#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
You were given 4 articles this week - what are 12 new vocabulary (3 from each) that you have learned? If it was a cartoon use 3 words needed to describe this.
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Both of Them talk about children health and help children with special needs
ReplyDelete#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
ReplyDeleteTHE TITLE IS LIFE TERM FOR DRUM PEDDLER AND THE MOTHER JAILED FOR SICKEST BOY IN BRITAIN FANTASY.
You were given 4 articles this week - what are 12 new vocabulary (3 from each) that you have learned?ACQUIRED,CONDUCT,FEASIBILITY,POINTED,OBSTACLE,DISRUPT,INSTANCE,HANDED,CONVICTED,PRETENDING,FED,ENSURED,SADISTIC. If it was a cartoon use 3 words needed to describe this.
the ferst The war in Iraq and the scund is adout the war in afghan unrest and both of thim talk about killing people
ReplyDeleteunrest
deployed
reinforcements
massacres
crimes
northeastern
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ReplyDelete#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
ReplyDeleteDubai want to be more beautiful and safer.
#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
1-Cameras on patrol cars to Monitor Dubai Traffic.
2-Dubai to Impose Curbs on outdoor Advertising.
Dubai want to be avoid mistake in future.
You were given 4 articles this week - what are 12 new vocabulary (3 from each) that you have learned? If it was a cartoon use 3 words needed to describe this.
Posted by Stephen Pellerine at 12:03 AM
*1-encourage 2-emphasised 3-mediate
*1-Settled 2-cultivation 3-offence
*1-prominently 2-restricted 3-adequate
The political situation in Sri Lanka
ReplyDeleteInternal problems
Poverty
Wars and battles
Bombings
Major problems with the government
Hunger and malnutrition
Disease
#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
ReplyDelete#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
Today I read about MI5 Warns of Al Qaeda... and Man who tried to open plane door freed.
- The 2 articals were talking about a terrorist attaks on the air.
6 new vocabulary:
MI5
Terrorist
hijack
Authorities
Cockpit
Restrained
#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
ReplyDelete#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
I read about 1)Gang of 15 Arrested for cellphone Credit Fraud in Shajah 2) RAK Resident Cry Foul Of Quarry Work.
12 new vocabulary : 1) Demand,intraday and investors. 2)comprehensive,creatures and excavations. 3) Gang,Arrested and credit Fraud 4) Residents,Foul,Quarry
#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
ReplyDelete#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
I read about 1) Jet Crashes in Lebanon, and the 2) about another crash in Iran. The connection is air/planr crashes.
12 new vocabulary: 1) intrady , eroded ,investors , 2) comprehens , previonsly , excavation , 3) infuriated , proclaimed , sattlements , 4) plunged , thunderstorm , authorities .
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ReplyDeleteOverarching goal 1
ReplyDeleteHow can reading help me improve my skills?
Overarching goal 2
How can newspapers help me see the world in a new way?
Overarching goal 3
How can finding speaking about (ideas / problems) help me be a critical thinker?
Overarching goal 4
How can finding connections make more inqvisative?
Course goals should be to improve my speaking skills
My goals are to have a bachelors degree
The class should try to be active
For the college we might try to complate my study
1- The connection between the two news is talk about kill and dead.
ReplyDelete2- Both in the Euorp.
3- There is problem in the both subjects.
#1 If you were unable to post the 4 overarching course goals - do so please.
ReplyDelete#2 You were given 2 newspaper articles today, what were the titles and how do they connect? Which nation(s) is/are involved?
I had read about French-Algerian Actress Attacked and about France Moves to Ban Burqa
I can explain the connection in one word and it RACISM.
Location: France
Victim: Muslim women get attacked and muslim women should take her Boura off.
1. France Moves to Ban Burqa
2. Muslim women are not accepted in France and they get attak from french people.
Connection: Muslim Women are unaccepted in France.
6 new vocabulary
1.doused
2.approached
3.barring
4.sweepin
5.debate
6.unease
I see many many wonderful things happening here. I see the fact that most of the class, not all is now connected to this blog, and that more than half are now able to post. This is a good sign - and I understand that this may be new to some of you. In a week or two it should become quite natural, and easy.
ReplyDeleteSome of the words we are collecting are:
ACQUIRED,CONDUCT,FEASIBILITY,POINTED,OBSTACLE,DISRUPT,INSTANCE,HANDED,CONVICTED,PRETENDING,FED,ENSURED,SADISTIC.
unrest, deployed, reinforcements,
massacres, crimes, northeastern
*1-encourage 2-emphasised 3-mediate
*1-Settled 2-cultivation 3-offence
*1-prominently 2-restricted 3-adequate
Internal problems, Poverty, Wars and battles
Bombings, Major problems with the government,
Hunger and malnutrition, Disease
MI5, Terrorist, hijack, Authorities, Cockpit
Restrained
1) Demand,intraday and investors. 2)comprehensive,creatures and excavations. 3) Gang,Arrested and credit Fraud 4) Residents,Foul,Quarry
1) intrady , eroded ,investors , 2) comprehens , previonsly , excavation , 3) infuriated , proclaimed , sattlements , 4) plunged , thunderstorm , authorities .
1.doused, 2.approached, 3.barring, 4.sweepin
5.debate, 6.unease
Include these items in your vocabulary bank -and remember that you will need to hand in your portfolio in weeks: 3, 7, 12, 12, and 17.
1) india festival opens to celebrate
ReplyDeleterepublic day
2) mohammed raceives copy
of book o hndia - UAE ties
the relationship that lndia
wants abright future witharab
countries especially the uae
1- the connection between the two title is the first affects the second
ReplyDelete2- if the weather foggy and the driver hasn't licence maybe that make big problem because he don't know how to drive and the weather make your seeing difficult so that maybe make accidents
hi i'm (hamad mohammed)going to tell you about what i did tody
ReplyDeletei cearched for the state selected by me.
On transportation and the number of population, food, history.
There are two universities and I saw the first is the national university of rwanda
and the second is kigali instidute of science and technology .
adout the population of rwanda is 9,720,694.
the food the have many restaurats Even the Middle East food.
they also have meny hotels withe a good serves.
1) The Nation
ReplyDelete-rwanda
2) What color is the flag?
-Green yellow and blue
3) What is some current news there?
-The dream of the Nile
-New topics from around the world
-Of Ihakmanma
4) What is a university there?
-Kigali Institute of Science, Technology, and Management
-National University of Rwanda
5) What is the main city?
there are 14 city
-Butare
-Byumba
-Cyangugu
-Gisenyi
-Gitarama
-Kibeho
-Kibungo
-Kibuye
-Kigali
-Nyanza
-Ruhengeri
-Rwamagana
-Gikongoro
-Gasarenda
the main city is kigali
6) What do some of the ecosystems look like?
-Mountain rivers and forests
7) What are some endangered species there?
-Gorillas
8) What are some environmental issues there?
-Wood and plants in danger , THE WOOD COME FROM TREES WECH IS Mean THAT IS THE TREES IN DANGER,
While we lose oxygen without a sense of
-Dust and smoke of factories turn into clouds and rain h2so4
9) Who is the nations leader?
-Paul Kagame
10) What is most interesting about the nation thus far?
-That the town is so beautiful and forbidden to destroy at the hands of its people
Thanks (Hamad . M)