Term 4, Week 1

G'day all and welcome back to the final few weeks of the course. It will be a short term - only 7 weeks, so we have to work hard to get all the material covered in time!

I hope you all had a good break even if you had English homework to do for me! I hope it wasn't too much of an effort to do it but it would've helped to keep your mind on English!!! It's so easy to forget things when you don't practise every day!

As you know, we're off to Featherdale Wildlife Park tomorrow. The weather forecast is for hot conditions so make sure you come prepared for that!!! Remember to SLIP, SLOP, SLAP, SEEK and SLIDE!!! Bring some water with you too to avoid dehydration!!!

Even though we won't be in the classroom in Building D tomorrow, there will be work to do! On your return from the excursion, you'll have to write 2 texts. One will be a recount of the day and the other will be an information report on your favourite animal/bird there!

To prepare for these tasks, have a look at Rosa's blog where she has examples of how to write information reports. There is one on animals too!

Chck out this audio file and can you guess which animal it is? Write your answer in the Comments section at the end of this post.

In the website for Featherdale, you can check out all the animals they have there and there is also a bit of information on the animals. This will help you choose an animal to write about and also give you some information you may need. You can also listen to the sounds made by some of the animals! Once you have picked your favourite animal,you can start putting some information together in a blog post. Then at Featherdale, you can take a photo of the animal..... maybe even with you in the picture too!!!

In case you've forgotten how to write a Recount, have a look at this link. Maybe you'd like to copy the text to a word document and print it for reference. Now, open this link for an example of a recount.

The recount will be written at home and handed to Andrew for me on Thursday! If you don't come on the excursion, you can write a recount of what you did for the day!!

If you finsih this work, you can look at this site that Rosa has recommended for improving your English. It's also like another site called yappr which is very good too! Check them out at home if you can't access them from TAFE.

I hope you enjoy your 'free' excursion tomorrow thanks to the Student Association!

See you all back here again next week! Happy blogging!