MOVING IN

As from December 17th, our office will move next door, where Regencia is at present. The Inbox and Outbox, which have proved to be so successful this year, will remain in their original place.

More Letters Asking for Advice

New rubrics for writing letters asking for advice in this link

Self Study Room closed on Monday 28th.

On Tuesday 29th, it will be open from 9.20 to 12.00 to make up for inconveniences. Thanks.

Consulting Sessions / Self Study Room November-December 2014

November

Monday 18th, 18.00 to 20.00

Tuesday 19th, 9.00 to 14.00

Thursday 21^th, 9.00 to 12.00

December

Monday 2^nd, 9.00 to 13.00

Friday 6^th, 9.00 to 12.00
Monday 9th, 18.00 - 20.00

Tuesday 10^th, 9.00 to 14.00   CANCELLED     

2014 Entrance course. Registration for fourth year students

Please go to the following link and complete the info required. Thanks.

More Text Transformation Exercises

See the instructions in a previous entry.

The abuse of psychiatry
The abuse of psychiatry - key
The face you know best
The face you know best - key
Youth hostels
Youth hostels - key

Self-Study closes in the afternoon. September 23rd.

Sorry for the inconveniences.

Self-Study closed on September 2nd.

Sorry for the inconveniences. You may stop by on Tuesday during the usual hours.

Lexicalization

Lexicalization is the process through which words express different concepts. This process works in a different way in different languages. That is why, many ideas may be present in only one word in a language but not in another. Think about the word "stride" in English: This word contains not only a notion of  walking, but also a notion of the manner in which someones walks (with long steps or strides). If you want to express the same in Spanish,  you will have to resort to some kind of adverbial complement to express manner, because it is absent in the word "caminar" itself and we have no other synonym that includes this  semantic feature.
The following exercise will help you become aware of this situation. English tends to be a synthetic language which lexicalizes many ideas or notions in a single word. Spanish tends to be "wordier" so being concise in English is sometimes hard to accomplish.
There are two sections:

Lexicalization(verbs), exercise
Lexicalization(verbs), key

Language 3. Practice for Essays

Task 1

1. Use some of the information below to write an essay entitled “Unusual Tasks for Robots”. Your essay should have at least four paragraphs.

• analyze soil and fertilize it when necessary
• decide when a plant is ripe for picking
• guide a blind person on the street
• hand things to a person in a wheelchair
• help in dangerous situations
• help on the farm
• help paralyzed people to walk again
• help the handicapped
• help the police defuse terrorist bombs
• inspect the interior of a nuclear reactor
• locate weeds and kill them
• search for survivors inside a burning building.

Task 2

Write two paragraphs for an essay . The beginning and ending are given below.

“While most people agree that a woman has the right to work as a heavy-machine operator and a man to become a midwife, is this supposed open-mindedness being put into practice? There is plenty of evidence to suggest that workers are still being judged by their gender, and not by their skills, and this is a situation which needs to be dealt with.”

“To sum up, gender should not be an issue in any workplace, since a powerfully-built female is just as capable of hard manual labour as a kind and gentle male is of child-care. The only obstacles are those which exist in our own minds; as the American therapist Dr. S.F. Perls once said, “We have to lose our minds to come to our senses.”

Schedule for Exam Term

Monday July 29th, 11.00 to 14.00
Tuesday July 30th, 12.00 to 15.30

YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!!!

The Self Study Room will be closed in the morning on May 27th and on June 3rd. It will open at 1 pm. Sorry for the inconveniences this may bring about.

EXERCISES ON TEXT TRANSFORMATION

Below you will find an activity that is similar to the classical sentence transformation exercises but at a textual level. These exercises will help you to improve your composing skills, to polish your language and to make it more idiomatic. You are supposed to re-write the texts on the left,  following the pattern suggested on the right. If some extra info is needed, you will find it in parentheses.  There are keys available for each text. If you have doubts about your own production and would like to check it or ask further questions, please stop by the Self Study Room in my office hours.

A Message in a Bottle
Supermarkets
Work as a Shop Assistant

New!!!!

If you want to contact me via email, please send your messages to selfstudyroom@yahoo.com.ar. I'll be checking the account during my office hours.

INBOX AND OUTBOX FOR WRITTEN TASKS

We have placed two envelopes labeled INBOX and OUTBOX on the small board  outside the Self-Study Room, on the right. These envelopes will allow everyone to leave written tasks to be corrected and to pick up corrected ones  any weekday. at any time. I will be checking the INBOX  Mondays and Tuesdays during my office hours and I will leave everything assessed for the following week. Please, DO COME AND PICK UP your compositions to avoid overload in the OUTBOX.  I hope the envelopes will prove useful. Handle them with care so they do not get off the board.

EDITING WORKSHOP 2013

Write a story between 120-150 words.
The story should begin:

Julia sat on the edge of the bed. Although it was late, she was wide awake, listening to her husband's voice from downstairs. What was he up to?



Sign in for the workshop in the following link

PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS I

In this section you will find passages for transcription and the keys for them. If you have any doubts, stop by at Self-Study and we may discuss them.

Passages for Transcription Set I
Keys Set I 

LANGUAGE I. Practice

LETTER WRITING

If you need to practice writing letters of differente kinds, please download the correct file. Write the letter as homework, leaving a line in between for better correction and bring it in to Self Study for me to correct it.

Breaking News /Letters of Advice
More letters of Advice
Letters of Complaint
Narratives

Grammar I. Practice with keys.

In this section you will find grammar worksheets with keys. If you have any doubt, please stop by the Self-Study Room for further discussion.

Set I
Set I. Key
Set Ia
Set Ia. Key
Set II
Set II. Key
Set IIa.
Set IIa. Key
Set III
Set III. Key
Set IV
Set IV. Key

NEED SOME HELP? VISIT SELF-STUDY ROOM 2013

SELF STUDY ROOM is next to Bedelìa COME FOR… - Supporting sessions for writing skills. - Grammar practice with keys - Phonology practice with keys - Reference books and specialized magazines - Books and worksheets for home study. - Consulting sessions for any other subject. OPEN: MONDAYS 10.00 to 17.00 TUESDAYS 9.30 to 10.50 13.00 to 13.40

Atención Self Study feb marzo 2013

FEBRERO

viernes 8 de febrero 15 a 16 (16 a 20 inscripción cursillo)
miércoles 13 de febrero 8 a 9 (9 a 12 inscripción cursillo)
jueves 14 de febrero 17 a 18 (18 a 21 inscripción cursillo)
viernes 15 de febrero 9 a 10
jueves 21 de febrero 830 a 1100
lunes 25 de febrero 8 a 9

MARZO

Lunes 4 de marzo,  11.00 a 14.00
Jueves 6 de marzo, 8.00 a 9.00
Lunes 11 de marzo  8.00 a 9.00

cuando tengo inscripción a cursillo, solo se trata de esperar que me libere de esa actividad y puedo atender consultas.