Have a listen to what some of the students think about the class blog

As part of the learnscope project I was require to create a slidecast.
Check out the link and tell me what you think?

http://www.slideshare.net/alannat1/tafe-nsw-riverina-institute-griffith-campus-power-point-for-slide-share/

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 4

PROUD MOTHERS Farideh, Shazia and Lata

Hello everybody and welcome back to term 4.

I hope you all had a nice break. We only have seven weeks in this term so it will be Christmas before we know it.

A few of our students have been very busy with new babies. We have had five baby girls born to parents in our English classes over the past few months.

Above is a picture of baby Maria, Noor and Happy with their proud mums Farideh, Shazia and Lata. Congratulations everyone and Go Girl Power!

Don't forget to practice writing your comments on the blog.

I look forward to reading what you think.

Until next time

Bye

Alanna

What's been happening?

Cam Wilson talks to the class about how to vote.

MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT!

G'day Bloggers

I found some more information on the Australian Citizen Test. You can order the information booklet on line at the below link.

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/test/index.htm

However I wouldn't panic yet. Who knows what will happen after the election.

Speaking of the election, we were lucky enough to have Cam Wilson from the Australian Electoral Commission come and talk to us about the future election and what we have to do to vote as well as how to vote. It was very interesting and lots of us had plenty of questions.

Holidays are coming up. Our last class is this Thursday the 27th. Class will start again on the 15th of October.

Have a great break everyone

Alanna

Australian Pronunciation - Session 6 - Consonant sounds 'f' & 'v'

Hi everyone

I'm a bit late with my latest pronunciation session. I've been caught up with lots of different things. But hopefully I am back on track now (been busy but am getting back to normal now)

http://alannat1.podomatic.com/

Make sure you write some comments and let me know what you think of the blog.

Bye for now
Alanna

Australian Citizenship Test

Have a look at these sample questions from the the new Australian Citizenship Test and let me know what you think.

1. In what year did Federation take place?
2. Which day of the year is Australia Day?
3. Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia?
4. What is the first line of Australia's national anthem?
5. What is the floral emblem of Australia?
6. What is the population of Australia?
7. In what city is the Parliament House of the Commonwealth Parliament located?
8. Who is the Queen's representative in Australia?
9. How are Members of Parliament chosen?
10. Who do Members of Parliament represent?
11. After a federal election, who forms the new government?
12. What are the colours on the Australian flag?
13. Who is the head of the Australian Government?
14. What are the three levels of government in Australia?
15. In what year did the European settlement of Australia start?
16. Serving on a jury if required is a responsibility of Australian citizenship: true or false?
17. In Australia, everyone is free to practice the religion of their choice, or practice no religion: true of false?
18. To be elected to the Commonwealth Parliament you must be an Australian citizen: true or false?
19. As an Australian citizen, I have the right to register my baby born overseas as an Australian citizen: true or false?
20. Australian citizens aged 18 years or over are required to enrol on the electoral register: true or false?
Need help with The Answers?

Australian Pronunciation - Session 5 - The long and short vowel 'e'

Salam my wonderful students (Salam means hello in Farsi)

Click on the link below to listen to the latest session of Australian Pronunciation.
This session looks at the long vowel 'e' as in meet and the short vowel 'e' as in met.

http://alannat1.podomatic.com

Don't forget that next week we will be starting classes on Wednesday's from 9:30 to 1:30


Khoda hafaz (that's goodbye in Farsi)
Alanna

WHO AM I?

We had a 'Who am I?' quiz in class where students had to guess the object/person/animal being described. Afterwards students had to write their own 'Who am I?' describing themselves. I collected them all up and read the clues out to the class to see if they could guess who I was describing. It was fun

See if you can guess whose 'Who am I' is written below.

Who am I?
I'm a woman
I was born in Jaghori, Afghanistan
I'm 40 years old
I have black hair and brown eyes
I'm studying English at TAFE
Who am I?


Who am I?
I am a man
I was born in the southern part of
India I have black hair and black eyes
I have dark skin
I am learning English
Who am I?