Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Plan Australia and New Zealand

Week 35 – 39 Australia and New Zealand

Group work
Short group speeches about topics related to Australia and New Zealand. The speeches should be about five minutes and the groups four persons. For example; The Great Barrier Reef, The Outback, James Cook, different animals, other parts of the history, culture, literature, British convicts, Aborigines, Maori and Aussie/Kiwi English.

The novel Letters from the Inside by John Marsden

Group discussions

Reading log

Written tasks posted on the blog

Short story: “Bill Sprockett’s Land” by Elisabeth Jolley

Article: “Australia to Apologize to Aborigines”

Final assignment: “What If”: essay between 400 – 700 words.

Grade criteria

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If you check your e-mails then hopefully you will find the grade criteria to the presentations.

Group work Australia/New Zealand

Group work: Presentation of a topic related to Australia and New Zealand


1. Research about your chosen topic. Remember to choose your sources well. Wikipedia isn’t the most truthful source you now. You will have time to do this week 35-36.

2. Write down what to say. Perhaps divide the work in the group.

3. Prepare your presentation and feel free to use power point.

4. Practise your speeches so that you now them by heart. They should be about five minutes. If you need more time, that’s ok.

Group 1: Badrkhan, Sebastian, Malin, Ranin (The Great Barrier Reef)

Group 2: John, Amir, Emilia, Ina (Sydney)

Group 3: Carl Johan, Aiham, Jonna, Zahra (Surfing)

Group 4: Daniel, Mario, Elizabeth, Åsa, Erika (The Maori)

Monday, August 30, 2010