Test 2 coming soon

In your preparation for Test 2, please practice changing the following passages into passive and active voice.

Change the following bulletin into passive voice:

A pastor has angered Christians in South Africa by preaching a sermon entitled "Jesus was HIV-positive" in an attempt to break what he regards as a conspiracy of silence by the South African church. Xola Skosana said that people stigmatise HIV as evil and a sin in the country that has the world's biggest caseload. Skosana (43) took an HIV test in front of his congregation last Sunday at the non-denominational Way of Life church in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. 100 young people from the impoverished township also took the test. Skosana chose the title for his three-part sermon to draw attention to "a very serious issue". Skosana cited a passage in the Bible where Jesus says: "I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me." But South African Christians are saying he can't reconcile Jesus and Aids. They assume it means Jesus was promiscuous and had a louche lifestyle with many sexual partners.

Change the following ad into active voice:

Applicants are invited to apply for a scholarship in the field of Science and Engineering. To qualify the applicant has to be in their first year of study, or scheduled to complete grade 12 at the end of 2010, or must be enrolled to commence their first year at university in 2011. Special interest in Natural Sciences is required. First year applicants who do well in Math and Academic Literacy will be preferred, and at least 50% of successful applicants will be selected from those groups. Students with good communication and computer skills are highly encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be informed by email.

Bursary & scholarship websites

After our wonderful class, especially the tutorials, on "motivation & career guidance" I have posted the ff websites for you to view and apply for bursaries. Feel free to suggest more sites and let me know if some of them are no longer available or helpful. Good luck!


Study Trust http//:www.studytrust.org.za

CareerWise http://www.careerwise.co.za/

GAL.co.za http://www.gal.co.za/fm_bursary_start.asp

Bursary Management System http://www.bursary.co.za/

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation http://www.allangrayorbis.org/

MandelaRhodes Foundation http://www.mandelarhodes.org/scholarships

Fulbright Scholarship http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/

Chevening Scholarship http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/ ; http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/participating_country/show/south_africa

FirstRand Educational Trust: Laurie Dippenaar Scholarship for International Post-graduate study http://www.firstrandfoundation.org.za/

Canon Collins Trust http://www.canoncollins.org.uk/

Visit Highe Education Websites like Wits, UNMMU, Rhodes, UCT & others http://www.nmmu.ac.za/documents/webmaster/NMMU%20Bursaries%20Booklet.pdf

http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/apply/handbooks/undergradfunding_2010.pdf

http://web.wits.ac.za/Prospective/FinancialAid/ExternalBursaries.htm

Funza Lushaka Lushaka website - www.funzalushaka.doe.gov.za.

Website by tert. educ. students by students for students http://www.tertiaryeducation.co.za/

Chemistry related bursaries http://www.chieta.org.za/Search/SearchResults.aspx

http://www.chieta.org.za/STATS/OCT07/CLIENTSTREAM-32.HTML

Business related http://www.neet.co.za/graduates.html

Links to many website w/ bursaries and scholarships to all bursaries: http://www.gostudy.mobi/Bursaries/All/Default.aspx and by field of study: http://www.gostudy.mobi/Bursaries/StudyField/Default.aspx

Bursary Directory http://www.bursariesdirectory.net/

Firststep [dot] me http://www.firststep.me/content/view/633/1/

For Law http://www.wwb.co.za/wwb/view/wwb/en/page3449

By Field of study http://www.smartcape.org.za/careers/bursaries-and-scholarships.html

Various http://www.quickfindit.co.za/index_files/bursaries.htm

Essay 2, Ready

Based on your performance in the first essay, which so far, is pretty good, I thought it would be more essential if you could hand in a draft before the final essay. For this I'd like you to utilise the services of the Reading and Writing Centre. Contact Mrs Ncube in the Centre and submit your drafts to her before you write and submit the essay online. She will, after going through your draft, take your name/s down and give you a grade for the draft and hand the marks to me to record. Handing in the draft constitutes 50% of the whole essay grade. Please NOTE that Essay 2 should follow the same format as essay 1 - check the guidelines in Mr Maduna's study guide for details. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions and/or for further assistance.


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Important Dates

New* as from July 30, 2010

I'm so excited that everything is working well. Here are some important dates to note:

• Test 1. First attempt, Due August 08, 2010 at 11:59 PM. Test 1 ReTake due on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 11:59AM, just before noon. Click here to take the test.
• Essay 1 draft, handed in to me personally in my office before August 12, 2010 11:59 PM (Please note that this essay must be complete work even though it will be treated as a draft. See Mrs Ncube in the Reading and Writing Centre for assistance.) Click here to view the essay topics and directions.
• Essay 1, complete essay. Due August 28, 2010 at 11:59PM. Click here to type and turn in your essay.
• Essay 2. Due Sept 20, 2010. Click here to type and turn in your essay.
• Test 2. Sept 10, 2010. Click here (loading ...) to take the test.
• Class Event. September 17, 2010 at 5pm
• Test 3. October 08, 2010. Click here (loading ...) to take the test.
• Exams. November 12, 2010
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

San Francisco Educator Works to Keep Young People 'Alive and Free'

Click on the play button below, read along as you listen to the story about Joe Marshall, a co-founder of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California, USA.

Click here  to listen

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


More than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in jail by the age of thirty-five.

Joe Marshall co-founded the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California, twenty-three years ago. Mr. Marshall tries to give boys -- and girls -- a safe refuge and a chance at a better future.

Every week, he has two basic messages for his young students: "Stop the violence" and "Don't do drugs."

Mr. Marshall spent twenty-five years as a teacher and administrator in San Francisco. He taught math in middle school and expected to see his best students go to college.



Jason Steinberg/Steinberg Imagery

Joe Marshall celebrates the Omega Boys Club's 150th college graduate last October

JOE MARSHALL: "I got a lot of horror stories and a lot of my former students ended up dead or in prison for selling drugs, being involved in gangs, girls ended up getting pregnant."

The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every year. Two times a week, it offers after-school classes in math, reading, family and life skills, and college preparation.

In many ways, it serves as a kind of family. It provides teenagers with structure and support.

Joe Marshall has a doctorate in psychology. He sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem.

JOE MARSHALL: "That's what these young people get. They develop a street mentality. The big part is dealing with the emotional residue of anger, fear and pain that they develop because they got invested in this in the first place.

"Then we tell them to follow some new rules for living that will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free."

The club represents the headquarters of what he calls the "alive and free movement." But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio.

In nineteen ninety-one, Joe Marshall started "Street Soldiers," a weekly call-in show.

JOE MARSHALL: "OK, let's talk to line two. Line two. And this is--Is this Marlena? This ain't the Marlena I know."

MARLENA: "Yes Doctor Marshall, this is Marlena!"

JOE MARSHALL: “It is my Marlena!”

Marlena was one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club.

JOE MARSHALL: "She's at Southern University right now, going into her third year. She talked about what she had learned the hard way and how we helped her learn that by coming to Omega, by listening to 'Street Soldiers,' and she said she had learned how to love herself."

The club provides guidance and financial assistance to help students stay in school. Over ninety percent of members who were accepted into college have graduated.

Twelve other American cities have copied the program. Joe Marshall has been invited to speak in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand.

He turned sixty-three this year.

JOE MARSHALL: "I want to build an institution. I'm not going to be here forever, so my big thing is to make sure this goes on."

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I’m Steve Ember.