Week 6: Access 2 & 3: Online Banking For Beginners

ONLINE BANKING FOR BEGINNERS WEBSITE (HOME PAGE)








Last week we were paying bills at the post office. As you already know, we can also pay our bills on the internet - but many of us are afraid of online banking. Maybe someone will steal our login details and then steal all of our money?

This week we will do some exercises using the ONLINE BANKING FOR BEGINNERS WEBSITE. There are many good activities and you will get a tour of what it is like to do internet banking so you can see for your self.

Exercise One: Complete the four exercises in the FOR AND AGAINST SECTION (click here). Write down your answers from the HAVE YOUR SAY exercise.

Exercise Two: Use the COMMENTS section at the bottom of this posting to write your paragraph. (Look carefully for the little pencil and the word 'comments')

Exercise Three: Go to the HOW TO BANK ONLINE section (click here). Work through each step and finally TRY SIMBANK.

Exercise Four: GO to VOXOPOP and leave your opinion about Online Banking (click here)



ACCESS LEVEL 1: ESL BLUES - Grammar Games

This is a fun site with lots of simple, grammar games. Enjoy. Click here to go to ESL BLUES - Grammar Games

Week 5 : Access 2&3 : Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Did you watch the Eurovision Song Contest final on Sunday night? It was a great show. Congratulations Moscow! Norway's Alexander Rybak won the competition with a record number of votes. The festival was very controversial this year. The Georgian group, Stephane & 3G, was disqualified because their song was considered too political. The song "We Don't Wanna Put In" was seen as an attack on Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin.



Exercise One: Watch and listen to the winning song from Norway. Watch and listen to the song from Georgia.

Read the lyrics of both:

Fairytale - Alexander Rybak (Norway)

We Don't Wanna Put In - Stephane & 3G (Georgia)



Exercise Two: Vote in our Micro-Poll. Which country had the best song - Norway or Georgia?



Exercise Three: Leave a COMMENT at the bottom of this posting (Week 5) about the two songs. Which one did you like the most? Which one had the best music? Which one had the best lyrics? Which song has the best presentation? Should Georgia have been disqualified? Is pop music the right place place for politics?

Exercise Four: Leave a voice message at our talkgroup on VOXOPOP about the discussion.

Watch clips by other 2009 Eurovision finalists by clicking here!!!

ACCESS 1 : Paying Bills



Paying Bills can be a headache. We have been practicing conversations this week where we pay bills at the post office by cash, cheque and EFTPOS. Go to our VOXOPOP talk group and practice the model dialogues with a friend.