Red Space Rocket

Answer me this: what is the difference between a fictionalised story and a fictional story?

Use examples in your answer. Try to keep this answer between twenty-five and fifty words.

Goals for today
• Expand vocabulary
• Read and critique a classical imaginative text

Vocabulary builder
The affluent octogenarian leapt over the conflagration.

Focus questions for “Arrangement in Black and White”

1. Who are the characters in this story?
2. Quickly describe each character.
3. What is the moral of this story?
4. What issues from this 1927 story are relevant in 2010?

The voting for Most Inspirational Teacher is over, but these are some the slogans I might have used.

O’Meara: Fat AND Bald
Because I’m Worth Mr O’Meara
Don’t Lean a Little, Learn with Mr O’Meara
If Only Everything In Life was Like Mr O’Meara
Snap! Crackle! O’Meara!

Leading Responsibly in a Digital World – Student Summit

1. Apple
2. Apricot
3. Banana
4. Berry
5. Blackberry
6. Blueberry
7. Boysenberry
8. Cantaloupe
9. Coconut
10. Cranberry
11. Date
12. Dragon fruit
13. Grape
14. Grapefruit
15. Guava
16. Honeydew
17. Kiwi fruit
18. Lemon
19. Lime
20. Mandarin
21. Mango
22. Melon
23. Nectarine
24. Orange
25. Papaya
26. Passionfruit
27. Paw paw
28. Peach
29. Pear
30. Pineapple
31. Plum
32. Prune
33. Quince
34. Raspberry
35. Rockmelon
36. Star fruit
37. Strawberry
38. Tangelo
39. Tangerine
40. Tomato
41. Watermelon
42. Cherry

1. Make eye contact.
2. Have vocal and physical confidence.
3. Stand slightly to the side of the screen.
4. make sure that technology works as you expect before you start
5. Speak clearly.
6. High contrast colours work well.
7. Don’t write words that you can’t say.
8. Animate your points in the slide show.
9. Use lots of vivid images.
10. Check and recheck for spelling mistakes.

Camping by the river.

Five years after my only hit song.

Here is an example assignment about rhetorical devices and a pop song.

Download example assignment

Your presentation should be similar in style and presentation.

I saw this and thought it might be useful for researching our Grammar Guide.

Thoughts Happen: A Hyphen-Free World
Why is this? Here’s my best explanation: hyphens group modifiers together for clarity.

Chocolate is good for you.

In The Power of English today, we will start our work on rhetorical devices. Here is some of the material we will consider.

The word for today is overt.

Today’s quotation is from Thomas Edison, the American inventor. He said “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Today is brought to you by the feeling of cool water running over your feet on a stinking hot day.

While I was investigating Esperanto I found this really useful translator. Rather than just give you the whole sentence it translates word by word which gives you much better control over the new sentence.

Tradukilo – Esperanto/English Translator

Here is some more information about the conventions of writing a screenplay. It’s not long so you should have a quick read of it.

Screenwriting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia