This is the rare books section at Willis Library.
The book the lady is showing is one of the most famous Charls Dicken's collections. Those are all the original books and students are alllowed to use them.
Do you want to try?
Hard-working classmates, great!
TEXT REVIEW
As it is observed in the pictures we were working in groups.
This was a very interesting class. We weorken in small groups to analyse some grammar books; the point was to find the way the authors build knowledge.
We checked two books. The first one was called Understanding and Using English Grammar by Betty Scrampfer. We ageed that the book can be used as extra material for our studnets to practice as it is not contextualized and some of the exercises are repetitive. However, it's an excellent material to reinforce grammar.
On the other hand, we also checked Grammar in Context by Sandra N. Elbaum. This book tries to integrate reading and listening skilles, but we considered exercises must be better explotated. Although we agreed this book could be used as the main text book in our class, it would be needed to adapt some of the exercises.
Cafeteria
Bruce Hall is just one of the spaces which provide cafeteria services. The cafeteria has room for about 200 students, and breakfast, lunch and dinner are served there. Staff is always polite and service is fast. The menu has a wide variety of options among which there is eggs in all presentations, pasta, salad, pizza, rice, waffles, cakes, jelly, fruit, etc.
This presentation by Chip Cullum consisted of a documentary based on a project to conceal the two sides of crime: criminals and victims. The whole documentary is about how a muralist carried out this project to make people in both sides see the pain they have.
In the end, the murals helped all people involved and their families to relieve some pain, to avoid hating each other and to give a message of hope to the community they live in.
By Dr. Haj Ross
Some of us as non-native speakers of English find it difficult to understand the difference between prepositions and particles. In the teacher's training couse, we had a lecture by Dr. Haj Ross, an expert in linguistics, who brought a very meaningful activity to make a distinction between these two parts of speech in English language.
The distinction he made served as a basis to incorporate the disctintion within further lessons for Mexican students.
We would like to thank the lecturer for his extensive speech!!
The authors of this blog are sure the information will help us to become experts in the lingüistic field.
Are you paying attention?
Dr. Brenda Sims gave a lecture about how to write e-mails that work in the U.S. One of the main points of the whole speech had to do with the fact that American discourse tends to be succint, whereas Mexican discourse may not be direct. So, as nowadays this activity has become part of everyday life, paying attention to things such as avoiding: inflated language, negative words, ambiguous words, demanding readers actions, making feel someone inferior; and being clear and specific, are key tips to make successful mails.
Dr. Hook said some important tribes in American history were: Cherokees, Pow Wow, Apache, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, among others. He, as a member of one of this communities, told us about the importance of nature for the tribes, and the efforts they have made to take care of it.
Something remarkable about this lecture, is the meaning some American tribes gave to the word 'Indios'. Opposite to what most people would believe, the word 'Indios' is non-offensive, that is to say, for them, this word is "in -dios": God's people.
In the tour, we were also told about the mascot of the UNT, which in turn, is also the symbol of the university: the eagle. It is so important that, the guides told us that when the official football team is playing the most representative sound is the eagle's sound.
After a long walk we were completely exhausted! In the end, it was worth doing because we learned about the facilities that UNT students can use, such as computer labs, gym, pool, basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, football pitch, and medical services within the campus.
