a) Create a blog link to other students' blogs in your class. I'll show you how to do this now.
b) Click on this link and watch what happens in the clip. Why do you think it happened?
FIFA World Cup 2006
b) Write a post on your blog:
A Competitive Spirit - Should we encourage it or discourage it? To what extent?
(200 words)
Week 3 Task
This week we're going to work on your second objective (AA2), which is: Sythesizing and reporting information and arguments from a number of sources.
Unexplained Mysteries - Conspiracies, Hauntings, Occult, etc.
Have fun, and don't be scared! :-)
* image courtesy of 'Ghosts & Hauntings - www.unexplained-mysteries.com
Karina
Week 4 Task
Tomorrow we're going to talk about 'irony'. If you don't know the meaning of the word, please look it up in a dictionary and also click on the youtube video below to listen to a song about it.
This is what I'd like you to do - write about 1 situation that you think is 'ironic' and then post it in the comments section below. For example:
"Did you know that the Bible is the most shoplifted book of all time? Ironic, huh!"
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your efforts and will try my best to comment on your blogs - but bear in mind that there are lots of you, and only one of me!
Best wishes,
Karina
haiii.... i'm gonna do BIG FOOT ENCOUNTERS for our next week presentation.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'll do a presentation about Area 51.
ReplyDeleteI'll be talking about UFOs!!!
ReplyDeleteGot it!
ReplyDeleteSo far the people below have posted their presentation topic:
Malmi - The Bermuda Triangle
Oshadi - BigFoot Encounters
Dumindu - Area 51
Nuwanthika - UFOs
hi mam
ReplyDeletei have selected the topic of Ghosts.I hope i will do my best.
bye.tc
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ReplyDeleteI'm going to do about a hunted Tuberculosis hospital in Waverly Hills.
ReplyDeleteHey Karina, I'll be talking about Loch Ness Monster. I hope You like it.
ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteI'm going to talk about "Moon landing hoax".
OH GOD! I will not be able attend the class for another two weeks. Sorry! Have any tasks or hws?
ReplyDeleteHi Janith,
ReplyDeleteThe last 2 weeks' tasks are posted on this page. If you can't make it, then you need to work on this at home.
Thanks for asking!
Madam what do we have 2 do in this week?
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ReplyDeletewikipedia says,"Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says [or does], and what is understood"
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"Don't yell at me," screamed his brother. (The brother is doing the very thing he is asking not be done to him.) Ditto for hitting a child while telling him not to hit.
In the O. Henry short story, Gift of the Magi , the wife sells her hair to buy a gold watch fob for her husband's gold watch. Her husband , in turn, sells his treasured watch to purchase a fancy comb for his wife's hair. This whole story is an example of irony. The reader knows what is going on, but the characters do not.
Of course,you have only to read the newspaper, especially government and big business section to find many examples of irony.
For example, everytime the IRS attempts to "simplify the tax form" , it seems to take even more time to complete and figure out. That was not their intended outcome.
You may use irony all the time with your friends. If someone asks your opinion of a new outfit or amkes a suggestion about whch movie to see, you may SAY, " Great." At the same time you are rolling your eyes, smirking , pretending to gag, or using the tone of your voice to convey the exact opposite opinion.
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A woman decides to go all out and splurge at the beauty parlor. She gets the deluxe hair package: extra deep conditioner, $100.00 hair cut, coloring and styling. She gets all dressed up and goes out with her boyfriend to a Japanese Hibachi restaurant (the kind where they cook your meal at a grill built into the table). The Japanese chef is putting on a little show for the guests who are seated around the table. He does the "flaming volcano" trick by putting oil into a pyramid of specially cut onion rings, but he mistakenly puts in too much. A touch of the match and.....POOF! A fireball races down the table straight for the woman, and suddenly her hair is on fire! She isn't badly burned, but her eyelashes, eyebrows and hair at the top and front of her head are vaporized! She goes home, takes out the electric razor and proceeds to shave the rest of it off!
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the Steve Irwin incident was considered irony. He worked to protect animals his entire life, and died by a sting ray. And also a PETA2 worker eating a hamburger, then getting attacked by pigs.
Bertram
there is a story talking about an ironic situation. ARTIST ASKED TO PAINT A PORTRAIT OF A HEADMASTER WHO EXPELLED HIM. this has happened to David ingham who has been thrown out of Grammer school as a 12 years old by his headmaster Foster.
ReplyDeletebut the 67 year old David who went to became an art teacher himself was approached by the school to paint a portrait of Foster.
A LAWYER GETTING SUED.
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