Term+3

=This is what we did in term 3: =

Enjoy and Learn!
I learnt too many useful things during this term, Things that increased my knowledge and built my English language at the same time.

I wrote many re-counts talking about myself, my country, my hometown and the Olympic Games in Beijing. Other subjects were about the Ekha and the Brisbane river festivals, which were completely new activities to me.

However, the most useful things that I learnt were how to write a re-count in general and the paragraph writing. Adding more benefits attending TAFE was gaining new friends and making good relations with other students all over the world. Students from different cultural backgrounds, ages, specialties, countries and languages sat together and work together, although we have different ambitions. I did enjoy may class and hope my classmates enjoyed it as well.

Kind Regards, Alaa Al-Haider

from Anna ...
I am happy with this term! I really learn a lot of English, such as how to write a recound and narrative,gramar with sentences,pronunciation,listening,read story books and then to retelling,Metric System,E-learn on line including Black Boad and Wiki. I liked learn with this, because it really improve my English as posible as well.

I wrote a recound after the excursion. We went to Southbank to look around on 29th September. We have a wonderful day with lots of fun. We went to the Shouthbank Information first and then we walked down to the beach. We enjoyed in walking along the Brisbane Rive and under the beautiful Bougainvillea. We took lots of pictures there including photos with the City Cat at the southbank terminal 2. Next we went through the Frog Forest just arrived at the Napalese Peace Pagoda.it was carved by craftspeople from Nepal for the 1988 Expo in Brisbane. We had a break on the lawn near the rive and after that we went to the QPAC Callery. We saw the Kuranda photos and watched the Kinescope DVD that all showed us about the Aboriginal's dancingcustoms. The last placewe visited was the Refugee Camp in your city. It is a memorable day.There were lots of interesting things to look at,except for the visit to the Refugee Campdisplay which made me feel upset.I really learnt a lot and enjoyed it very much.

I think that was a good way to learn the reading and speaking. Every student read a story from the books and then to retelling. It was I never tried before. I read the story called "Anna and the Fighter" and it wrote by Elizabeth Laird. It took about the protagonist Anna went to Naira to visited her aunty and was lost on the way,because she fell asleep on the train and passed Naira. A man called sam who help her to payed the cost of train for herand took her to Nairaher aunty home. After that Anna and sam become good friend.

Anyway, although I have learnt it hard in term 3 but I enjoyed it very much. I will keep going to learn more next term.

Cheers and see you next term Anna

**from Annie ...**
Hello everyone:

I'm very enjoy in my English language learning class. At the term3. We were studying English with our teachers Mary Hill and Jane Woodhourse at this term. We was learnt wrote a recount to tell everyone about myself and my hometown, my country, our classes excursions, and how to write formal and informal letters, read and retell stories, and study in on line couse. I was working hard with my course. luckly my teachers and my classmates were very helpful to me. We were always busy and happy studying together. So I'm believe that everyone's English are more and more improve than befor. Also we were happy study in our computer lessons with our WIVI and we wrote down ten things we like, excursions, and about term3. Our teacher Mary always tried her best to help us.I think that all studies way are all improve English writing and How to study in the computers.

However we have had a busy and wonderful time in the term3. I believe that everyone will work hard next term in level3. In the end I wish everyone have nice and happy holiday. Bye

Best Wish Annie

**from Buu ...**
Hello everyone

I'm was very happy about my English course. I was learn a lot of things such as: how to search the net. I could type. The grammar program was very helpful to me. I can write a recount. I very much like my classmates. Although we come from different countries. But we were helping each other and everyone was friendly.

Cheers for now everyone

Buu

**from Claver ...**
Recount: __Activities and lessons of Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program Class 2F, Term 3/2008__

Term 3 has started on 16 July 2008 at Southbank Institute of Technology. Ours teachers Mary Hill and Jena Woodhouse taught us many things and did many activities with us. So I am going to tell you about two of them, “Write a recount lesson” and “ 2F Class Excursion to Southbank activity.

__Write a recount.__ About this lesson my classmates and I learnt from the teachers that to write a recount you order paragraphs as follows: on first paragraph you write an orientation or introduction of what you are going to write in general, who, where, when, what. Then on the second and following paragraphs you write a sequence of events. This part is also called body. You give detail and describe things. You use adjectives and time signalers such as then, when, at, on, in, first, next, after that. You use conjunctions as well such as, when, while, but, so, because, and. You must be careful to punctuation and using past tense verbs. At the end on last paragraph you write an orientation/summary or coda. This part is a good or bad feedback of your recount.

__Excursion to Southbank.__ This activity took place on 29 August 2008. Ten students and our teacher Mary went to an excursion to Southbank. Many photographs have been taken by Mary. Starting we walked to Information Center at Southbank where we got some flyers, brochures and magazines in which we found out the Brisbane River Festival. After that we went to Southbank beach. Next we walked under the bougainvillia and then along the Brisbane River. After that we entered the Frog Forest and then we went to Nepalese Peace Pagoda. Then we had morning tea. Next we went to Queensland Performing Arts Center and saw an exhibition called “Kicking up Dust.” We saw photographs and a movie about Aboriginal groups around Australia and their dancing. The photographs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders that were on the walls were attractive and beautiful photographs. Lastly, we visited another amazing place, the REFUGEE CAMP IN YOUR CITY. We were warmly welcomed by the staff of MSF-MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES/DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS. They explained to us the activities of their organization around the world especially in the refugee camps. And before we left for the Institute, all of us received a gift of a white cotton bag, some flyers and brochures relating to the refugees and MSF. At 2:00pm Mary showed us all photographs taken on our walk.

As I said in the beginning these are only two articles from many activities and lessons done during this term. Doing activities students were helping each other between partners or the whole class. Finally, I would like to give my thanks to my teachers Hill Mary and Jena Woodhouse who taught us friendly and helpfully. Many thanks to all my classmates who helped me to improve my speaking. In general the term 3 was very good. Kind regards.

Acquire a good knowledge of English
The 3rd term is finished. My English has improved in a good study atmosphere. We reviewed this term and it will heple us with our English knowledge.

During this term I have learnt how to write a recount. I wrote few recount to talking about: My hobby, My hometown, My first school day and Excursion to Bribie Lsland. I feel my writing has improved. I have learnt how to write formal and informal letters. Also I have learnt the metric system. I studied topies of conversation including EKKA and River Fastival. I learnt by speaking in front of the class and retelling stories. I started to read English books in this term. I did a lots of exercises with Blackboard and WIKI programs from Internet. Now I can study on line at home

Term 3 was interesting and enjoyable. Thinks to my teacher and my classmate for being helpful. I will study hard to keep improving my English during next term.

**from Hue ...**
 Hello everyone,   I want to tell you about River festival. I enjoyed the River festival the most because I like to watch the beautiful colours of the fire crackers. The attractive and saw many different colours. So when they blow up into the sky. It brought a smile to my face and many people there.   They were watching of the fire crackers. I like the crowds and I like people, also I like different foods such as Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese. I learnt to relax with my family .we gave time to listen to each other. I was a good time.  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Bye for now <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Hue

**from Jim ...**
Hello Mates,

Last Friday mornnig ,29th August my Language ,Literacy and Numeracy program class went on an excursion to Southbank.I wasn't able to go with them because I had an appointment with the counsellor who work's at "Harmony place"in Yeronga. "Harmony place"is a community organisation that takes care of people who suffer from psychological problems.When I went there ,I wait for more than One hour because the Counsellor was very late .When I saw counsellor we discussed problems that I have a health problem.My blood pressure is high .It makes me unable to go on with my study because when I get tired or upset or hungry,I get very strong headaches.The headaches stop me from thinking well. The counsellor advised me to take a break from study for a while and try to relax. He refered me to a specialist doctor to treat me as well. Finally I returned home by train. when I arrived home I was very tired. I wondred what my class mates did at Southbank so I called of them and I asked him. He said that they had a nice time and they enjoyed the journey.

Yours Sincerely, JIM ALI

**from Siri ...**
=Term3/2008=

During this term, we learnt and did manythings. We went on an excursion and done recount. We read English book novel and discussion also retelling stories. We learnt about writing informal and formal letters. We had to listening and speaking with CD. We learnt about metric system and also we have lot excercies with e-learning class, the blackboard and Wiki webpage.

All of I have learnt cover to listening speaking reading writing and numeracy. I feel more confidence with speaking and have done with lot of writhing and reading novel and grammar including with learnt more new words from the novel books.

I found the e-learning by the blackboard is useful and informative especially the various excercies that I could do online. I will continue to improve my English by completing various tutorials. With our Wiki wepsite I hope that I will have new friends from other places in Australia, with whom I can learn and practice my English.

I realy enjoy everything that I did during term. Everyday that I came to school I learnt more. My teachers, the volunteer, and classmate were all friendly and helpful.

Kind Regards. Siri.

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From Jamalieh**:**
My name is Jamalieh..I am studying in Language Literacy and Numeracy Program class at South Bank. This term I have done lots of things and I learnt many things.

THIS TERM WE HAVE DONE :
 * Excursion
 * Wiki
 * Written recount
 * Blackboard ( on line course)
 * Topics - Ekka - River Festival
 * Numeracy Fractions - Percent

So I am going to tell you about something which was useful for me.

This term we went on an excursion along the South bank.On this excursion we went to the QPAC gallery and refugee camp. I didn't go to this place before.It was very useful for me because in QPAC I learnt many things about aboriginal groups around Australia and also we saw a movie about them.

In the refugee camp I understood about their lives and what are their problems that occur in their lives. After this excursion we had to write a recount of the day.This work was so good for our writing skill because after that my teacher corrected us, so that we understood our mistakes.

Also in this term we have been taught to use on line course.This was an extra practice for us because we could use that at home. On that site we can choose many things, about grammar, Pronunciation , dictation and extra information depending on what we need. Also we learnt many things about Numeracy. That was so good too. we learnt something which we can use in our lives. We are using all these things in a daily life.

I enjoy to be part of this class.

Kind Regards ...

Jamalieh