Week Eight Oral Blog Entry 5 - Domestic News Headlines

I heard this story on Morning Report on Natioanl Radio on Monday April 30th.

Make sure you say where you heard about your story

' Well let's look at the front page........'

Make sure you put the actual words you heard in speech marks.

Here are three pronunciaiton features which I noticed.
consonant to vowel linking - example 1
weak forms - example 2, & 3

Use the links to the domestic or national newspapers on the Text Based Skills 2 Blog to find your article.

Week Nine Oral Blog Entry Six - Picture Comparison 2

Your pictures to compare and contrast are below.
You should be able to have both pictures open on your screen and place them side by side. If you open the pictures using a right click and in the dialogue box click on 'open in new window ' the picture will appear in a new browser window. You can move the browser windows around on your screen by using a left click and holding down on your mouse on the blue edge of your browser window.

Don't forget to read the questions for your pictures.

Group A
Picture 1 Classroom 1
Picture 2 Classroom 2

Group B
Picture 1 Classroom 1
Picture 2 Classroom 2

GROUP A Questions
These two pictures show different classrooms. Compare and contrast the two different types of classroom and say which way of teaching you think is more effective.

GROUP B Questions
These two pictures show different classrooms. Compare and contrast the two different types of classroom and say how you think technology helps learning.

When you are ready go to your blog and post a written version of your comparison.
We would recommend that you do not put the pictures on your blog due to copyright restrictions but you can create a link to the pictures in your blog. To do this select words in your post where you would like to create the link, such as, 'this picture', 'the first picture' etc. Then
click on the green chain icon on your post tool bar and copy and paste the URL of the picture into the dialogue box.