The writers - Helene, Trevor, Garry
Visitor - Hans
Apologies - Pat, Terry, Fran, Gail, Jenny, Pauline
Garry has developed a web page for online learning English
Have a look at www.yes2day.net
The words of the day
Inveterate – ingrained
Admonished – reprimand or advise
Flotsam – wreckage of a ship or its cargo
Embodied – visualised, alive, personified, come to life
Philosophy – love wisdom Philo – Love & Sophia – wisdom
Transmogrified – change or altered with humorous effect
Jetsam – unwanted material or goods thrown overboard from a ship and washed ashore
Suzerainty – any relationship where one region controls foreign policy of a tributary state
Writing from words of the day
The writers wrote about - Chaotic week, Liar and Pastry.
Reading of homework
Three writers read out homework about – Will prison guards know the score, Deep Purple revisited and Getting lost in China.
Update from Hans Kieft on song writing project
Hans attended the meeting and suggested
- The writers group work together develop a story using poems and stories
- The writing group work to develop five or ten concept ideas
- This is a long term project
- Target audience 20 to 60 age group –Itune and Spotify users
- Target the I- tune audience
- Not financially worth while to make a CD
- Hans would like to receive poems to make into lyrics
- The writer will receive copyright
If writers agree we can incorporate this project into exercises and homework. If people prefer they can contact Hans Kieft direct on 0438 410 961 to discuss working with him.
Hans played several songs based on poems written by Helene –
which were brilliant.
Homework
Write a poem or story that can be the key message of an album – topic - Working together.