Term 2, week 1

G'day all and welcome back!

I hope you had a good relaxing break over the past two weeks. I don't know about you but I felt the time went by all too quickly! What did you do? Anyone go to the Easter Show? If you did, tell us what you saw and did there! Did you go to the ANZAC dawn service or parade on Saturday? Did you play two-up? Did anyone go away anywhere to visit friends or go sightseeing? If you have children, how did you keep them occupied during the break.

Have a look at Rosa's blog post on writing a recount and once you know what to do, write a recount of your holiday. Before you post it though, I want you to type it in a word document and email it to me! I'll correct it and then you can upload it to your blog straight from Word!

This morning we talked a little about Anzac Day. The following is a link to an excellent site which clearly explains all about ANZAC Day. It is a site for young children so the language used is not difficult. Have a look at all of it (there are 4 sections) and then answer the questions below in your blog. Try to use the answers to write a short report!

1. When is ANZAC Day?


2. What does ANZAC stand for?


3. What are Australian soldiers called?


4. Name a brave person from World War 1?


5. What name did Simpson call his donkey?


6. What does 'defend' mean?


7. What do we do on ANZAC Day?


8. What is the Ode?


9. What words do we say in reply to the Ode? (Look at last words of the text)


10. Why do we lay flowers and wreaths at the bottom of a war memorial?
    

Congratulations to all of you who are now qualified First Aiders! Well done!

Happy blogging!

AMEP students just wanna have fun!

G'day all

These are all the photos I took on the day of the party before the Easter break. I hope you like them! Feel free to add them to your blog if you'd like! I'll be looking forward to seeing all of your slide shows on bubbleshare or Smilbox soon!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Party time

Party time!

G'day all!

Well I don't know about you, but I had a fantastic time at our class party at the end of last term! The food was fantastic and you all prepared excellent dishes! Next time though, we'd better have something to drink available especially if we do more dancing!! And I'd better remember to bring sugar!!!

Speaking of dancing, well, what a talented bunch you all are? We had such a mixture of dances and abilities!! It was good to see everyone 'having a go' and trying to learn the steps! Good on you all!

The singing was great too and I'll have a link to that ready very soon!

I've tried to make a little video using animoto but it's not very good... a few pictures are a bit blurry! Anyway, have a look and maybe you can do a better job than me! The slide show is better!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

ANZAC BISCUITS

Here is a recipe for ANZAC biscuits. Print off the recipe and use the verbs from the box below to complete the procedure. You can then try making them at home!

You will need:

1 cup rolled oats

1 cup sifted plain flour

1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

½ cup coconut

125g butter

2 tablespoons golden syrup

1 tablespoon boiling water

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

METHOD:

___________ oats, sifted flour, sugar and coconut together in a large bowl.

__________ syrup and butter together in another bowl.

_______________ soda with boiling water and ________ into melted butter and syrup.

____________ mixture into dry ingredients.

____________ rounded teaspoons of mixture onto a lightly greased oven tray (about 5cm apart).

_____________ out with a fork.

______________ in a slow oven (160˚c) for about 20minutes or until biscuits feel a bit firm.

_____________ biscuits and ___________ on wire trays.

This mixture makes about 25 biscuits.

Choose the missing verbs from this list:

flatten, melt, loosen, bake, place, stir (x2), mix, combine, cool

Week 8

G'day all

Well, believe it or not you have almost made it to the end of Term 1! What great work you've been doing on your blogs! I'm very impressed! Keep up the good work! A special 'well done' must go to Flor who has been working on her blog from home often late at night!

This week we're saying goodbye to Natalie and Kitty who will be heading overseas for a few months. Lucky things! I hope to see them back later in the year to finish off their English course. Have a great time! Don't forget us!

Well done to all of you who posted a comment on the forum last week! What you had to say was very interesting! Check it out and see if anyone from Rosa's class agreed with your comments!

Rosa should have sent you all an email inviting you to join the wiki. Check your TAFE email to activate your membership in the wiki. Log on to esolf2f and have a look at the OZ quiz that Rosa's class has started.You have to open her invitation email and follow the instructions it it. Take turns to do the questions, as it's not possible to have 2 people working on the wiki at the same time. I'd like each of you to add another question or two. You could ask some questions based on the material we've been looking at in class on Monday mornings or even something to do with Australian animals from the last two Tuesday afternoons classes!

Then, I want you all to send me an email (check the board for the address) from your TAFE account and tell me what you've enjoyed about this term.

Today, I'm going to use the teacher's log on to get you all to log on to Voicethread so you can access the program and leave a message. Then if you'd like to do more more you'll have to access it from home as it's a blocked site for you here at TAFE.

As I mentioned last Tuesday, if you'd like to type up your reports today you can do so as long as the other tasks are completed.

If you still have time, try Time4English again as it worked at home for me. Check out Intermediate, Countries & Culture 2.

Next Thursday the Easter Show will start. Check out this link and find out something about it!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow and our party plus singing and dancing from your culture! I hope you're prepared to have some fun! I'll be looking forward to the photos afterwards!

Here are some photos from a class party last year! Enjoy!

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