Week 3

G'day all

I hope you've all had a good week. The weather has been a bit strange going from quite cold mornings to pleasant days. However, in my office it's been winter for a few weeks now!

Some of you produced very good summaries last week. Well done! Your posts on the wallwisher were interesting too!

As you are aware, Sunday 13th May is Mother's Day. Do a little web search and find the answers to these questions. When was the first Mother's Day celebrated and why? Is it celebrated all around the world? Is it on the same day? How do people celebrate this event? Is it celebrated differently in your country? Write your answers in a short report on your blog. Include a photo if you can. (Ask me how to do this if you don't know)

For today's other activity, I'd like you to check out Topics 8 & 9 on the Moodle. (See the link on the sidebar on the right hand side of this page) Read the newspaper article and answer the attached questions! Print it out and complete the exercises. Hand it up to me when you've finished it.

To all the mothers in the class, Happy Mother's Day for Sunday. I hope you have a lovely day.

Happy blogging!

Wallwisher posts

Here is the wallwisher from last week. Scroll up/down or across to see your post. If you haven't added anything please do so now!

Thanks

Week 2

G'day all

How about a quick memory test? Last week you saw a video which suggested 23 things you could read!

Have a look at this wallwisher and post a sticky with either your own suggestion for what you could read or use one from the video! First in, best dressed, because you're NOT to repeat a suggestion made on the wallwisher so READ what your classmates post before posting your suggestion!

Wallwisher.com :: What can we read?

Well done to those of you who posted a comment on last week's online newspaper quiz! I knew you wouldn't find it difficult! It was just meant to be a light-hearted exercise based around our current topic!
I hope you find the table I handed out last week useful in completing your online tasks. It should at least help to keep you on track!

Today's task is to look at Topic 7 on the Moodle. Read the main newspaper article and then look at 2 of the stories in the related links section. What's the common topic of these articles? Do you think the parents acted fairly? After you've read the articles, answer the questions I put in the introduction. Write up your summary and opinions in your blog.

If you have time, check out this link on Skillwise English which looks at identifying text types! While there are only 2 tasks on this page, there are lots more available from the main menu! This is an EXCELLENT site for language learners. I hope you use it and navigate your way around the various parts! Remember to note down on your table what activities you do from it!

Well, that's all for today! I cannot access the blog from my office computer any more because it doesn't have Google Chrome installed! I had to prepare this post at home and by the time I cooked and ate dinner it was nearly time for Revenge!!! Had to stop for that??

Have a good week and happy blogging!

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!