "nutrition".
c. hunting and gathering: the act of get animal meat by killing them.
d. cuisine: is the cooking representation of a country or a culture.
e. gastronomy: is the study and the art of cooking.
f. omnivores: is the class of animals that eat both plants and animals (meat).
g. foodborne illness: is a disease causes by bacteries or bad manipulated food.
h. culinary art: is the art of cooking, very similar to the gastronomy, but more like the cuisine.

2. Translate the following foods into Spanish (en español):
a. bread: pan
b. cheese: queso
c. pickles: pepinillo, encurtidos al vinagre.
d. mushrooms: champiñones, hongos
e. wheat: trigo
f. barley: cebada
g. oats: avena
h. sunflower seed (oil): aceite de girasol
i. canola oil: aceite de canola.
j. eggplants: berengena

3. What is the difference between a herb and a spice?
HERBS are usually used like a salad, SPICES are used to give a certain flavor to the food.

4. What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?
Fruits are usually used to desserts and come from trees, vegateables are used to make salads and they are plants.

5. Name 10 food products that come directly from animals.
1.-Meat
2.-Butter
3.-Milk
4.-Blood sausage
5.-Eggs
6.-Honey
7.-Cheese
8.-Cold meat
9.-Yogurt
10.-Oatmeal

6. Define the word, sashimi.

7. Define the word, restaurant.

8. Define the words:
a. famine
b. starvation
c. butcher
d. salting
e. drying
f. pickling
g. fermentation
h. smoking
i. milling
j. food aid
k. malnutrition
m. scurvy
n. obesity
o. genetically modified foods (organisms) GMOs

9. Define the word, wine.

10. Name 5 fruits which can be made into wine.

11. When (approximately) did the history of wine making begin?

12. What are the origins of the word, wine.

13. List 20 types of grape varieties.

14. Define the following words or terms:
a. vintage
b. wine tasting
c. aging of wine
d. decanting
e. wine bottle
f. wine cellars
g. cork taint
h. box wines

15. Name the top 5 wine producing countries in the world.

16. Beer is the third most popular drink in the world. What drinks are #1 and #2?

17. What is the Code of Hammurabi?

18. Define the following words/terms:
a. stout (Irish & Imperial)
b. Guinness, Murphy's and Beamish
c. pub crawling
d. hops
e. yeast
f. barley
g. alcohol by volume
h. doppelbock
i. draught
j. CAMRA (real ale)
k. beer stein
l. pewtar tankard

19. What is the difference between an ale and a lager?

20. Name the largest brewing company in the world.

21. Briefly discuss the history of wine making in Chile, with an emphasis on the rediscovery of the Carménère grape and its confusion with the Merlot grape. (50-100 words)

Assignment #3

1. Where is the 12-hour clock still used?

The 12-hour clock is still the dominant system in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, United States of America.

2. What does a.m and p.m. mean?

a.m. means ante meridiem (before noon)

p.m. means post meridiem (after noon)

3. Although using the 12-hour clock in speech is very common, using a.m. and p.m. is not common. What time expressions do we use to distinguish between, for example: the difference between 2am and 2pm?

We use a 24-hour clock.

For example: 2 Hours and 14 hours.

4. What are some of the problems with using a 12-hour clock?

People that have always known the 12 hour clock have usually problems to indicate the difference with noon and midnight.

5. What is the confusion about midnight and noon?

Since we use de latin term meridiem to difference noon and midnight isn't logical to use the 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.

6. What does rounding off mean, in informal speech? Give 3 examples.

It' common to round over the five minutes past or five minutes before.

example: 3:05 It's five past three or 3:45 It's a quarter to four

7. Name 5 advantages of the 24-hour clock.

-It is possible to differ between night and day.

-There is no ambiguity between noon or midnight.

-The duration of time intervals is easier to see in the 24-hour notation.

-The 24-hour notation does not require the suffix "a.m." or "p.m.", making it shorter.
-It has a chronological order.

8. Name 5 advantages of the 12-hour clock.
-The analog clock faces are divided in 12 hours.
-Restricting the hour numbers to the range from 1 to 12 can accommodate a preference for monosyllabic words.
-The use of 12 rather than 0 for the first hour of each period avoids using a leading zero.
-Clocks with a chime universally chime between hours 1 to 12.
-Sunrice and sunset are, roughly, centered around 6:00 in their respective halves of the day.

9. Describe the time and date notation for the following countries:
a. Australia: 12 hours o'clock
b. Canada: 12 hours o'clock
c. Ireland: 24 hours o'clock
d. South Africa: 24 hours o'clocks
e. United Kingdom: 24 hours o'clocks
f. United States: 12 hours o'cloks.

10. What is ISO 8601?
Defines unambiguous written all-numeric bigendian formats for dates.
Used to separate 1999-12-31 for December 31, 1999 and between hours, minutes and seconds.

assigment #2 Mauricio Bucarey

1.- 68 countres

2.- 23 countres

3.-a. Pitcairn Islands: Oceania, in pacific ocean.
b. Saint Helena/Tristan da Cunha: Africa at south atlantic ocean.
c. Seychelles: Africa, at an archipielago nation in the indian ocean.
d. Malta: Europe, in southern european areas of the mediterranean sea.
e. Turk and Caicos Islands: America at west indies.

4.- Lingua Franca is used when speakers of different languages comunicates each other.

5.- d. a West Germanic language developed in Anglo-Saxon England.

6.- b. Old, Middle, Modern

7.- a. Angles, Saxons and the Jutes

8.- The united states was growing economic and cultural influence status, but at the end of the world war II when takes a status of a global superpower accelerate the process of adoption of the language around the world.

9.- They are: Dutch, Afrikaans, German, the Frisian languages, and Yiddish.

10.They are: Danish, Swedish and Norwegian