ESL, You and Computers

Send me your ideas about our class. Listen to seven questions, and then tell me what you think.

Listen and write twelve sentences about a software engineer at work. Then watch the interview on our podcast page with a software engneer. Decide if these twelve sentences are true or false while you listen to him talk about his job. Email me your true/false sentences. What about you? Would you enjoy a job like this?

This podcast dictation tells you something about the job we call "computer programmer." Write about this job, and email your work to me. When we use our computers, we can say thank you to a computer programmer. They are the people who tell our computers what to do.

Listen carefully to the verb. Do you hear "live" or "lived," "work"or "worked"?It can be so tricky to hear the past time "ed" sound in English! We will learn about Power Point in the next part of our class. You will describe your past and your present, so this listening lesson should help you be ready to talk about yourself with Power Point.

Get ready to learn about your Alemany classmates. We will ask them questions to find out what Alemany students do and what Alemany students like. This podcast will give you practice with some questions about habits and opinions. In our class, we will use questions to study about spreadsheets, graphs and charts.

Listen and find out how Roberta spends her money. Write down how much she spends on the paper you can download from our class webpage. Check your numbers with your classmates. Then, work together and make a spreadsheet for her budget. Make a pie chart, too!

It's time to do more with spreadsheets this week. While we learn to do some more things with spreadsheets, this podcast will also help you understand infinitive verbs and how they work in English.

This week we will begin to learn about spreadsheets. First we will learn some vocabulary and then we will learn how we can use basic spreadsheets. I think you will enjoy using them. They can be very helpful. While you listen to this computer vocabulary, you will also practice using gerunds, an important part of Engish grammar.

Some of you are just beginning to use email. Some of you use email very often. In today's world, email can be a great way to communicate. We'll use this podcast to learn more about email.

How long have you used a computer? How long did you work on a computer last week? This lesson will help you hear and understand more about present perfect and past time verbs. We use both in English to explain about time.

Practice some English to help you give complaints politely and clearly. Listen and write fifteen complaints. You can stop, rewind or replay while you listen.

Listen and write fifteen compliments. Once again, you can stop, rewind or replay while you listen. I'm sure you will do an excellent job.

Take a break from working on your computer skills and watch this video. What happens to the young woman when she is making breakfast? What would you do with a golden egg? What brings riches to your life?

You can talk with your classmates about the movie, and please send me an email. What is "golden" in your life? What would you do with a golden egg?

Get ready to write on a piece of paper, or in another window on your computer. Remember you can pause the lesson. You can replay as many times as you like, too.