WEEK 15 - Connected Learning

TASK 1 - Swine Flu Lesson

• Warm ups 
• Matching vocabulary
• Cloze Passage
• Word Recognition
• Pre-comprehension
• Post-comprehension

    

Swine Flu Quiz

• Complete the Quiz online

TASK 2 - Academic Reading Practice
              Kew Gardens
- Complete the activities/tasks given



TASK 3 - Grammar Practice
   Complete the activity

• Possessives
• Articles

TASK 4 - Britannica ends print version

• Pre-reading activity 
• Skim and scan (true/False Questions)
• Synonym and phrase match
• Cloze (gap fill)
• Parts of speech (choose the correct word)

WEEK 14 - Connected Learning

TASK 1 - Bird Flu - Encyclopaedia extract

• Pre-reading Activity
• Skim and scan
• Read for detail
• Note-taking and summary
• 
  

TASK 2 - Grammar

• Revision of Tenses
• Prepositional Phrases
• Relative Clauses

TASK 3 - Disease X a 'big risk' to the world 

• Pre-reading Activity 
• Synonym and phrase match
• Gap fill
• Parts of speech (choose the correct word)

WEEK 13 - Connected Learning

TASK 1 - Measles 

• Pre-reading - prediction
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Reading for detail

TASK 2 - Grammar

• Prepositional Phrases
• Relative pronouns

WEEK 12 EFS Class - Connected Learning

TASK 1 - Reading an Encyclopaedia Extract - Tsunami

- Complete the reading, vocabulary and grammar

activities

TASK 2 - Read the HIV Breakthrough

Complete the cloze passage (choose the correct vocabulary)


TASK 3 - Britannica ends print version

Read the text and complete the activities

TASK 4 - Academic Reading Practice - Kew Gardens
- Complete the activities/tasks given

WEEK 11 - Flexible Delivery

PART 1: - CONNECTED LEARNING

• Transitioning to Connected Learning PPP
• Transitioning to Connected Learning QUIZ

PART B: TEXT TYPE - ENCYCLOPAEDIAS (online)

Encyclopaedias, both online and in hard copy, are information texts. You can refer to an encyclopaedia for general background material on a topic.

The information in the printed encyclopaedia is reliable and based on proven information available at the time of publication. The entries are written by experts in their fields.

Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are often arranged alphabetically by article name and sometimes by thematic categories. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries.

There are many encyclopaedias available online. Some of these are free, and anyone can add entries to the encyclopaedia. Wikipedia is an example of an online encyclopaedia. The information in these encyclopaedias may not be accurate, as in many of these the facts are not checked before they are published.

• Encyclopaedia Quiz
• Encyclopaedia Entry Text
• Encyclopaedia Tasks

PART C: GRAMMAR - Modal Verbs

• Explanation 
• Tasks to complete

PART C: GRAMMAR - Present Perfect vs Past Simple

• Exlanation
• Exercises to practise

WEEK 9

Dear Students,

Last week we did some reading activities (Scientists close to influenza vaccine).
Now you can have a look at the whole Reading and Listening Lessons and practise for yourselves.

You can aslo find another lesson 'Doubts cast for influenza medication''

• Look at the headline and photo provided in the blog and try to predict the content of the news report
• Skim read the text and answer the true/false questions
• Look at the vocabulary and try to use in different sentences
• You can do the phrase match but without looking in the text (you can check later)
• You can also look and think about discussion questions for Student A and B

HOMEWORK - to be sent (negotiable)

Choose one of the Role plays (Toothache/Hair loss/Basd breath/Stress) you argee the most and give your agruments for in a written form (blog post published).

ENJOY ONLINE LEARNING!

WEEK 8 TASK 1

Pre-reading - Predicting / Guessing

Look at the photo and read the headline. Guess what will be in the news reports

1. Flu Vaccine Headline and Phot

 2. Flu Vaccine 2 Headline and ...

FLEXIBLE DELIVERY DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Dear students,

Due to COVID-19 pandemic we will alter the course face to face delivery into flexible delivery. 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 have also created online delivery through Skype for Business for Week 8, 26th March 2020 and you have all been invited to join the meeting.

To wrap it up please have your mobiles on, check your class blog and your emails on a regular basis so we can communicate.

TEXT TYPE - NEWS REPORTS

Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment. 
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph are the popular Australian newspapers where you can find stories and reports about these issues.
Enjoy your reading! 

*** Bring a newspaper article EVERY week. ***

Topic:    Health

Subtopic:    Flu and vaccines

Sources: The Daily Telegraph       

     The Sydney Morning Herald

WEEK 7 TASK: Follow the instructions in the News Article Activity handout and do the activities. When you finish please link the news article in your blog.