Week 7

G'day all!

Well, did you all switch off your lights on Saturday night for Earth Hour? Where were you and what did you do? I was not at home but my girls used candles to light up the room and had fun telling stories and chatting for the hour.

I'm sure that most of you have all your work up to date by now. If not, please get it done today! We can't move too quickly if some of you are still way behind!

Last week I asked you to look at gender roles in Time4English if you had time. I don't think anyone got to that so please do so today.

Open this link to the forum and leave a comment on the topic! Ask me for the password.

I'd also like you to give me your TAFE email address today so that Rosa can invite you all to join our ESOL wiki! Your address should be your user name for the Internet followed by the standard TAFE address! I'll pass around a piece of paper for you to add your name, ok?

Happy blogging!

Week 6

These are pictures of our dog taken last week! I went into the laundry to do the washing and found her asleep in the washing basket! Isn't she cute?

G'day all

It's been a week of celebrations this week! On Tuesday, I celebrated St. Patrick's Day and shared that with you! I'm pleased you all liked the brown bread. I promised you the recipe and I'll post it on the blog later!

You all worked hard on the Wordle sentence and mostly got it right! Maybe some of you remembered that it was from the article on Supermarket shopping in Australia! Did any of you try to create your own wordle???

On Thursday, you went to the conference room to celebrate Harmony Day. I hope you enjoyed the speeches and singing! Take a look at the video of the morning! In your blog write a recount about the event.

It's great to see so many of you up to date with your blogs! I enjoy reading them! If your name is not on my list, please make sure you give me your blog address today!

Today, ask me how to put links on your blog and how to upload photos. We'll try to register you on Bubbleshare. Bring in some photos next week so we can upload them!

Next Saturday, the 28th March, Australia will celebrate Earth Hour. Do you know anything about this? What do you think it means? Have a look at the following link and read about the event. Then click on the question What will you be doing? and read the suggestions offered. In your blog, write what YOU will do for Earth Hour and add any other suggestions you can think of!

Have a look at this YouTube video at home to get an idea of how important Earth Hour has become!

If you still have time left you can log on to Time4English and do the listening exercises on Traditional roles (in Intermediate, Countries & Culture 2) This is something we will be looking at with Opal Crazy and men's' and women's' work!

Have a good week and happy blogging!

Week 5

Can you find your name here? I hope I haven't forgotten anyone!!

G'day and welcome to this week's blog!

I know you are all very tired as you are working so hard doing maybe First Aid and the Linked Skills Course and English as well! I know it will all be worth it in the end!

It was great to see most of you finish off the tasks for your blogs last week. Now that you are up to date we'll be able to move on to other things!

This week, in our Tuesday morning class we read some more of our novel, Opal Crazy! I'm sure you're all looking forward to finding out who the skeleton was, how 'he' died, will Amy and Steve find any opal and do women bring back luck? What kind of superstitions are their in your culture? Write about a couple of them in your blog. Even if you don't come to class on Tuesday am, you can still write about superstitions in your country!

The picture below is called a wordle! It's so easy to use and fun to create! I'll give you the details later! Have a look at this wordle and see if you can work out the sentence! Write your answer in the Comments section of today's post. Good luck!

The 'big' words mean that you have to use them more than once. For example, you have to use YOU twice!

This is the link to the Wordle site! Try creating your own wordles for your classmates!

You recently visited the library with Andrew. Listen to one of the St George librarians, Patricia, and do the worksheet with it. You can print off the questions to help you. Write your answers in your blog.

The librarians at St George are producing excellent tutorials on how to use some of their facilities. You can find them in their wiki, St George Library wiki. Keep visiting it to learn how to put money in your TAFE library to photocopy or print from one of the library computers, searching skills, etc. Today have a look at their tutorial on how to start your TAFE portal access and change your password. In your blog, choose one of the items they talk about and write out the procedure for it!

If you finish all this work, you can have a look at Time4English and complete the exercises on tag questions from the Grammar section.

Happy Blogging!

Week 4

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G'day all!

I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend and that the cooler weather on Sunday didn't prevent you form doing things!

I was delighted to read what some you wrote in your blogs over the past week. I realise that due to the large class size and not enough computers, some of you have not had a chance to do much yet. Remember though, that you can log on at home and do some blogging there! There were however, a couple of Blogs I couldn't get on to so can you please check today that I have the correct details for your blogs?

Today, I'd like to make sure that those who have not yet added a post on their blogs do so! The rest of you can do the other work I'll be handing out!

It's hard to correct the work you do on your blog so if you want it corrected then copy it from your post and paste it to a word document and email it to me for correction. I can then correct it and give it back so that you can edit your post!

By now you should have done the following things for this class!

1. An introduction about yourself and where you come from.


2. A recount of your last holiday.


3. The Computer Health Quiz and printed off a copy. (Remember to show it to me!)
   
4. Added a link to my blog.

If time permits check out Voicethread again and see if it works today! Some of Rosa's class managed to get it to work. Follow the link and register!

Hope you like the photos I took last week. I thought you might like the 2 ways of making your photos more interesting! Ask me how and I'll show you!

By the way, can you count how many photos Poonam managed to get in?

Check out Rosa's blog for this week when you've finished your work.

Happy Blogging!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Isabella's visit to AMEP-A

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Week 3

G'day

Summer is over so welcome to autumn! I must say I'll be happy when it's not so hot in our classrooms every day!

Well I hope that this week's lesson goes better than last week's! It will if the Internet is working!

As you didn't get to do any work last week and I don't know how many of you did any work at home, I'll keep today's tasks very short!

To begin, read through last week's post and complete the activities.

When you've finished, you can open the link to Rosa's blog and complete the voicethread activity. It's fun!

Today, I'll take your picture to publish on voicethread if that's OK with you.

Happy blogging and enjoy the last of the summer flowers from my garden!

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