Week 3

G'day all

I'm sorry I can't be with you today. I do hope you find the pathways talks useful and that they help you with your course choices for next year.

Take care and happy blogging!

Week 2

G'day all!

First of all, well done on guessing the name of the tourist attraction in last week's post! I enjoyed reading the comments!

I hope you all enjoyed the Migrant Information Day yesterday. Please add to your blog writing portfolio, a short recount (about your visit there - who, what, when, where, why, how you went etc, and the sequence of events) or a report about what the Migrant Information Day was all about. Remember the structure and language used in each different text type!

Thanks to all of you for your emails last week. I have replied to you but will return your emails in hard copy form for you to make the necessary corrections.

As Geeta may have told you, next Wednesday you will have a talk by the College Counsellor. To prepare for that, please print off the Vocabulary worksheets for the talk. Next week, Geeta will get you in small groups to do this worksheet for the Counsellor's talk.

After that, you can start your research for your presentation.

Happy Blogging!

Week 1, Term 4

This is a well known Australian tourist attraction! What is it? Where is it? Have you ever visited it?

Post your answer in comments but don't spend too much time doing this part of the lesson!

G'day all and welcome back for term 4. Welcome too to our new students. We hope you enjoy your time here with us as you improve your English.

I'm still waiting for some of you to write your report and your recount about Bundeena. It forms part of your writing portfolio (a collection of written texts on various topics) for this course. Please finish this today!

Another thing to do today is to send me an email (Ask me for my address if you don't already know/have it) and tell me how you felt when you had to do your oral presentations last Monday. Talk about what the hardest thing was, how you felt and if you learnt anything from the experience.

Once you have completed these tasks, you can see me for the information sheet about the topic for your oral presentation. I will not give it to you until you have completed the other tasks!

Enjoy the class and work hard!!!

Last post for Term 3

G'day all

I can't believe that today is our last class already! The term seems to have gone so quickly, doesn't it?

Well, today is DEFINITELY your last chance to finish your report and recount. Then I want you to start doing research on a famous person for your practice oral presentation.

Of course, if you haven't logged on to the DET Portal, then you can't do anything... not even read this post!!

Have a great break but try to do some of the activities suggested on the sheet to keep up your English skills!

Happy Holidays!!!

Week 8

What's this a photo of? Who took it? Where was it taken? When was it taken? Post your answer in "Comments" in this post!

G'day all

I can't believe that this is the second last class for the term already! I hope you are all up to date with the work you should be doing. By now the Webquest should be completed. If you are having trouble with the report please talk to me!

How are the reports and the recounts coming along? Nearly finished? They have to be ready by next Thursday so Ican check and correct them over the holidays!

Today's class will be a bit shorter than usual due to the morning tea for us in the Student Association. Congratulations to all who willingly participated in the event. As you've probably heard, the Student Association Board have generously given us $1,500 towards our end of year excursion. That's all thanks to YOU and Sally's class.

Last weekend, I went up the north coast to Foster Tuncurry for the Great Lakes car rally. It is a really beautiful place! I tried out my new camera but as you can see from the photos I got more dust than cars!

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Week 7

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Well what can I say? You were all FANTASTIC yesterday at the Car & Bike Expo! It was great hearing you use your English as you handed out show bags, evaluation forms, raffle tickets and food. You spoke clearly, were polite and very friendly. I had some very positive feedback from teachers from other sections about you all. Well done!

Last week we had a great excursion to Bundeena, didn't we? Not even the rain could dampen our spirits!!! I do hope you had an enjoyable day and got something out of it! I'm looking forward to seeing all the photos from the day.

Sally told me today about an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. Have a look at the article and answer these questions.

• What is the article about?
• When was it in the paper?
• Which place is mentioned that you've recently visited?
• Name 2 ways to get there.
• What were the local people called?
• Name 4 activities the locals used to do.
• What's the beach called?
• Name 3 things you can see there.

Use these answers to help you write a short information report about Bundeena. Use the guide from aa recent post to help you with the structure.

Then you can write a recount of last week's excursion. Do you remember the stages and structure of a recount? Ask me for a hard copy of how to write a recount if you're unsure.

Week 5

G'day all,

I can't believe that it's week 5 already! We really have to get our skates on and get up tp date with all our work! remember that the work on the blog counts towards your reading/listening/writing assessment.. it is ongoing! I'll give you a printout next week of what you should have done by now!

I'm sure you are all working very hard on the webquest set by Rosa! Keep up the good work! I've included (on the blog) Rosa's instructions for writing an information report. Please use this to help you structure your report WHEN you have ALL the answers to the webquest!

I do hope that you will write your opinion on last week's forum question! I only saw 2 comments!!! By the way, Geeta told me that you were talking about smacking. Have a look athe the forum topic that we had in first term and read other students comments. Please add your opinion to the list!

Thanks to WeiYun for telling us about Chinese Valentine's Day! It was the first time I heard of it! Read all about it in her blog!

Please make sure too that you have a look Lei's blog and look at the beautiful flowers in the bubbleshare! Thanks too to her for last week's question and well done to those who named the QVB as the building in the picture!

A word of warning though, please make sure NOT to plagiarise other writers' work! DO NOT COPY LARGE CHUNKS OF TEXT TO PUT IN YOUR BLOG! It is illegal!

Well, I'd better let you all get to work! Happy blogging!