The Melbourne Cup

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

Money, Money, Money

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 ...



Go Volunteer Australia

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/

Global Village

LEVEL 3 : If the world were a global village of 100 people, what would it look like?

Here is a video related to the work we did in class about the Global Village Project.



Take Notes:

How many ...

would be ... Men? Women? Asian? European? African? Latin American? North American? Christian? Muslim? Hindu? Buddhist?

...would have ... electricity? safe drinking water? a college education?

...wouldn't have enough to eat?

YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT AT WWW.100PEOPLE.ORG











I'm sure you remember this song? Let's have a class Karaoke!

Here are the lyrics to "We are the World".


Level 1, 2 and 3 : The World Game






Are you sleepy? Have you been watching the World Cup 2010 in South Africa? Do you like soccer? Will the Socceroos go to the next round? Which teams are strong? Which teams are weak? Which are your favourite teams? Who are your favourite players? Which team will win?

Here are all the match results. (so far)

Answer these questions using the match result tables above:

1. Which teams played the first match of the tournament in Johannesburg?
2. Who won the match between Australia and Ghana?
3. Which teams played in the city of Polokwane in Group C on June the 13th? Who won?
4. Which Group G team lost 7 - 0 to Portugal in Cape Town on June the 21st?

Here is the latest schedule of matches from South Africa? Can you read it? Who will play next?

Use this page to find some information about your favourite players

Level 2 and 3


TOPICS - An Online Magazine for ESL students

Are you still having a problem choosing a topic for your talk? Maybe you should take a look at this easy to read magazine written for and by ESL students. In the It's International section topics include: holidays and festivals, food, traditions and superstitions, clothing, proverbs and folktales. Take a look ...