Tag Archives: Speaking

Reading pride and prejudice part two

By Salsita Says | Published: May 2, 2009

Last week’s conversation class about the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was quite successful. We met at the Egdgware arms pub in Second Life and spent about an hour discussing the first chapter. We mostly spoke about social changes, particularly the role of women in society in the past 200 years. The discussion [...]

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Conversation hour pronunciation practice

By Salsita Says | Published: April 22, 2009

Have you seen the video below before? It’s the flight attendant onboard a South West airlines flight who is ‘rapping’ the welcome aboard message.
Come along to conversation hour and learn how to ‘rap’ this song. I’ve posted the words below the video.
When? Tuesday 21st April, PST 11pm
Where? The airport at languagelab.com (Click here to teleport)
YouTube [...]

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Reading Pride and Prejudice part one

By Salsita Says | Published: April 19, 2009

I am going to run a new and experimental class at languagelab. The aim of the class is to read, study, discuss the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
How can I participate?
1) Make sure that you are a student at languagelab.com. Click here to read more about this virtual school that you can attend [...]

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Practicing listening, reading, writing and speaking integration tasks

By Salsita Says | Published: March 29, 2009

What is an integration task?
An integration task is a task where you must combine two or more skills such as listening, reading, writing and speaking. The TOEFL iBT requires that you complete several integration tasks, some in the speaking section and some in the writing section. To get a complete overview of the different questions [...]

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Salsita Says conversation hour - RSS and Internet censorship

By Salsita Says | Published: March 27, 2009

Class topics at the last conversation hour ranged from camel riding, to Internet censorship by governments (most recently the Chinese government’s censorship of You Tube) and how to use RSS. The class culminated in a very interesting debate about culture, religion and whether or not some religious or social customs can intefere with a person’s [...]

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Salsita Says: New conversation classes at languagelab.com

By Salsita Says | Published: March 21, 2009

This week I will be introducing a new weekly class at languagelab.com. The classes will be open to all languagelab subscribers and will be held on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays from PST (Pacific Standard Time) 10 pm to 11pm.
What is PST? Click here.
Want to convert PST to your country’s time? click here.
What is the aim [...]

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TOEFL speaking tips

By Salsita Says | Published: March 21, 2009

Jason Renshaw from the Renshaw Internet School of English has prepared an excellent series of short video lectures that give a thorough explanation of the six questions on the speaking section of the TOEFL ibt.
The lectures are designed to give you an overview of the question types, some suggested approaches to time management and some [...]

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