Monday (12/03/2012)
a) Vocabulary Recap.
l We recapped words learnt: Malaysia, globe, tower, Petronas twin Towers, tourist, Italy, river, gondola, sandwich, tourist, Venice city etc.
b) Venice City.
l I arranged straws on the shelf table. Then, kids listened.
l Venice is the world’s smallest city with at least 12 narrow rivers or canals. It’s actually a lagoon consisting of many islands. It’s popular with ships that carry items for trading. Venice is known as City of Water. It’s popular with Pisa Tower, the slanting tower which took more than 200 years to construct. It has no cars as there are no roads for them to travel. People travel by water taxi, gondolas and some have their own private boats. There are traffic lights and police catch those that disobey laws. Venice is popular with its glass industries. Its buildings eg. Churches have got beautiful glasses. It has markets, schools, shops, theatres among others. Its popular with its masks dance and festival. Also popular with art eg. Opera singers and comedians.
l However, Venice is flooded many times a year. Some prediction said that Venice might be sunken in the near future due to the rise of water?
l Wei Lok: The Erath is sick!
l The globalwarming has caused floodings everywhere.
c) Mini Venice City Craft.
l The kids thought of pictures they could draw to make this little Venice city. Among: the hotels, schools, museums. Pisa Tower, boats, gondolas, hot air balloons, masks, theatres, shops, markets, water taxis and others. Then they cut their paper to paste on a small cardboard stand. We would continue the construction tomorrow.
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