Week 1

G'day all and welcome back for term 2.

I hope you're all refreshed after your 2 week break! I had a relaxing but also a hectic time !This was because I achieved a lot, so I was kept busy but most of it was very enjoyable so it was relaxing!!! At least I didn't have to come to work each day so that was good!!
By now you've probably all seen the photos and video from the Easter party! I really thought I had taken more pics!! If any of you have photos perhaps you'd like to publish them!
I'm not very confident that all of you did the work I set for the last class so you catch up on that today.

Please also have a look again at the handout which outlines all the posts you should have covered in your blogs! I'm sad to say that some of you have only published one or two posts since the beginning of term 1! Unless you have hard copies to prove that you undertook the work, then I will not be able to say that you are competent in this unit even if you show competency in our 2 class assessments later in the term!

As we've been talking about and looking at newspapers all morning, I'd like you complete this quiz about newspapers. It won't take you too long! Post a comment at the end of this post and tell me how you got on with the quiz!

I've only included one reading activity today so hopefully you'll get that done too!
As you are aware, yesterday was ANZAC Day. Now I'm sorry if you've already done a lot of work on this topic this week. However, this work is from a reading perspective and aims to help you understand a bit more about its significance. So, open this link and find the answers to the questions on this worksheet.  The website is aimed at Primary school so it shouldn't be too hard for you to navigate around! Print off the worksheet first and use your answers to write up a short report in your blog.
I found this 'weird' video on YouTube about improving your reading skills!

Happy reading and blogging!

English idioms and expressions explained

Easter party photos

G'day all

I hope you're enjoying the break so far! I bet some of you have finished all the readings whilst others are not even sure where they put the folders or books???

Here are the photos I took last Thursday! I should've taken more! Enjoy the little video too!

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Week 9

G'day and welcome to our last blog for Term 1.

I hope you've been enjoying these classes and that some of the the activities have been useful for you.

Today, your reading tasks are in the form of a Webquest! You'll need to print off the activity sheets and then open the link for the Easter Show and find the relevant information in the different parts of the site. Once again, the worksheet can be accessed through the Moodle.

I found this fantastic website for Reading Skills. (Of course there are many other sections to the site so you can use it to do work on the other 3 English skills areas). For today's class I've chosen to focus on Skimming and Scanning! Have a look, follow the prompts and complete the activities! If you don't finish, you can do them at your leisure during the break!!!! Here's the link you'll need to complete the activities for today's class!

Well, that's about all I have to write for the term. Enjoy the break if you can, knowing that you've completed a good term's hard work improving your English!

Have a Happy Easter and I'll look forward to seeing you all relaxed and refreshed on Thursday, 26th April.
Stay blogging!