Interactive Writing #14: July 24th, 2009
Exam. (70%) Write a book report about “Diddakoi”. Your report should be divided into four separate paragraphs. (30%) Write about either gypsies, or Rumer Godden I want to see proof that you have read the book quote from the book mention names, places, events in the story have done some reading and research about the [...]
Research in English #14: July 24th, 2009
Exam. (50%) Write about one of the topics below (25-350 words): sheep farming deportation and convict settlers gold rush the rabbit problem the Australian constitution Australia in World War I and World War II Australian heroes (50%) Write about any Australian topic of your choice (250-350 words) You need to show the instructor the following: [...]
Summer plans
CIMG2245 Originally uploaded by sheffnermarc My summer vacation objective: climb this 3,067 metre-high mountain. What’s your goal this summer vacation? You can read more about this mountain in English here. And here’s the English blog of someone who lives there.
Australia in the news – July 15th, 2009
Two items of news about Australia that I saw today: Australia warns China on spy case Missing backpacker is found alive
Interactive Writing #12: July 10th, 2009
Returned old papers Individual conference with each student to discuss her summary of chapter 3 Homework: Report on chapters 4 & 5 Next week (July 17th): vocabulary test (same as the one in April) summary of chapters 6 & 7 Exam (July 24th): write a 300-500-word book report on “Diddakoi“. You must show me that [...]
Research in English #12: July 10th, 2009
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection via Flickr Checked answers to homework unit 3 part 2 Some comments on multiculturalism: is multiculturalism “good”? why? “discrimination” means to tell good from bad Checked answers to page 26 T/F reading and writing: page 28 #3 – check “A” or “D”, then write your opinion [...]
Interactive Writing session #11: July 3rd, 2009
Image via Wikipedia IMPORTANT NOTICE There WILL be an examination – July 24th. (In today’s class, I said there would not be an examination: that was incorrect). I will tell you more about the examination next class – July 10th. It will be a reading and writing exam, based on the two textbooks we have [...]
Research in English #11: July 3, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Poster presentation Check the meaning of the following: idol idolize romantic romanticize discover invade conquer Watch this short scene from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. What does this tell you about cultures? Discuss your homework with a partner: why did various people emigrate to Australia? What do you think [...]
Interactive Writing session #10: June 26th, 2009
Continued reading “Diddakoi“: p. 24 ~ p.37) Watched the first 15 minutes of the British movie Kes (in Japanese here). This movie was made in 1969, at about the same time that the book “Diddakoi” was published (1972), so you can see what Britain looked like at that time. Homework: Read the rest of chapter [...]
Research in English #10: June 26th, 2009
Poster presentations Comments on presentations from the instructor: what are the main themes or concepts of Australia? Some examples are – very long history of aborigines (“dreamtime“) colonialism – discovered by Capt Cook in 1778 “melting pot” policy until World War II(~1939) multicultural policy after World War II (1945 ~ gold rush huge land area; [...]
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