Welcome to Bright Star Academy!!

VIDEO & VOICE RECORDINGS of every class allow you to watch, rewatch and hear new vocabulary or concepts you learn. Interactive collaboration among teacher and students enables you to build online presentations by adding images, documents, and videos, and other media to which other users can add comments for discussion.

Notes to the Student

Below is the transcribed version of the Video and has been corrected where the speech-to-text was not accurate.

In every Module you will have different activities that will require your interaction by either downloading files or posting comments, undertaking quizzes or exercises in writing or speaking in the Discussion Sections at the end of each of the lessons. 

The downloadable files below contain the transcribed words from my Welcome Video - The File "Introduction - Original" contains the transcribed text as it was recorded. The Second file "Introduction - Corrected" contains the a corrected version of the transcribed text -- I have highlighted the words that were recorded wrongly for your help when listening to my Welcome Video,

Introduction Speech - Corrected

Hi welcome to Bright Star Academy I'm so pleased you can join me I just want to share with you a little bit about the background of Bright Star Academy. My name is Anne, as a child my surname was Wood. I was born in a city called Wagga Wagga in country New South Wales. As I grew older we moved from town to town, in my heart however there was always an interest and a passion for overseas countries and people from different nationalities. As an older woman I was privileged to meet and marry the man that I have married who's actually from a country called Ecuador.

 I thoroughly enjoy the parts of Sydney, which is where I live now, where there are many nationalities and you can hear many people speak different languages. My heart for this particular program is that you will be equipped with the right amount of English, using an Australian accent, to have a wonderful time here in Sydney and surrounds, as you get your degree or do your education or further studies. The first few things that we will be looking at are greetings, and then I'll be talking to you about different areas that people in Australia like to discuss. These areas are: themselves, their families, their health and the weather. I really hope you find these classes instructive and that you come away from this going like ‘yes!’ I am well equipped. It's time now to get out there and meet and talk to some Aussies and have an amazing time while I'm in this country doing my stuff. Ok let's go do some studies

Introduction Speech - Original (not corrected)

Hi welcome to Bright Star Academy I'm so pleased you can join me I just want to share with you a little bit about the background of Bright Star Academy. My name is Anne, as a child my surname was would. I was born in a city called Wagga Wagga in country New South Wales. As I grew older we moved from town to town, in my heart however there was always an interest and a passion for overseas countries and people from different nationalities. As an older woman I was privileged to meet and marry the man that I have married who's accidentally actually and not accidentally actually from a country called Ecuador.

 I thoroughly enjoy the parts of Sydney, which is where I live now, where there are many nationalities and you can hear many people speak different languages. My heart for this particular program is that you will be equipped with the right amount of English, using an Australian accent, to have a wonderful time here in Sydney and surrounds, as you get your degree or do your education or further studies. The first few things that we will be looking at are greetings, and then I'll be talking to you about different areas that people in Australia like to converse regarding. These areas are: themselves, their families, their health and the weather. I really hope you find these classes instructive and that you come away from this going like ‘yes!’ I am, well it's time now to get out there and meet and talk to some Aussies and have an amazing time while I'm in this country doing my stuff. Ok let's go do my studies

TASK 1

Sample Task 1

A number of Activities

Practice 1

• Worksheet One
• Worksheet Two

TASK 2

Sample Task 2

Sample Activities