Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique

M. M. BELLAL, Bloc Pédagogique. Office # 23.

Assistant Professor, Tel #: 3123
Lecturer of Mail: (m_bellal@esi.dz)
English.

2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR ACTIVITIES

Activity One: Making a Profile: Deadline 20 October 2009.

Nb: All the activities are to be done both as

• a written exercise due on 20 October 2009 at
• & then oral presentation 27 October 2009 and on till the end of
1st quarter. (Assignment #1)

Forename & Name (capital letters):

INSERT YOUR
PICTURE
HERE
4.5 cm*3.5cm Cross out the irrelevant information
SI_Group: ___ SIQ_Group: ___

Date & Place of birth:

__ /__/__. @________________________________

A. PERSONAL DATA: PROFILE

1. Physical True features
Characteristics
Complexion: :
Hair colour: :
Eyes colour: :
Size in centimetres: :
Weight in kilogrammes :
Blood group: :
2. Mental characteristics
(Self short mental description):

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B. Marital Status :( A simulation–Fake information) only for learning sake!

Cross the wrong answer:

Single Married Divorced Separated Widow

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No

Number of kids _________ Sons _____ Daughters ________

C. ACADEMIC PROFILE
Primary studies @

Secondary studies @

University studies @

D. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Where?

What?

How long?

E. OTHER INTERESTS
Hobbies

software

Other

What is up here makes a “Curriculum Vitae” (C.V.) or a “Résumé”

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 Activity Two: Translation & Information Retrieval

Deadline is 30 November 2009.

Questions:

• What does translation mean?

• What are the advantages of translation?
• What are the drawbacks of translation?
• What are the dangers of translation?

Discussions are to be undertaken with students (oral production) within class

sessions & scored. (Assignment #2)

Activity Three: Information Retrieval

From texts retrieved from the Internet & given to students, make a junction to
translation from web translators and /or electronic and automatic ones.
Find out mistakes in vocabulary & syntax.

Question

How to avoid mistranslations (both syntactic [sentence construction] & semantic

[word & sentence meaning])?
Discussions are to be undertaken with students (oral production) within class
sessions & scored. (Assignment #3)

Activity Four: Make a Presentation on a chosen topic with a chosen partner

Deadline is 30 December 2009.

1. Students should work collaboratively (02 persons);

2. Students should choose the topic they want to deal with;
3. Students should must send a written document under PDF or DOC
format;
4. Students should must then send their PPT presentations;
5. An incremental list will be set in presence of students in their own groups
to decide the order in which presentations will be led.

Discussions are to be undertaken with students (oral production) within class

sessions & scored. (Assignment #4).

It is advised that students may think of a partner & a topic at the very
beginning of the academic year (October 2009).

Deadline dates are not definite. They may change according to task progress.
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 Other Activities are to come soon.
Extra Activity (to be scored: an extra score)

Make a documentary movie with an oral comment

1.
2. Theme personal choice
3. Screenplay personal choice
4. Time 10 minutes
5. Characters (number & gender) Personal choice
6. Personnel Max 8 persons each with a definite
mission (movie personnel).
Editor, producer, screenplay maker,
speaker, etc.
7. Place Personal choice (preference ESI)
8. Music background personal choice but relevant to the theme

“B_EZ when BZ with E.S.I.”

[Be Easy when busy with E.S.I.]

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