More healthy tips & Assessment Tasks

Before you start your serious work, have a look at these pictures and tell me whose secret they refer too. I am talking about the secret information about yourselves that we shared yesterday in class.

Listen to your first podcast, Aussie Helpers, and answer the questions by writing a post in your blog. Do not write questions or questions numbers, but write an article about it with you own words. You can also watch the video on the Health Expo 2009. Use the images to write a recount in your blog. This is part of your listening assessment.

Read Better Health Skin Cancer, download the worksheet Skin Cancer. (You can print it. This is part of your reading assessment). Do the Skin Cancer risk test. It will help you understand if you are at risk because of your lifestyle choices. Some of you missed reading assessments, so this is your chance to catch up!


Start working on your radio programs: hobbies, music, sport, learning English, pets, food & love.
Do a bit of research to write an interesting introduction that will make people want to continue listening. Then prepare questions to ask your classmates. Be ready to improvise new questions to follow what your interviewee answers. As an interviewer, you have to listen carefully to what people are saying. This is part of your speaking assessment.

Health

Make a Smilebox photobook

Last Tuesday we all went to listen to health specialists talk about Women's Health and Men's Health.

Answer this quiz about some of the information given to us by Cheryl on Women's Health.

On Wednesday 3rd May the Student Association is holding Health Expo 2009. There will be some fundraising activities, like the food prepared for us and all the AMEP students. There will be raffles and fantastic prizes to be won ( an ipod shuffle, $50.00 petrol voucher, etc). The money raised will go to Aussie Farmers.

We will be serving food in the first shift. Afterwards, please go and visit all the stalls and find out what they offer. To be on the competition, you have to fill in an evaluation form that has to be stamped by all the stall holders!

We should prepare the food that will be served on Tuesday or very early on Wednesday morning. Before preparing food, it's very important to know about food preparation hygiene. Read these two facts sheets: Hand Washing & Food Safety when cooking. Listen to these questions about food preparation and answer then in your blogs by writing a paragraph.

To help you with some of the vocabulary and content of the Health Expo, do the following activities:

1. Go to Time4English, News Library 7J. Read the article Hot Chips cause Cancer. It's a good idea to read the three levels, it will help you with vocabulary and comprehension.

2. Now read the article 7Y Take-Away Food Dangerous. Read the three levels. In your blog write a summary of both articles and tell us what you think.

3. Check the following links to help us prepare for Health Day: Better Health Obesity. Do the worksheet Obesity. (You can print it or do it online This is part of your reading assessment)

4. Read and listen to this fact sheet on Healthy eating, it is useful for both men & women, although it is directed to women in particular:

• Healthy eating text


• Healthy eating mp3

5. Look at the BMI Calculator. You just enter your height and weight and it'll tell you your BMI and if it's healthy or not. Check the health quizzes to get more ideas for yours.

Giving it to someone

Joe brought it home from the office. He gave it to Betty and one of his kids and to Betty’s mother. But Betty’s mother went back to California the next day. On her way to the airport, she gave it to a cab driver, a ticket agent and one of the charming stewardesses. At school, Joe’s kid gave it to some other kids and Mrs Meryl got it and gave it to her husband. In California, Betty’s mother gave it to her best friend Dotty. But Dotty had a heart condition and she died. But before she died, Dotty gave it her girlfriend, the mailman, the paper boy, and her vet when she went to pick up her Chihuahua.“…

What do you think Joe could have brought to the office?

Watch this 1976 TV advertisement and you'll know. You can read the script below, especially if you can't watch the video from TAFE!

Script
I don't need another flu shot. I had a flu shot last year!
A swine flu epidemic may be coming.
Swine flu shot? Well, I don't know. I've been thinking about it.
It could make you very sick.
Swine flu, man I'm too fast for it to catch me!
You want to be protected
I'm the healthiest 55 year old you've ever seen. Hey, I play golf every weekend!
Get a shot of protection. The Swine Flu shot.

2009 Press
In small groups/pairs choose one of the following articles and then write a summary in your own words. Publish it in our f2f wiki.

• Swine Flu latest
  
• Only 7 Swine Flu deaths...
  
• Some people are convinced they will die
• Governments across the worl must prepare for swine flu panic
• Child who could reveal the origin of outbreak
• Global race to find vaccine
• Mexico honeymoon ends in quarantine

Every group should also get news from your own countries in L1 (your first language)

Thanks to TEFL clips for the lesson plan idea and to twitter English_Phrases for publishing the link!(ditto to englishathome and kalinagoenglish)

Our blogs

Hi everybody. Last week you had the opportunity to write comments in our blog. Today I would like you to create your own blog.


The very first thing to think about is your posture when working on the computer. It's very important to sit properly and at a good distance from the computer. So let's start working:

• Read this information about Computer Health. Click on all the links (Stretches, Postures, Consequences)


• Do the Quiz. When you finish answering the quiz, print it and keep it in your folder in the blog section. Remember to get a ring folder to be well organised with your class notes. Andrew and I will be asking you to look at things done in previous lessons, so if you keep them in order, it'll be easy to find them quickly.


• Now let's start creating your blogs. Click on Create Blog (up on the top bar) and follow the steps. At home you can check this bloggerHelps' Channel video on How to create a blog.
  

Weekend Work

Read Marion's post to her AMEP-A students. It tells you about our work with blogging.

Visit Time4English and do the work I set up for last week.