Week 5 + 6 / Week 7 +8 / Week 9 + 10 / VU21461 / Melbourne Cup / Comparing / Colours and Patterns / Odds and Statistics / Numeracy / money / second conditional / modals / percentages / If + Past Perfect / VU21458: Fomatted Texts / VU21462 : Explore Community Options : Culture
VU21461
"The race that stops a nation." It is Melbourne Cup time
ABC Website - Form Guide
Homework 1
Download my Melbourne Cup 2018 assignment you can use with the above site
Download the Comprehension Worksheet about the Melbourne Cup
There will be lots of money splashing around Flemington Racecourse. But what do you know about Australia's banknotes?
Visit the Reserve Bank of Australia website for some great activities
Homework 2
Learn about Banknotes (Mathematics / History)
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VU21458 / VU21461 : Volunteering / Using Online Forms and In-site Search Engines
This fortnight let’s continue practising language skills that assist in gaining employment. Not all work, however, has to be paid and volunteering as we know provides an opportunity to develop skills, gain experience, make friends and contacts, all of which, can lead to getting a paid job.
Let’s use this site in class ...
VU21458 : Read and Write Formatted Texts
They say "where you are born is a lottery". What do you think that means?
Grammar: If it were my home (2nd Conditional) +modals would or could / If +had been
Let's continue looking at the conditional and ways of speaking that are/were "unreal" or "hypothetical" (could /would have been)
There are advanatages and disadvantages being born anywhere in the world. Some countries (like Australia) are obviously luckier than others. Let's compare standards of living in other countries using the website ifitweremyhome.com
If you had been born in Argentina instead of Australia …
Homework 3
Compare AUSTRALIA with ...
Italy / Lebanon / Mauritius / Myanmar / Indonesia / Thailand / Eritrea / China
a) Go to the website. Choose three areas of advantage and two areas of disadvantage.
b) Can you create a table and organise the information so we can compare the information easily
Money, Money, Money (ABBA, 1976)
Download the lyrics
VU21462 : Art and Culture in Wyndham
Let us prepare for our visit to the Cultural Centre to see the "Overwintering Exhibition"
What is the "Overwintering Project"? / Read about it here
Choose your favourite work of art here. Save the image to your device and talk about it with another classmember. What do you like about it? / Read about the artists here
What facilities are there at the Wyndham Cultural Centre?
Read about this other cultural venue ...
Saltwater Art Studio
Where is it? Contact details? What can you learn here?
VU21461 : Internet Safety : Tracking
Are you being tracked? Watch the video below .
Read the tutorial on tracking here.
We will do some exercises in class before our assessment task Week 6
***https://govolunteer.com.au/
VU21458 : Read and Write Formatted Texts
They say "where you are born is a lottery". What do you think that means?
Grammar: If it were my home (2nd Conditional) +modals would or could / If +had been
Let's continue looking at the conditional and ways of speaking that are/were "unreal" or "hypothetical" (could /would have been)
There are advanatages and disadvantages being born anywhere in the world. Some countries (like Australia) are obviously luckier than others. Let's compare standards of living in other countries using the website ifitweremyhome.com
If you had been born in Argentina instead of Australia …
Homework 3
Compare AUSTRALIA with ...
Italy / Lebanon / Mauritius / Myanmar / Indonesia / Thailand / Eritrea / China
a) Go to the website. Choose three areas of advantage and two areas of disadvantage.
b) Can you create a table and organise the information so we can compare the information easily
Money, Money, Money (ABBA, 1976)
Download the lyrics
VU21462 : Art and Culture in Wyndham
What is the "Overwintering Project"? / Read about it here
Choose your favourite work of art here. Save the image to your device and talk about it with another classmember. What do you like about it? / Read about the artists here
What facilities are there at the Wyndham Cultural Centre?
Read about this other cultural venue ...
Saltwater Art Studio
Where is it? Contact details? What can you learn here?
VU21461 : Internet Safety : Tracking
Are you being tracked? Watch the video below .
Read the tutorial on tracking here.
We will do some exercises in class before our assessment task Week 6
***https://govolunteer.com.au/
