Michael: My father the Town Crier

December 6th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE, esol | Post a Comment »

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Michael Keating, a teacher from the English section at our college, visited our class last week and told us about his father, Graham Keating, who is a Town Crier.
Listen to our conversation to find out more about Town Criers, Michael and his dad.

You can also watch this video where Graham Keating introduces the new Town Crier for Liverpool Council. It will help you understand what a town crier does.

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Sculpture by the Sea 2009

November 10th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

A group of AMEP students and their teachers went to Sculpture by the Sea on Tuesday 10th November, 2009. Listen to a couple of interviews with 4 visitors to this amazing exhibition.

You can use their comments as part of your blog post on the excursion.

Visit Our Class 2009, 2008 & 2007 for more posts on Sculpture by the Sea (tagged sculpturebythesea)

Music by Tresena

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Luke: Ultimate Stylist

October 18th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in ESL podcasts | Post a Comment »

Many people have to leave everything behind and start anew. Listen to my chat with Luke Kara, a hairdresser from Turkey who, not knowing the language, came to Australia and in a very short time had established a very successful and professional hairdressing business.

After you listen to the interview, write an article for your blog. Write about migrants settling into a new country. Difficulties they may encounter and examples, like Luke’s, of people who have achieved their dream or are still working on achieving it.

Music by Mig

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Angelica, Cassandra, Melisa & Rachelle(s): Loftus Event Managers

August 17th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE, Young Sydneysiders, esol | Post a Comment »

photo by Nicola Pegum

On August the 14th 2009 5 students from Loftus Event Manmagement worked for the Green Light for Green Skills conference organised by the TAFE NSW Managers Association.

They were registering the conference participants, helping with rooms, liaising with the hotel managers and conference organisers, etc. They had also prepared wonderful decorations created from recycled materials sourced from the Reverse Garbage co-operative in Marrickville. I talk to them about their experience.

Have you ever heard about Event Mangement as a job? Maybe you should look into it as a possible career. Listen to them and see what they think about it.

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Christina: Architecture

July 2nd, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Architecture and building management are the other areas I discussed with Christina totsis.

Listen to our conversation.

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Christina: Green Architect

July 2nd, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE, esol | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Christina Totsis works at St George TAFE. She wears many hats (check the meaning of this expression!). Listen to our interviews and find out about her role at the college.You can also visit her building management wiki.

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Health Expo 2009

June 25th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol | Post a Comment »

St George college Student Association organised its annual Health Expo in May. AMEP-B students conducted some interviews which supplement the ones published in this blog.  Unfortunately some of  the recordings weren’t successful, so we can’t hear their interviews with the asthma, breast screening, blood donation and aquatic centre stall holders.

They also created mini radio programs around some topics related to health. like food and sports.

This is a summary of all the podcasts:

Dental Care

Our thoughts on Health Expo 09

Food

Sports

The environment

Coast Walks

Health Expo: Coast Walks

June 21st, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE | Post a Comment »

Listen to an interview with Ian Wells from Royal Coast Walks.

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Health Expo 2009: The Environment

June 21st, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

St George College held its annual Health Expo 2 weeks ago. There were many stalls with information about issues related to health. I will be publishing here some interviews with some of them. The rest will be published in We Talk, as they are interviews conducted by my students.

You can listen to their first interview with Sue Martin, from Aussie Helpers here.

This is an interview between two TAFE teachers, David Green & Christina Totsis, who were manning the Environmet stall.

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Trevor Pearce: Composer

May 10th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in ESL podcasts, Native speakers & Fluent speakers | Post a Comment »

Listen to Trevor Pearce, an Australian composer, being interviewed by Dianne Maestri, an Australian pianist.

Make a Smilebox postcard

This worksheet will help you understand better. You can print it, but remember to check the drop down boxes with multiple choice first.

You can also visit Sydney University Library recently published online catalogue of Austalian Composers Online (page 7) where you may find links to extracts of his compositions in the no distant future.
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