Reading/listening exam

Monday 4th Nov
Please be at the East Lecture Theatre (map here or search for Latrobe uni campus map) On the map the ELT is at E6, to the right of Agora.
Be there at 8.45 at the latest!!

Good luck
Kerry

Week 9 - Improving your listening

Easy listening:

Some students have asked me how to improve listening and note-taking, and how to remember new words. This listening website can help you do all of this.

 

Look at the  video stories and find a story that interests you.

 

Listen to the report 2 or 3 times and take notes as you listen. Don't look at the script yet - remember you are concentrating on your listening.

 

When you are happy with your notetaking, look at the script to check you haven't missed anything important.

 

Then do the vocabulary exercise at the bottom of the page. Add any new words to your vocabulary book.

 

Finally, use your notes to write a short summary of the news report. This will help you with your paraphrasing (writing in your own words).

 

If you find this exercise difficult, you need to do a lot more work on your listening. Choose another story and repeat the process above.

 

If you find the exercise easy try ......

 

A bigger challenge!!

 

Go to TED talks and listen to Jason Pontin talk about some of the challenges of using technology effectively to solve the world's big problems.

 

Listen to the report 2 or 3 times and take notes as you listen. Don't look at the script yet - remember you are concentrating on your listening. Add any new words to your vocabulary book.

When you are happy with your notetaking, look at the script to check you haven't missed anything important.
Finally, use your notes to write a short summary of the news report. This will help you with your paraphrasing (writing in your own words).

(You can find some more interesting/challenging talks at TED)

 

Show me your summaries.

for Jow - referencing conference proceedings

http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/content.php?pid=82408&sid=1127441

CALL week 8 - Essay Plan, Adjective clauses

1.   Writing - persuasive essay

Complete the tasks for your essay referencing from last week's blog.
I need a printout of your reference list for your sources - this is part of your Essay Plan assessment

2.   Grammar practice

i)    Here are some practice exercises for adjective clauses using:
whose , when/where , who/whom .
Do the exercises and check why your answers are correct or not.

ii)   Use these exercises to practise the participle phrases we did on Monday: Participle phrase 1, participle phrase 2

 

Week 7 CALL - referencing and sources

Referencing:

Here is the link to the APA referencing booklet that I've given you.

There are also some quizzes here which will help you practise your reference list. Do this quiz - use your referencing guide to help you.

Write the full reference (using APA guidelines) for your 4 persuasive essay articles (in Word) and give it to me.

Searching for sources:

http://scholar.google.com.au/ is a good start for your research:

Search for your 2 extra articles. Print and highlight the information you can use to support your essay.
Complete the chart on p139,140 of your student book.

CALL week 6 - Evaluating sources for your essay

Social media and young people

1.   After a quick search of the internet, a student has found these articles which may be relevant for the persuasive essay. Your task is to evaluate these sources and find which ones are suitable to use and which ones are not.

Print this table and answer the questions for each article. Show me when you've finished.

Article 1 - Social media and young adults
Article 2 - Social media
Article 3 - Social media fuel dangerous weight loss goal

2.   Now do an internet search for yourself to find two articles to support your persuasive essay.

• Evaluate each article so you know whether it is suitable to use.
• Fill out the information on p 140 of your student book.

You will need to have this table completed with 4 articles (2 from your writing booklet and 2 from your research) by week 7. Your outline is due in Week 8.

 

 

The critical Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a chinese artist famous by your photography, architecture, sculputure and your political activism. He has been a strong critical against the chinese government. Your critic opinion about some issues in china, like Sichuan schools corruption scandal and the nude on photography , didnt has been accepted very well by chinese governement. He has been investigated and chased by government. Ai Weiwei have a strong personality and must be admired by your strong sense of democracy and your brave attitude by go against the chinese government and the conservatism.

Eduardo Lima.

Consultation followup

After the consultations today, there are a number of areas some students asked me for more information:

• Academic words - try the i-phone app 'vital english' academic words. If you find another app for academic word practise put it on the blog for other students.
• Formality. Here is some useful information and some formality exercises you can practise

Ai WeiWei is a artist and a social activist as well.  He had been arrested and was been imprisoned by the police because he oppose the government. He opposes the government because of the corrupted politicians and was imprisoned, because he fight against the government. He also got the public support. As Ai weiwei  revels the truth, he should be given importance and one must think about the politics and the corruption, few changes must be done in order to get a corruption free country.

Katie The article of Ai weiwei

Ai Weiwei is a traditional Chinese artist. He has the high reputation in the world. He took part in design of Beijing 2008 Olympic game. He influences young People’s thinking and behaviour through the Internet and social Media. He always shows some real documentary on his blog. He says something what he wants to see and does something in his own way but sometimes is not very good. In my opinions, he had studied  in United States for many years. He does not know the Chinese history very clearness. He can’t see what happened in these years. His thinking influences some People. So our government have their own way to deal with them.

Ai Weiwei is an artist and a social activist. He disagrees with the government of China, and he work against the government. Because this, He has highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government`s stance on democracy and human rights. Hi has investigated government corruption, so he has suffered punishment from government. The result, a lot of peoples protested against the government to help him, and to try to implant on democracy either. China is a very old country, maybe sometimes, some changes can be necessaries. Because of the large number that live in China, democracy can be so hard to implant, but is the more just politic system.  

Henry

Free great artist in china

 Ai WeiWei is a famous artist in the world. He is a free people because he always says what he want to say and do the thing he what to do. Why is he so controversial in China?  One reason to explain it should be his works which often hard to stomach by Chinese government. One of governmental officer says that WeiWei touch the base line of Chinese law. WeiWei has been in to the jail because his words and deeds. Some of the foreign media attack Chinese government to do that thing and some people in china also think government do the wrong action. I am a Chinese, so I do not want to say something harmful to my country. The government has its own reason to do this but sometimes the government solve the problem too extremely to get effect on matter. WeiWei is want to talk something about the weak point in china, his works influence a lot of Chinese youth people even the world. So he is a good artist in the world, but maybe not good in China.

CALL Week 5 - Ai WeiWei

Hi everyone

Today we are going to look at an artist who is very controversial in China, Ai WeiWei.

1. Go to Ai WeiWei to watch a 5 minute video about his recent arrest. Listen 3 or 4 times and take notes as you listen.

2. Follow the link at the bottom of the video 'Ai WeiWei evolution of a dissident'. Take notes as you read this article - remember to PARAPHRASE.

3. Search the internet for some of his artwork. Choose one piece and discuss it with a classmate. Do you like it? What does it mean to you?

4. Write a paragraph about this artist. Why is he so controversial in China?

Add your paragraph as a comment to this post. I will be very interested to read it!
Kerry

Study Guide

Here is a copy of the study guide for those students who didn't download it from moodle earlier this term.

CALL for week 4

1.  Writing feedback - cause and effect essay

• use this error chart to record your common errors in your writing
• use it every time you get some feedback on your writing - you should not be making the same mistakes over and over again!
• correct the mistakes (in a different colour) on your 1st draft
• write a second draft  - do not write a new essay, just make changes according to the feedback
• format it according to your formatting guide
• submit the 2nd draft, together with the 1st draft, to your teacher before Friday 9am

2.  Newspaper discussion

• make sure I have approved your article and discussion questions
• write your newspaper article analysis paragraph 
• submit this to Grace before the end of the week

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/world/europe/as-obama-pauses-action-putin-takes-center-stage.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world

Behind every great woman stands an unhappy man - Amanda Rocha

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life/blogs/citykat/behind-every-great-woman-stands-an-unhappy-man-20130905-2t7wi.html#ixzz2e6OQEHC8

Jonas Pereira de Souza Junior

About my presentation:
this is the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/extremely-likely-that-human-activity-is-driving-climate-change-panel-finds.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=globalwarming
and this is the questions:

1)  Do You Think that Global Warning is a natural phenomenon or is caused because human activity?

      2)  What is the bigger problem of global warming?

       3)  Are the humankind prepared against the changes of the climate?

       4)  What is the alternative for to solve this problem? 

Sleep well, learn more!

Researchs from Boston college have found that people who doesn`t sleep for enough, can have a negative effect on they learning.It is a major problem in affluent countries like EUA,England,France and South Arabia. Students, who dont sleep well, are influent by their home life, specially by tecnologies like computers and mobile phones.They are attempted all the time instead just have a good night of sleep. So it is a challenge for their teacher on class. Teachers are givin more work on class to get more attention of students. Researchs also finded that children that usually sleep more, achieve higher results on tests than students who doesnt have a good sleep. A half sleep also could bring health problems like obesity and behaviour problems. Go to bed earlier could be a probably soluttion for this issue.

Eduardo Lima

Sleep for learning

New research has not enough sleep.Can have a negative our ability to learn. This is a problem in affluent counties such as the US, England,France and Saudi Arabia.The survey found 80% of 13 and 14 years old in the US were identified by their teacher being affected by lack of sleep.The lack of sleep causes your brain to run on empty.

Sleeping and learning

Some newspapers said that sleep time cause the ability of learn. Some people think that if they get enough sleep, they will be clever than before. It is a problem that  many bedrooms have small phone computer and TV in there. It is bad for sleep.  Students need enough sleep. It is good for them read and learn sciences easier and better. And teachers always give some homeworks to them they need to use many time finish them . So in some schools, the time is changed. Student should go to school later or have a small rest in the afternoon to solve the problem. That is the answer to help the get enough sleep and study better.

Sleeping for learning

News research says when you don`t get sleep enough your ability to learn anything diminish. It is a problem, principally at the United States, England, French and South Arabic, due to new technologies like computer, tv and smartphone. This new technologies are doing the people, specially young people, will go to bad late and don`t get enough sleep. In the US 80% of children between 13 and 14 years old is affected and 57% in the worldwide. The students think that the class are not interesting, because this, a lot of students sleep during the class. Teachers are trying to change this situation, returning the class more interested and excited.  Research says that children that sleep well can get high results exams. Scientists believe that go to bad late cause health problem. Due to the fact, same school in the world start late, other schools have break in the afternoon like Siesta, but the better way is that, of course, the students can go to bed early. Teachers believe or you get enough sleep or you can understand the lesson.

Jonas Pereira de Souza Junior

Sleeping for learning

There is a new research show that not getting enough sleep can have negative effect on people ability to learn. In other words, there is a link between sleep and the ability to learn. Moreover, 80% of students of 13 and 14 -year- old in the US were affected by lack of sleep and the international average was 57%. Also, the research found that students who get enough sleep achieve higher test results in maths, science and reading. However, the students who do not get enough sleep may get some health problems such as obesity.

Sleeping Deprivation & Learning

  Unfortunately,Sleeping Deprivation has become the serious problem that made effect to students all over the world.The research shows that teenagers often lack of sleep among many countries. For example,the data show that 73% of 9-10 years old children and 80% of 13-14 years children in United Stations (also include those developed countries like England , France and so.) identified by their teachers as being affected. These happened in developed countries because the teenagers would like to play high-technology equipment like computer,smart phone ,ipad and so.. Also,teachers made too much homework so that teenagers are tired to listen .If children get enough time to sleep , they may would not have problem of mind and body.There is an advice that children should have break time in afternoon,however,students still must go to sleep and wake up early.
                                                                                   Eason

Sleep deprivation is serious problem all around the world

Sleep deprivation is serious problem all around the world

Sleep deprivation is serious problem all around the world. New research has shown that not getting enough sleep or sleep deprivation can have a negative effect on our ability to learn. Reasearch from boston college found that lack of sleep is cause of some students is lowerning the achievement in school. The survey found 80% of 13 or 14 year olds in the us were affected by the lack of sleep. The international average is 57%. William Mery principle of high school says that its a challenge for teachers. The another survey found that if a student get more sleep it score good marks in math and science subject. Some doctors thinks that it not only affected school work it also linked to their health problem like obesity, and also misbehaviour problems. Rander gardner stayed awake 11 days in 1965.

Sleeping And Learning Henry

  Sleeping well can make you have more effective on tomorrow's study. In many countries students often lack of sleep. we can see an example that 73% of 9~10 years old childrens and 80% of 13~14 years old childrens identified by their teachers as being adversely affected. These often happened in affluent countries, because of the high-technology equipment like mobile phone computer and so on. Teacher shouldn't give student too much homework and they should make them more exercting when they at school. Class should be engaging. When children get more sleep, they are text score will better.Scientist think lack of sleep will make you brain empty. May be it will cause behviour problem and health problem such as over weight. A good way to solve it should be start later in schoolday or have a break at afternoon, but the best is to terning student to go to bed early. 

Jow: News - Deprivation sleep

Currently the sleep privation has been a serious problem that affect many students all over the world. According to Six Minutes, BBC Radio Program, the Boston College published a research that evidence that developed countries like United Stations, England, France and Saudi Arabia have problems with teenagers that don't sleep enough due to the use over of new technology (computes and smartphones). Specially in US 80% kids between 13 and 14 years old have problems with sleep deprivation.  Regarding to teacher from US, this is a big challenge for teachers, for they need to do an interesting and exiting classes every day, maybe to be better way to teach in this situation. On the other hand, if you sleep every well, you can learn more and  have a good results in exams, said the speaker. Sleep deprivation is considered a health problem by some scientists, but there are some solutions for this issue. In some countries the classes start later and there is a breaking in the morning, like a siesta. However the solution more effective is that everyone must turn in early. 

CALL for week 3 - Cause & Effect

1.  Cause and effect signal words/phrases

• print the cause and affect signal words/phrases chart
• go to http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/8-7.html and do 'Practise 1'
• as you do the questions, put each word/phrase into the chart and fill in the rest of the information
• hand in the completed chart to your teacher at the end of the lesson

2.  Listening

• go to 6 minute english and listen to the 'sleeping for learning' program
• take notes as you listen - listen 3 or 4 times - but don't look at the transcript
• write a paragraph summarising your notes - but don't look at the transcript
• hand in the paragraph to your teacher
• now open the transcript and look for the cause and effect language - add any new words to your chart

Answers to the verb tense chart

verb tense chart answers

Need more listening practise?

Here is a good listening website:
6 minute english
If you are having problems with your listening try to do one topic each day.
Listen - and take some notes - at least 3 times BEFORE you read the transcript.

CALL for week 2

1.     Paragraph writing: 

• Type up your paragraph from yesterday - and format it according to the instructions on moodle (also at the back of your study guide)
• print your paragraph
• highlight the verbs and find their subject (S)
• circle any co-ordinating conjunctions ('fanboys')
• put a rectangle around any subordinatiing conjunctions (see p 163 Oshima & Hogue)
• underline the independent clause with a solid line
• underline any dependent clauses with a dotted line

2.    Sentence structure review:

• Do the connector diagnostic exercise. Use the links (under the feedback) to give you more information - especially if you make a mistake.

3.    Work on your newspaper discussion preparation

4.    Have a consulation with your teacher

Support classes

Support classes will start tomorrow

Owning an automobile is a necessity for me

Owning an automobile is a necessity for me

 

Nowadays, owning a car is an important thing. I can drive anytime which I want. Some countries can not use cars because petroleum is very expensive, so they have to get public transports. For example, in Australia some people catch public transports as train, tram or bus because petroleum is too expensive.  In contrast, in  Saudi Arabia, there are not public transports, but they use cars instead of transportation and petroleum is cheaper. you can move from place to other place comfortably. If you have an appointment, you will arrive punctually. 

Driving on freeways requires skill and alertness

              

    Driving on freeways can help people save more times because the speed always over 80km/h. With the speed is very quick and too much cars on the road, you must requires skill and alertness. The first step to drive safety, you need understand the rules such as: when you can turn left, when you can turn right, distances between two cars…. Next step, you need keep your head always alert. Don’t drive on freeways if you use alcohols, stimulants, or drowse. If you have one of them you can have accidents. Finally, keep your posture is comfortable. Skill and alertness are very important if you want to drive on freeways.

Katie Driving on freeways requires skill and alertness

   There are many cars in the freeways and almost the cars always drive very quick.So,driving on the freeways requires skill and alertness.First,we should adjust the seat.It can help we keep a comfortable feeling to drive a long time. Then,we have to wear glasses if we do not have a good eyesight. Next, we should have enough sleep before we dringing car in the freeways.It can make us have a good energy to drive car.If we fell sleeping or feel tired, we should let another one help us to drive.So,i think it is best to have a person who can drive car stay with us.At last,we need not drink before drive car.

                                 Driving on freeways requires skill and alertness

There are so many accidents in freeway. If you drive the car in freeway, you need skill and alertness. In freeway, most of car speed at 100klilometers per hour. Also have many old people in the drive. If you not pay attention to drive, may be you will effect accident. You need some skill to avoid some dangerous car.

Jonathas Christian - The beauty about Puerto Ricos`s beaches

The Puerto Rico is a small country, like many island together, in the Latina America (near the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean), but it is a beautiful small country because has many spectacular places. Many people all over the world know Puerto Rico due to its wonderful beaches and nice people. There are many parties and celebration on beaches so that enjoy the people go to there. The weather in Puerto Rico is a good aspect that influences the tourism in this zone, sometimes, during the year the temperature nearly 28 degrees, but in the summer is common above 20 degrees. Therefore, if you want to know divine beaches, you should go to Puerto Rico, and you nerve forget this place.

 

Tharindu Ranwala :- Caribbean Island

Topic :- Caribbean Island

 

Caribbean island is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands, and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America. There are thousand islands that are part of the island countries. So many beautiful beach and nice scenery place located in the Caribbean island. So that’s why most foreign people like to go that island. And Caribbean island have a very old history in the world. And the another world famous place is Caribbean Sea. It’s also located in the Caribbean island.

HENRY TOPIC: In my opinion, television commercials for cosmetics lie to women

TV commercials now are gaudier and gaudier to people, many of these are not false. They just want to make money by themselves. They didn’t regard about the feeling of the customers. Like many  TV commercials which market cosmetics. These commercials are always untruthfulness. They want women to buy their products and they exaggerate their poor products. These things don’t has any function, but lot of women was attract by their commercials so lots of women  had been cheated by the company who make these commercials. The worst case was some of the company just want make money and they deceive your telephone rate.

    Move away from home is always a dream from the most of the teenagers. But could it be not a good experience for some of them. When we are younger we have the ’ thirst’ of freedom and we just want to get away from our parents, but when we see the reality of the things and how we do to living alone, we can get frustrated, because you have to do the things by yourself, like cooking and clean your own clothes and you still have to find time to study and sleep well. So by the first time, if the young people don`t get prepared with a mature mentality, moving away from home could it be a stressful experience.

Eduardo A.Lima

Amanda Cavalcante

In my opinion, television commercials for cosmetics lie to women because there isn’t women perfect like in the commercials. Usually, we don’t see those clear and perfect skins in the streets. I think they use photoshop in these commercials to illusion women they will be beautiful using these products. Then, they buy more and it`s just benefice the cosmetics business. For this, the television is very important because many people watch television everyday and when the women watch these commercials, they want to be like a woman that appear in the commercial too.

Jonas Pereira de Souza Junior --> The Amazing Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is a spectacular tourist paradise because them beaches and parties. At the Beaches you can be more contact with the nature, during one diving on ocean or during one afternoon with your family in the sand of the beach, maybe both. The more famous beach is Flamenco beach, considered one of beaches most beautiful of the world, and the Vieques and Culebra with the amazing Tortuga beach. Furthermore, the night lifestyle in Puerto Rico is really incredible, you can enjoy a lot of parties at beaches under moonlight, where you can know new great people and make a lot of new friends, or, if you prefer, you can enjoy the night in a bar or pub, enjoying good food, good drinks and good music too.  Therefore, you don`t need to wait anymore, take you bag, and go to know Puerto  Rico, Where you can be the best experience of your life.

CALL week 1 - welcome

Good morning and welcome to our 4A EFS class blog.

We are going to use this to communicate with each other. I will put up instructions for each CALL session, but I may also need to give you information at other times during the week when I'm not teaching you - so please check this space regularly.

I also want YOU to add posts to the blog:

• Do you use any English learning websites you would like to share with the rest of the class? Post a link on the blog and tell us why it is useful.
• Have you come across any English which is puzzling/amusing? Put it on the blog and we will try to help you work out what it means.
• Using the class blog is another way for you to use English to communicate - so use it!!

CALL for week 1

1.  Go to Moodle and find the Student Guide. Print it or save it to your USB.

2. Sentence structure practice

Go to the sentence structure website and print the page. You are going to review yesterday's lesson by identifying which sentences are simple, compound, or complex.

• highlight the verbs and underline the subject
• circle any co-ordinating conjunctions ('fanboys')
• put a rectangle around any subordinatiing conjunctions (p 163 Oshima & Hogue)
• underline the independent clause with a solid line
• underline any dependent clauses with a dotted line

3. Writing a paragraph

Choose one of the topic sentences from page 9, practice 2 of your course book. Identify the topic and the controlling idea, then write a paragraph on the topic. Post your paragraph to the blog. Don't be too concerned about mistakes! Remember we are all learning and we can learn a lot from the mistakes we make.