Ricky

5/08/10 Hello Ricky Can you put your health story on here so that everyone can read it please? Cheers Helen

HELLO My name is ** GUO RUIQI. ** I come from CHINA. Before I came here I was a college student but I haven’t graduated. After I came here, my English wasn’t good enough for me to go to university, so I came to Polytechnic to study, and then I will go to university. I need to spend a lot of time on this course, but this is absolutely necessary. Fortunately,it is a very good place for us to learn English and to know many different things about culture in Tasmania. It is very useful for us to live or find work and study in Hobart. There are groups of students who come from different countries and study in each class at the Polytechnic. People are so friendly, so I’m realy enjoying studying here. In Tasmania there are both beautiful landscapes and rivers. Everybody knows it is a wonderful island. If people have spare time, they might like to come here to travel and look around the island. My family and I live in Tasmania, in Hobart, and we know it is a beautiful city, so we realy like living here.

=Your Learning Plan= Think about these questions and write your answers on your student page, or send an email to your teacher.

1. What are your long-term goals? (Choose __one__ of the following beginnings:) //"When I finish English classes I want to ....."// //Yes, if I finished my English classes I want study at unversity.//

//2. What are your short-term goals for your English learning?// //"This term, I want to improve my ............".// //I want to improve my English skills.// //3. What are your strengths?// //"I'm good at .......(eg reading, grammar, listening)"// //I'm good at reading.//

//4. What are your weaknesses?// //"I'm not good at ....."// //I'm not good at grammar.//

//5. Do you have any barriers which make it hard for you to come to class regularly or study at home? (eg young children, work, poor health)// //NO. none of them.//

//6. What resources do you have to help you to learn English?// //"I have an English-speaking friend, a home-tutor, a television, a computer with internet, a good dictionary, a good grammar text-book."// //"I go to the local library, I talk to my neighbours, I use the telephone, I read the newspaper..."// //and// //7. List 4 things you will do to work on your weaknesses (question 4).//

//8. What can you do on your own to help you achieve your goals (question 2)?// Read this Essay. To answer questions you must copy to your own page. To copy to your page, highlight what you want and press __**Ctrl C**__. Open your Wiki page and go to **//edit this page//**. You can now press **__//Ctrl V//__** and the essay and questions will open in your page.

**__ //How Australia can help to overcome the world health crisis.// __**

// The world health crisis is partly due to the shortage of health workers in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia. This problem is made worse by many nations, like Australia, taking health workers from these countries to make up for not enough workers in their own health systems. // // It is true that Australia is facing a shortage of hospital staff. The government is trying to increase the number of health workers in remote Australia to help overworked doctors and nurses in these areas. In order to do this Australia is recruitong health workers from overseas. // // The 2008 G8 conference asked that countries find local solutions to their health needs. The World Health Organisation is concerned about taking overseas doctors from poorer nations and many people believe that developed countries have always taken doctors from overseas and now must do something in return. // // Money given to eliminate AIDS, TB or malaria must include training and maintaining local health workers. According to a report during the last G8 meeting, Japan has promised ‘to fund the training of 100,000 health workers in Africa over the next five years.’ (Peter Deutschmann, The Age) //// Australia needs to subsidise countries in this region in a similar way. // // If Australia and other developed countries train enough health workers for their own communities and also support training health workers in developing countries, the health crisis will not continue to grow out of control. Governments of these countries must act immediately. //

//What is the problem discussed in this essay?// //This essay discuss about, The world health crisis is partly due to the shortage of health workers in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia. //

//How can it be resolved?// // Australia and other developed countries could train enough health workers for their own communities and also support training health workers in developing countries. // //Write down words that you do not understand and lookup their meaning in a dictionary, either on line or using a dictionary from the library.// //Subsidy//

//Write a sentence that includes the new word. You may need more than one sentence. Show yur teacher or a class mate.// //If some people very poor and country can give them more subsidy.//

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