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=UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR= =**ID2124 English for Architecture & Urban Planning I Week 6: Knowing Metaverse**=

It's time to know what metaverse is all about!
By the end of this week students will have:
 * Week 6 Objectives:**
 * finished the work not completed in week 5
 * shared the experience working with their e-zines in a chat
 * reviewed pronunciation of "ed" in regular past tenses
 * read an article about architecture/urban planning from an online magazines (Metaverse)
 * written a summary and a descriptive paragraph
 * discussed the content of videos and articles with classmates

1. Chat 2: Your experience while creating an online magazine (3 points)

 * Open Yahoo MSN and get ready for a chat session to share the experience you have had during the first 5 weeks of class. Remember this is an academic activity and everything you write in your chats will be read by other students and your teacher, so be attentive to the language you use!!! Avoid the use of bad words. __**DO NOT**__ edit your chat.

**Guidelines for Chat 2:**
So far you have been working on your e-zine creation (personal and professional profiles, logo creation, e-zine description, display ad, radio commercial, and glossary) So let’s chat about this process. To do that, get in pairs and, once in yahoo messenger, chat mainly about the way you have felt about this process and what you have learned so far. In other words, chat about your personal experience and share it with your partner.
 * 1) What new words have you learned since we started the course? Explain.
 * 2) What have you learned about online magazines?
 * 3) What are some of the similarities and differences between printed and electronic magazines?
 * 4) What is the idea of including ads in your magazine?
 * 5) Why describe your e-zine? What is the purpose of doing so?
 * 6) Share your ezine description with your partner and ask him or her for feedback.
 * 7) What kind of product did you advertise in your display ad?
 * 8) How do you feel when podcasting (recording) your voice?
 * As usual, save your chat once you finish your conversation and post it to the __Chat 2__ Forum in NineHub (Week 6). Remember you can Copy-Paste the chatlog in NineHub or upload it in the form of an attached file.

2. Pronunciation Practice:
Now let's practice some pronunciation.

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The presentation above and these two links can help you improve your pronunciation of Regular Past Tense. Open the links (one at a time) and follow the instructions. [|Pronunciation of Past Tense (Final-ed)] [|Pronunciation of Regular Past tense]

1. In the next weeks we will be learning about **//Metaverse//**


Let's start by finding out what **Metaverse** means. Discuss your own ideas, and finally, to make sure, look up the term in [|Google.]

2. Now that you know the meaning of the term, let's visit the Metaverse wiki where you will find out what to do.
Here are some instructions:
 * Click on Activities Part 1 (Metaverse wiki):**
 * For activity number 4, you will post your summary to the article summary forum in NneHub, Week 6. **__ If you are not sure on how to write a summary __**, please do the activities in [|this site]. Other sites you can check before writing your summary are these:
 * [|How to write a summary]
 * [|How to write a summary 2]
 * [|How to summarize]
 * [|Tips for writing summaries]
 * [|Process for writing a summary]
 * [|Writing summaries]

3. Homework: Descriptive Paragraph (4 pts.)

 * Visit again the Metaverse wiki
 * In the navigation bar, click on Activities part 2
 * Do activities 1, 2 and 3. (For 2: Post your descriptive paragraph to the corresponding Forum in NineHub; for 3: Go to **VOX O POP** and record it). ** Note: ** The link indicated in 2 is highly recommended!