Archive for August 2009
PLACES TO VISIT – Bertoni Casalinga and Uchi Lounge
Posted by: hojunara on: August 5, 2009
Tamami can’t stop talking about this place, so I thought I might as well mention Bertoni Casalinga , which serves a heap of delicious Italian food on Kent St in the CBD. I’ll have to try one of those paninis Tamomi
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Uchi Lounge happens to be where one of [...]
Is class an issue in Australia?
Posted by: hojunara on: August 3, 2009
THIS TOPIC HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED HERE
Article and Audio
With Andrew and Hans on Friday night we looked into the attitudes Australian’s adopt when they’re overseas. Click the link above for a more in depth look at a discussion of Australian stereotypes including ‘bogans’ and ‘mullets’ – that’s a fine example in the picture above!
Apparently class [...]
Why are there silent letters in English?
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
Hans asked this question last week, and here’s a really good answer:
“Etymology is the reason there are so many silent letters in English spelling. Etymology is the study of the history of words, and there was a widespread view that words should show their history in the way they are spelled. There was a genuine [...]
Your most memorable experience
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
THIS HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED WITH ANOTHER CLASS HERE
TODAY: article and audio
What memories do you hold close to your heart? Funnily enough, all four of us chose travel experiences as some of our most memorable.
Kelly singled out her experience volunteering in Germany, camping the wilderness out there as really special. No, it wasn’t he beer or [...]
Never say never
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
When discussing our weekends it seemed Yosuke had quite a good time – he visited Glebe Markets , just near Central and UTS/Sydney Uni and also made a trip to The Basement, the legendary jaz club at Circular Quay. Busy man!
We also discussed some awkward, hard to imagine situations.Would you ever lie to someone close [...]
What are you most scared of?
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
ARTICLE
Boo! We recently discussed the things that freak us out, spook us, and make it difficult for us to sleep at night.
So what scares you? Jason told us about his fear of swimming and how he managed to beat it. On ya mate. Helen expanded her options and told us about both her childhood and [...]
“Like doing and Would like to do”
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
WORKSHEET A and WORKSHEET B
a) We use ‘like’ to talk about things we enjoy eg. “My brother likes Starcraft”
ALSO if we put another verb in after ‘like’ we add ‘-ing’ to it eg. “My brother likes playing Starcraft”
b) We use ‘would like’ to talk about things we want. ‘I would like’ is more polite than ‘I [...]
‘How’
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
WORKSHEET
On Friday we went discussed the use of ‘How’ in questions and the different ways we can use it.
We divided ‘how’ into four different groups:
a) to ask about the way to do something eg. ‘How do you say that?’
b) to ask about the size, amount, number, distance etc. of something eg. ‘ How far is [...]
Man, Manly was serious on Friday
Posted by: hojunara on: August 2, 2009
Manly was just beautiful on Friday! Pardon on the photos – they were taken with my phone. Don’t like them? Then send me yours; I’m expecting quite a few better ones from all of you.
Glad you came Moa and experienced a different side of Sydney, I hope Jason and Yosuke got to work on time, [...]
Hojunara English
- What ages/birthdays are important in your culture?Following on from the previous lesson, we talked about the best party you’ve ever been to Jason told us about a house party he went to last weekend and touched on an interesting point – parties in Australia are very different to those in South Korea In South Korea parties are usually at a restaurant or a club, [...]
- What makes a good party?TODAY: article and audio THIS TOPIC HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED HERE Jason set the tone for today’s lesson by telling us about a party he went to on the weekend where a stripper had been hired – lucky your girlfriend wasn’t there! We then watched the video below of Corey Worthington, who became famous in 2007/2008 for his [...]
- Tourist Habits revisitedTHIS HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED BY ANOTHER CLASS HERE TODAY: article and audio So what are tourists, in this case, Korean tourists, like? Are they clean or messy? Stylish or unstylish? Polite or rude? Do they try to speak the local language and try the local cuisine (local food)? Jason thought that Koreans were messy/untidy and littered alot. [...]
- Parenting – how would you teach your children?TODAY: article and audio We’ve discussed what we would like to teach our children, but how would we like our children taught? We outlined private schools, public schools, religion-based schools and home-schooling. Included in this are same-sex/single sex and ‘co-ed’ (boys and girls) schools. What type of school do you attend? Did/Does a sam […]
- Parenting – what would you teach your children?For homework we were asked ‘what two things would you teach your children?’ So, what are the two most important things you would teach them? Yosuke suggested teaching manners and encouraging them to be sociable. After all, it’s not what you know, but who you know! Kyoung Suk suggested something slightly different: diligence and love. What i […]
- Parenting: how would you discipline your child?TODAY: audio and article It seems like people are always complaining about how different today’s youth/Generation Y are. The world is changing and so are our children, yet many parts of society are not changing with them. In Britain this has become a big problem – so much that British schools are thinking of fining parents or sending [...]
- Free hugs and $1 kissesTODAY: audio and article Yes, it was Tamami’s last day, but we ended the week on a positive – free hugs and $1 kisses. Not to mention Jason and his girlfriend celebrated their 500 day anniversary. Congratulations! It began with us discussing how to show emotion in your country. In Korea and Japan we all agreed that people [...]
- What?! Homeless people make more than we do??TODAY: audio and article Yes, it’s true. Homeless man Ken Johnson earns up to $400 a day, just sitting outside Myer about a block from here. That’s potentially $2000 a week. Even on a bad day he reckons he will make $175 – $220. That’s a good day for just about any of our students! Could [...]
- PLACES TO VISIT – Bertoni Casalinga and Uchi LoungeTamami can’t stop talking about this place, so I thought I might as well mention Bertoni Casalinga , which serves a heap of delicious Italian food on Kent St in the CBD. I’ll have to try one of those paninis Tamomi View Larger Map Uchi Lounge happens to be where one of [...]
- Is class an issue in Australia?THIS TOPIC HAS ALSO BEEN DISCUSSED HERE Article and Audio With Andrew and Hans on Friday night we looked into the attitudes Australian’s adopt when they’re overseas. Click the link above for a more in depth look at a discussion of Australian stereotypes including ‘bogans’ and ‘mullets’ – that’s a fine example i […]
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