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Andrew Aigner-Muehler

Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA


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Andrew Aigner-Muehler
Andrew Aigner-Muehler
D.O.B- 25th October 1973
Place of birth- Adelaide, South Australia

Graduated from Hove College in East Sussex UK, majoring in public relations, marketing, advertising. Also studied journalism and taking part in the college newsletter.

Worked on the news team at 93.7 Triple M (now radio 3D)

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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-nine

November 3rd 2009 13:15
Lesson plan 29

Lesson Date: 2nd to 6th Nov Name of the teacher: Andrew
Grade: one Class: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b
Words: ‘head’, ‘hair’, ‘mouth’, ‘nose’, ‘ear’, ‘shoulder’, ‘hand’, ‘toes’, ‘legs’, ‘listen’
Sentences: “Does it/ he/ she have ….?”, “Yes, it/ he/ she does.”, “listen!”, “draw a line”, “what am I doing?”, “I am …..”,
Games or Songs:
Song- ‘open your mouth’ from my own audio VCD

Activity- ‘know your body parts’: The teacher to draw the body of a human on the blackboard (just the stomach and chest, no shoulders/ head, legs/ arms). Now, get a student one at a time to add a body part that you say, as well as writing what it is, next to it.

Game- ‘Face race’: Two teams. Girls versus boys. Match up parts with a number ie 1=eyes, 2=nose, 3=mouth, 4=ears, 5=hair, 6=shoulders. Now draw the head with the neck on the board. Ask one boy and one girl to come to the front. Each of them to roll a die (dice), what ever number is rolled that student gets to add that part (draw it on the blackboard). If the number is already rolled, it is tough luck. The first team with all 6 parts drawn, wins.

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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-eight

November 3rd 2009 13:12
Lesson plan 28

Lesson Date: 26th to 30th Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew
Grade: one Class: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b
Words: ‘big’, ‘little’, ‘short’, ‘long’, ‘orange’, ‘purple’, ‘yellow’, ‘brown’
Sentences: “It is long”, “It is short”, “It is little”, “It is big”, “Stand up!”, “make a line”
Games or Songs:
Song- ‘Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ from my audio CD which has video.

Activity- To arrange themselves after ‘making a line’ from the little student to the big student, basically little to big.

Game- Limbo: To get a stick of some kind and play limbo. Two people hold the stick. The students need to bend and go under the stick with out their hands touching the ground or falling over, if they do they are out. The last one wins

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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-seven

November 3rd 2009 13:09
Lesson plan 27

Lesson Date: 26th to 30th Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew
Grade: one Class: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b
Words: ‘head’, ‘hair’, ‘eye’, ‘mouth’, ‘nose’, ‘ear’, ‘arm’, ‘shoulder’, ‘hand’, ‘toes’, ‘leg’, ‘write’, ‘your’, ‘name’
Sentences: “How many ……?”, “I have …..”, “It has …….”, “Write your name?”, “Hand in your paper”, “What am I doing?”
Games or Songs:
Song- ‘Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ from my audio CD which has video.

Activity- Colouring and drawing- To hand out a piece of paper, get them to write their name up the top of the paper, then ask them to draw a circle in the middle of the page, then give their paper to the student on their left, once the students have the paper from the right, they need to draw two ears, then again pass paper to their left, once they have the paper from their right, they need to draw two eyes, and again pass the paper to their left and so on. This will eventually lead to me explaining the elicit sentence ‘hand in your paper’

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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-six

November 3rd 2009 13:07
Lesson plan 26

Lesson Date: 26th to 30th Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-five

November 3rd 2009 13:03
Lesson plan 25

Lesson Date: 26th to 30th Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-four

November 3rd 2009 13:00
Lesson plan 24

Lesson Date: 23rd Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-three

November 3rd 2009 12:57
Lesson plan 23

Lesson Date: 21st to 23rd Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-two

November 3rd 2009 12:54
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Lesson Date: 21st to 22nd Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty-one

November 3rd 2009 12:50
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Lesson Date: 20th to 21st Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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Grade one lesson plan- lesson twenty

November 3rd 2009 12:48
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Lesson Date: 16th to 21st Oct Name of the teacher: Andrew


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on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 11:11


I will handle your complaint...
It is all about the service
Travellers Journey
Chinese studying in Australia
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Honestly, I can not tell you. I will only say what I see and hear. Since, being here I have not seen a protest, as you can see on travellers journey.com I travel a lot on my weekends off, as I have three sometimes four or five day weekends. Only thing you hear about land is the land from Qinghai to Tibet, when they built the railway, they had to disturb as least amount of land as possible, to keep it like nature. With CCTV I think it is state run, but they cover a lot of issues for atleast a week that are currently going on ie Tibet, global recession, the stimulus package here, coca- cola buy out of a drink company, the Rio steel deal with special guest from America and Australia in a bit of a debate. but again, it is nothing unusual, every country has its problems, like the ex-Australian government would not apologise to stolen Aboriginal families, and now this government has. The ex-government along with Hanson were totally racist against the Asians, apart of the reason they tightened up the Asylum laws. South Africa was the same in the apartied days with black and whites and land and all that. You basically learn when you travel to keep out of other countries business. every country has faults.

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on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 05:52


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I watch CCTV9 a lot over here which the English channel of the Chinese station CCTV, and all we hear about is how the economy is growing. The Premier and the President are always overseas dealing with countries, they sign so many trade deals with up and coming nations in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. You do not hear anything about a government being over thrown. there are so many new estates, roads, high buildings and other infrastructure being built as well here. They are in the middle of a 50 billion dollar river diversion scheme over here as well because of the lack of waters in some areas, something that Australia should have done 10 years ago. If you read the press at the moment, they are looking at a 7 percent growth at the moment for later this year, which is way more than any other country. To tell the truth this country is the best place to be while other countries are going through the global recession, there are a lot of jobs here especially teaching, and the money and benefits are so good. I am so surprised the Rudd has not done a deal with a company over here in sending people over who are unemployed and have no committments ie family in Australia. It will solve a unemployment problem in Australia, plus we have to claim our earnings with the Australian tax department of which they may get tax moeny out of it. Why not give people a incentive to teach in china for 8 months. The need is there.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 05:03


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Cheers for the comments, please be free to add that clip here. Keating to me was one of Australias best Prime Ministers, but I think Kevin Rudd outdoes him, Rudd was my local MP in Brisbane before making the move back to Adelaide, he really does care about the people and he is so down to earth. Good luck in finding a job, I say it wont be too far off, this recession will not last as long as our last one. Australia is so much in a better position, especially with Ruddy working with the Chinese closely, something that Howard did not do. The Chinese love Ruddy. China, I can see now will be the next powerhouse not the USA or the European Union. You just hear so much good stuff over here. I currently live in China, and I will stay here until the economy gets better, as my job is safe, as the need for teachers over here is so strong.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 04:45


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What makes me laugh about the opposition is they are still in the days off Howard and Costello. They will not move forward. Costello is just sitting there waiting to make a challenge closer to the election, so he by-passes all this bickering and fighting.
They are also thinking they are in power by knocking everything that Rudd comes up with to re-build Australia.
Yes! I can see Labor Rudd government will leave the first term with a slight deficit, but they need to, they just have so much to re-built and spend on infrastructure it is not funny. The Howard dynasty if you want to call it that, really stuffed up the country, and they are taking the credit what Paul Keating did for the country, but he did not have enough time to see the results, and they admitted that at the start, but they take it on as their own work.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 04:29


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It was the opposite in Australia, they called it a Ruddslide to the Labor party over the Liberal Party, mainly due to workplace relation laws, which made it so easy for businesses to sack people, and put them on a non-reward wage under the old government. Rudd is halfway through his term now, luckily for him, Australia's economy is ina good shape, and the stimulus packages he has brought in will only just kick the economy into gear. Hopefully, the Australian public see this. The ex-government like in the USA totally stuffed up the country here, you have no idea, and the worst thing is, John Howard our ex-PM was in bed with George W Bush as you probably know.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Australian Prime Minister to blame for world recession according to Liberal Party...

April 23rd 2009 04:03


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Yes! for sure. I feel sorry for those three leaders who have just came into power within the past year or so, Brown of the UK, Rudd of Australia and Obama from the USA, these are all good leaders who have the ability to become the best leaders that thier countries have ever had but because of their predecessors, besides Blair of the UK which caused the recession, these newly leaders will suffer and probably only be in term once, they probably wont get re-elected. All we can just hope that the people of their countries have a brain and can see how good they are.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Jerry Seinfeld Returning To TV

February 27th 2009 14:51


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I don't think anything else he does, will ever beat what he acheived with Seinfeld. Seinfeld is one of the best comedies ever, up their with Friends. His new sitcom, may take away from Seinfeld. It may be a flop, affecting his recidual income with Seinfeld sales.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Does Heath Really Deserve an Oscar?

February 27th 2009 14:45


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Yeah! I totally agree. Heath Ledger was a great actor. I have seen a few of his roles, but I honestly think, if he was still with us today, that he would not have won the oscar. I think he won it on sympathy.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Why They Should Dump The WBC

February 26th 2009 14:19


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Hey Mark.
Good story, but you have to think as well. What is more important these days your country or your club? I know your club pays you the big bucks, but still, when you are young you will do anything to play for your country.
As well, the sport needs a higher profile competition, as you said, the olympic competition, professionals are not allowed to play, the world championships, again, the professionals are not allowed to play. If you look at basketball, the professionals are allowed to play, what is the difference between basketball and baseball. The world baseball classic is the only way, to see who is the best country. The birth of baseball started with the Americans, but in recent years, baseball has belonged to the Cubans and the Japanese. All the major league has to do, who have owner rights to the competition is to bring in a rule, if your chosen and you dont play, they are suspended from the major league. When you look at it, it is mainly the U.S.A team who does not field their best team, and the U.S.A have to stand up and realise the major league competition is no longer the elite competition. The major league has to also get away for calling the major league winners the world champions, because they are not the world champions, they are not even the club world champions. I also know the Cubans do not field the professionals, and it is not because they dont want to play, it is political.
What the major league has to do is to take a leaf out of the English Premier League. Those players will do anything to represent their country. They play so many different competitions per week or fortnight.
I think the FA and FIFA have done it right.
So, I think world baseball classic should stay or dump the competition along with the world championships and have a baseball world cup, and keep the baseball like football in the olympics for under 25s.
Good story though. A story for debate.

Comment by Andrew Aigner-Muehler
on Introduction...(TEACHING CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH OVERSEAS.. From my eyes)

December 13th 2008 14:35


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Hi there!
I value your comment. But, have you actually worked for him yourself? If you have, you have the right to say things like that, but please say why? If you have not, I suggest you keep comments like that to yourself. Yes, I have read the comments on google, but it is only from the one person. How do you know this lady, was not a right bitch. She might be a lady complaining about everything. You did not hear Michaels side, on it. When there is a personality clash, one side will do everything possible to destroy that other person. It is the same thing what happened with me and Kelley, I wrote bad things about her in my last book or blog, because I had a bad experience, but other people, may have had good experiences with her.
Back on Michael, there are still teachers with him now, which were with him during that incident, they did not leave A.I.T.A, they could have easily got another teaching job, there are so many opportunities and vacancies over here, but they stuck with him.
Again, I have known Michael for 3 years, he has never shown any bad signs towards me. He has spoken to me politely. He went out of his way to get me a teaching position here with in a month, at short notice.
Until, sometimes bad happens like that to me, or you, or to any one else. I think we should keep our opinions to ourselves.
We do not really know the full story. You are only going by, what you read on line. One persons comments. Who was a Australian. As we all know Australians are loud mouth whinging complaining pricks who will make life hard for anyone. Why do you think, I have not spent much time there in the past years. I am so sick of the shallowness of Australians.