Week 5

G'day all

I hope all you mothers in the class had a lovely Mother's Day yesterday. Was it Mother's Day where you come from too? Leave me a comment and tell me how you celebrated or if you rang your mum etc.

As you know, you will all have to do an oral presentation when I return from Ireland. Today I'd like you to start practising using powerpoint. The following tutorials are useful for you. It shows you. Use this tutorial to help you get started with Powerpoint. If you find a better one just let me know!

The second tutorial explains how to make an effective presentation. Have a look at it and if you follow the suggestions you'll make a wonderful slideshow to go with the your talk at the end of term!!

To help you become familair with it all, today I'd like you to prepare a short slide show using powerpoint. You can choose from :

• the town/city or region you come from


• your favourite animal


• your hobby
  

You will need to include at least 5 slides including the Title slide. Add images, animation, music and effects. Ask me to show you the very basic one I prepared!!

Have fun!

Rocks excursion May 4

Hey all

Here's a slide show of our excursion. Have a look and if you put the curser over the slide, a caption will appear! Have a read!!

I'll be looking forward to seeing your photos on your blog! To begin today I'd like you to write a recount of the excursion in your blog. Don't forget to add all the features of a Recount like orientation, series of events and a reoreintation! Remeber too to use time markers, noun groups and a little personal comment! Ask me if you're unsure!

An interesting video!

G'day all

Here at last is the video I took in class when we were playing the Alibi game! You can see how funny some of the students found it!!

I hope you enjoy it too!

Aboriginal performers

G'day all

Here's a short video clip of the Aboriginal performers we saw on the way back to Circular Quay station on Tuesday.

The didigeroo playing is impressive as is the dancing! It's a pity though that the jogger ran in front of them! It spoils my video!!!

A little bit of fun!

G'day all,

Here's a little fun video taken in Foundation Park when we were on our excursion! Vladimir sure was having lots of fun!

Week 2/3

G'day all

Wasn't the weather great on the weekend? I hope you were able to get out and enjoy the sunshine! I was happy to get all the clothes dry quickly!

I hope it'll be as nice for our excursion tomorrow! I'm looking forward to walking around the city and seeing the famous sights again! It's something I never tire of!

To begin today I'd like you to look at this information about places in the Rocks. Have a little read about the various places then make a note of them and look out for them tomorrow! We'll see who can best remember some facts about the various places!

The I'd like you to listen to this mini play set in a clothes shop in England. The accents are very English but as many TV shows and films are English, I thought it would be good for you to listen to it. Open this link and print off the worksheets first to help you with it all. Hopefully they won't all be back to front again!!!

When you've done that, you can come up to me and we'll do a little voice recording of you talking about how you spent the weekend!

Still got time? I'm sure we'll find something for you to do!!!

Happy blogging!

Here's the video from our Easter party! I've know idea why it won't play right way up as it does in the video folder! I've tried twice and you know it takes forever to upload!! Enjoy anyway but don't strain your neck!!!

Term 2. Week 1

Make a free slideshow design

G'day all and welcome back for another term. I hope you all had an enjoyable break away from TAFE. Did you do anything special? Did you go to the Easter Show? the beach? the mountains? anywhere??? Write about it in a recount in your blog.

As I explained to you this morning, we're unable to go on the excursion tomorrow. I'm sorry about that but we will hopefully go on May 4.

I had a lovely 2 weeks away from work. In fact, I must apologise because I had such a lovely time I didn't even think about work or the blog or anything! Sorry!

I'll try to make it up by putting lots of things on for you to do!!

Do any of you go to the TAFE canteen for a coffee? Well listen to Annette who worked there last year as she talks about coffee and other things. Remember to print the worksheet before you start listening!

Next Monday is ANZAC Day. To help you understand a bit about its significance, open this link to find the answers to the questions on this worksheet. Print it out first then write up your answers as a report in your blog.

Happy blogging!