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