Monthly Archives: May 2012

Before you leave…

Make these sentences passive (write them in a comment)

Shaika:  The students avoided doing their homework.

Sauda:  I invented an A/C abaya.

Fadila: Khazeena looked at her phone again.

Maitha: The children wasted their time studying English.

Khazeena: Team UAEU eliminated Team Zayed at the competition.

Sara:  We replaced the boring students with new, exciting ones.

Section 720

 

Homework for Tuesday, May 8th

1.  Make sure you bring in your Progress Report #4 – I will be interviewing you soon!

2.  Have you started Progress Report #5?  It is due very soon!

3.  Workbook (from Sunday) Pg 112 – 113

4.  Workbook Pg 117 – 118

5.  Review Unit 5 VTL and start on Unit 6.  Use ‘Spell City’ to practice spelling and vocabulary.

Level 2!

Click on this link: the TedTalk – Joe Sabia link under Section 720

 *You can choose to have Arabic subtitles to help you!

Copy the questions below onto a Word document.  Answer them with a partner and e-mail them to me.

  1.  Do you think books and stories can only be told one way?  What is the purpose of Joe’s talk?
  2. What language is Genug ist genug!” and what does it mean?
  3. What is a ‘pop up’ book?  Who are they written for?
  4. What is a difference between a book and a pop-up book? 
  5. When Joe talks about how storytelling evolves, what do you think he means?
  6. How does the Internet change the art of storytelling?
  7. What is the purpose of Joe’s talk?

Do you think you could tell a story using the Internet?  Here’s mine:

Your very own Internet story

This is where I met my husband. – http://maps.google.ae/maps?hl=en&q=philippines&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=601&wrapid=tlif133629298563910&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

We were both there to scuba dive.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_diving

http://www.caketopper.co.uk/toppers/i-29/n-scuba-wedding-theme.html

The End.

Your turn – tell us a short story using the Internet to help you.  Post the story (and all the links) here.

Section 629

Writing Project 2

If you are going to complete your notes/brainstorm online you need to send it to me as soon as possible so that I can print it!  The branches are:

…what was the occasion    …where    …when   …who    …what happened (what you did)    ….why    …how you felt