Week 5

Create a slideshow

G'day all

I hope your weekend was relaxing but fun at the same time! I didn't do anything exciting but my family and I had a big clean up inside and outside the house!  The girls and I did some rearranging and tidying up of clothes, books and furniture. My husband worked outside in the garden. It was a busy weekend but we had a lot of fun being together.

I hope you're all happy with the lovely certificates you received from the Student Association as a thank you for your efforts during the Health Expo. I forgot to take a group photo! Perhaps we can get one another day!

My apologies  if the webquest was a bit hard last week! Ungfortunately, I don't have time these days to make up my own webquests so have to rely on what other people produce! I hope you learnt something new about Australia anyway!!!

Sorry I can't be with you today but hopefully I'll be back tomorrow! Andrew would like you to get started on the research for your information reports but you can also do the activities below first or after your internet searches!

Already? Yet? Do you how and when to use them? Check out your knowledge of them in this little grammar quiz to test your understanding of the words. Let me know how you get on and if you need to do some more work on them in class!

Here is the audio and activities for Episode 7 of the radio serial!

Have a good day and happy blogging!

Week 4

G'day all

I hope you all had a great weekend! The weather was so mild wasn't it? It was lovely to sit outside in the fresh air and catch up on a bit of vitamin D without the risk of sunburn! (I was not out in the danger times between 11 and 3!)

I was very pleased with the great recounts you wrote of both the Health Expo and Phoebe's alarm! Your English was very good and most of you wrote recounts of a very high standard! Well done!

By the way, there'll be a thank you morning tea for you in the student association room tomorrow at 10.30am!

As we were talking about fire safety in the home recently, I thought you might be interested in watching a little TV news clip. Have a look at this link which shows the damage caused by a fire! I just thought it was an interesting and informative piece of TV footage.

Since you've all moved to Australia to live, I thought you'd like to learn a bit about your 'new' country. Try this webquest which was actually created by a teacher in Spain! Hopefully there won't be any problems opening the links! The activities were originally designed for groups of 3. You can work on your own. Answer the questions the teacher asks. If you scroll down the page you'll find the links for the answers. You don't have to make a poster but you can choose the activity for student 2 or 3 and answer in your blog!

Ask me for a map of Australia so you can mark the cities!

When you finish that, here is the next episode of The Road Less Travelled. Here is the audio and the worksheets are here!

Happy blogging!

Week 3

G'day all

Make a digital slideshow

Well what a great day we had at the Health Expo! I'd like to thank you all for your food contributions and also your efforts selling raffle tickets and your general participation in the event. I hope you enjoy the photos and videos! First off today, write a recount of the Health Expo in your blogs!

Well done to all of you who completed the webquest and the listening last week. I know it was a bit hard without the printed text but you did very well. For those of you interested in finding out more about food, nutrition and healthy eating check out the Better Health Channel website. Everything you ever wanted to know can be found here!

Remember in class I talked about the Friends episode with a smoke alarm/detector? Well, my daughter, Katie told me that it's in a You tube video so have a look at it here. When you've finished, write a recount in your blog of the events in the video!

Today is also the time to catch up on all the things you still need to do. When you are up to date, let me know and I'll direct you to some activities you can do!

Happy blogging!

Week 2

G'day all

Firstly, I hope all you mothers in the class had a very Happy Mother's Day yesterday! I know I did!

I was very pleased with the recounts you wrote last week. Well done! I realise too that the work on the Leonardo di Caprio webquest was long so to begin today I think you should go back to last week's blog and complete the activities. Then you can move on to today's work!

As you know, during the week we were working on activities related to fire safety. (By the way, did any of you got to visit a fire station on Saturday during their open day?) Anyway, on Thursday, whilst driving to work,  I heard on the radio about a website that the Fire Brigade has created. It's a home fire safety audit! It's a series of questions which help assess your fire safety risk! You don't have to register or anything but it's good to do! Thankfully my home fire risk is low!!! Open this link and try it yourself!

On Wednesday, as you know, the Student Association will hold its annual Health Expo. As it's all about healthy lifestyles, try this quiz and see how much you know about heathy eating! Then listen to this podcast from the BetterHealth channel and answer these questions.

For those who are up to date and have time, here is Episode 5 of The Road Less Travelled. Open the written exercises here and the audio link here.

Photo of 2 of my daughters, Lucy and Katie, with my huge bunch of flowers yesterday!

Take care and keep blogging!

Term 2, Week 1

G'day all

I hope you had a good break from class but that you still managed to practise your English! I had a marvellous time in both Thailand and New York! I am really grateful that I was able to have these experiences.

I'm sorry but I just had NO time to post the photos or videos from our party. I hope you enjoy them today!

Did you go to the Easter Show? Did you do anything interesting? How did you spend your days? Write a recount in your blog of how you spent the 2 weeks.

I'm sure you've all heard of the actor Leonardo di Caprio? Well, today I'd like you to do a webquest to find out some information about him. For example, did you know that he's very interested in environmental issues? Have a look at this website and follow the links/prompts to answer the questions listed on the main page. Then use the answers to write a report in your blog.

Here is Episode 4 of our English serial. Who's your favourite character? Is the story developing as you guessed it would? Are you still sure that your predictions will come true???

The listening is here and the activities can be found by clicking on this link.

If you still have time then try these activities. This one is on Australian slang and this one is on animal idioms!

This will be the last term of English for most of you before you go on to further studies in other areas. Let's make it a good and valauble learning time!

Happy blogging!

Photos from end of term party

Personalize your own slideshow

Hope you enjoy the photos from our Easter party. Sorry that there aren't photos of everyone but maybe some one has photos to share with us all!

Our Australian bush dance!