Formal & Informal | Language & Situation

Formality is the requirement to follow etiquette. Formal is where the things need to be done by the rules or something that is done in an orderly form. Informal is where something doesn't need to be done properly or doesn't need to be followed by the rules. There are two areas of informality and formality. They are: situation and language.

Formal language uses words that do not sound right in an informal conversation such as: greetings, hello or good morning. Informal language is more relaxed, and uses words that are not appropiate for formal conversations such as: sup, cuz, ghee or wasuuuuuuuuuup.

Formal situations are scenarios that are important. For example, a formal situation is: assembly or a conference. Informal situations are scenarios that are not as important as a formal situation is. For example: park with friends or dinner with parents. 

By understanding formality people can learn when to use the levels of formality during formal situations like speaking to a person with a higher social status.

LI: To identify formal and informal language 
  

Current Events

Current Events is an activity that requires people to use reading strategies to help find out news by observing the media.

I did this activity and answered the questions to come up with an understanding of what happened in the video. In the video, The Maori Ferns and the Indigenous All Stars did the haka to represent the country they are playing rugby for.

LI: to use reading strategies to find out more information.

Typing Tutor

Typing tutor is an activity that tests how accurately and fast you can type without looking at the keyboard. 

I completed the U-R-K keys and moved on to the next keys.

I think I can do better, but I also found this activity not too easy but not too hard as well.

LI: To learn touch typing.

Commenting Thread | Reading

Commenting threads are a continuous conversation that consists of greeting, feedback and an open question.

I commenting on Bella's blogpost about her reading. I started the comment thread by asking her what other topics she would pick as her secondary choice and why. She replied to my comment and asked me why I picked the same governing topics as she did. I replied, to see what I replied with click the link below. I made sure to use open questions to keep the conversation continuous.

Commenting threads help to unlock more knowlegde and information about the work to the reader and establish a new understanding of their work. They can also give more detail.

Commenting thread: https://pbsbellah.blogspot.com/2020/09/reading-governing-topics.html?showComment=1600903972905#c7677711079377417125

LI: To create a comment thread.

Class Blogpost | Reading

My class blogpost for reading can be found here.

SSR Selfie | The Gruffalo

Today I completed the SSR Selfie can-do. The objective of the SSR Selfie can-do is to learn how to summarise or retell a text. The book I read was called: 'The Gruffalo'. The book was very interesting and funny. We read this book as a class and used this book to learn new skills.

 LI: To summarise and retell a text.

Art Collaboration | The Gruffalo

For art, we drew the cover of The Gruffalo story as a class. We learnt new skills during the few weeks we did this. 

First, we got allocated to a peice of paper to draw. The first technique we got taught was the blending. The blending technique is to smudge colours together to get a shade or texture. We used pastels to colour in. We used a paper towel to blend in the big parts and cotton tips to blend the small crevasse.

After that, we started to colour in the lines and thought about the colours, details and technique. The second technique we learnt was how to get the light grass colour. To do this, we went in with white and covered the area. Then we got green and coloured in on top of the white. We then got white again and coloured that over the green to blend the colours and get the light green.

The last skill we learnt was how to make the colour of the path. The path was quite difficult to blend. The colours we used were, gold, peach and yellow. We went in with the peach colour and covered the area with it. Then we used yellow and a bit of gold to get the colour. 

I think that this activity was challenging and I found it difficult to make the path. I would like to improve on my blending techniques.

LI: To collaborate as a group and learn new techniques to create art.