Current Topics

Main Issues Facing Voters in Australia (Click Here)

2007-11-26T16:11:00.000-08:00

Politics
• What problems are there in Australia?
• What do you know about Australian Politics?
• What were the major parties led by John Howard and Kevin Rudd in the 2007 election?
• What is Global warming?
• What is the Kyoto Protocol?

A full lesson in PDF format

Nine laptop computers stolen (click here)

2007-11-05T22:04:00.000-08:00

Determiners
Determiners are used in front of nouns to indicate whether you are referring to something specific or something of a particular type.

Determiners are different to pronouns in that a determiner is always followed by a noun. Therefore personal pronouns ( I , you , he , etc.) and possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, etc.) cannot be determiners.

The definite and indefinite articles a/an/the are all determiners.

Nine Laptops stolen...Belgium (click here)

2007-11-05T21:50:00.000-08:00

Current affairs
* Have you ever had anything stolen? (Hint: Bicycle)
* Did you call the police?
* How can you prevent things being stolen? (hint: in car, in house)
* Have you ever been to an embassy? Why?
* What do people do at an Embassy?
* Where is Brussels?
A full lesson in pdf file format

Ex-NOVA president, family sold off majority of stake in failed school (click here)

2007-11-04T00:42:00.000-07:00

Grammar: Articles practice

Ex-NOVA president, family sold off majority of stake in failed school (click here)

2007-11-04T00:39:00.000-07:00

Business
◊ Do you know the English school Nova?
◊ What happened this week in the news?
◊ Are you surprised by what happened?
◊ What should the Nova Company do for students and teachers?
◊ What are ‘Shares’ of a company?

A full lesson in pdf file format

Ex-NOVA president, family sold off majority of stake in failed school (click here)

2007-11-04T00:36:00.000-07:00

Grammar: Operators practice

Sumo Wrestler Sacked regular/Irregular Verbs (click here)

2007-10-22T17:18:00.000-07:00

Regular verbs ~ add '-ed' to the base form of the verb for the past simple and past participle forms. For example, play -> played, start -> started'. When you pronounce a regular verb the 'e' is silent except when a verb ends in 't'.

Irregular verbs ~ verbs whose past and past participle tense forms do not follow the standard rules of add –d or -ed to the end but instead have special forms or spellings.

Sumo Wrestler Sacked Prepositions (click here)

2007-10-22T17:17:00.000-07:00

Read the article from the Mainichi, Japan:
What is a Preposition?
A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.

Sumo Wrestler Sacked (click here)

2007-10-22T17:12:00.000-07:00

Sports
• Do you like Sumo?
• Have you ever been to watch Sumo?
• How many Sumo wrestlers can you name?
• Do you know any current news about Sumo?

A full lesson in pdf file format

Shark Attack Lesson (Click Here)

2007-10-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

Interest
• Do you think that sharks are dangerous?
• Where can you find sharks?
• What do sharks like to eat?
• What sport/s have the danger of shark attack?

A full lesson in pdf file format

2 people attacked by sharks off eastern Australia (Click Here)

2007-10-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

Read the article from the Mainichi, Japan, on October 15, 2007
This acivity is on the prepositions:

What is a Preposition?
A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.