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News # 79 - Delivered to 34727 subscribers
ISSN 1668-4877 - May 1, 2004
Hey,
OM friend. No sooner than done: OM MISTAKE with its 300 hundred common
errors in THREE bilingual levels is here !! (as promised). THIS ISSUE: A
special reading activity to learn new words. Again
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Hola OM amiga/o. Dicho y hecho: OM MISTAKE con sus 300 errores
frecuentes en TRES niveles bilingües ya está aquí (como lo
prometimos). ESTA ENTREGA: Una actividad de lecto-comprensión para
aprender nuevo vocabulario.
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THIS
ISSUE:
OM MISTAKE
300 Common Errors (a real must for ESL students and teachers)
COMPUTER
WORDS
A reading comprehension activity (for ESL students
and teachers)
new
section
OM
MISTAKE
is dedicated to the most common errors found among English language
learners of Spanish-speaking background. This section is mainly aimed at
helping students to avoid making these common mistakes, and may also
help English teachers who are working -or planning to work- with Spanish-speaking
students. OM MISTAKE
analiza los errores que con mayor frecuencia hemos detectado entre los
estudiantes hispanoparlantes. Esta sección tiene por objetivo ayudar a
los estudiantes a fin de que puedan sortear este tipo de errores y puede
servir asimismo de ayuda a los profesores de inglés que se encuentren
trabajando -o planifican hacerlo- con estudiantes que hablan español
como lengua madre.
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reading
comprehension
If you want to master the English language,
you will need to be familiar with those new computer words that seem to be
popping up everywhere. Let's get some practice with this activity (answers in OM
NEWS # 80).
Si quieres dominar el idioma inglés, tendrás que familiarizarte con
los nuevos términos cibernéticos que surgen por todas partes.
Practiquemos un poco con esta actividad!! (las respuestas en OM NEWS #
80).
Are you
a
, someone who practically lives in front
of the computer?
Or are you a
, someone nervous about new technology?
Luckily, most computer words are easy to learn
because many of them are so colourful. They are words that often make us smile
when we first hear them such as
(traditional post rather than Internet-based mail). To
get a feeling for computer words, it helps to understand the world that created
them, ,
as it is often called.
Computer words often give the impression of
certain playfulness, even humour. Take
¸
for example, formed from emotion and icon, which are also called
. They
are combinations of symbols such as :) that people
attach to their messages in order to express feelings.
To be fair, cyberculture also laughs at itself.
Those who spend all their time in front of their computers are called
and, for the younger generation,
.
Internet communication has a definite style of
its own and it is often highly colloquial. To make their Internet writing seem
more informal, people use abbreviations, such as
meaning "before" or
meaning "Great!!".
The article above has been
adapted for this practice activity from Dr Ingrid Meyer's article,
University of Ottawa, Canada, and published in Macmillan English Dictionary for
Advanced Learners. Please, click on the image to visit Macmillan
Publishers wide variety of dictionaries ...
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