Sunday, October 25, 2009

How to organise a portfolio

Papers, papers, papers. Students often feel overwhelmed by the number of papers they receive from their teachers and it may seem that throwing them in the boot of their car is the best solution. However, it is actually quite easy to organize your class notes into a neat portfolio. Let me outline the steps.
First, find all your papers. You can look for missing papers on the HD1 website. You can also ask a friend and photocopy his papers. Second, sort your papers into logical divisions e.g reading, writing, listening. Next, put your papers into the different sections. After that, buy a binder and some coloured dividers. Write section headings for the dividers and match them with a table of contents page. Finally, make a label for the side of the binder. Include important information e.g. class code, name etc.
As we have seen it is easy to make a portfolio. You will be proud of your neat, well-organised work.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

TRIP

I went to the north emirates last weekend with some friends. The trip was on Saturday. It started from Bani Yas. We had a breakfast in a good Indian restaurant in Shahama city and we bought some things that we needed for the journey such as water, juice and snacks. The journey to Dubai took about half an hour. There was no traffic on the road because it was early at the weekend. Dubai is an interesting city. You can discover it well and smoothly when you choose the right time like early morning or midnight. We had a quick visit around some famous places like Jumera Palm Island, Dubai Tower, The Walk and The Mall of Dubai. Then we moved to Al Dhaid in Sharjah. It is about 70 km.
Al Dhaid is a quiet city famous for farms and traditional products. We bought some meat, rice, vegetables for our lunch and left Al Dhaid for our last destination Wadi Al Helow. It is in Korfakan in Sharjah. The place is located between two big mountains. It’s full of trees and water. We arrived there at 3 pm and started to cook the lunch. It was meat with rice. It called kapsa the most famous meal in the UAE.
After lunch we had a cup of tea. Then we climbed the mountain and took a view around the area.
Time to go back home. It was 10 pm and we had to have our dinner and drive back to Abu Dhabi.