“Let’s Make A Salad!” Video for LING 480 @ #SFU
31 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Here’s a little video shot and edited yesterday for my group’s final project in Linguistics 480, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), with Dr. Trude Heift @ Simon Fraser University, Spring 2012.
The idea was to make a content-based video on the topic of food that could be easily incorporated into an ESL lesson. Each of the members in our group then has to create a mock ESL lesson plan incorporating this CALL technology for the second part of this assignment.
There are a few simple lessons that this video could be used for:
- Introducing imperative verb forms
- Food vocabulary
- Food preparation verbs
- Reviewing numbers (eg. “Step Six: Dice The Onion”)
Total runtime: ~4 minutes.
Feel free to use this video as part of your own ESL lesson planning.
“Lettuce” know if you find it useful!
Thanks to Lauren and Andrea for being really great to work with for this project.
March 30, 2012 | Lauren & Andrea, "Let's Make A Salad" Video for LING 480 @ SFU
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March 23, 24, 25, 2012 – Not Much To Say
27 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Photos, Plants, Simon Fraser University, TV / Movies Tags: burnaby, canadian, cap's, car, cinema, cycle, dolphin, flag, katniss everdeen, photography, port coquitlam, SFU, Simon Fraser University, the hunger games, theatre, Vancouver, westwood
Just a few photos and one very short video (my iPhone camera was accidentally in video mode instead of photo, ha!)
March 23: There’s this picnic-appropriate patch of grass at SFU by the Robert C Brown Hall that I walk past almost every day. Last week was all sorts of weird adolescent can’t-decide-if-i-want-to-be-winter-or-spring growing pains, with all sorts of snow and rain and such, but then there was this one sunny warm day on March 23th, and suddenly, said patch of grass was covered in daisies.
March 24, 2012 | And suddenly, the field exploded with daisies, overnight.
March 24: Went to go see The Hunger Games at The Dolphin Cinemas with some friends on Saturday night. Yes. Saturday night and tickets were only $6.95 including tax. So to reward them for their reasonable prices, I bought the biggest popcorn I could (the profit margin on popcorn is very good). First time ever going to The Dolphin. I like it. It’s one of those older style theatres with only 2 screens, and a shallow incline (not stadium seating) with the screen up high. Like being a kid again, getting all excited for a movie, going out with a bunch of girlfriends, getting popcorn (I’m so stingy…when I pay $15 for a ticket at Cineplex/Silvercity there’s no way I’m overpaying for junk food). Note to go back on a Tuesday for “Toonie Tuesday” when movies are $2! I really hope they can make enough money to stay in business for a good long while.
March 24, 2012 | The Hunger Games @ The Dolphin Cinemas, Burnaby
And here we are in our Katniss Everdeen bow and arrow poses (yes, we are first in line, not so much for geeky reasons but because we just happened to go for dinner beforehand and were super early getting back to the theatre)
March 24, 2012 | The Hunger Games @ The Dolphin Cinemas, Burnaby
March 25: Trekked out to Cap’s Westwood Cycle in PoCo to pick up a pair of Skins brand spandex shorts. Loved their sign. Brilliant sunny day for it, seeing as March 26th turned rainy again.
March 25, 2012 | Cap's Westwood Cycle, Port Coquitlam
Then drove out to Surrey to watch Steve’s football practice. Here’s a 3 second accidental video of an uber-patriotic car driving over the Port Mann Bridge:
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March 20, 2012 – Why Am I So Hungry Today?
20 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Being a Woman, Linguistics, Photos, Simon Fraser University, TV / Movies Tags: art, bella, cafepress, district 5, drawing, games, hunger, id, identification, katniss everdeen, Linguistics, panem, photography, photos, salt, speech, twilight
March 20, 2012 | Why Am I So Hungry Today?
I have this class on Tuesdays that goes from 11:30-2:30. About an hour into class I start fading fast, and my concentration diminishes. And I start drawing.
And the answer to “Can you pass the salt?” is funnily neither “yes” nor “no”. It’s physically picking up the salt shaker and handing it to someone. 
March 20, 2012 | Can You Pass The Salt?
Speaking of hunger, look what I got in the mail today from Cafepress:
March 20, 2012 | The Hunger Games Panem District 5 Identification Card
Fun. I’m now on the grid, very much so. That’s more information than my doctor has. That photo of me on the card is from 2008. I haven’t really aged much in 4 years, have I?! Going to see the movie Saturday night with a bunch of friends. Not sure why people are comparing The Hunger Games to Twilight…well, yeah I can see why but DUDES hello Katniss Everdeen is a kick ass awesome survivor whereas that Bella Twilighty poor exemplar of a human female needs to stop swooning and blinking and generally being a doormat damsel in distress.
Ahem. Anyway.
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March 19, 2012 – Last Day of Winter
19 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Photos, Plants, Simon Fraser University, Weather Tags: flowers, heather, iPhone, photo, photography, SFU, Simon Fraser University, snow
March 19, 2012 | Last Day of Winter
It snowed today. Then it melted. Heather finally hit full bloom today @ SFU.
iPhone photo edited w/ Camera+ app.
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March 13, 2012 – It’s Snowing at #SFU
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in art, Linguistics, Peculiarly Awesome, Photos, Simon Fraser University, Weather Tags: AQ, art, drawing, flowers, gardens, photography, photos, SFU, Simon Fraser University, snow, spring, trees, weather, winter
In class, I looked out the window.
Someone had walked in circles today, around some trees, in a sleepy grey garden dusted with sugary snow.
Who are you? What were you thinking?
It got me daydreaming:
March 13, 2012 - in class (LING 480) doodle inspired by that anonymous person who walked in circles in the snow around the trees in the AQ garden at SFU.
Dear snow walker, I hope you find what you are looking for.
Thank you for inspiring me today.
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