Friday, 9 December 2011

Blog Task 10 - Quality of Life

What will/is affecting your quality of life at Glamorgan University?

Gaby

Blog Task 9 - Class & Welfare

1. Try to find out where the word 'POSH' comes from. Don't forget to reference materials you have used. Do NOT just put the web address, please use the correct Harvard Referencing format. I know you know how to do it!!

2. Answer the questions on 'Welfare' given out in class yesterday. Use both your own ideas and other resources. Correctly reference any materials used in your work.

Gaby

Friday, 2 December 2011

Deadline for Blogs - Friday 9th December 4pm

Please do not forget that the deadline for ALL the blog tasks is 4pm on Friday 9th December. NO blogs received after this time will be assessed.

Gaby

Blog Task 8 - Law & Order

London Riots - based on the presentations by Omolola, Tumi, Abdulazeez, Henry, Raphael and Ezekiel, provide notes on the information given by the speakers. Add the references the speakers used in their presentations. Write your opinions on the possible reasons that caused to the London Riots.

Gaby

Friday, 18 November 2011

Blog task 7 - Media

Influence of the media

Choose 2 newspapers - 1 broadsheet and 1 tabloid - analyse the SAME news story in both newspapers. Consider how the same news story is delivered in the different papers. Look at the language used, opinions given on the story, what quotations are used, and how are people quoted.

Gaby

Friday, 11 November 2011

Blog task 6 - Language

www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual

1. Use the above website to make notes on your chosen language. (See today's class handout for guidance.)
2. Using the internet as a resource, find out what the speakers of this language have contributed to the culture of the UK.

Gaby

Friday, 4 November 2011

Blog task 5 - Presentation feedback. Time Management.

1. Write a reflective account based on your presentation.

2. Look again at the Time Managemnet materials in the Academic Study in the UK Context booklet wk 15 (students did for homework). Write a reflective account of what you have learned about time management.

Gaby