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These are the crosswords we created and then completed in Geography.

World Cities Crossword

Victorian places crossword

I just wanted to say goodbye and good luck to my Year Ten students as you all finished up your exams today. Next year some of you will be over at Quamby, some are going to other schools, and some of you will be off into the workforce. Of course I’ve said goodbye to many of you already but I never miss a chance to say anything twice.

I hope you’ve learned something about the world, being a decent kind of person, and perhaps even a little about History, Geography and English. I know I’ve learned a bit from you characters about what does work in a classroom, what will never work in a million years of trying, and what people say in the internet about, well, pretty much everything.

If you see me in the street please stop me and let me know how life is treating you. And finally, do try the veal.

Lie – to lie down. A person or animals does this. (v)
I was so tired that I decided to lie down.

Lay – to lay an object down. You do this to things (v)
The wheel was so heavy that I lay it down.

Word of the Day Crossword

X Men 3 Crossword

Macbeth crossword

Bought – purchased (v)
Brought – taken to a place (v)

Pedal – foot operated lever.(n)
Peddle – to sell goods (v)
Petal – part of a flower.

If you happen to have heard some of this list in class here are the track names, artists and albums.
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Marital – of marriage (adj)
Martial – of war (adj)

Loath – reluctant or unwilling (v)
Loathe – dislike greatly (v)

This is the brochure I was talking about in class today which allows you to provide life improving gift to people in developing countries.

CAREgifts are clever. They give to a grateful family overseas, who will be over the moon (not literally, they’ll just be overseas but they’ll be extremely happy with your gift), and as a delightful touch we’ll send you a beautiful card to pass on to your family and friends with details of the gift you’ve given on their behalf.

CARE Australia

Discrete – separate or distinct (adj)
Discreet – careful not to attract attention (adj)

The forecast for this Monday is 35 degrees in Geelong which strikes me as pretty hot for November. Then I wondered if I have been thinking so much about climate change that I am losing perspective on what normal weather is.

So I checked the official stats on the Bureau’s site. They have twenty six years of data from 1970 to 1996 and here is what I learned from that data.

The average daily maximum temperature is November in Geelong is 21 degrees.
On average there is less than one day each November over 35 degrees (0.6 actually)
The hottest November day on record in Geelong got to 40.7 and happened in 1982.

So Monday will be hot. I would even regard it as unusually hot. Thankfully not as hot as 40.

Another interesting article about climate change.

GLOBAL warming is destroying species, raising sea levels and threatening millions of poor people, the United Nations’ top scientific panel said in a report yesterday.

The report argues that only firm action, including a price on carbon dioxide emissions, will avoid more catastrophic events.

Those actions will take a small part of the world’s economic growth and will be substantially less than the costs of doing nothing, the report will say.

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be important ammunition when world leaders meet in Bali next month to decide what to do after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The UN and many countries want strong mandatory reductions of the greenhouse gases that drive global warming

Experts warn of global disaster – National – theage.com.au

Hanged – executed by suspending from the neck. (v)
Ned Kelly was hanged.

Hung – past tense of “hang” for other objects (v)
I hung my coat up.

Figuratively – metaphorically or symbolically (adv)
When I said I felt ten feet tall I was speaking figuratively.

Literally – actually or exactly (adv)
I am literally five foot eleven inches tall.