Thursday April 15, 2010

The last session of the series for this year. We started off by looking at This link which will get you to a site which has Dutch news in English. Today we read two of their articles. One on how the volcanic eruption on Iceland today has disrupted air travel in northern Europe and the other about the dune fire near Bergen aan Zee. Had you heard about these two items? What happened? What are your views?
The Dutch News site is a great way to read English to study the language instead of just catching up on the news. Just visit from time to time, read an article and, if you like, make a word web on the subject you have read about.
We finished unit 12 and and set a date to meet for a meal out together.
I posted the vocabulary of unit 12 here at wrts and will hand out a printed list as soon as possible.
Have a good summer!

Thursday April 8, 2010

As usual we started the session with talking about ourselves. What happened to you last week? How was your holiday? How is your mother? How is your health?
We then discussed what you do at home on a daily basis to help save the environment. Do you use renewable energy, for instance?


We finally closed the book on unit 11 by having a look at the self study section on pp. 114-115.
We started unit 12a Good news! on news and current events.