09/09/09

Yesterday was a special day: 09.09.09. I heard on the radio that a group of German university students has created a website where they are asking people from everywhere in the world to write about what they did on the ninth of September 2009. They will them publish a book with the best stories and a part of the profits made from the sale of the books will be donated to charity. This is what you can do:

• Read about it on the abc blog entry: 09 09 09 a Day on the Planet.
• Listen to the interview with one of the organisers.
• Visit the website called “a day on the planet”
• As you know, the type of text is a a recount. Check the link on the left for a review of recount structure and linguistic features.
• Write a 400 word story about what you did yesterday. Publish it on your blog
• Send it to the German website (follow their instructions)
  
  You can also finish your writing about a belonging and record it on our voicethread.
  
  

My last holidays: Spain 2009

Welcome AMEP-B students to our class blog!

Yesterday we were talking about our last holidays. As you know, mine were in Spain. Today I want you to find out more about it.

• Look at this scrapbook of some of my winter holiday in Spain. Write down some questions about any of the pictures and I'll answer them for you. When you have the answers you can write down a recount (a story in the past) of my Spanish Winter Holiday. Show it to me before publishing it in the comments below.
  

Later on you can make your own photo album and write about your own holidays!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Go to Time4English (on the right hand sidebar, ask me for the user name & password) and do the listening exercise on Level 4- Lower Intermediate 2H about a Mexican Holiday. It will give you more ideas on how to have a conversation about your holidays.

• Now have a look at the maps in this voicethread. Read and listen to the comments other people have left there. Then join it (it's very easy and quick and I can help you if you get into trouble) and write or leave a recorded message about yourself on the second map.