Songkran Festival

           Songkran is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13 every year . Songkran festival on April 13 is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark the end of the old year, April 14 is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15 is Wan Thaloeng Sok which the New Year begins.
           Songkran means “movement” or “changing” since according to Thai astrology, the sun will move into a new sign of the Zodiac on this day.  Songkran is also called the “Water Festival”.  Water is believed to flow and wash away all evil during this time.  Thus, it is a time for cleaning; houses, villages, temples and 

Shrines.

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            In the Thai tradition, the New Year begins early in the morning when faithful Thai Buddhists give alms to Buddhist monks.  After that, they release caged animals, especially birds and fish.  Elders and parents will be visited and respected by their children and grandchildren.

Tollway accident driver hears charges

Tollway accident driver hears charges

Who:The 17-year-old girl

What:She drived without a licence.

Where:In tollway 

When:In the fatal tollway accident 10 days ago

Why:She charges of reckless driving

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m5 Nature / weather / natural disasters

m5 Nature / weather / natural disasters

complete as many as you have time for



Assignment I

a)  see page 73, ex 9 for the model

b)  do the writing project on page 73

use a Thai weather or seasonal festival

Each blog

1 posts the paragraph

2  an audio file of 1

3  appropriate image(s)

Assignment II

a)  see page 74, ex 1 for the model

b)  write your own weather related conversation


Each blog

1 posts the dialogue (at least 2 people)

2  an audio file of 1

3  appropriate image(s)

you may want to use this

www.storyboardthat.com

to create your illustrated dialogue

Assignment III

a)  see page 70, ex 5 for the model

b)  find weather disaster newspaper
     headlines / write a caption underneath
     each one describing what where and when


Each blog

1 posts the 4-5 headlines
   and writes descriptions

2  an audio file of 1

3  appropriate image(s)

all assignments:

you can do it in video style

"Scoring Rubric"

0 if you copy from someone else's blog
1 if you copy from the Internet with no changes
2-3 everything but sound files
4-5 everything

***if you do not understand what you have to do
- ask - you will not be able to claim later that you
did not understand

Insects

Aedes Aegypti

Family : Culicidae(Mosquito)

Lifespan : two to four weeks

Diet : blood

Habitat : everywhere

Size : rarely greater than 16 mm.

Weight : weight up to 2.5 mg.
Colour : Black and white strips
Young called : larva
Problem : bite and spread many disease

Musca Domestica

Family : Muscidae (House Fly)
Lifespan :
Diet :
Habitat : everywhere
Size : 5-8 mm.
Weight : 8-20 mg.
Colour : Black
Young called : maggot
Problem : spread disease and disgusting

Ant

Family : Formicidae (Ant)
Lifespan : Queen can live up to 30 years Worker live to 1-3 years Male can only live for a few weeks
Diet : Everything especially plants and fungus
Habitat : everywhere
Size : 0.75-52 mm.
Weight : 1-5 mg.
Colour : Red to Black
Young called : Antling
Problem : Sting and bite , mess with our food

Headlines

Manchester United's woes hit fortune

Real Madrid have been the highest earning team in the world

as Manchester United drops out of the top three of the richest football club for the first time in years.

South Korea explores '5G' network

The government in South Korea spend $1.5 billion into upgrades it says will make mobile communications there 1,000 times faster than they are today but in real it is not much better than 4G as it was just use as a marketing slogan-as this point, anyway.

  Gerard Pique and Shakira: Power couple   'a normal family'

He's a professional soccer star with a World Cup title to his name; she has sold over 70 million albums worldwide.
No wonder then, that Gerard Pique and his wife Shakira were included in Forbes' 2013 list of the world's most powerful pairings, with David and Victoria Beckham nowhere to be seen.

M5 eye-witness

M5 eye-witness

one story / dialogue per blog
all members contribute


search on thailand road accident

find a recent one

1  Post: photo and headline

2 Post: the question words below and answers (details)

Who:

What:

Where:

When:

Why:

3  Post: an imaginary dialogue similar to

p66 ex 1 which is an 'eye-witness account' of the

accident


4.  Post: An audio file of number 3.

you can do it in video style if you want

"Scoring Rubric"

0 if you copy from someone else's blog
1 if you copy from the Internet with no changes
2-3 everything but sound files
4-5 everything

***if you do not understand what you have to do
- ask - you will not be able to claim later that you
did not understand

cd/mp3/recording group review

"Let It Be" is a song by the Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternate mix) as the title track of their album Let It Be.

My interpretation is that you can't control people or situations, even if you desperately want to, and for what may feel very good reason. In relationships we may want to fix or change things, but no matter how much love and communication is given, you cannot change people or control their sometimes bad and weak choices.

After struggling to hold everything together for too long, you finally realise, you actually have no control and that you just have to 'let it be". It's out of your hands.

Faith gets you through these times ~knowing that you can and will be okay whatever outcome.




Audio review picture