Humanising Language Teaching
Year 5; Issue 3; May 03

Learning to edit

Miquel Angel Castillo

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[ Editorial note: as I understand it, the central idea of this exercise is to learn to edit out one's own mistakes by dealing with those of others first. This is an excellent way of gaining the necessary distance and to see one's own work from outside, which for some students is quite hard. It seems to me that the task works best when all the students share the same mother tongue, which was the case all over Europe until the waves of immigration in the 1990's ]

(The instructions below are addressed directly to the students)

Enjoy reading these lovely composition snippets. Observe that writing can be very communicative! But an intermediate learner must keep mistakes under control. Then do the tasks as stated below. Good luck.

A life without music? What singers are your favourite ones? Any dislikes? When do you listen to music? Best memories. Monthly routines and your last/next activity.

MUSIC IN MY LIFE

There are music in the radio, in the Tv, in the batroom ...is a universal languaje. It's great listen the music i like. With OT they are more new singers not very interesting. I haven't now favorites altough the unique musiciens I listen are modern groups and jazz even. I prefered always the Rolling Estons because they remember me a lot of meravellous partys. I like too ear his music with CD than a friend give me. Altough to listenig classic records is usefull I never listen.

I love hear more that singer. I swicht the radio when I have a breafast and hum the fashion songs. I sing a capela some days at month. And I sing horrible when I go a bit drunk in the car when i go to home after a hard day selling appartments in my work. I listen sometimes alone the radio clasical songs of the eigthyes. I gaste my time in the pubs is more funy with friends and there music is present in all something. We enyoy very tipes but this not means all kinds of noise, you understand me, is'nt it? We have fortune because Benicŕssim festival is during only a week , and very much laudly. I

The best compositor in the story, I thing, is Bruce Springfield, the Boss. I realy would like see him in a concert in life because his show is very excitting. I prefere listen his letters learn us very depthy things than other singers. Like instruments I like the electric guittar when I sense strong vibration but the flaute is an other prefered by my. In other way, I hate Rocio jurado and similars... they are bored than shout very loudly. And too thecno music.

Now two remembers. Seventeen years ago when I was teenage I did a little solidarity concert with friends. They love sing and this actuation was more important for a lot of persons. The money from the entries was for poor people in Valčncia. I can't remember a song of Elvis excepte "Love my tender". I remember it and -i thougth in my firts love any place i hear it. We wanted go to a concert of Madonna if my fathers led we go to gether, of cours. What more? I like going to concerts with new music tendencies. Next week I enjoy go to a concerts of folk music. After, we'd go to our pub for drink a bear. Do you like? I invite.

Tasks

Choose the passage you like best and