Daily Archive for August 24th, 2008
How you look affects how you learn
Having an avatar that looks good makes you feel better. It makes you feel better and it helps the other students and teacher
respond to you well.
There might also be times when your languagelab teacher will ask you to wear something. This might be for fun or it might
be to take part in a role-play or an activity where you need to look differently. I sometimes ask my students to wear ‘word’
hats to answer questions or different jackets to pretend they are shop keepers.
Please don’t come to class naked or in a bikini, even in the virtual world other people can get offended.
How to change your clothes
In Language Lab you can make your avatar look like anything you want. This is what I did to myself in just a few minutes.
You can get loads of clothes in the two language lab clothing shops either Banana fashions or at Periwinkles |
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If you really need some help choosing or finding some cool clothes, visit one of the City people, Donatella Benoir in Periwinkles,
Language Lab’s clothing store.
Everything is free and Donatella is on hand to give you some advice about what looks good.
How to save your appearance
Once you are happy with what you are wearing you can save it. Right click on yourself and you will see a circle menu,
choose ‘appearance’. You should see a next box like the one below, click ‘save as’, and you can save the clothes you are
wearing as a folder. Now you can drag that folder onto your avatar to change your appearance. |
| English expressions which refer to clothes |
- Put a sock in it.
- Pull your socks up.
- Keep your shirt on
- Keep your mouth zipped
- Put on your thinking cap
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a) think about a problem carefully
b) stay calm
c) try harder
d) shut up!
e) don’t tell anyone, keep a secret |
| Answers1d 2c 3b 4e 5a
Next week:
Keeping your inventory in shape. |
