English Idioms & Proverbs

English Idioms
Idioms are phrases and sentences that do not mean exactly what they say . Even if you know the meaning of every word you may not understand the idiom because you don't undestand the culture behind it.
Proverbs are wise sayings that help teach lessons.
Click on English Idioms above and learn some idioms and proverbs. You might have heard some of them - anyway have fun!
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Government in Australia

Today in class we have discussed Government in Australia as we all know next week is the Federal Election Day 2007. We are going to spend some time on Australia and facts about its history, geography, tradition and language through the Australian Webquest that you are supposed to do on line. Have fun!
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Family Footsteps Susila

Family Footsteps is a four-part documentary series, creating a sliding-doors experience for four young people by returning them to their migrant parent's homeland. Faced with challanges and surprises along the way interpid explorers live as locals, experiencing how their lives could be today if fate had taken a different course and their parents had not emigrated.
We have watched the documentary about Susila travelling in the footsteps of her family's past and confronts the issues close to her heart. India is vibrant with colour, spirituality and music, and it's the music that provides Susila with an opportunity to learn about the culture. India is a backdrop for the journey of self-discovery, as she finds out more about her family and culture and more about herself.

Assessment Tasks:

1. Interview 3 people outside your class (TAFE students on the main campus, neighbours, friends, relatives), who are the second generation Australians, about their connection with the background of their parents (follow the interview questions given to you)

2. Report in class about the people you have interviewed

3. Give your opinion about second generation Australians having connection with the background of their parents (in writing / oral presentation)

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Festivals

Festivals are celebrated all around the world. We have been learning about festivals as traditional and cultural events in different communities. Australia as a multicultural country gives opportunities to all nationalities to celebrate their traditional festivals in order to maintain their own culture and also respecting other cultures and learning about their festivals. Your Assessment Task is to research a festival from another country (not your native country) and write a report on that particular festival. You are to find some relevant pictures from internet and make a slide show. Good luck!

Festivals

Slides show on Festivals

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Slideshow

This is our first slideshow - slideshow of Sydney - Australia. You can create your own photo albums and create other slideshows by downloading pictures from Internet or by using photos.



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Week 6 - Daffodil Day

When is Daffodil Day 2007?
Officially Daffodil Day will be held on Friday 24 August, however you can sell or purchase Daffodil Day merchandise throughout the month. Daffodil Day aims to deliver a message that will change attitudes about cancer and give hope and support to all those touched by the disease.


Students' instructions - You are to find information about this day, to add some images and most importantly to give your opinion about this day as the biggest fundriser eventin the Northern Hemisphere.

Week 5 - Letter to the Editor

We have been studying the format and language features of the text type - Letter to the Editor where you can express your points of views - opinions on a given topic - usually something that you have read in a newspaper about different issues in your community. Last week you were supposed to write a draft of Letter of Opinion on Banning Smoking in Restaurants.
Next task:
Choose a newspaper article from a newspaper (The Leader/Daily Telegraph/Sydney Morning Herald) and write your opinion on the issue in that article.
Make sure you write your statement of opinion as an introduction of your letter and then the arguments - evidence of your opinion. In the last paragraph restate your point of view and don't forget to give any suggestions

Week 4 - Creating a Blog

Last week you created blogs successfuly. Go to the Blog in March and get some more information on blogs. You can give your opinions on different topics and read about other people's opinions. Last Saturday we discussed in class the topic Alcohol is an enjoyable drug and you are expected to write your opinion based on the given arguments (Journal Writing).

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Look at Rosa's blog ...

Opinions - My country is a good/bad place to live

Hallo,everybody. My name is Stojan and I am going to talk about life in my country. I think Macedonia is a good place to live.
First reason is the people who are very friendly and they help each other.
Second reason is the climate.There are four sesons:
In spring there are many beautiful flowers. (Unfinished comment by one of the SAT 4 students)

Week 14 Sem 1- Opinions - My country is a good/bad place to live

Students have been studying Giving opinions with arguments. They have been exposed to different topics but have explored Living in Australia - positive and negative points. They have studied the language features of opinions and have been given an assessment task My native country is a good/bad place to live - to be prepared at home and to be presented orally in class.

Family Footsteps

We are going to watch a programme about family footsteps shown on the ABC channel

Assessment Task SAT 4

SAT 4 class Assessment Task due on 28/4/07.

Name of Assessment
Task:
A 'live' short talk - oral presentation of a newspaper article

Preparation: Reading the article using the skimming and scanning
Making notes

Sources: 'Daily Telegraph'/'Leader'

Peer/Self Evaluation: Checklist

Welcome to our first class blog. We will try to practise and interact with other people on-line. You can write to these people who are also ESL students in the comments provided.

Also we will practise listening, reading and writing in order to improve English.

You can have photos from your computer.