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A lesson for students interested in Chinese/western  astrology.

An opportunity to read about/talk about the future.

Revision in modal verbs and future tense/s.

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Spreadsheets for Help in Calculating Synergetic Scores

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Spreadsheets for Help in Calculating Synergetic Scores

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Simple ACE Synergetic Calculator

This spreadsheet can easily convert scores from the major assesments to a score out of 20, as needed by Synergetic.

Advanced ACE Synergetic Calculator

This spreadsheet requires all the individual figures from all the marking criteria for all assessments and converts the numbers for entry to Synergetic. For this one, you only need to enter student names on the first page, then click through the tabs at the bottom for each assessment.

If anyone needs help, spots a mistake or has a suggestion for an improvement, please let me know.

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A last minute lesson thrown together for a short story - based on the Roald Dahl Template.

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As an extension to Kiri's padlet on the Australia Day Debate, I have decided to move onto the Stolen Generation.

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Here is a lesson on vlogging. Watch the videos first, some contain explicit language you might want to avoid. :)

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An extra lesson that focuses upon the relationship between social media and body image.

Students take an online survey (anonymous) about body image and self-perception.

Students analyse reality versus digitally altered images on an Instagram site (Celeste Barber)

Students read a text from The Conversation and answer questions about current research study.

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I've adapted this from Jane's excellent padlet, and added readings to make it more helpful for the upcoming exam.

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Topic: Coding
There is also a listening :)

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An example of a response to the Smith and Jackson texts.

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An example of a response to the Smith and Jackson texts.

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Here is a little error correction activity for the reading and writing assessment

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Here is a little error correction activity for the reading and writing assessment

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Teenagers should be banned from using social media

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Teenagers should be banned from using social media

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Not sure when the practice test material will be available so I've selected a couple of internet articles and included on the padlet below for additional practice.

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Probably more suitable for Level 2 students, though the film could be shown in chunks for Level 1 students.
Note: The 1 hour film does have some swearing, but I don't think it's over the top. You may disagree, so have a look before you use it.

I'll put this in Supplementary Material for Module 6 as well.

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A full example of a Reading and Writing Test response. 

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A full example of a Reading and Writing Test response. 

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I'm going to show it to the class but not give it to them, otherwise they will copy it too directly.

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Example Social Media Integrated Reading and Writing

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A mash up of many other people's ideas about how to explain the structure of the Reading and Writing Test with some of my own explanations and articles thrown in! 

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A mash up of many other people's ideas about how to explain the structure of the Reading and Writing Test with some of my own explanations and articles thrown in! 

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Tresa, Jo, Patricia and Jess - I hope you don't mind me pilfering your stuff?!

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Class Synthesis piece about Online Shaming

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Class Synthesis piece about Online Shaming

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Wrote and brainstormed this together as a class. Earlier version didn't have article names.

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Class Synthesis Piece about "Online Shaming" Summaries

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Class Synthesis Piece about "Online Shaming" Summaries

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After students had completed the Summaries from Lesson 2, Task 5. I outlined a possible structure for the Integrated Reading and Writing Test. As a class we then brainstormed and wrote the two paragraphs, according to the structure.

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Social Media Vocab Kahoot (1/4)
Social Media Vocab Kahoot (2/4)
Social Media Vocab Kahoot (3/4)
Social Media Vocab Kahoot (4/4)
Task 4: Table Padlet Version

Also, a Spreadsheet to help with calculations of Report & Presentation.

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Reflective piece as an extended writing task

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Reflective piece as an extended writing task

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I STOLE this from RIANNA!
Thank you for allowing me to share Rianna.

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Is Social Media turning you into a narcissist?

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Practice in reading, listening & note taking and critical thinking.

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Answers:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qRafkiCP0FsdgPhSR5IEdTJO2oga7lEkiQ4GRC970I8/edit?usp=sharing

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This simple slideshow can be used to help develop reflective thinking about the Group Report process.

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Supplementary lesson for students to reflect upon the group research process.  Includes:

A pyramid discussion.

A reading case study.

A business lecture on Team Building Skills.

Post-lecture Listening comprehension questions.

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Guide to what slides students should include in the presentation

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Here is my handy dandy presentation checklist

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Here is my handy dandy presentation checklist

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Reading, listening, note-taking and critical thinking.

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Can be done as a supplementary task in Module 4 or as extra practice for the listening test.

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A very quick lesson I put together as the students finalise their reports.

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An oldie but a goodie ... feel free to copy and adapt.

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Kiri and I made this listening padlet exercise for the Marshmallow Challenge. It's super fun to actually get your class to build one if you have some extra class time!

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Kiri and I made this listening padlet exercise for the Marshmallow Challenge. It's super fun to actually get your class to build one if you have some extra class time!

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Here’s a link to Melbourne uni referencing

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Here’s a link to Melbourne uni referencing

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Electronic source page in the Library site.

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Here is a checklist I made for the report to give to the students. Enjoy!

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Here is a checklist I made for the report to give to the students. Enjoy!

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Checklist for Report   Criteria Checklist Structure Relevant sections included. Organisation requirements met. Headings and Sub-headings well numbered and error free. Paragraph cohesive – logically structured.  Paragraph contains all key components – topic sentences, evidence and support,...

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Wednesday 6th Dec 2017

Attended by 3 ACE EAP teachers (Jill, Puven and Lawrence) and a number of ACE teachers from all other departments.

Data/dates

Course info sessions for Main Prog - 17th Jan

Course selection for Main Prog - 24th Jan

Reports due - 9th Feb

Currently MCE has 160 enrolled

First day of Orientation will be 26th Feb

Discussion/Data

There is data that shows that those scoring just 50% (esp. in EAP)do not usually do well in Main

Extended discussion around the hurdle in general and whether the hurdle of 50% in EAP and other subjects is high enough.

No decision made, but concerns were raised that 50% is not high enough - nor rigorous enough in many subjects including EAP.

Discussion around the need for more systematic moderation of grading in all subject areas.

Different subject areas are more specific in attendance requirements (e.g.. deducting  1 mark per absence, fro example)

Follow our in EAP:

EAP as a department needs to examine the current ACE hurdle and decide if it needs to be higher/tougher - informed by both Main and ACE teachers

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Ian & I met 30/11 and 5/12 to discuss the MCE exam and changes needed for ACE. The topic has been selected.

Next steps:
Draft new readings based on selected topic.

Next meeting: 15/12

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Jane, Matt, Sean, and I met 5/12 to discuss the Module.

Next steps:
Jane & Sean: Complete porting of Unit 1 & 2, with added padlification where needed.
Matt: Support Jane & Sean, flesh out Unit 4.
Chris: Redevelop Unit 6 (practice test) and support Jessica with development of Unit 5.

Next meeting: 19/12

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This could be used as a class in order to compile all useful language together. This could be a useful resource for the students to take with them to feb main.

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Christmas ads and social media, a bit early maybe, but might be able to slot this in somewhere before we break

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Christmas ads and social media, a bit early maybe, but might be able to slot this in somewhere before we break

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Learners can complete sentence sin groups and quiz each other.

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Not report related, but extra reading task for level 2 on the obesity issue (adapted from an MCE lesson)

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Not report related, but extra reading task for level 2 on the obesity issue (adapted from an MCE lesson)

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Peter Singer's Weigh more, pay more: (I have the cut up papers of the skimming/headings activity - I'll leave them in SSTR staffroom)

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Just a tip - you can only use 10 questions. More than that and you're required to upgrade and pay

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I have managed to use this to create QR codes of the students quizzes and then put the codes on the class paddle so that we can all see them.  

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I have managed to use this to create QR codes of the students quizzes and then put the codes on the class paddle so that we can all see them.  

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I had to spend some time explaining effective team work with my class, e.g. allocation of tasks, timelines, possible difficulties, etc. I also had to be certain with them that they must let me know if they consider the work allocation to be unfair. I thought about making a template to record this with each team, but then decided against it as they seemed ok.

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I got my students to do this as a lead in to Module 5 ..... did this with my level 1 class today and they seemed to enjoy it. Quiz took about 10 minutes and then students discussed their eating habits and if they thought the quiz results were accurate and why.

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How healthy are your diet & eating habits?

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Take the Healthy Eating Quiz The Healthy Eating Quiz is designed to rate how healthy your eating habits are and it helps to iden­tify areas in your diet that can be improved. At the end, you'll receive instant feed­back on your eating habits and you'll be able to compare to people your age.

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Development of arguments around The Apology to the Stolen Generations

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Development of arguments around The Apology to the Stolen Generations

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Here is a link to a google doc with research topic ideas from myself, my students and other teachers. If you or your students have any great ideas it would be wonderful if you could add them!

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Jane, Matt, and I met 23/11 to discuss the development of Mod 6. We divided the units on TCOLE between us and will port to padlet. Next meeting: 5/12.

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A Kahoot to practise language for describing pie charts

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A Kahoot to practise language for describing pie charts

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I've just modified the graffiti tour so that it it is in the CBD

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I've just modified the graffiti tour so that it it is in the CBD

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Could be used for synthesising .... not a lesson sorry 

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Could be used for synthesising .... not a lesson sorry 

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It has two arguments about the issue

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Chinese shoppers spend a record $25bn in Singles Day splurge

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The annual event for lonely hearts is now four times bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest shopping day in the US calendar

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I have just cut and pasted a section of the background reading of the synthesising activity from Unit 2 so that it can be used as a grass skirt ( an alternative to reading it)

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I have just cut and pasted a section of the background reading of the synthesising activity from Unit 2 so that it can be used as a grass skirt ( an alternative to reading it)

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Just a small thing to look at a wider range of vocabulary to express certainty.

Students remake the below paddles for their group, and then simply drag the word to the place on the certainty line where they think it should be.

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Just a padletized version of the google doc comprehension questions.

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This magazine has articles by and about Indigenous artists of all kinds, including musicians, theatre performers and dancers. Just read it, or subscribe for free.

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Yirrinjula Dreaming - Sydney - Aboriginal Artist Management...

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Yirrinjula Dreaming - The Indigenous Artist Magazine

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Yirrinjula Dreaming is pleased to publish The Indigenous Artist Magazine, featuring stories of Indigenous Australian artists, events, arts and culture

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Just a couple of resources here: This interactive resource shows at a glance the huge range of Indigenous languages that are and were in Australia. Indicates the range of cultures. You can zoom in for detail. Very accurate resource.

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The Aboriginal Language Map attempts to represent all of the language or tribal or nation groups of Indigenous people of Australia. It indicates general locations of larger groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group.

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Beware the online version of the chart will be refreshed next week. Hence, some worksheet questions may no longer be relevant. However, the PDF version is static and can be used as a workaround if the chart updates.

Students must remake the Padlet.

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A possible template to synthesis two texts as part of the reading folio... ( there might be an arguments for and against vegetarianism article in mod 5)

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A possible template to synthesis two texts as part of the reading folio... ( there might be an arguments for and against vegetarianism article in mod 5)

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I've created a gap fill exercise for my level 1s from the transcript of Trevor's interview. I divided my class into 4 groups , each listening to a part of the interview. After they've completed the gap fill they work on the questions that could have been asked and share their information with students from the other groups. Hope that's clear. Use as you like
I also added a simple speaking activity based on Purple Rain tracks.

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...with extra bits borrowed from Esther & Kiri to make it a bit easier for the Level 1s to approach.

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Hi All, at the end of the Module the students do a survey, create a graph and describe the results. I've made a little example of a report to show them how the graph and survey can fit in.

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A "model" song review of Lorde's "Royals" with gap fill exercise. I am using this with my L1 class as they need some guidance to complete their review and an album review is too challenging for many of them. If you click on the pdf link there is a template for them to use as the basis for their own review.

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Song Review: "Royals" by Lorde

This is an English language exercise for practicing vocabulary associated with song reviews. Students fill in the spaces with the words at the bottom of the page. Click on the image belowor the link at right to download the PDF file.

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Song review lesson with "Royals" by Lorde example worksheet for English language learners.

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This is a padlet on movies which bridges the restaurant review and music review. Ultimately, the students will make their own padlet based on a movie they have seen. We all went to The Nova to see the Australian movie, Ali's Wedding. The padlet can be regarded as an extended piece of writing for the writing folio. URL to be saved on Google Drive in the writing folio.
Thanks to Jo and Michael and others whose fabulous padlets I've adapted to the movie context.

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Hi all,

I've decided to try something a little different with the reading folios this week (inspired by Sara's Folio idea), and see how my group responds. I have asked them to analyse an Australian song and its lyrics by responding to some guidance questions. Students will then present their ideas on their own Padlet. I have let them present their answers in any way they choose. I have pitched this activity at my level 2 students so be mindful .

Matt

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Hi everybody,

Please find a Padlet lesson for reading and writing a live review. Please keep in mind, my lessons are pitched at level 2 students – feel free to modify as you see fit. I've included a reading on a live review of Joy Division from the 1970s (a great piece of music journalism students will need guiding through), instructions on how to structure a live review and post-reading exercises for speaking/writing. I've also included a list of good Australian and international music websites with high quality online journalism.

Enjoy,

Jess

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Music Warmer - A simple "find someone who" activity.
Australian Music - A slower intro to Task 2 using the Australian musician suggestions.

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A vocabulary exercise that can be used as a filler or general revision activity. To make it more communicative, you can get students work in pairs, giving one student the "Across" clues and one student the "Down" clues and they have to read question for their partner to give the answer. N.B. Answers are available on the Cambridge website (lhttp://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/vocabulary-games-and-activities.pdf
There are also a range of other activities - word searches, gap fills etc on art and media AND on music. Just click on the link above.

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Here is my Melbourne Cup lesson as well :)

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Here is my Melbourne Cup lesson as well :)

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This is my Monday plan along with the test rules padlet I posted below. Enjoy!

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Have adapted this lesson from IELTS Buddy to give students some focused practice on listening for figures and names, as well as the  integration of some language covered in the module. Class teacher can conduct a live listening based on the answer sheet (Part 1) relating to the table on Natural Gas Consumption and Production.

Introduction/Motivation (pre-padlet):
(listening for numbers)
https://youtu.be/HYp08TMG5uw
(listening for names)
https://youtu.be/Ovx8wZKxTSM

Answers Part 1 (Listening):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qQOB5w5dVANy6Hs5CZ7elon4DSR1MPR2JnF6Tj_3Wak/edit?usp=sharing
Answers Part 2 (Language /Word Skills):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cq77j62X5qZNHGyUv9uCDSQXQoo0GE3V1luD_7JDeTA/edit?usp=sharing

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Hi made a padlet lesson with rules for test taking

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Here is a padlet for the speaking test with the Boost practice test questions for part 3 and 4. My own part 1 and Tresa's great part 2!

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I have modified Rihanna's great useful language for the speaking test so that learners can interact a bit with it.

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I have modified Rihanna's great useful language for the speaking test so that learners can interact a bit with it.

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It's still a fair bit off, but if anybody would like to borrow some resources for the music module, I have some excellent books on music that would work well for level 2 students. I will leave them at my workstation (impact17-35) for anybody who would like to photocopy.

I do freelance music writing in my spare time, and use 'How to Write about Music' all the time as a guide – it's an excellent collection of features, reviews and blog posts, among other gems.

'How Music Works' is probably one of the best books I've ever read about music, with a nice segmented structure that will work for jigsaw readings.

Finally, I brought in Swampland, an Australian music journal with some excellent features on local talent.

Again, most of these readings will only work for level 2 students, but they're also great resources to use for some writing exercises and can be adapted to suit the needs of your students. Happy teaching :)

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The class showcase idea is working well with my class.  I have got them all making their own padlets and I comment directly onto them.  I have added the padlet to show how it is working.  Please remake this without the posts if you want to use it as it is a work in progress with my class!

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The class showcase idea is working well with my class.  I have got them all making their own padlets and I comment directly onto them.  I have added the padlet to show how it is working.  Please remake this without the posts if you want to use it as it is a work in progress with my class!

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This is an FYI padlet about listening strategies.  Students could say bingo when they hear they key words, or they could highlight them in a tapescript....

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This is an FYI padlet about listening strategies.  Students could say bingo when they hear they key words, or they could highlight them in a tapescript....

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Am getting my students to prepare a quiz on 'numbers' to test their peers. Have set the development of the quiz for homework; each student is assigned one test with 10 number based expressions to be identified by the listener. Valuable speaking practice as well.

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Here are some extra practice activities your students can do. Haven't written out the answers yet. I'll pop them in later.

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Comparative & Superlative Adjectives + Kahoot

Comparative Language + Speaking Part 2: Test Practice

Also, Padlet Calendar

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I created a lesson on the avocado toast debate for the reading folio this week :)

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Students work in pairs, one with their back to the board. The Student facing the board says the tongue twister shown on the PPT, and their partner must write it down; fastest pair wins a point (if you want it to be competitive).

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To get them up and moving around!

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Students can choose an article from one of these news sites

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Cover sheet for writing and reading folios

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Cover sheet for writing and reading folios

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I've asked my students to print out their work and hand it to me in a folio with the relevant cover sheets completed - see below.

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Basic vocab for describing graphs: may be helpful for lower level students prior to Test Practice - Listening for numbers (Lesson 4 Task 1).

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Kahoot for numbers prepositions and collocations

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Kahoot for numbers prepositions and collocations

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This went well using the team mode rather than individual, so they had to discuss their answers first.

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If your students are like mine and they don't remember anything you've told them after half an hour...

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Padletised remake of Rob's discourse marker activity of Module 3 Lesson 2 Task 2.

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Level 1 and 2.

Used Jo's 'novel' padlet as the basis of this lesson.

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This is designed to scaffold the novel review; I had students work with a partner, and step by step complete the novel template but using a movie or TV series of their choice.

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Ties in with the topic of Module 2