Week 6

What is this? Post your guess in comments G'day and welcome to another class. I hope by now that you have caught up on all the work you're supposed to have done on your blog. Today is your last chance to catch up so get a move on....

As the Health Expo is on June 4 we need to focus our attention on Health and Lifestyle. Go to our f2f wiki, the Events page, and follow the instructions below the Health Expo.

Let's see if we can do it! As you'll be preparing food to 'sell' on the day, we have to turn our attention to healthy recipes. Think about what you're going to make and write the recipe in your blog. Add a picture from the net. To help you with the nutritional values of the dish you're preparing, look at CalorieKing and you can see if what you've chosen is indeed a healthy option!

That should keep you busy so i won't give you anything else to complete today!

Happy blogging!

Week 5

Some of the colours in Sydney gardens at the moment!

G'day and welcome to another week.

I enjoyed reading your posts on If I could be an animal I'd be a... Have a look at your classmates blogs and write a comment with your opinion. I got a chance this week to look at all your blogs and I wrote a comment on most of your posts. Check out what I wrote!

Some of you are doing GREAT work! Lots of posts, photos and links! Have a look for yourselves and see what you think! I especially like Helen and Lisa's blogs as they have done more than the set work! Well done!

Did any of you look at the site on formal writing last week? I guess you won't want to now as you've already completed the assessment for Andrew!! Have you tried the online environment game or checked out yappr? If not do so now!

Once again I need to remind you about headphones/microphones so you can listen to the texts on Time4English or check out podcasts!

Not many of you have completed the recount from a few weeks back. Please do this today. You can print off the text structure from the blog page to help you.

When you've done that, check out Time4English and have a look at Upper Intermediate/Advanced , Module 4- the world. You can do the listening on 4F and when finished that, you can try some grammar practice with 4B, 4C, 4D & 4E.

Happy blogging!

Week 4

The Fab Four!

G'day all

I hope you all had a great weekend and I especially hope that all the mothers among you had an extra special time yesterday! I had a busy time going twice to the airport! Once to pick up my eldest daughter and then to drop another one off!! Then it was home to a relaxing afternoon and a DVD!

I haven't had a chance to check on the progress of your blogs but I'll be doing it this week! I hope you're all up to date! I'll be giving you a checklist next Monday to make sure your on track!

Rosa's class is also learning how to write formal letters and she has a useful link on her blog. It's called speakspeak writing formal letters. Have a look for yourself!

The following text is from Rosa's blog and I'd like you to do the exercises too!

Water Saving:

This term Andrew is going to be talking to you about the environment. There is a new online game called Mission H2o. It is on water conservation and teaches players how to improve water usage at home. You can win an ipod if you play all the games. Tell your kids and friends about it! Closing Date: Friday 30th May 2008 at 5.00pm.

Personal Texts:
As you know, a blog is very useful to express your own thoughts and opinions. View this blog from one of Sally's students (AMEP-B 2007), Bo Liang's Blog. Do the same topic as Bo, If I could be an animal....

Choose and animal you would like to be and write about it.

Did any of you manage to get a look at yappr and check out the videos? Hopefully they'll open from here. You really do need headphones/microphones very soon if we're going to do podcasts!

Happy blogging!

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!

Week 5

What is this structure and where is it?

G'day all!

It seems like ages since I wrote in the blog because of the holiday last week. I hope you're all ready to work today! It very important each week that you read what I write and then do any classwork I set before you go and do other things!

By now you should have all done the Library podcast and posted your replies in your blog. Then you should have gone to the ESOL wiki and completed the 2 tasks there. Last time you also had to post a comment on my post about the pictures. (I can see only 3!!)

Go back through the blog to access the links!

When you have finished these 3 tasks, open the link to Rosa's blog and look at the Harmony day photos. Write an account of the day's events in a new post on your blog. You can copy the photos if you'd like to. Ask me how if you can't do it!

After that, look at the activities on the Easter Show. That should keep you busy for 2 hours!

Happy blogging!