This Months Activities

There are six choices now. Do you learn best by reading and looking at photos, by listening and repeating language, singing in English or by watching a video?

The free lesson is about useful words about culture in New Zealand in February and it helps to talk to someone or use a dictionary.

If you like writing, you can win a free book. This month write the name of one of the activities in the photo.

 
New Zealand Music Listening and looking: This Months Video Quiz

This link (above) is for photo and reading practice. It is about New Zealand culture in February.

 

Do you want to learn about tramping and staying in huts in February? Listen to Moira...

 

 

Click above for lots of youtube links to popular singers, bands, their songs and the lyrics (words to their songs).

This link (below) is for the second page about NZ music.

 

 

 This link (above) is to listen to New Zealanders talk. Listen and read to become comfortable with the New Zealand accent. I am adding new videos all the time.
 
Listening to podcasts

This link (above) is the competition page. It changes every month but the prize is always the same! An ESOL book of lessons about New Zealand for every month of the year.

Hint: A lot of Kiwis go camping in January and February.

Here is the link to my podcasts. http://yvonnz.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml

My ESOL class loves jazz chants, music and poetry.

There is also some dictation for listening practice. The December dictation is under the photo of a popular beach on Auckland's North Shore.

You have to buy or get Carolyn Graham's book out of a library to see the words for some of the jazz chants.

Bush walks with powerpoints (8.4-15MB) to help with the names of New Zealand trees.

 

 This link (above) has a vocabulary free lesson about this month's culture in New Zealand. There are also some other free lessons about culture from past years.