Our First Podcast!

Great job everyone! Listen to your first podcast in Let's Talk, if you are at home, or in our f2f wiki, if you are at TAFE.

What do you think? Listen carefully and think of how you could improve your pronunciation.
You can listen and write what you say. Check the pronunciation of words you are not sure of in a dictionary, an Internet dictionary, your teachers or a fluent speaker.

Write your impression of your first podcast in comments. Suggestions on how to improve it are most welcomed!

Traditional Roles, Earth Hour

• Three weeks ago we had great discussions about gender roles. Listen to Traditional Roles, Intermediate 5D in Time4English.



• Then I would like you to continue the gender roles discussion in our private forum. Marion's students will also take part in it. Remember to read what everyone says and write more than once to give others time to express their opinions and make it a good discussion.



• Last week I made the little video below about our Harmony Day celebration. Write a bout it in your blog.



• Practise adding a bubleshare photo album in your post. Copy the one I posted for Harmony Day and paste it in the Edit HTML tab of your Harmony Day recount post. Follow the instructions.



• You can also add the video. Go to blip.tv and click on this icon at the bottom of the screen:

It will say Email or embed this video. Click on the embed tab and copy the HTML code. Paste it in the HTML section of your post. Publish it and check that it works. It is the same for other types of slide shows and videos. Very easy!





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Finally, I sent everyone an email about Earth Hour. When is it taking place? What is it? How can you help? Write about it in your blogs (or in our esolf2f wiki if you prefer).

Harmony Day

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ESL students & teachers celebrate Harmony Day at St George TAFE Sydney . The organiser of the event is the Multicultural Education Coordinator. Check the video to hear us all sing the Australian National Anthem, clap and sing to a traditional Chinese song sang by one of our students and sing the song We are Australian. The lyrics appear written on the screen.

Below is a photo album of the event. You can write in your blogs about it!

Feel free to add your own photo from this album to your blog. You can also add the whole album. Follow these steps:

1. Just click on the album
2. Click on Add to my blog
3. Choose the way you want it to look
4. Left click on the box with the HTML code to highlight it.
5. Right click and and click and copy
6. Go to your blog post
7. Click on the HTML tab
8. Right click and past
9. Check in Editor tab. If you don't like the size of the bubbleshare fonts, you can change it by highlighting it and change it to smallest text
   

Our Country

Make a Smilebox photobook

We have been talking about Australia in class this week. This is a photo album with pictures taken by my brother and myself while he was visiting Sydney last month. On page 7 there is a video of the Blue Mountains which gives you a good idea of the Australian bush.

• Go to our esolf2f wiki and add the Oz Quiz questions you prepared in class yesterday. Remember to check your email to activate your membership in the wiki. You have to open my invitation email and follow the instructions it it. Take turns to do the questions, as it's not possible to have 2 people working on the wiki at the same time.
• While the others type, search the Internet for information about Harmony Day. Write a post in you blog about it. Call it Harmony Day. Visit the post from last year's Harmony Day.
  
• Tomorrow add a recount to your Harmony Day post. In it tell everyone about what we did to celebrate Harmony Day at St George College.
  

• Why don't you have some fun while you practise your spelling? Check this video and spell all the names of the people in it. You can check your spelling easily because they repeat the questions and add subtitles with all the names correctly spelt in writing.