Tuesday, 1-13-2015

Welcome back! Here are some suggestions for today.

BEGINNERS
1. Yesterday we learned how to make webpages look bigger or smaller. Remember? Practice a few times right now so you don't forget how to do it.

Did you get 100% on the San Francisco tourist sites exercise we did yesterday? If not, try it again.  http://www.newtongue.com/abc/read-san-francisco.html

2. There are three different ways to scroll up and down in a webpage. You should try all three and see which one is easier for you.

1. Use the wheel on the mouse.
2. Use the mouse to drag down on the bar on the far right side of the webpage.
3. Use the down and up arrow keys on the keyboard.

INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED STUDENTS

3.  Below are some common sayings in English.

• Where there's smoke there's fire.
• Two heads are better than one.
• The early bird gets the worm.
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Discussion questions:

• What do you think those sayings mean?
• Do you have similar sayings in your language?

4.  Try Google Translate.

1. Copy the sayings above by dragging to highlight and then pressing ctrl + c.
2. Go to Google translate (find the link on the right of this page).
3. Press ctrl + v to paste in the sayings.
4. Select Spanish.
5. Try clicking on the speaker to listen through the headphones.