NATURAL WONDERS – GLOBAL PROJECT - GLOBAL English Course

NATURAL WONDERS – GLOBAL PROJECT

6/2/2015

For those who don’t know me, I am an English teacher from Brazil. I teach small classes of teenagers and adults. If we haven’t connected yet, I hope we do so in a near future.

This year, I started teaching my students about the Natural Wonders of the World, and we all fell in love with our awesome planet. That’s why we thought it would be incredible if we talked about the Natural Wonders that let us amazed. My students are willing to connect with you and/or your class to share some knowledge about our Brazilian Natural Wonders, and we would like to get to know the Wonders in your country too. We can do it either via video conference or recording videos to each other.

Moreover, I would like to add all the videos together in a website/blog, so as to have videos about Natural Wonders from all over the world by the end of 2015. What do you think? Would you like to participate? If so, please, email me at athalorc@gmail.com. Feel free to share this information with people in your PLN.

Our first presentation is going to be this Thursday, June 04th, at 12:00 noon UTC (which is 9 am in Brazil, and 8 am EDT). If you would like to meet our students and attend to our presentation (with or without your students), join us at the link: https://zoom.us/j/170971157 (yeah, you’d have to download Zoom, but it’s totally worth it).

The presentation of each Natural Wonder is supposed to take only 5 minutes. My students have prepared 3 of them, so I guess it won’t take more than 30 minutes (Q&A session included).

Even if you can’t attend to this first presentation, but would like to get involved, contact me, because we would like to have as many videos/presentations as possible, throughout the year.

Thank you very much for all the support.

Athalo Carrão
GLOBAL English Course

6 Comments

Sebastian Panakal link

6/3/2015 10:44:08 pm

The presentation today was awesome. Brazil's beauty captured at its very best. Please congratulate your students for the pains they took to educate us about Brazil.

Congratulations to Student Ambassadors of Brazil!!

Athalo

6/3/2015 11:05:54 pm

Thank you, Sebastian.
You really encouraged my students. They said that they felt really comfortable seeing you in the audience.
After talking to you we talked to a teacher in Jordan. It was fantastic!

Enrique Raul Pando

6/4/2015 12:30:25 am

Athalo:
My dear friend. Please receive a warm greeting from the Oldest New World ,Peru!!! It is a pleasure and an honor to share this amazing platform of knowledge. We are interested in sharing our culture,history and gastronomy by making friends with other people and by the way my students will enjoy the benefits of this powerful tool of technology. I appreciate a lot your interest by looking to improve the quality level of your students, so I cannot be indifferent to offer the chance of improving your English, We are at the same time eager to learn your mother tongue and you can add spanish to your range of foreign languages, That´s why I would like to put at your disposal my time and effort, I want my students will overcome the frustration confusion and intimidation out of my English class by having the chance of meeting someone like you eager to learn and teach like us, by doing this we will know something .your city and its perspectives,and you will do the same by learning about Peru,. We need the feedback of the specific purpose of your English learning process.There is no easier way to get started speaking English or Spanish. If your students have ever found Spanish harder than they expected it to be, I have some very exciting news for you. We can practice them in an easy and funny way.There is a universe of possibilities in front of us about the methodology on how to maximize our language learning requirements as your classroom can start a video chat session describing in,English,Portuguese or even in Spanish your city´s main attractions, your projects, and goals of your institute which is integrated in a global community, trying to put emphasis in correcting our grammar and pronunciation during both processes. Now you can think about me as your official representative in Peru of Global English Course.
Best regards,
Enrique Raul Pando

Athalo

6/4/2015 01:10:45 pm

Thank you, Enrique.
We will definietly work together. We have a lot in common, especially the love for what we do.

Sebastian Panakal link

6/4/2015 02:49:17 pm

The above is a school I have adopted. I am training the students and PTA of the school to present the beauty spots of the nation and work as Student Tourism Ambassadors of the nation.

The project has been eagerly adopted by the Tourism Industry here; they are ready to accept the trained as their work@home agents earning a honorarium for tourists they bring to the service provider.

My official launch is on 4 July as we celebrate American Independence day on a Google Hangout, attended by Athalo's classroom as well!

I am proud to be a friend of Athalo and his students. Welcome Enrique!

Safaa Alissawi

6/4/2015 09:57:20 pm

It was great to join this video conference. My students watched the video and they learnt a lot. Exciting presentations.

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I am an English teacher from Brazil. I love global connections and that's why I love teaching English. Global collaboration between classes allows everyone to learn so much more and broaden our horizons. Feel free to share and comment any ideas.

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