Hyde Park

Let's go for a walk at the park!

Hyde Park in Sydney is named after Hyde Park in London. The park's bronze Archibald Fountain (1932) commemorates Australia's alliance with France during WWI, while the art deco Anzac War Memorial (1934) honors its victims. In Queens Square, there are three fine Georgian buildings, masterpieces of the architect Sir Francis Greenway: the Hyde Park Barracks, St James' Church, and the Supreme Court.

Hyde Park Barracks was restored in 1975-84 and now has got a museum on the history of Sydney. On the east side of Hyde Park is the Australian Museum with the most complete natural history collection in the whole country.

vtsr. *chess players at Hyde Park* (CC BY)

At the end of the session, you will have:

used a thinking routine about Hyde Park.
learnt how to use the present passive voice.

To start with, let’s begin with a thinking routine, about Hyde Park in Sydney. Look at the picture of this park above. Afterwards, answer these questions in your learning diary:

What can you see?
What are these people doing?
How often do you think that these people play at the park? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?

You can obtain more information about what you can do in this district by visiting its official website.

Then, after visiting the website, answer the following questions:

What kind of different activities can you do at this park?
Do you have something similar where you live? Where do you have to go for a walk with your friends?
What does it make you wonder?

You have to answer these questions in your personal blog. The title of the post must be "Hyde Park Sydney Thinking Routine"

Remember that Hyde Park must be part of the route at your Google Sites map.

Continue with your posts on Twitter (#taskpodcast and #EDIAsydney). You have to answer these questions in your tweets: Do you like going out to a park? What do you usually do there? Who do you usually go out with? Do you usually play any sport in a park? Have you ever played chess in a park? The 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job in this social network.

Kangaroos are announced by the sign!

In English, in an active sentence, the person or thing responsible for the action in the sentence comes first. In a passive sentence, the person or thing acted on comes first, and the actor is added at the end, introduced with the preposition "by." The passive form of the verb is signaled by a form of "to be". The passive voice in English is used quite often.

shinazy shinazy. *Sign Kangaroo* (CC BY)

In order to practise the passive voice, do these exercises:

Exercise 1 & Exercise 2 & Exercise 3

Try to do the activities in pairs. Your teacher can help you with all the exercises.

Once you finish, you have to write in your learning diary a short text using the present passive voice about the topic that you have chosen for your podcast.

Your Task: First version of the script of your podcast about a topic of your interest

Task Step 3: First version of the script of the podcast about a topic of your interest.

In this step of your task, it is time to start finishing the design of the script of the podcast about a topic of your interest. .

As you have to do this task individually, you can share your draft with another classmate and he or she can give you some suggestions in order to improve your final product. Then, you have to give some feedback to another classmate as well.

Remember that in the following step, you will have to use the PodOmatic website to record the text of the topic you have chosen. So, try to make the most of it with the recording and further details you would like to add.

Your challenge: Sydney at the Google Site

Challenge Step 4: Organizing the Sydney entry at your Google Site

At this step, you have to keep on organizing all the information you have gathered in order to complete the entry.

Each group ( 2 / 3 people) has to organize the information you have searched about Sydney at your Google Site. Creativity in the distribution of the contents is very important.

At this step, you have to include at your Google Site the following information:

1 video about tourism in Sydney.

If you find more than one representative video or any other audiovisual information, you can also include them in your Google Site.

Learning diary

Learning diary Step 4: Review all the steps of your task and challenge so far.

You are in the middle of your ´Sydney´ project. It is time now to review all the steps you have done so far in both the task and the challenge.

Click on the "Show Feedback" button and answer these questions individually in your learning diary.

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