Unit 11 talks about inventions.

To all the Gr 10 tech savvy boys of Applied Technology High School.
Here is some information about the latest developments in Technology......
Everyday, we see technology evolving. To know more about the advancements in technology, go to:http://gulfnews.com/gntv/technology
Gr 10-01 & 10-06,
On Sunday we will discuss more about the above in class.

Did you know???

The UAE has space in its reach !
With the successful launch of the Yahsat Y1A satellite from the European Space Centre in Kourou, French Guyana, at the weekend, the UAE is riding high.
Read more: http://gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/the-uae-has-space-in-its-reach-1.798611.

Youngmen, its the Weekend and lets talk about your favorite sport!

Yesterday
A double from two-time world footballer of the year Lionel Messi saw Barcelona beat bitter domestic rivals Real Madrid 2-0 in their Champions League semi-final clash Wednesday night.
Who do you support, were you disappointed?
Next
The second leg is next Tuesday and the winners are likely to play Manchester United in the May 28 final at Wembley after the English side beat Schalke 04 2-0 away on Tuesday.
When is the final match...Lets make some predictions, which two teams will play in the final match, which team do you think will take the cup and why?

Writing: I can survive with Nature...

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

Gentlemen, as we're nearing the end of the year, it's important that we pause and reflect on all that we've learnt. Look at the picture: so calm and serene, so peaceful.

Describe what you can see in the photograph. Use a quote on Nature to add meaning to your writing. Add it to your collection in your Journal.

Why is vocabulary important in literacy?

Learning new words contributes to the learning progress of a student and improves skills such as Reading. A rich vocabulary also improves students' ability to communicate through speaking, listening, and writing.





Make it a point to jot down new words you come across and often read then over again to practice pronunciation and spelling.





Here are some of the vocabulary words we are looking over in LC4. Take note in your journal or via Edmodo.

University, exams, doctor, medicine, salary, retire, business Crew, pilot, interview, population, government, pessimism, reaction, react, behavior, Communist, tradition, mess, incredible, controlled, capitalism, development, shocking, factories, boundaries, concrete, dozens, wealth, commuting, energy, corners.

Into the Wild: Unit 10-NHPSB

The picture through my eyes:
The scene is seen in three different sections, blue, green, and whitish blue. Yes, it looks amazing. Standing, looking up at the sky, clouds floating, sun doesn't shine brightly. The sun is not so bright that it stings your eyes sometimes, forcing you to put a hand on your forhead to create a shadow for your eyes. There are also times when the cloud covers the sun calming down the brightness. When the wind blows, it creates waves and the river appears to have life. The place looks so serene and calm. I'm looking forward to visiting this wonderful, amazing and clean place full of scenic beauty.

Gentlemen, use the above description as an example, to describe a place, you'd like to visit, someday. Use as many adjectives as possible to describe the place.

Gentlemen,

Remember!
A good reader reads in different ways:
Reading slowly and carefully is INTENSIVE READING.
When you read quickly for the general idea, it is called SKIMMING.
At other time you read for details and information, is known as SCANNING.
A good reader chooses the right way to read.

Subject-verb agreement

Compound subject and verb agreement

This is the first of our grammar points brought to you by the students of G10-04. You will need to open this vblog using QuickTime movie player. Just click on the link above. My hats off to Sultan Ahmed, Sultan Abdurahman, Khalid Ahmed, Eissa Hassan and Saeed Abdulla.

Gentlemen,

We are very close to the end of the Academic Year 2010-2011. Time has passed really fast. You all must get ready for the "COUNTDOWN" of the days in Grade 10. Keeping the importance of "TIME"in mind, a more serious and constant approach is required towards the LC4 Exams. Each and every day should be taken as a very important day at school and at home. Keep your c.w and h.w assignments updated, and Don't forget to review the c.w lessons everyday.

Tell Me: Why do we laugh?

Laughter is the biological reaction of human beings to moments of humor. Depending upon the extent and pitch, laughter can be subcategorized as giggles, chuckles, guffaws etc. Human laughter has its biological origins as a kind of shared expression of relief at the passing of danger.

Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain. It provides an emotional context to our conversations. We also tend to laugh on being tickled. The reason being that when anyone is tickled, there is an element of surprise followed by feelings of panic, laughter and sensation, which eventually breaks into peals of laughter.

So, make sure you laugh, it does ease out all your stress and tension.......

Gentlemen, here is yet another sample of what you can add to your Journal Writing.

Conversation......

Can we ever stop talking???

“Conversation is interactive, more-or-less spontaneous communication between two or more conversants. Conversations are sometimes the ideal form of communication, depending on the conversants' intended ends. Conversations may be ideal when, for example, each party desires a relatively equal exchange of information, or when one party desires to question the other”. So after listening to a couple of conversations in class, it’s time now for you, to draft your own conversation.

Gentlemen, work in pairs or groups of four to draft similar conversations:

Giving advice

Expressing your opinion to the view point of others

Planning a trip or

Interview for admission to University.

You will then have to role play the same, in class.

Keep in mind the following tips: A successful conversation includes mutually interesting connections between the speakers or things that the speakers know. For this to happen, those engaging in conversation must find a topic on which they both can relate in some sense”. Most conversations may be classified by their goal. Coversational ends may, however, shift over the life of the conversation. Being able to start a great conversation is absolutely critical these days, as it is an extremely powerful way to connect and interact with people in a personal, one-on-one way. Looking forward to some interesting conversations….…..

G10-04 & G10-09- Listen up!

Calling all computer geniuses. We need someone who can fix those little minor quirks that we run across when going from one computer program to another during the course of our regular classes. We don't need to change anything on or in our laptops; the IT department at IAT-DXB has done an excellent job of fixing our laptops so configuring systems and hardware problems are not the issue, but the problems we do run into are things like finding our Googledocs pages written in German or French instead of English, or not being able to see the homework assignment sent to you via edmodo because you didn't press the "everything" button under your avatar. Believe it or not even in LC4 I get what I consider routine questions like that! So, if you are good enough to help your classmates work around these kinds of problems, please let me know. We need one good computer go-to- guy, or maybe two, from each section. Any volunteers?

HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE THE QUESTION MARK INSIDE?

We all wonder about what gives our lives meaning. It could be a smile, an ambition, a particular hope, the sun after rain, the sea, a whisper in the dark or it could be anything that makes us happy.

What are the words that describe what's important to you, and your own feelings about life's meaning? Sometimes, the simplest words can sum up the deepest feelings.

Words make it possible to share the way we see the world and to discover, perhaps, that we're really not so different from each other. By making up your minds, gentlemen, you have attempted to describe the great mystery of the question mark that lies inside us all. If any0ne had to ask you what you have decided to do in the near future.........I'm sure you will all say: Our life is no longer a question mark. We're on the right track. We have finally decided what cluster to join so that we will have the right direction in life and a better future.

However, if you still feel that you need a little more guidance in making the right choice, then please talk to your teachers. They're here to guide you.

TELL ME WHY...

Why is the Ocean Blue?

All water appears blue to some extent - it just depends how much you're looking at as to how dark a blue it seems. So a glass of water looks pretty much clear, whereas a deep ocean seems a dark, rich blue. The blueness is due to the way light penetrates the water. All light is made up of the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). When the light hits particles in the ocean, they reflect only the blue parts of the rainbow, so that is what you see.

On a sunny day, the ocean might look even bluer,because of the colour of the sky being reflected on its surface.

Gentlemen, it's time now to continue with "tell me why", in your journal writing. Looking forward to some interesting facts on science and nature. Enjoy your work.

We've run out of room

In the past we left everyday items or messages on the white board, like the way we save documents for class, the rules about laptops, etc but doing so means we are using valuable space that we need for our lessons, so I'm posting here those things that I used to point to on the board whenever it was an answer to your question.

Ways of saving files
Classwork files: yourname-cw-ddmmyy
homework files: yourname-cw-ddmmyy
podcast files: yourname-podcasts-ddmmyy
group work: group#-groupwork-ddmmyy

Rules regarding laptops

1-You must bring your laptop to class everyday.
2- You are responsible for seeing that your laptop is in working order, that includes having a charge good enough to allow you to do your classwork.
3- If there are problems with your laptop you must take it to the IT department during the breaks.
4- You may charge your laptop only during the breaks or before the start of classes, between 7-7:30am.

How to receive and turn in work

Want to know if you have any homework? Any work you must do will be posted either on Edmodo or here at the G10 English blog and will be posted no later than 6pm. It's your responsibility to check both places daily. If you have a question about what it is you must do, please email me at my ATHS email address, and allow 30 minutes for me to respond. Your parents can know whether you have homework by consulting either of these two online tools and of course they can write me as well at abdel.saber@iat.ac.ae

Hot Verbs- take, get, do and make.

Vocabulary - NHPSB-pg 76

Some shopping, back home, two tablets a day, a cold, angry, sure, friends, up your mind, me a favour, a reservation on well with someone, somebody out for a meal, a complaint.

Gentlemen, put the words and phrases in sentences of your own. Use them to complete your journal writing this week. Don't forget to use the Hot verbs- take, get, do and make along with the words and phrases.

It's that time again

Back to vocabulary again folks, and the words below mark our beginning of vocabulary for LC4. Some of these words came from our supplemental authentic reading as well as from unit 8 of our textbooks, but wherever they are from we have to know their meaning and how they're used, so this is your first homework assignment for the last learning cycle of the year. Here are the words

accessory
graffiti
casualty
optimistic
motorway
dilemma
unsuitable
rivalry
hesitation
intention
income
coarse
procession

By the end of class on Tuesday, you should know the meaning of all these words and what part of speech they are. Do not give me any homework until I ask for it, but come prepared to work with these words in class. See you then!

Sunday, 10 April

Gentlemen, today we will write about the film we saw last week, entitled, 'When the Moors Ruled in Europe'. You will have to write a paragraph which addresses the following points. Who were the Moors; where did they come from; where did they go in Europe; what year did they go there; what were the names of some of the famous cities that flourished or were built under their rule; what did they do there, and where are they now? Of course this means you will have to use information you get from the internet, as well as what you may have remembered from the film we saw on Thursday. You have to write a paragraph with a minimum of seven sentences. This is an individual assignment, each one of you must do this and turn it in to me via Edmodo by the end of today. An assignment tab will be provided for you on Edmodo. Also, please submit this paragraph on the writing submission form of this blog. Thank you gentlemen!

An Online Classroom Resource

Here is an online resource to help us all with our reading. It provides reading resources in the form of books to use all the time, 24/7. Project Gutenberg is an online resource where you can find and download books, in English for many authors in English literature. We want to use this to take short stories to read in class, to analyze the grammar, expand our vocabulary and practice our ability to summarize or reproduce ideas that we read.

Students can use this link to find and read books that interest them. It's easy to use too. If you know the title of the book or the author enter that information in the correct field and you're off. You can even download the books onto your laptop. Students take a few minutes to look around the Project Gutenberg web site and if you have any questions, don't forget to ask them in class.

Going Places

Can you imagine what is life without traveling? Is it possible? Whatever your reason is, traveling is a part of people's life. We all travel. The reason behind that is up to you. There are different reasons why people travel: 1.) Most People Travel because they want to see their families and friends who live far away.

2.)People travel to seek for work because they want to experience how to work from another place.

3.) People travel because they want to learn others cultures. They want to see the difference between their culture and other cultures.

4.) People travel because they want to see all beautiful scenery of different countries. Others would want to take pictures because it serves as souvenirs.

Traveling is not only for rich people. Whether you are poor or in the middle class, you can travel as long as it fits your budget. Some travel for their goals, some travel for fun and relaxation and some travel for experience.

Gentlemen, as you get ready to travel, decide on a place you'd like to visit and prepare your itinerary for travel.

http://gulfnews.com/pictures/travel/in-pictures-aerial-view-of-dubai-1.671126

The above link will give you an idea on how to go about inserting the places of interest in your presentation. Enjoy your work.