Week 3

G'day all!

Well some of you had great fun last week playing with the photos on Bubbleshare! I hope you can all post them on your blogs this week so that we can all view them! I found out from Rosa that when you go to paste your Bubbleshare photos on your blog post, you must click on the Edit HTML button first. This lets you paste the photos. Remember to switch back though!

I hope you all enjoyed Helen's video clip of Andrew's singing !

I'm sorry I can't be with you today but as I told you this morning my meeting at AMES was changed. You can all go back and read last week's post and complete the work on the Recount! This will form part of your writing portfolio for assessment.

Have you identified the flowers from last week's post? Put a comment in the post! What about the floral emblem of NSW? Did you find out its name? Add a picture and a short description to your blog!

If you run out of things to do, have a go at some Time4English activities or Issues in English. (The icon for this is on the desktop)

Bye for now! Happy blogging!



BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

Term 2, week 1

These flowers are from my garden.Do you know what they are?


Gday all and welcome back for Term 2!Did any of you go to Canberra for the Olympic torch relay? Or to the city on ANZAC day to see the march? What did you get up to during your 'free time'? It was a bit hard to do much outdoors though due to all that rain! Imagine, there haven't been as many consecutive wet April days since 1931! 13 in fact!The photos from our lunch turned out very well, didn't they? I hope you all remembered to bring some photos today so you can create your own bubbleshare after you've finished your work. If you forgot then you can use some of mine, ok?Today, I'd like you to write a recount of what you got up to during the last two weeks! Read below how to write a recount. Post it in your blog!Recount texts: The purpose of a recount is to inform or entertain by retelling past events or experiences. You can recount personal events, factual incidents or imaginary incidents.

The structure of the text is:

An orientation which tells about who, when and where the event or incident occurred.

The detailing of a sequence/list of events in the order in which they happened. Throughout, there may be some personal comment about the events.

Some language features of a recount are:

• mainly past tense verbs


• action/doing verbs ie walked/caught/saw/played/bought


• adverbial phrases ie on the way/in the city/on the train


• specific participants ie my friend/his daughter/our neighbours


• personal comment ie I really liked it/some people were a bit afraid


• details of time ie about two o'clock/after lunch/in the morning

You can have a look at some model texts to get some help/ideas. You can click on the link and read some recounts written by former AMEP students.

Happy blogging!

Week 6

G'day all!

I can't believe that this is our last computer class for the term! We really have not done very much work so we'll have to be very busy in Term 2!


I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. I spent this afternoon with some friends at a BBQ. Luckily for us the rain held off and we were able to sit outside.

I'm pleased to see that you've made an effort to get your work up to date on your blogs. You can finish off all the bits and pieces today so that we can start new things after the holidays. Please make sure you have headphones by then. it makes it easier to do listening! If you can get some with a microphone that will be even better so you can record.

Remember to log on to the wiki and do the work that has to be done. Have a look at what Rosa's students have done and see if you can do the same!

When all your work is up to date, have a look at the comments I've written on your posts!

Have a good week and have a great break from English classes for 2 weeks. i know I'm looking forward to having some time off!

Happy blogging!