A weekly resource of lessons and activities used to supplement my own students' classroom work within the Victorian ESL Frameworks Certificates 1, 2 and 3. Others are most welcome to participate.
*** VU22358 - STUDY SKILLS 2 : DOWNLOADING & COPYING TO A USB STICK
Let's use your Google account to ... 1) access the files/folder below; 2) to download those files/folder to your computer; 3) to find the file/folder and copy it to your USB stick.
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.
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
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
