Oct. 9, 2020: Environment & Pollution

This 90 minute advanced conversation lesson plan centers around a creative storytelling activity using pairs of mysterious images. Students work in groups to craft interconnected narratives about intriguing objects – a vintage jade ring and mysterious letters. Through a progressive three-stage process, pairs combine their stories into larger groups, ultimately creating a single class narrative.

Digital devices are increasingly dominating our lives these days. Many, if not most of us are addicted to them.

Welcome back to English class! Join us this Friday, April 17th, as we reconnect after the break. We’ll share simple stories about our recent experiences and look forward to what’s coming up this season. A perfect, relaxed start to our new term together!

Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have been requested to avoid the use of certain words related to gender. ANU’s Gender Institute issued a list of replacement terms for everyday words like ‘mother’ and ‘father’.

Foreign travel has been beyond most of us for the past 18 months because of restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. However, there are signs of hope for us to resume our sojourns to exotic and faraway places. The National Geographic magazine has released its list of the top 25 travel destinations for 2022.