Wednesday, 23 September 2015

End of film- test results and info about identity projects

We are in 1206 today..

SA students will see the end of the film..

ES are going to a musical at 9.50 in Sammilsdal

Test results
41-70 on the banana
0-40- slipped on the banana skin!

Groups for identity project. When I am in Uganda
Monday lessons- on your own
Wednesday lessons- with Birgitta Dalin

All material is on vklass KURSEN utbildningsmaterial/ delade filer

Groups
Group 1- resources 1 & 2 (länkar till eng 6)
Per, Erik, Julia B, Victor,Matilda

Group - resources 3 & 4
Ebba, Melinda, Moa, Nora

Group 3- resources 5 & 6
Madde, Rasmus, Harald, Christopher

Group 4- resources 7 & 8
Karl, Filippa, Amanda L, Anton, Marcus

Group 5- resources 9,10
Hanna M, Frida, Amanda M A, Mattias

Group 6- Resources 11 & 12
Julia M, Ida, Mathias N L, Anna

Group 7- Resources 13 & 14
Hannah P, Klara, Lisa, Edit, August

SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS

Monday, 21 September 2015

Film and preparation for theme on identity/gender/ sexuality

I am busy marking your tests. Results on Wednesday! No grades.. only pass  (41-70)  /   fail   (0-40)... The importance thing is know is if you are on the banana (på banan) or slipped on the banan skin!


Today and Wednesday we are going to watch a film. On Wednesday I will give you some discussion questions about it.

Next week and week 41 I will be in Uganda with students from the social science and arts' programme.

During that time you will have a theme to study about gender and identity (sexuality).

The files are on vklass (utbildningsmaterial/delade filer)

I will divide you up into groups on Wednesday.

When I am away you will have a supply teacher on Wednesdays and work on your own on Mondays.


Monday, 14 September 2015

Final countdown!

On Thursday you will be having a test on chapter 1 of Context 2.

Today we winds things up.

Speaking
Discuss your week-end with a new person

Role play- 

1. Refugee arriving in Sweden from Syria/ volunteer at a reception centre

2. Parent/child discussing excess use of mobile phone/computer


Groups of four
1. Leaders for Sweden, GermanyFinland and Denmark discussing present situation.  Generous attitude and Restrictive attitude

2. In the train compartment- soldier, housewife, Kamprad and alcoholic discussing life etc.

Listening

Page 16- True, false or not clear

Relationships
Why do people argue?
See the video clip and comment

Practising the grammar
http://www.english-4u.de/past_perfect_ex2.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/past_perfect_ex3.htm

Finally
Do the practise test on the gleerups web for chapter 1



Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Key to the grammar

Hi Matilda and others.

Here it is

Winding up chapter 1

Next Wednesday at this time we will be having a short test to test your knowledge of what we have done up until now (see Vklass).

Today we are going to start by finishing off the grammar we began last time...

We talked about the past tense and especially the PAST PERFECT





Here are some examples from the text in the book:

page 6

He had been living for the past year...

He had flown out to New York

Page 7
He'd noticed

Page 8
They had had a year together
He had thought it through
He had told her about the job

Page 9
he'd always liked it

Why and when do we use this form?

We are going to watch the video from Agendaweb

http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/past_perfect-exercises.html

Now turn to your neighbour and discuss when and where you use the PAST PERFECT.

The form of the Past perfect is easy to use
HAD   or 'D   + past participle

Now let's get into the Gleerups Web
The words/phrases are all taken from the two exercises there.

Moreover we will practise verbs using "Take"

Monday's lesson will be for revision

Monday, 7 September 2015

We pick up where we left off

We didn't get everything done last time on the text.. So let's push on today.

Using prepositions

Do exercises H and I

Verb forms


A lot of the text is written in the past tense


(simple past and pluperfect "had thought" etc.)


Work out 56-57  on page 296-297


agendaweb.org

verb exercises

past and past perfect


write down any new phrases in your digital word list




already week 38 we will have a test on the 

chapter  (see Vklass- resultat)


  • vocabulary
  • prepositions
  • verb form
  • writing- words to describe people


Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Context 2- I'm sorry I'll have to let you go

From next week onwards we will be using Vklass for all assignments. 

I will publish the blog pages in the course webpage so that you will only need to stay in one place.

Today we are going to have a more traditional English lesson.

Start off by opening the new words document.

You can open it in the format which is suited for your computer.

Then every second week you need to send a digital copy to Vklass of a wordlist with 25 words and sentences.

Make sure your NAME and WEEK are in the title of the file:
newwords_mike_week38.

The first list will be handed in AT THE LATEST  Monday week 38  - 14th September

Back to today....

I want to try out a more traditional language lesson today.

We are going to work in the Context book with the first text:
"I'm sorry I'll have to let you go"

It's all about breaking up in  a relationship.

Ice-breaker
What is the most common way that people break up today?
Look at the video.

Where do you think the couple are from (their accent)?
Why is the girl so angry about the break-up?

Listening
We are going to listen to the text... Have your word list open in the background. I will ask everyone in the class questions about the text and vocabulary

Speaking
Role play
Play the role of Sarah and a friend after the break-up and discuss the way things went.
OR
Play the role of the protagonist and a friend discussing the break-up

Writing
Do exercise B on paper

Reading
Now we have read/listened to the text
There are a number of idiomatic phrases and words in the text. (You know like " Today it's raining cats and dogs)
Look for 10 of them and if they are new for you add them to your word list

Example  page 7  aggro;  page 8  up to scratch (line 3); page 9 taking it in (line 5);  page 10 (line 2) she knows the score: page 11 (line 10) get off my case

Page 344 is the word list

Finally

Using prepositions
Do exercises H and I

Verb forms
A lot of the text is written in the past tense
(simple past and pluperfect "had thought" etc.)
Work out 56-57  on page 296-297

write down any new phrases in your digital word list

already week 38 we will have a test on the chapter