Sisay+M

Hi, I'm Sisay

Conversation with Anna on Monday 26 October "Hi Anna, how are you?" "Good thanks, Sisay. How are you?" "Not bad. How was your weekend?" media type="file" key="Sisay 26 Oct.mp3" width="374" height="108"

03/03/2011 Hello every one My name is Sisay. I have five girls and one son. My children's names are Banchi, Meseret, Serkalem, Achamyelesh, Mekdes and Abel. Banchi is 20 years old and her school is St Mary College and she is in grade12. Meseret and Serkalem are going to the Sacred Heart College in New Town. Meseret is in grade 9 and Serkalem is in grade 7. Achamyelesh, Mekdes and Abel they are going to the Immaculate Heart College in Lenah **valley**. Achamyelesh is in grade 5, Mekdes is in grade one and Abel is in kindergarten. I live in New Town with my family. I am from Ethiopia. I speak Amharic, Tigrinya, Arabic and English. My wife and I are studying English at the Polytechnic three days a week and we want to improve our listening, speaking, writing and grammar. **w**e are very happy to come to study English at the Polytechnic. My goal is to finish Certificate II in Spoken and Written English, Certificate III in Spoken and Written English and to get the Aged-Care course because I want to work with older people.

Hi Sisay You are a busy daddy. Congratulation you are good student. My question is: How long have you been in Tasmania?.

Thanks Rosa

10/3/11 My long –term goals are in Australia I would like to work as an Aged Care worker and Laboratory technician assistant. This term my **short**-term goals are to improve my English language and finish **C**ertificate level III in Spoken and Written English and at the end of this term I want be able to take an Aged Care course. I am good at reading and spelling but what I need to get better at is my listening, grammar and pronunciation. My weaknesses are listening, speaking and pronunciation. My barriers for learning at classes or to study at home are young children because I’m busy in the morning getting them to school and I am late arriving at class. I have got some strategies to help me like I speak with my neighbours, use a computer with the internet, I have a good dictionary, I use the telephone and practice with my children. I am working on my weaknesses to check the pronunciation with Australian people, to listening carefully, to speak English at home with my family and ask questions. I want to achieve certificate III in Spoken and Written English, to get Aged care course and to get a job.

17/3/11 Hi Sisay, You have made a fantastic start with your learning plan. Well done. Suzanne

__My story__ My name is Sisay. I was **born** in Ethiopia in the Gondar region. In my country I went to school up to **grade 6th**. Then the political problems started in my country and I stopped going to school. After that I went to a neighbouring country to Sudan. I lived in refugee camp for more than 25 years in Sudan and I took a Laboratory Technician course for three months and I worked as a Laboratory Technician assistant in a refugee camp hospital from 1990 to 2002. I suffered for many years in the refugee camp and the refugee camp was closed in January 2002. My family and I moved to the capital city of Sudan. We lived in Khartoum-Sudan for seven years and we arrived here on June 2009. When we arrived in Tasmania we were very tired and we couldn’t understand English speakers. So I am going to school three days a week at the **P**olytechnic. My learning goals are to improve my English, to finish Certificate III in Spoken and Written English and to get a job. Also my short-term goal is to buy a car and my long-term are to finished the Aged-Care course and to help my family then I would like a Career in Aged-Care and Laboratory technician assistant work. Now my occupation is a student and my weaknesses are pronunciation, speaking and listening in English. My **strengths** with English are reading and spelling. My barriers for learning English are my family and transport. A learning strategy is to use my dairy and my commitments are to follow my children’s dairy and I have a big responsibilities to look after my family. I have **started** a new life in Tasmania and I am very happy to live in Tasmania.