With Pinehill's Readers and Writers Festival rapidly approaching, we've created our own book trailers based on some of our favourite books. We were inspired by the trailer created for the book, "Trash", by Andy Mulligan.
Click here to visit our trailers. Feel free to leave a comment below letting us know of your favourite books. Perhaps you could make your own trailer!
Monday 22 June 2015
Monday 15 June 2015
Wednesday 10 June 2015
Speeches...
What do you think your topic could be?
Do you want to entertain, inform, recall, persuade, inspire...
Who do you think will be interested in your topic?
Leave your ideas in the comments below.
Visit here if you're stuck for a speech idea
Monday 8 June 2015
Scientific creature names
4. Invent a Creature!
Using the list of words provided in the chart below invent your own animal using Greek and Latin root words.
I have included the latin names of some insect orders and New Zealand examples of them because they are really interesting! For example : kolossosgastrosbindentismareequus Is my name for the giant bellied two toothed sea horse!
What would be the common name for Lineatio similus tigris? What about Micro tri cephalo bi ped?
Try to translate into english each others invented animal.
List the Scientific name of your animal as a comment. Can you guess the English name of what other people have created?
Using the list of words provided in the chart below invent your own animal using Greek and Latin root words.
I have included the latin names of some insect orders and New Zealand examples of them because they are really interesting! For example : kolossosgastrosbindentismareequus Is my name for the giant bellied two toothed sea horse!
What would be the common name for Lineatio similus tigris? What about Micro tri cephalo bi ped?
Try to translate into english each others invented animal.
List the Scientific name of your animal as a comment. Can you guess the English name of what other people have created?
Friday 5 June 2015
AAAWWUBBIS!
From https://sites.google.com/a/tas.tw/the-great-comma/aaawwubbis
AAAWWUBBIS!
A....after
A....although
A....as
W...while
W...when
U....until
B....before
B....because
I......if
S....since
Subject + Verb
Okay, dependent or independent clauses need to have a subject (noun) and predicate (verb.) A subject is the noun that is doing the main action in the sentence. Bob cried. Bob is the subject. The predicate-verb is cried.
Independent Clauses and Dependent Clauses
Clauses can be independent (complete) or dependent (incomplete). If you add an AAAWWUBBIS word to the beginning of a independent clause, it becomes dependent.
Ricky broke both legs = independent clause When Ricky broke both legs = dependent clause
In the comments section write a sentence that has an AAAWWUBBIS word, a dependent clause, a comma, and then an independent clause.
AAAWWUBBIS + clause + comma + clause + period (full stop).
Examples:
If you do not understand the directions, you can read them again.
Before you write the sentence, you should read other people's sentences.
After you have read them all, you can try to use a different AAAWWUBBIS word.
Although you may not understand all this, you can follow the examples.
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