4. letnik

The author of the blog has to e-mail me the link to his blog.
Deadline: 13 April 2008
I will post all the links on 14 April.

RULES:
The Blogging week starts on Monday, April 14, and ends on Friday, April 18.
You have to publish 5 posts (one per day) and the class writes comments. The author of the blog has to read and answer/write comments as well!

4Rb's blogging week

2008-03-30T19:00:00.001+02:00

The author of the blog has to e-mail me the link to his blog.
Deadline: 6 April 2008
I will post all the links on 7 April.

RULES:
The Blogging week starts on Monday, April 7, and ends on Friday, April 11.
You have to publish 5 posts (one per day) and the class writes comments. The author of the blog has to read and answer/write comments as well!

Jobs and careers

2008-03-30T18:24:00.004+02:00

Read the article and write a comment.

If YOU could choose any job in the world to do, what would it be? Why?

Happy Easter!

2008-03-21T17:32:00.000+01:00

Important notice!

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Mr Jure K. has kindly informed us that there is another breaking news related to the one published on our blog on February 22. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou1jFcWoooA.

Formal letters

2008-03-05T07:34:00.005+01:00

Revision & worksheet.

Write a letter of application (exercise IV). Deadline: 12 March 2008

Shocking news!

2008-02-22T07:08:00.001+01:00

Active/Passive/Causative form

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Exercises

Make sure you turn in the worksheet on Thursday, 21 February.

HAVE/GET something DONE

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You can find some additional exercises here.

The key

Sick-leave

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As I'm ill, no lessons today.
4. Rc - test on 12 Feb. 2008.

It's Shrove Tuesday!

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What do you do to celebrate it?

Shocking advertising

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1. Does it pay to shock? Are such communication strategies effective? Write WHY yes/no.

2. Look at the picture below. What do you think its message is? Have you seen any other shocking adverts? You can post a link as a comment...

http://www.milk.com.hk/milkblog/Tom/images/ben_09.jpg

Disasters

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Complete the text.

Breaking news!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7182376.stm

Write a comment about the news.

Now go to our

http://himalayanadv.blogspot.com/

and write a comment there.

Newspapers

2008-01-06T20:57:00.001+01:00

You can find the worksheets here.

Deadline: 10 January 2008

http://lib.colostate.edu/research/newspapers/newspaper_3.gif

Screen violence

2008-01-05T20:34:00.001+01:00

Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behaviour. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent.

How do children interpret screen violence?

And how the adults?

Does watching violence encourage the viewer to commit a violent act?

Write your answers as comments.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/gifs/MML_201.gif

The Media

2008-01-04T20:05:00.001+01:00

Let's move on to another topic - the media.

How many hours a day do you watch TV on average?

Post your answers as comments.

http://www.javivicente.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/television.jpg

Welcome to the New Year!

2008-01-03T20:03:00.000+01:00

I hope it will be the happiest you've ever known,
and that it will be a year filled with
dreams come true.

Wishing you all ...

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1 word = 10 grains of rice

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Why not play and feed hungry people?

Go to
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

For each word you get right Free Rice donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.

Besides this game makes you smarter. It may improve your vocabulary!

More…

Self-assessment test 2

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You can find it here.

Module 3, part 2.

Deadline: 23 Nov. 2007

LINKING WORDS - exercises

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You can find the exercises here.

The 4th R

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What could the 4th R be?
Post your answer.

(Hint: SPEECRT)

Can you find some more?

(Hint: ILLFER)

LINKING WORDS - exercises

2007-11-13T07:05:00.000+01:00

You can find the exercises here.

The 3 R's of the Environment

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Have you ever heard of the 3 R's?
What do they stand for?
Post your answers as comments.

Recycling Project

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And now think about the Class Project on Recycling we've been discussing. Post your suggestions, ideas, questions, comments...

Acid rain

2007-11-04T21:08:00.000+01:00

Crossword Puzzle

Can WE change the climate?

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Worksheet

KEY

Pollution

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Compare the pictures and make comments.

The Greenhouse Effect

2007-10-14T20:59:00.000+02:00

http://www.environmentalsociety.ca/issues/climate/taking-action.html

Worksheet

KEY

Trees in danger

2007-10-07T20:47:00.000+02:00

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Acid_rain_woods1.JPG/800px-Acid_rain_woods1.JPG

Over 8,000 of the world's tree species are in danger of extinction in the wild.

Which measures should be taken to save our trees?
Think of wood recycling, composting, cultivation of endangered trees…

Worksheet

LEAVE YOUR CAR AT HOME!

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http://www.co2logic.com

Worksheet

The Road to Destruction

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1) NUMBER OF CARS has gone up by…………….% in the last years

2) ROAD ACCIDENTS thousands of people die

3) AIR POLLUTION (carbon monoxide, ozone)

- diseases (asthma)

- deaths (cancer)

- global warming (climate changes, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, melting of icebergs, rising of
the sea level, floods, dry spells…)

4) ARE WE ADDICTED TO CARS ????

5) HOW TO GIVE UP?

use your legs
use public transport
share cars
think before you go
don't believe adverts
take action
...

Self-assessment test 1

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Module 3, part 1.

Deadline: 2 Oct. 2007

PRE-TEST

Solar Car 2.

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You can check your answers here.

Solar Car

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Worksheet

How green are you?

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Now go to http://www.foe.co.uk/. Write a comment about

Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous

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Table & exercises

The Bicycle - answers

2007-09-20T20:17:00.000+02:00

The Bicycle

You might be surprised to know that bicycles have existed for less than two hundred years. No one is sure who invented this popular two-wheeled machine, but it was probably either the German Karl von Drais, in 1817, or the American W K Clarkson, in 1819.

The early models didn’t look much like the bicycles of today. The front wheel was much bigger than the back one, and also there weren’t any pedals – riders had to move themselves forward by pushing their feet against the ground.

Pedals finally arrived in the 1840s, and in 1879 an Englishman named Henry Lawson had the idea of connecting them to the back wheel with a chain. Gears, which made things much easier for those cycling uphill, first appeared in the 1890s.

There are now approximately one billion bicycles in the world – more than twice the total number of cars – and they are the main form of transport in some developing countries. They have to compete with cars on the streets of all the world’s cities, and the two forms of transport don’t always mix well. In London in 2005, for example, over 300 cyclists were either killed or seriously injured in accidents involving cars. Even though bicycles are much more environmentally friendly than cars, most governments don’t do much to encourage people to ride rather than drive. In China, which is famous for having a huge number of bicycles (about 200 million), the authorities in the city of Shanghai even banned cycling for a while in 2003.

Cycling is on the rise is the United Kingdom, and the number of annual journeys made by bike in London has increased 50% over the last five years. Experts say there is a mixture of reasons for this boom: concerns about the environment, the desire to keep fit, and also the fact that cycling is often not only cheaper but also quicker than travelling by car.

However, although one in three British adults owns a bicycle, they still don’t use them nearly as much as they could. Bikes are used for a mere 2% of journeys in the UK, while the figure for The Netherlands is an impressive 27%.

Cycling is becoming more popular as a competitive sport, and the most famous race is of course the three-week Tour de France, which takes place every July. American Lance Armstrong won this event every year from 1999 to 2005 – one of the greatest individual sporting achievements of all time.

Answers

1. c 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. c 6. c 7. b 8. c 9. b

Related Websites

Why not go to these websites?

http://www.lcc.org.uk/

Website of the London Cycling Campaign, which seeks to make the city a ‘world class cycling capital’.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/default.stm

Cycling section from BBC Sport website – mainly contains information on the professional racing circuit, including the Tour de France.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/default.stm

From the BBC website, an article about the 2005 poll in which Radio 4 listeners chose the bicycle as the most useful human invention since 1800.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article396050.eceSo is it the computer? Electricity? No, pedal power makes the bicycle our favourite invention.

The Bicycle

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The origins of the bicycle are shrouded in mystery.
It is not possible to attribute its invention to any single person. Still, what is clear is that the early ancestors of the modern bicycle were in use by the early 1800s. There is some dispute as to who invented it, but the American W K Clarkson, who patented a rudimentary two-wheeled form of transport in New York, has one of the strongest claims to the honour.

A.S. Wieners with 1887 Rudge Racing bicycle

http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/themes/story_69_2.html

The Worksheet focuses on one of history’s most useful and popular inventions – the bicycle. Choose an answer from the three possibilities for each question. In some cases you will probably have to take a guess. We will check and discuss the answers in open class.

Welcome

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... to our educational blog!

What would happen if 4th graders ruled the world?

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