TASK 1: Blog vocabulary
In this first task we prepared a list of the vocabuary used when creating and using a blog. We used the program called "Quizlet"which allowed us to learn the new words in an easy and fast way. The good thing about this program is that it shows you how to pronounce the words you are looking for too, which we found very useful.
TASK 2: Definition of culture
In this second task we had to choose one of the definitions we were given and develop it. We choose one from Irene de la Fuente which talked about the need of being open minded so as to understand people around the world and its different cultures as we thought it was the one that best matched with out way of thinking. This post also helped us realize about the importance of cultures in the world.
TASK 3: "Dancing with the Devil"
Before Halloween Estrella and I created a "Movie Maker" telling the horror story called "Dancing with the Devil". We found the story interesting as we had never heard of it before and we also had a really good time recording it and looking for the images which would look better in the video.
In this third task we made another "Quizlet" with the vocabulary used in the story and we showed it to the rest of our classmates as some of the words used were new to us.
TASK 4: Metaphors
In task 4 we were given some methaphors used when describing what culture is and using them as examples we later created our own ones. In the first one we compared culture with a pomegranate to explain beliefs and their importance in a culture and in the second one we compared it with an appartment as we think culture is like a second home. We enjoyed this activity as it allowed us to be original and creative.
TASK 5: Connecting cultures
Here Estrella and I created a poster with the message "we are all the same". What we tried to express is that it does not matter where people are from, which is their religion, skin tone or which culture do they follow as we are all human, what makes all of us important regardless of this facts. We used a program called "Piktochart" to do it and we used different colors and pictures and mixed them to put more importance in our point of view, which was that we all are one.
TASK 6: Our favourite Christmas song
For our Christmas task we choose which would be our favourite song of the holiday, called "Last Christmas" by Cascada and we uploaded it to the blog. We enojoyed this task as it was really entertaining and also because we created a "Wordle", that consists in puting words of different sizes and colors on a black background so that the important words from the lyrics of the song can be easily seen. This let us get to know the lyrics in a better way and we had some fun while doing it.
TASK 7: The 13 British Colonies
In task 7 we created a "Movie Maker" explaining the history of the 13 British Colonies with our own words. We enjoyed it a lot as it allowed us to understand its historical contents a lot better and it was an innovative way to learn new things without having to memorize them. Then, we showed the video to our classmates and they showed us theirs so we ended up having lots of new knowledge.
TASK 8: "The Lord of the Rings"
This was our last task and probably our favourite one as we found it really enjoyable and we laughed a lot while doing it. What we did was create a "Movie Maker" with a scene of the movie "The Lord of the Rings" but we changed the voices of the characters and we recorded our own dialogue. With this activity we improved our pronunciation and fluency speaking english while having a good time and it also let us improve our skills with the program used, which was great too.
