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Year 10s…. Please complete the Food Crisis Survey, which you can find by clicking on the relevant link on the right side of this screen. Be honest, and as you answer each question, please think about how it could be relevant to our topic.
‘Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.’
(Mick Malthouse – Collingwood).
‘I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.’
(Peter Bell – Fremantle – on his University Law studies).
‘You guys line up alphabetically by height.’ and ‘You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.’
(Barry Hall Sydney Captain at training).
Brock Maclean (Melbourne) on whether he had visited the Pyramids during his visit to Egypt:
‘I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.’
‘He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.’
(Kevin Sheedy on James Hird).
Jonathan Brown, on night Grand Finals vs Day Games
‘It’s basically the same, just darker.’
Ron Barassi talking about Gary Cowton ‘I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?’
He said, ‘Barass, I don’t know and I don’t care.’
Barry Hall (Sydney) when asked about the upcoming season:
‘I want to kick 70 or 80 goals this season, whichever comes first.’
‘Luke Hodge – the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago’
(Dermott Brereton).
‘Chad had done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator.’
(Mark Williams).
‘We actually got the winning goal three minutes from the end but then they scored.’
(Ben Cousins, West Coast Eagles).
‘I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.’
(Luke Darcy).
‘That kick was absolutely unique, except for the one before it which was identical.’
(Dermott Brereton).
‘Sure there have been injuries and deaths in football – but none of them serious.’
(Adrian Anderson).
‘If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.
(Andrew Demetriou).
‘I would not say he (Chris Judd) is the best centreman in the AFL
but there are none better.’ (Dermott Brereton).
‘I never comment on umpires and I’m not going to break the habit of
a lifetime for that prat.’ (Terry Wallace).
Garry Lyon: ‘Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?’
David Swartz: ‘On what?’
‘Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.’
(Dermott Brereton).
‘Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.’
(Dermott Brereton).
Well, here I am, finally back teaching at Hawkesdale after a fairly prolonged period of maternity leave. Actually, it’s a miracle I can still string a sentence together after months of dialogue consisting of ‘ga ga ga ga’ and ‘da da da da’ (and that’s just my end of the conversation! You should hear little Archie!). No no, it’s been very nice getting to know my brand new little boy, but it’s also nice to be back at work. This year I plan to make a few additions to this blog, the most ambitious of which is a page listing due dates for homework and major assignments - this page can be found at the relevant link listed to the right.
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My Year 9 English students recently read the terrific novel ‘Deadly Unna?’ by Phillip Gwynne. If you’d like to take a look at a couple of good essays about this novel, click on the link to the right.
If you’d like to take at some very good examples of document analyses, click on the links to the right (’CB’s and BY’s Document Analyses’). Note the way that they both go into quite a bit of detail, elaborating on their ideas and giving evidence from the sources to support their interpretations. They often also go beyond simply giving one-answer responses to the questions, instead thinking about several possible contributing factors.
Here are fifteen rules of writing:
Can you add any more to these?
Words are pretty interesting things as far as I’m concerned. While body language, facial expressions, pictures and music can undoubtedly communicate many wonderful things (and can arguably convey emotion in a way that words often can’t), words are the most precise way we have of communicating ideas, beliefs and observations. With words, we can insult people, compliment people, persuade, inform, tell jokes, argue, warn, comfort, lie, instruct, request, entertain, etc etc etc.
Translations gone wrong can be a lovely and sometimes amusing reminder of how much we rely on words to understand ourselves, each other and our world. Years ago, I heard about an inventor who was working on developing a translating gadget that could translate almost anything from Russian into English and vice versa. After years of hard work, the inventor decided to test the gadget by typing a fairly obscure phrase into the gadget - he chose to type in the phrase ’The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.’ (Students: what do you think this phrase means?) The inventor then clicked on the ‘Translate into Russian’ button and the Russian version appeared on the screen. However, the inventor decided to further test the gadget by translating the phrase back into English. If the original English phrase appeared exactly the same as he first typed it in, he would know he was onto a winner. Unfortunately, the phrase that appeared on the gadget’s screen was ‘The vodka is good but the meat is rotten.’
If you want to take a look at some funny translations, click on the ’Funny Translations’ link. It’s also fun to have a go at translating phrases from English to another language and back again. If you want to have a go at this, you’ll need to do the following:
My Year 8 students were recently given a bunch of confusing sentences like the following:
After rewriting these, they came up with their own confusing sentences. Here are some of the best ones:
Students were also given a number of ’snooty’ phrases to translate into common English: ‘Ambulate with extreme vigilance,’ for example, became ‘Watch your step.’
They then came up with their own ’snooty’ versions of common phrases. Can you guess which common phrases the following sentences have come from?
Hello there!
Is the blog mightier than the blackboard? I’m not sure yet, but time will tell. The title of this blog comes from one of my favourite sayings.
Can you guess what the original form of the saying might be? If you don’t know, click on the dictionary link in the links bar. Once you are at that website, click on ‘Idioms’ (which just means ‘common sayings’) and do a search for ‘Mightier’. See if you can find the idiom on which I based the title for my blog. When you have found a similar saying, think about what it might mean and the extent to which you agree with it.
One other thing before I finish my highly exciting first post: a student in my Year 8 class wrote a very good essay comparing everyday life in the Middle Ages with everyday life in modern Australia. Click on the link to ‘Medieval Essay’ if you want to have a look.
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