FAREWELL

Dear Students,

We have come to the end of the semester and this is a brief note to bid you farewell. I would like to wish you the best in all your undertakings in the future. I hope you have enjoyed the reading class and the class blog. I must say that I am very happy you have learnt about blogging so quickly - I was just lucky to teach a group of intelligent bloggers in my class. Once you leave the class you can still have access to the class blog and all the material and links provided for you. You are very welcome to keep your student blogs active if you wish.

ASSESSMENT TASK

Dear EFS Students,

Reading and responding to a biography essay Assessment Task is next week 8th June, 2016.
We have practised the biography structure, language and grammar. You will be asked to
- read a biography of a famous person
- create a time line
- identify turning points and achievements
- answer strategic questions

GOOD LUCK!

HOMEWORK

Read a biography of a famous Australian (your choice) and list the turning points and achievements.  
Please complete it by Sunday 29th May. Thanks

Reading a Biography

Sometimes, a biography describes a person's life from birth to death. At other times, the writer concentrates on a particular period in a person's life. We will be reading biographies of famous Australians and other people. We will be practising completing a time line, making notes of key points as events, turning points and achievements.

Assessment Task - Reading a Biography of a Famous Person

TASK 1:

• Read a Biography of a famous Australian from Koori History and do the timeline
• Read Fred Hollow's biography and do the timeline

TASK 2:

Turning points and Achievements (BIO)

• Read Nelson Mandela's Biography and identify the turning points and achievements. List them in two groups in one new post in your blog. When you finish we will have an open class discussion.
• Read a biography of your choice and identify the turning points and achievements as above.

Reading a Newspaper

Media File
Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. 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.

TASK - Read the statements on showing shocking images and agree or disagree giving good arguments based on the group discussion done in class.

1. "The public has a right to know what's happening. I think they should not cut out anything. People are mature enough to take in the reality of what happens in the world every day".

2. "TV news sometimes seems more like a show. They want a bigger audience so they show shocking or provocative images. TV news should report the news, not try to shock people."

Dear EFS Students,

Have a nice and relaxing holiday but make sure you do some work. Please read newspapers and watch some programs (of course in English). Bring a newspaper article – topic Education – on the first day back.

Thanks for your hard work – you have been a wonderful class…

SURVEYING A TEXTBOOK

During your studies you will be exposed to different textbooks. In this class we will be studying the parts of the textbook, surveying the textbook and using the textbook effectively. This is to assist you with your further studies and more precisely with your assignments.

SURVEY REPORT

Topic - Environment
Subtopics - Carbon Print/Global Warming/Alternative Sources of Energy
Text type - Survey Report
Assessment Task - Reading a Survey Report and Graphic Text




Our natural environment is something that we must forever take care of, treasure and respect. Unfortunately, we only have one planet, one earth, one environment and if we ruin it, we risk destroying it forever and causing irreversible damage that will be devastating for us and our generation but even more so for the future generations that haven't had a chance to live, experience and enjoy what we have.

There are many things that each and everyone of us can do help protect our environment and reduce the impact that our life styles and way of living has on the environment. If we each do our bit for the environment, no matter how small, we can create a positive reversal on negative impact. By becoming more environmentally aware and through reducing each of our own carbon footprints, we can minimise the detrimental effect we have on our world.

Graphic Text

TASK 1: Do the Reading Graphs Activity (open the link on the right)

TASK 2: Do the Graphs and Prepositions Quiz (open the link on the right)

TASK 3: Do the following activity

Pie Charts: Australian Immigration

Study the information in the table below and make two pie charts, one for 1992 and one for 2002 using the Create a Graph Program provided in the Class Blog. Then transfer the information in bar graphs.

Compare the two years.

Immigration to Australia, 1992 & 2002
Region	1992 Number	2002 Number
Europe & former USSR	26870	17411
Southeast Asia	22325	14464
Northeast Asia	21473	10716
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan	10594	9190
Oceania	10362	19152
Middle East & North Africa	7021	6000
South & Central America	3308	900
Africa (excl. Nth Africa)	2823	9311
North America	2570	1730
	107346	88874

TASK 4: Compare the immigration to Australia in 1992 and 2002 (3-4 s-ces)

TASK 5: Write notes, summaries and personal reflections of two newspaper articles.

Headline of your newspaper article

Notes:

• Government funded private schools
• Public schools not happy
• Students need more computers
• Teachers are overworked

Summary:

The Australian Government is funding only the private schools........

Personal reflection:

In my opinion/ I think....

WELCOME

Welcome to EFS Class blog!
Welcome to EFS reading class where you can improve and advance your reading and writing skills. Hope you will enjoy blogging as well which can give you an opportunity to practise in your own time and at your own pace beyond the classroom. You will be able to access lots of resources provided for you by your teacher. You can also interact with your teacher and your classmates online and be able to view their work and give feedback. Enjoy it...