FAREWELL

Dear Students,

We have come to the end of the semester and this is a brief note to bid you farewell. I would like to wish you the best in all your undertakings in the future. I hope you have enjoyed the reading class and the class blog. I must say that I am very happy you have learnt about blogging so quickly - I was just lucky to teach a group of intelligent bloggers in my class. Once you leave the class you can still have access to the class blog and all the material and links provided for you. You are very welcome to keep your student blogs active if you wish.

Sometimes, a biography describes a person's life from birth to death. At other times, the writer concentrates on a particular period in a person's life. We will be reading biographies of famous Australians and other people. We will be practising completing a time line, making notes of key points as events, turning points and achievements.

Assessment Task - Reading a Biography of a Famous Person

TASK 1:

• Read a Biography of a famous Australian from Koori History and do the timeline
• Read Fred Hollow's biography and do the timeline

TASK 2:

Turning points and Achievements (BIO)

• Read Nelson Mandela's Biography and identify the turning points and achievements. List them in two groups in one new post in your blog. When you finish we will have an open class discussion.
• Read a biography of your choice and identify the turning points and achievements as above.

            


TASK 3:  Look through the Famous People Biographies Lessons 

•                 Choose a famous person
•                 Listen and read the biography text
•                 Do the vocabulary, phrase match and gap-filling activities

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Media File
Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.

Class Activity - Take some notes using key words after reading the article you have brought in class.

Homework = Summary - Write a brief summary of the main issues the article deals with based on your notes.

Personal reflection - Respond in a written format about attitudes, feelings, reflections on the content and implications of the article.

TASKS FOR 5/4/17

TASK A:

• Open the Academic Reading link

• Explore the other links

TASK B:

• Open the Model Essays link
• Choose an essay (band 5 or 6)
• Follow the instructions

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TASKS TO DO 29/3/17

1. Do the Parts of a Textbook Quiz

2. Open Study Skills Textbook and do the tasks       number 2, 6, 7 and 8

3. Look through the other Textbook resources

SURVEYING A TEXTBOOK

During your studies you will be exposed to different textbooks. In this class we will be studying the parts of the textbook, surveying the textbook and using the textbook effectively. This is to assist you with your further studies and more precisely with your assignments.

TASKS FOR TODAY

TASK 1 :  Listen to Greener World and do the activities. Write your opinion on the topic in 3-4 sentences

TASK 2 : Listen and read Kyoto protocol and do the activities. Write your opinion on the topic.

TASK 3 : Listen and read about Solar Taxi and give your opinion on that.

Global Warming and people awareness

Graphic Text Activities

TASK 1: Do the Reading Graphs Activity (open the link on the right)

TASK 2: Do the Graphs and Prepositions Quiz (open the link on the right)

TASK 3: Open the Create Graphs link and do Task 1 and 2 (create two graphic texts) from the handout on Global Warming given by your teacher 

TASK 4: Do the following activity

Pie Charts: Australian Immigration

Study the information in the table below and make two pie charts, one for 1992 and one for 2002 using the Create a Graph Program provided in the Class Blog. Then transfer the information in bar graphs.

Compare the two years.

Immigration to Australia, 1992 & 2002
Region	1992 Number	2002 Number
Europe & former USSR	26870	17411
Southeast Asia	22325	14464
Northeast Asia	21473	10716
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan	10594	9190
Oceania	10362	19152
Middle East & North Africa	7021	6000
South & Central America	3308	900
Africa (excl. Nth Africa)	2823	9311
North America	2570	1730
	107346	88874

TASK 5: Compare the immigration to Australia in 1992 and 2002 (3-4 s-ces)

Survey Report

Topic - Environment
Subtopics - Carbon Print/Global Warming/Alternative Sources of Energy
Text type - Survey Report
Assessment Task - Reading a Survey Report and Graphic Text




Our natural environment is something that we must forever take care of, treasure and respect. Unfortunately, we only have one planet, one earth, one environment and if we ruin it, we risk destroying it forever and causing irreversible damage that will be devastating for us and our generation but even more so for the future generations that haven't had a chance to live, experience and enjoy what we have.

There are many things that each and everyone of us can do help protect our environment and reduce the impact that our life styles and way of living has on the environment. If we each do our bit for the environment, no matter how small, we can create a positive reversal on negative impact. By becoming more environmentally aware and through reducing each of our own carbon footprints, we can minimise the detrimental effect we have on our world.

WELCOME to EFS

Welcome to EFS Class blog! Welcome to EFS reading class where you can improve and advance your reading and writing skills. Hope you will enjoy blogging which can give you an opportunity to practise in your own time and at your own pace beyond the classroom. You will be able to access lots of resources provided for you by your teacher. You can also interact with your teacher and your classmates online and be able to view their work and give feedback. Enjoy it ...