::Noun Phrases::

It was a nice Wednesday and my mom told me like always: Rise and shine! I was late for school again. I didn't want to get out of bed, anyway I did it. I could hear my mom again: Shake a leg girl! And I did realize that I was very late for school. I went out of home and then I smelled a rat. A girl on the corner had a weird expression on her face, something was wrong. A guy was selling movies on the street and she was very mad yelling at him. He was a fishy guy I thought. Then the guy said: Go fly a kite! And the girl said: I’m not going to pay through the nose you are totally mad! I was looking at him and he told me: what are you looking? And I was like Gosh! I have to run! But I couldn’t, I was just horsing around the street. The guy was looking at me very mad, and he told me: Cat got your Tongue? Finally he took out his gun, and I was like Oh my gosh I'm going to kite the bucket! I was high and dry because the other girl ran away! I closed my eyes and then my mom told me: rise and shine little girl!

::Short Story::

It was a nice Wednesday and my mom told me like always: Rise and shine! I was late for school again. I didn't want to get out of bed, anyway I did it. I could hear my mom again: Shake a leg girl! And I did realize that I was very late for school. I went out of home and then I smelled a rat. A girl on the corner had a weird expression on her face, something was wrong. A guy was selling movies on the street and she was very mad yelling at him. He was a fishy guy I thought. Then the guy said: Go fly a kite! And the girl said: I’m not going to pay through the nose you are totally mad! I was looking at him and he told me: what are you looking? And I was like Gosh! I have to run! But I couldn’t, I was just horsing around the street. The guy was looking at me very mad, and he told me: Cat got your Tongue? Finally he took out his gun, and I was like Oh my gosh I'm going to kite the bucket! I was high and dry because the other girl ran away! I closed my eyes and then my mom told me: rise and shine little girl!

::English Profile 2.0::

English profile is a programme that can tell us which is the particular level of English that a learner has. English profile provide us descriptions of the grammar, vocabulary and functions necessary to master language levels.

In time, English Profile provide different types of material and teaching guides. Useful material for learnes and teachers. Also for other profesionals involved in lenguage learning too.

I think that we as future teachers have to be aware of English profile (and corpus too) because these kind of things are going to help us to give better classes. We all know that at school we just learn things by heart or we learn words that no one uses. So, I think that these kind of things are going to be very useful for us. The thing is that we are going to teach in different type of school and kids there are going to have different levels of English, and we have to be aware of that.

::English Profile::

English profile is a groundbreaking collaborative research programme registered with the Council of Europe and designed to provide a detailed set of Reference Level Descriptions for Englush. Linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR), these will provide specific criteria for describing what a learner knows at a particular level of English.

By providing descriptions of the grammar, vocabulary and functions necessary to master language levels, English Profile will provide a clear benchmark for progress. This will also take account of the complex interactions between English and the learners’ own languages.

In time, English Profile will lead to the production of resources for the development of curricula, word lists, course materials and teaching guides. It will deliver materials of practical use for learners, teachers, and other professionals involved in language learning.

I think that we as future teachers have to be aware of English profile (and corpus too) because these kind of things are going to help us to give better classes. We all know that at school we just learn things by memory or words that no one uses. So, I think that all these knowledge we have to use it in our future classes.