WEEK 4 and 5 - Textbook Practice

 TASK A -  Click on Study Skills (on the right) and do the following tasks:

TASK 1 - Rank your choice of textbooks

TASK 2 - Match the parts of the textbook with the definitions
TASK 7 - Match the index with the meanings

TASK 8 - Finding information using the index

TASK B - Go to Homes of the Future and do the activities:

• Preparation
• Watching the Video
• Transcript 
• Worksheet

TASK C - Go to Homes of the World and

• read the text
• do the interactive multiple choice quiz

TEXT TYPE - TEXTBOOK

 

Textbook           

                                     

A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books and increasingly, although illegally, in scanned format on file sharing networks.

We will be surveying textbooks - identifying the parts of a textbook and analysing them using the reading strategies 

• predicting/guessing
• skimming
• scanning
• reading in detail

WEEK 2 - TASK 1

1. Do the Plagiarism Quiz 

2. Do the Reading Academically Quiz

3. Do the activities below:

• Parts of Textbook Quiz 1
• Parts of Textbook Quiz 2

WELCOME TO AEFS CLASS BLOG

Dear Students!

Welcome back to TAFE and welcome to our AEFS Class Sem 2 2020. Blogging is an ideal avenue for teaching and learning literacy allowing you to be creative and if you remember that a blog is just a blank canvas you can innovate and mould it into anything you like. It is an effective two-way communication between home and school, so important. Blogging is an excellent method for learning to be a responsible member of an online community in an authentic and ongoing way. Blogging assist students (and teachers) to become digitally literate and creating a blog requires teamwork and collaboration. Students and teachers learn together. I hope you will enjoy your reading class and blogging which can help you advance your reading and writing skills.

TASK 1 - Getting started - Managing My Time (watch the video)

TASK 2 - Study Skills 0- Reading efficiently and basics (watch the video)