Do you know what a coreographer is?
Listen to my conversation with Carol to find out.
Last week was Library week at our college. I hope you had time to go and have a look at their resources and entered their competitions and quizzes.
I took part in a lunch conversation about Web.2, which is things like blogs, podcasting, wikis, etc. The library launched their brand new St George library wiki. Check it out, especially their podcasts and their Virtual Library Tours (a slide show with voice), which you can listen to in different languages (including Mandarin and English).
Some of you are worried about your pronunciation. This is a good website to help you with pronunciation of individual sounds: Pronunciation Chart, but remember that when we talk sounds change a bit.
After having discussed fashion, thin models, cosmetic surgery in our forum and in preparation for Annie's radio program on fashion, I would like you to listen to Nikki's Podcast. Print the first worksheet and use it while you listen. It will help you follow what Nikki says. Then you can do the listening comprehension.
If you want further practise with articles, go to Time4English and in grammar, letter a, do the 2 exercises.
Listen to This Week's Story, Healty People: Unhealthy Environment. It links two of the topics we've been discussing in class in the last few weeks: health and the environment.
For further practice on So do I, neither do I, etc check these websites:
Explanation about agreement with something another person says.
Using either, neither & too
Intermediate English Grammar revision
Quiz: So do I & Neither do I
Neither... nor/either ...or
Auxiliary verbs
Last week I interviewed Nikki, a young girl, from Sydney's inner western suburbs. It's amazing how much a young girl like her fits into her life. It's an inspiration to us all.
Before listening to the podcast, download and print the worksheet. It will help you with the listening. Don't worry too much if you don't understand everything Nikki says. The workseet will help you a lot and you can listen to it as many times a s you want.
Listen to our conversation:
Download the MP3 file (2.61 MB, o:11:25)
- I'm preparing an interview with a young Sydneysider, Nikki, who is involved in many things. As fashion is one of them, I would like you to give your opinion about fashion and other topics related to it in this week's forum.
- If you didn't have time to listen to Vukosava's podcast in Splendid Speaking last week, do it now. We will be working on it later on.
- Listen to another movie review from Time4English. You can start a list of verbs and adjectives used in these reviews. It will help you with your own review writing and it will help you with your spoken activities and radio programs.
- Also in Time4English, in the grammar book, go to the letter i and do the ED / -ING exercise. You will find a list of adjectives useful for your movie review.
- Then go to the letter p, do the exercises for plenty of, a lot of , a little, a few. It will reinforce what we did in class last Tuesday.
- Finally in English Lessons - Upper Intermediate / Advanced do the first Tenses quiz.
Hi again and I hope you all had a great break. I spent last weekend in a beautiful part of New South Wales, the south coast. The place where we were staying was visited every day by lots of kangaroos, galahs, rosellas and other Australian birds. Have a look at some of the photos I took there.
- To prepare for your radio programs, go to Time4English and then Movie Reviews. Choose one movie you have already seen and listen to the review, do the exercises and study the vocabulary to be able to talk about it. Write your own review in your blog.
- When recording our radio programs, often we will be expressing our opinion on differetn topics. Listen to this episode of Splendid Speaking, Expressing and justifying opinions, where Vukosava talks about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Listen to it a first time to get the gist of it (the mian idea, a general impression). Listen to it a second time with the script in front of you.
- Print this worksheet about expressing opinions and we will work on it this afternoon.
- Highlight the language that Vukosava uses to express her opinion and to introduce examples that help her justify her opinion. Prepare a short talk about the same topic. Record it in Audacity.
- Remember I told you about lists of common words in English. Go to Tiem4 English and you'll find the 100 most common words in th emain menu. Do you know all of them? I bet you do! Copy them and make sure you know them all and their spelling.
