Dear AEFS students,

We have come to the end of the course and I hope you have improved in all or some areas. Please continue with your hard work which will help you to achieve your goals. I know there have been some ups and downs during the learning period but that has made our course a bit more interesting and realistic. It has been my pleasure to teach you and I wish you the very best in pursuing your career.

Best of luck in whatever you are doing next semester.

REFERENCE MATERIAL

 Reference materials are various sources that provide background information or quick facts on any given topic. While there are many different types of resources, here are a few: almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, biographical resources, dictionaries, encyclopedias (both general and by subject), handbooks, indexes, statistics, and citation guides

Encyclopaedia Entry - Taj Mahal

• Preparation Task
• Matching paragraphs Task
• Reading comprehension

First Government House

• Pre-reading
• Skimming 
• Scanning
• Read for detail
• Grammar

Reporting Verbs in English

A reporting verb is a word which is used to talk about or report on other people's work. Reporting verbs can be used to great effect, but the difficulty with using them is that there are many, and each of them has a slightly different and often subtle meaning.

• Watch the video - Weak Reporting Verbs
• Watch the video - Reporting Verbs EAP

Passive Voice Task

• Complete the cloze passage
• Complete the text using the phrases from the box

Using Academic English

Academic writing is objective and impersonal

• Complete Activity 1 - 7

RESEARCH REPORTS

A report is a document that presents information in an organised format for a specific audience and purpose. Although summaries of reports may be delivered orally, complete reports are almost always in the form of written documents. Reports are professional documents so need to be written in a formal and concise style. 

TASK 1:

Report Text Type – Watch the video 'What is a Report?'

Reports vs Essays – Read about different features of reports and essays

Watch the video and identify the differences in reports and essays

(Click Assessment Tasks and then Reports)

Language of Reports (Prezi) - Watch the presentation

TASK 2 – Writing about Survey Results

Reading reports practice

• Do the Preparation

• Read the Report

• Complete the tasks 1 and 2

TASK 3 - Stand Up Australia 

               

Sitting or lying down, (with the exception 

of sleeping), are what we call 'sedentary' 

behaviours. You can be sedentary at work, 

at school, at home, when travelling or 

during leisure time. Sedentary behaviour 

requires little energy expenditure.

• Look at the research report and examine the report.

• Identify the key features 
•  Practice Activity 

TASK 4 - Interpreting information in diagram form in a report - Migrants and refugees

• Complete the pre-reading and reading activities - handout given

TASK 1: Schools Strike 4 Climate

• Watch the video and read the transcript
• Complete the suggested activities

Newspaper Articles

 Media File

Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.

Class Activity - Take some notes using key words after reading the article you have chosen.

Homework = Summary - Write a brief summary of the main issues the article deals with based on your notes.

Personal reflection - Respond in a written format about attitudes, feelings, reflections on the content and implications of the article.

TASK 1 - Newspaper Headlines - Useful Language

• Analyse the headline
• Focus on key words
• Complete the activity choosing the correct key word

SUMMARISING

 

What is summarising?

To summarise is simply to identify the most important information from a text. You are probably summarising every day without thinking about it. A summary is always much shorter than the original text, but there is more to summarising than simply copying some sentences from a source and leaving out others. Summarising is a matter of analysing and re-purposing information.

The Sport Journal

 The Sport Journal Practice

• Click on The Sport Journal
• Choose a journal article (not very long)
• Read the journal article
• Identify the main idea of the article
• Identify the parts of the article
• What methods were used
• What are the main results
• What is the conclusion of the journal article

WELCOME TO AEFS READING CLASS BLOG

 Dear students,

Welcome to AEFS reading class. For the AEFS reading unit, we will be using our class blog as one of the online delivery platforms. I will be putting resources and tasks for you to complete and send them back to me as blog posts or via email so you can practise. The course delivery will be in class face-to-face.

Please have your mobiles on, check your class blog and your emails on a regular basis and most importantly activate your TAFE email.

I hope you will enjoy the class while improving your reading skills.

MANAGING MY TIME

Managing your time is very important skill 

during your studies.

TASK - Watch the video

Discuss

TEXT TYPES

Watch the video

Understanding text types

TEXT TYPES AND PURPOSE

Watch the video

PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE

It is important to identify the reason for 

writing the text and for whom it is written.

TASK - Watch the Slide share

MAIN IDEA

Main idea is important to understand the text

Read and watch the video

NOTE TAKING - RMIT LANGUAGE LAB

This is very important skill to help you with your studies

TASK - Watch the video

NOTE TAKING in class

You can always improve in this skill.

TASK - Read about note-taking strategies

NOTE TAKING PPP

You can use symbols and abbreviations 

while taking notes

TASK - Watch the PPP

SELECTIVE UNDERLINING

It is a very important skill to know 

what to underline from a reading text.

TASK  - Watch the PPP

WEEK 3 - 5 JOURNAL ARTICLES

Journal articles are shorter than books and written about very specific topics. A journal is a collection of articles (like a magazine) that is published regularly throughout the year. Journals present the most recent research, and journal articles are written by scholars or professionals who are experts in their field. They may be published in print or online formats, or both. 

The language of scholarly journals is that of the discipline covered. It assumes some technical background on the part of the reader.

The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such information available to the rest of the scholarly world.

Complete the following tasks:

HOMEWORK WEEK 3 - 4

Benefits of sport

• Watch the video Benefits of Sport
• Complete the activities (handout given)

TASK 1:

• Watch 'What is a journal article?', and get familiar with the text type
• Watch Journal vs Popular Articles and discuss the differences
• Watch 'Elements of Journal Articles'
• Watch 'Tips for reading journal articles

TASK 2:

• Find a journal article of your interest (health, education, sport etc.)
• Write your notes using the different parts of the journal/periodical
• Complete your summary based on your notes