WEEK 15 - Research Reports

 TASK 1 - Language of Report Writing

• Watch the presentation
• Give examples of the language features

TASK 2 - Note Taking QUIZ

• Read the passage on Note Taking While Reading
• Complete the quiz

TASK 3 - Social Housing

• Pre-reading (predicting the context)
• Skimming the text
• Scanning the text
• Reading for detail
• Vocabulary
• Note-taking
• Summary (writing)

TASK 4 - Note taking Exercise

• Read the text 
• Take notes (try not to look at the answers)

TASK 5 - Summary Writing Exercise

• Read the text
• Write a brief summary (try not look at the answers)

WEEK 14 - Research Reports

TASK 1 - 'Stand up Australia' Report

• Survey the report
• Complete the 'Stand up Australia' Quiz

TASK 2 - Interpreting Graphic texts

• Watch the video
• Complete the Interpreting Graphic text Activity

TASK 3 - Graphic Text Practice

• Complete Activity 1
• Complete Activity 2
• Complete Activity 3
• Complete Activity 4

(Try not to look at the feedback 
before you complete the activities)

TASK 4 - Grammar - Modal Verbs

• Using Modal verbs
• Modal verbs to express ability
• Modal verbs to express permission
• Modal verbs to express possibility
• Modal verbs to express obligation and necessity

WEEK 13 RESEARCH REPORTS

A Visit of a Famous person - Report

• read the text and complete the tasks

The World's Biggest Junkyard

• read the text and complete the tasks

Housing Affordability Stress 

• read the text and complete the quiz

WEEK 12 - CONNECTED LEARNING

TASK 1 

• Read about differences between reports and essays
• Complete the Reports vs Essays Quiz

TASK 2

• Watch the video
•  Read about overall report structure
• Complete the Overall Report Structure Quiz

TASK 3 

• Watch the video about linking words
• Complete the Linking words Quiz

TASK 4

• Read the report 
• Complete the tasks given

TASK 5

• Read the report of a research study
• Complete the tasks given

WEEK 11 - Flexible Delivery

PART A: CONNECTED LEARNING     

                                                 

• Watch the PPP and complete the Quiz

PART B: TEXT TYPE - REPORTS     

A report is a document that presents information in an organised format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents.

• Writing to Inform - have a look at the document
• Watch the video - Features of Reports
• Watch the video - Essays vs Reports

PART C:  READING PRACTICE

Millennials in the workplace - report   

• Read the report 
• Complete the given tasks

HAVE FUN!

MORE READING PRACTICE

PART C - READING A REPORT

- Tasks to be completed

PART D: Grammar - Passive Voice

- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4  

To be completed

WEEK 9 - 10 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE TASK

Dear students,

In order to practise more the news article text type and its structure and language features, please do the following activities. You know the drill. 

• Look at the headline and photo given and guess/predict the content of the text. Try not to refer to the news article text below
• Then read the News article - Practice Task and do the activities:

       - purpose/audience

       - skimming

       - vocabulary

       - taking notes  

HAVE FUN! 😀

When MySpace ends in tears - Predicting (headline and photo)

When MySpace Ends in Tears by AnitaGrncarevska on Scribd

News Article - Practice Task

When MySpace ends in tears by AnitaGrncarevska on Scribd

FLEXIBLE LEARNING DUE TO COVID-19

Dear students,

As you know, TAFE colleges will remain open during Australia's coronavirus shutdown. Most importantly is to stay aware of the latest information on the COVID-19 pandemic, take care of your health and protect others.

However, we are in the process of organising educational applications, platforms and resources to assist students in  their learning and interaction during this period. As a continuing student you need to stay in touch with your teachers and follow their instructions for each unit accordingly. 

With the reading unit, for now, we will be using our class blog as one of the online delivery platforms. I will be putting resources and tasks for you to complete and send them back to me as blog posts or via email so you can practise enough to be prepared for the assessment in Week 10.

I really appreciated that Ali, Zahra, Zainab and Amina came this morning and we discussed the flexible delivery of the reading unit. Thanks guys and I hope the other students will follow my instructions.

To wrap it up please have your mobiles on, check your class blog and your emails on a regular basis. I will also organise Skype for Business and next Wednesday we can get together.  

BIODIVERSITY WEEK 8 - 10

Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. Terrestrial biodiversity is usually greater near the equator, which is the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity. Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, and is richest in the tropics. These tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10 percent of earth's surface, and contain about 90 percent of the world's species. Marine biodiversity is usually highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface temperature is highest, and in the mid-latitudinal band in all oceans. There are latitudinal gradients in species diversity. Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hot spots, and has been increasing through time, but will be likely to slow in the future.
  
WEEK 8  TASK 1: 

a) Find a newspaper article with topic on environmental issues and embed (link)  to your personal blog. 
b) Read the headline and try to guess the content without reading the article
c) Skim the article and identify the main idea in the article
d) Read the article in detail and write down the notes (main point)
e) Using your notes write a brief summary
f) Write your personal reflection on the issue in the article

Record all in a blog post in your blog.

Have fun!

WEEK 7 - CLASS AND HOME PROJECT

News Article TASK: Find a newspaper article, follow the instructions on the handout and answer the questions.

Media File
Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.

Class Activity - Take some notes using key words after reading the article you have brought in class.

Homework = Summary - Write a brief summary of the main issues the article deals with based on your notes.

Personal reflection - Respond in a written format about attitudes, feelings, reflections on the content and implications of the article.

News Article TASK: Find a newspaper article, follow the instructions on the handout and answer the questions.

WEEK 5

Go to Homes of the Future and do the activities:

• Preparation
• Watching the Video
• Transcript 
• Worksheet

Go to Homes of the World and

• read the text
• do the interactive multiple choice quiz

Go to Housing Shanghai - Editing

• Do the editing activity

Assessment Preparation

You can go to:

La Sagrada Familia and do all the activities

Notre Dame Cathedral and do all the activities

Dubai Largest Building and do all the activities

WEEK 4 TEXTBOOK PRACTICE

Click on Study Skills (on the right) and do the following tasks:
TASK 1 - Rank your choice of textbooks
TASK 2 - Match the parts of the textbook with the definitions
TASK 3 - Identify the parts of a textbook
TASK 4 - Identify the purpose of reading the particular textbook parts
TASK 5 - Study the passage
TASK 6 - Survey the textbook
TASK 7 - Match the index with the meanings
TASK 8 - Finding information using the index

TEXT TYPE - TEXTBOOK

Textbook

A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books and increasingly, although illegally, in scanned format on file sharing networks.

We will be surveying textbooks - identifying the parts of a textbook and analysing them using the reading strategies 

• predicting/guessing
• skimming
• scanning
• reading in detail

TASK 1 - WEEK 3

1. Do the two Plagiarism Quizzes 

2. Do the Reading Academically Quiz

3. Do the 

• Textbook Quiz and 
• Parts of Textbook Quiz