Other information about France

French people have great table manner. They use different utensils to eat different food. For example: They use bigger fork for rice but they use smaller fork for dessert. Aside bread and milk, they have their meals with baguette, cheese and wine. For baguette plus bread, it seems too heavy. When we add wine to it, it will be more healthy. French food has a settled order. Usually from side dish, main dish and dessert. So they usually have their meals for a long time. As normal, French people have their lunch for 2 hours. Examples for side dish are black radish salad, fried butternut squash and Red cabbage. For main dish, we have French toast, raclette, pot au Feu and Côtes de Veau-au-Fromage. For dessert, we have Chocolate mousse, Tarte Tatin and Crêpe.

Things I learnt during this week

This week I learnt about gerund.
Example: I like playing.
Sally is good at dancing.

For Tom Sawyer:
We have a definition of the personality of the characters. We found something special. That is when a character was putting in to different thing, they would hgave different personality. For example: Tom is naughty when comparing with Sid but when we compare Tom and Huck, Huck was naughter than Tom.

For the International Food Fairr:
We started asking for donation for the food fair from our teachers, friends and relatives.
We learnt some words:
-delicious
-yummy
-tasty
-fantastic
-great
-fabulous
These are general word.

Feeling:
-hot
-cold
-fresh
-crispy
-saucy
-soft
-creamy
-spiccy

Self Reflection for the restaurant review

This time my group chose writing an article for the restaurant review instead of filming. Honestly, we worked together most of the time and we had less work to do individually. We visited the restaurant. We tried the food and took photos there. Before the day we went to the restaurant, we did research for the background information of the restaurant from ourselves. We found for the address, phone number, location these basic information. We read the website of Delifrance because there was an introduction of the restaurant. When all of us knew the background information, we went to the restaurant. Everyone was very clear that the purpose of going to the restaurant was trying the food and taking photos. We all had a clear mind. This is better than last time that we are confused for what we are doing. Also we only use one and a-half hour to finish all our work. That's faster than last time we did it for three hours. There was also something we did worst. That was the budget of money. We spent quite a lot because the food wasn't cheap. For this assignment, I knew more about the transportation of Olympic station. Also I learnt looking after my teamates because the environment wasn't noisy. If we spoke too loud, we would disturb others. For nexttime, we must have better management of money.

Things I learnt during last week

Grammar:
-Gerund
Words with -ing at the back and that word bcame a noun when -ing is added.
so thatr word is gerund.
Example: I like swimming

Tom Sawyer:
From Ch 1-7
Quiz and also take about the story

About the International Food Fair:
-Video Review
-Restaurant Review+article

For Restaurant Review:(article)
-dishes
-the name of the restaurant
-interview
-service hour
-price
-the environment and facilities of the restaurant
-photos with captions
-recommendation of food
-restaurant history
-location
-address of the restaurant
-phone number of the restaurant

For video Review:
-all the characteristics of an article
+
-the reviewer
-the taste of food
-interview employees
-the process of making food
-highlight

Homework

This is an example of "gerund" from "The Phantom of the Opera". The black cat series, written by Gaston Leroux. It's on P.53.

Things I learnt in English lesson for last week

1. Active Verb and Passive Verb

Example: Sally(doer) is doing(verb) her homework(receiver).
This is an example of Active Verb.

Example: The windows(receiver) are closed(verb) by Sally(doer).
This is an example of Passive Verb.

2.Also we learnt Modal Verb.

"Can", "could", "should", "would", "may"
Why do we use modal verb and which modal verb we use when different time.

Extra credit--Photo

This is an example of modal verb-"should". The whole sentence of this example is "I already have a husband that I love. What should I do?". This example is from the story book, Romeo and Juliet. It was written by William Shakespeare and published from The Black Cat. The reason why this sentence use "should" is because Juliet is asking for an advice from the nurse.

Homework

I thought making an advertisement for the food fair is fun. It was different from normal school assignments. We could go outside for filming. I enjoyed the process of working with my teamates. Also my teamates are very cooperative. I learnt writing english script because I wrote Chinese script before but not English. I thought we had something that we could improve for next time. First, we should prepared our script earlier. Not at the day we make the film. We should write it before we make the film. Also we must revise the script so when we are filming, we don't need to look at the script. Secondly, we should have a clear mind of what are we doing. That means we should share the work equally. Everyone in the group must be very clear and sure what they are doing. At last, we should have a backup of our film. When we show our film to the class, we can't always sure that the computer can run our film. We should put the film on a CD and also a memory stick or maybe even bring back the camera with USB.

Things I have leant in last week

-Drawing Mind Map with wide variety of information about cooking
For the topic: Food Recipes

We can draw out different points.
1. Cooking Method
-Steam
-Boil
-Preheat
-Bake
-Roast
-Barbecue
2. Taste of Food
-Sour
-Sweet
-Bitter
-Spicy
-Salty
3. Things needed before cooking
-Ingredients
-Utensils
4. Things to know before cooking
-Ingredients
-Instruction
-Steps
-Procedures
5. Seasoning
-Salt
-Pepper
-Chillies
-Garlic
-Vinegar
6. Comment
-Bad
-Favourite
-Great
-Delicious


Also we did Grammar Explained Unit 6
It's about Active Verb and Passive Verb.

We needed to finish our filming as homework for this week.

Pictures for Active and Passive Verb

These are the examples of Passive Voice and Active Voice from "The Phantom of the opera" P.88 and P.92.

For the first picture:

The whole sentences is "Rauol ran out of the room." In this sentence, "Rauol" is the doer and "out of the room" is the receiver.

For the second picture:

The whole sentences is " He was wearing an Astrakhan hat that covered most of his face." "He" is the receiver and "an Astrakhan hat" is the doer.