Thursday 24 October 2013
Tuesday 22 October 2013
This is my Homework on Current Events International
Current Events
L.I: To summarise information about a current event
Choose your own article to summarise this week. Remember the article needs to be in the news and not a sports review:
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TITLE: Us senate votes to avoid default, open government.
WHEN: Thursday Oct 17, 2013
WHO: Obama
WHERE: USA
WHAT: Us President Barack Obama has thanked Democratic and Republican leaders in the senate for passing a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a default.
WHY or HOW it happened: Obama said if and when the house approves the bill, he’ll sign it immediately. He said the US will start reopening the government right away
PICTURE ( Paste into the space below)
List 2 new words you have found in this article, then write their meanings.
Democratic= Relating to or supporting democracy or its principles.
Reopening= Gerund or present participle.
This is my Homework in Current Events National
Current Events
L.I: To summarise information about a current event
TITLE: John Banks: I'm a born optimist and fighter
WHEN: Thursday Oct 17, 2013
WHO: John Banks
WHERE: New Zealand
WHAT: Act leader John Banks has spoken for the first time since resigning his ministerial posts yesterday, saying he hopes to fight the decision of the court to send him to trail over his Mayoral donation in 2010, and he would be back to fight the 2014 election
WHY or HOW it happened
Mr Banks stepped down as a minister yesterday after the court’s decision, and he said his legal team were currently looking at option to challenge or appeal that decision.
PICTURE ( Paste into the space below)
List 2 new words you have found in this article, then write their meanings.
Ministerial= relating to a government minister or ministers
.Election= A formal and organized choice by vote of a person for a political office or other position.
This is my Writing Toolkit
This is my writing Toolkit. We do this so we can move on to the next level of writing.
Friday 18 October 2013
This is my Library skills
Using Te Ara -
The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
1. Waitemata Harbour
L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.
Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.
Use our skimming and scanning skills.
Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.
What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour?
drowned river valley.✔
Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital?
Lieutenant-Governor Hobson’s choice of a site for New Zealand’s capital in 1840. It has deep water and shouted bays✔
What does Waitemata mean?
Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978. Obsidian glass.✔
Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata:
Auckland’s chief port - The port of Auckland is a very large container and international trade port on the Waitemata Harbour,lying on the central and eastern Auckland waterfront (north of Auckland CBD).✔
Viaduct basin - Viaduct basin is just one of the fantastic sites in Auckland, find super low rates only on agoda.
Westhaven - The moa were eleven species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand
Harbour bridge - It is the second largest bridge in the north shore.✔
Greenhithe bridge - It is a motorway bridge it spans over waitemata and connected to the hobsonville.
Natural features - The waitemata harbour is the main access to the by sea to Auckland
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Tuesday 15 October 2013
This is my keyboard skills result by Andre
This is my keyboard skills result. I got only one word wrong next time I will try to get no wrong. y
My Bodmas test result
This is my Bodmas test result. Bodmas helps me more at maths. I learnt what Bodmas is. It means Brackets,other thing, division, multiplication,addition and subtraction.
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