Week Five - Book Reviews TB Skills2 Draft 2

Book Name: Desert Mountain Sea
Author: Sue Leather

This book is about three different places of the world, a place of Fire, snow and water, and also about three different women. They decide to go to those three places they love, and come back. Robyn Davidson, Arlene Blum and Naomi James are the main characters in this book.

First of all, Robyn travels from the city of Adelaide with her dog and four camels. She is planning to walk about 32 km a day. During her journey her dog dies because of poison. Finally, after many challenges she walks 2, 800 km across the Australian desert and survive with her camels.

Secondly, during 1978, Arlene is a team leader of ten women who were travelling from America to climb one of the highest mountains in the world, called Annapura. Arlene is an American mountaineer and has many years of climbing experience. Eight women survived, but two died while they were climbing in ice and snow.

Thirdly, Naomi James, is 28 years old and she was born in New Zealand. It was in 1977, when her plan was to sail alone at the most dangerous seas in the world. Finally, after many challenges Naomi sail alone and it took her more than 250 days.

This story is about three real adventures and three adventurous women. I recommend every one to read this book, it has new vocabulary. This book is an interesting and sad story, especially for those two women who die during the journey.

Oral Blog Week Five Movie Review Draft One

Movie Name: NORTH COUNTRY

The program director of this movie is Niki Caro and Michale Seitzman is the writer. The film is based on the case Jenson V. Charlize Theron is the female character in the movie, is named Josey Aimes. Josey was raped when she was a high school student and became pregnant. She had two children boy and girl but, divorced.

Josey had difficult life with her two children and start working at a mining company. In this company the female worker were also sexually harassed by her male colleague. She asked her boss for help but, she did not get any solution. Because of this she got fired, however, Josey has a supportive friend and sue her employer.

Finally, Josey win financial payment and have got sexual harassment policy to protect her. After that all women come after her. This movie is interesting and more important story, I recommended for everyone to watch this movie.

Week Ten Text Blog Post Entry Eight - An article about my country Draft 2

Here is a link to an article about my country from The Independent. The reason I chose this article is because it is, very sad story and many innocent people were killed.

In eastern Ethiopia, in Ogaden area, 74 people were killed by the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front on 24 April 2007. During this attack the rebels was destroyed the exploration services and 7 Chinese workers were kidnapped. The General Manager of Zhongyuna Petroleum Exploration, Xu Shuang, stated that nine Chinese oil workers were killed, and also during this fight 65 Ethiopian’s were killed by the fighters.

In addition, according to China’s official Xinhua News Agency, the company had many Ethiopian workers including 157 Chinese. The facility was guarded by 100 Ethiopian soldiers and the attack happened with in 50, minute gun battle. The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said that the attacks would have an endless effect on investment in Ethiopia.

Effects of globalization in my life Draft 2

Nowadays, globalization become important in people lives. However, globalization has advantages and disadvantages in my life. First of all globalization has disadvantages in terms of culture, religion and traditional ways of life when I compare with my country. For example, in New Zealand I could not find my countries traditional food where as I tried to adopt kiwi’s and other countries culture food. However, as Ethiopia is the birth place of coffee I can find Ethiopian coffee at Starbuck in New Zealand.

Secondly, globalization have good impact in my daily life. For instance, I can use computer for whatever I need to do my assignment, access and research information. In New Zealand I can watch on Television Ethiopian news and other news to know what is happening in the world. Furthermore, as I am living far away from my family, using e-mail is very important in my life. I can communicate easily in a short time. In addition, today there are many brands are using in every country such as Nike, Adidas and Kiwi shoe-polish.

To sum up, the effect of globalization becomes important in my life and I am lucky to be alive in this generation.

Week Eight Text Blog Entry Six -Domestic News Headlines Draft 2

I read a Newspaper article about a new drug for multiple miscarriages. Here is a link to this article from the NZ Herald.
An Auckland couple had their first baby after many miscarriages. They had been trying to have a baby for six years, and Noemi Capunitan, the baby’s mother had three miscarriages. A study was taken in England, Scotland and New Zealand to examine a mixture of aspirin and heparin, anti-blood-clotting agent. This can be a treatment for women who have two or more repeated pregnancy losses.

There are five New Zealand women taking the drug, and two of them, including Mrs Capunitan have, successfully given birth. The other three are already passed the risk period and expecting for good result, said Dr Claire Mclintock of Auckland University’s facility of medical and health science.
Finally, Mrs Capunitan had a healthy 3.03kg baby called Isabella on October 31, and now she is six month old.
There are 61 verb forms in the active voice and 11 verb forms in the passive voice in this article. There are three verb forms used as present passive forms, three simple past passive forms and one modal or future passive form and also there is one passive infinitive form and three reduced passive forms.

Week Ten - Oral Blog Portfolio Post Entry Seven Diploma Lecture 2

By Dave Griffiths (Unitec lecturer)

The lecture we had on Tuesday, 08 May 2007, was about helping Others which means First Aid. There are steps to do before helping someone. The first thing to do is STOP. This means before starting to help you have to think about your self and ask “am I safe?” The reasons for this is the person might have different kind of accidents such as electric shock, heart attack and might be Slept.

Then check if you have some Barriers like gloves and plastic bag. This is important because we do not know the person and might have some diseases and bleeding. Then move to the person and the first thing to do is tap in their shoulder. Communication is important, so you must communicate to the unconscious person and lift the chin up then look at the chest and listen if the person is breathing. If there is no breathing use CPR (Cardio Penumbrae Resuscitation).
Finally, check the person before you ring the Ambulance then call 111 which is for Ambulance.

Week Nine Oral Blog Entry Six - Picture Comparison 2 Draft Two

The two pictures are related to education and the first picture is about a per-school students are doing different activities in their classroom. The classroom is well organized, they have more educational materials, bright classroom and clean Environment. The students have more freedom and relax. Whereas, the second picture looks like primary school students are sitting in order and raising their hand to answer to their teacher. The number of students seams to be less than the first picture. The classroom is dark and crowded especially the way of sitting the students.

In my opinion both pictures are important in terms of education. For example, pre-school students are very young and they need more space I really like the way of teaching of the first picture because the classroom is big and students can do different activities what they want and relax.

About Me Draft Two

Mekelle Chamber

I am introducing myself and let you know some of my background. I am Tarik Haylu and I was born in Ethiopia, in East Africa. I grew up in Mekelle, the capital city of Tigray. All my family are living in Ethiopia, I missed them a lot. I am married and I have two lovely daughters who were born in Auckland.

When I completed high school, I studied a diploma in Computer Science for two years. After I graduated I came to New Zealand (NZ). Now I have been in NZ for four years and I like living here. When I first arrived in NZ I was surprised because I found it very green and peaceful and the people were friendly.

I have been enjoying studying at Unitec. The teachers I meet are very friendly and supportive. I spend a lot of time with my family. I enjoy computing, reading and listing to religious music’s and my favourite sport is basketball. I hope we‘ll have an enjoyable semester together.

Week Seven TextBlog Entry Five My Break ( Draft Two )

During the holiday break, as an Orthodox Church follower, on Good Friday I went to church and stayed the whole day without food and drink until 6 pm. During this time we were praying to our God. After that, from Saturday night till Sunday morning we stayed the whole night in the church. Many people from my Christian community were there and we were praying and singing religious songs. Easter is one of our biggest holidaies, for this reason we have to prepare many things such as food, drinks and so on. After the worship was finished, we had a ceremony in the church where we gathered together with foods and drink. By the way, before Easter we had been fasting for nearly two months, which means we did not eat dairy products. As a mum of two young children, I spent a lot of my break time with them. I had a good break with my children and my husband. I hope you had a wonderful time too.

Oral Blog Entry 5 Domeastic News Headlines

There were six front page stories I heard on Morning Report on National Radio on Monday April 30th.
* Two from the NZ Herald
* Two from the Dominion Post
* One from the Press
* One from the Otago Daily Times

The new drug trial offering hope to women with the history of miscarrages.
Three pronunciation features which I noticed are:-

Consonant to vowel linking: with the/∂/

Extra linking sounds: /r/ eg. the history/ri/ of/∂/ miscarriages

Weak forms of prepositions, articles, modal verbs, auxiliary verbs:

The/∂/ new drug trail offering hope to/∂/ women with the/∂/ history of/∂/
This is the link to the story

News Report TB Draft 2

The newspaper article that I read is about the motorcycle crash death toll raised to three people. The accident happened between two motorcycles and a car near Rotorua. The motorcycl driver and his female passengers died after being thrown from the motorcycle. The women was thrown about 80m and it took some time for emergency services to find her body. In Plymouth,

another man died by losing control of his car in bad weather.

Most the verb forms which described in this article are simple past and past continuous forms.
Most the verb forms which described in this article are simple past and past continuous forms. There is one example of past perfect simple, “had been taken”, this refers to the time before and until the Present time period. Another verb form is used in present continuous “we are looking” which is describing what is happening now.

Oral blog Entry Four - Picture comparison 1 Draft 2

I think there are many differences between these two pictures. Both pictures are related to people’s way of living. The first picture refers to a big city which is very crowded, high population and has nice buildings. Fore example, many people like to live in city because it is very convenient and good way of life. On the other hand the second picture is refering a village.
Most people living in this area are farmers and important for farm area.

I was living in a crowded city before I came to New Zealand, not as much as crowded Auckland. In my opinion both pictures are important in terms of way of living, but I really like rural life because it has nice environment for example, fresh air, less Pollution and fresh dairy and vegetable products. In contrast, living at urban has more facilities especially for education and business.

Summary Of Career and Employment Centre

The Career and Employment Centre is one of Unitec’s Services. It is located in the Student Service Building 48 opposite Course Information. Firstly, the Centre offers free services and has different workshops for students. For example, carrier planning is a workshop to check out whether students are doing the course that is best for them. This workshop provides students the opportunity to consider key strengths, skills, personality type and values. In addition, carrier counseling is available free to full-time students. Secondly, they help students write a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and find a job related to their area of study. They also develop student confidence for job interviews. Therefore, this free Unitec service is important for students seeking course related employment.

http://www.unitec.ac.nz/?B1D06069-D8B0-4592-805C-E9A7422DD794http://careeremploy.unitec.ac.nz/?C66D3680-3975-49E2-A7A0-E7B2B76CDCF1

How to create links in yourposts using google maps, wikipedia and flickr
Here is a link to Ethiopia in google maps
Here is a link in wikipeia Unitec
Here is a link a poto of My HomeTown form flickr