Friday, November 17, 2006

Students' Accounts

Today in class students wrote about their impressions about a trip they made yesterday to the Otago Polytechnic's School of Art.



Yesterday I saw the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic. I saw a small house. In the middle of the house there was a small tree. On the tree there were a lot of rings. It was just like a dream. (by Wei Lu)

Yesterday afternoon, our Polytechnic students went to the School of Art's exhibition. First, I saw a sculpture. It was very amazing. And a beehive was very interesting too. But some of the others I didn't understand. I enjoyed the Korean room especially; it was impressive. I followed Korean shoes up the stairs and took off my own shoes when entering the room. There was a Korean student there who served green tea to me. I had a very enjoyable time. Thank you to all School of Art's students! (by KwiOk)

Yesterday I went to the art school which held many different types of artexhibits.I saw an operation performed through digital movies,and ceramics.It was really crul art but a very impressive exhibition. (by Wook)

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

These are a few of our favourite things:

In class the other day I asked for students to tell me which online activities they had especially enjoyed or found useful. We made a list on the board, and it includes:


  1. www.jabberwacky.com - for practising chatter in a safe but unusual environment
  2. www.flickr.com - for practising making comments quickly about beautiful subjects
  3. http://www.manythings.org/ for all sorts of activities, especially grammar
  4. www.blogger.com for reflective writing and developing a voice
  5. www.newszealand.blogspot.com for bite-sized pieces of NZ news
  6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ for a variety of British-English audio-visual materials
  7. http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage for a high quality listening and reading site

There were more - and I've left spaces - but my pen wasn't swift enough. As with many posts, this is a working project. To be continued.