Essay talk and Uganda work

Hi everyone.

Hope you had a good week-end.

First of all I want to check up on the literature list and distribute the "Handbook on 

Well done SA14 and your initiative at the Christmas Market.


Today we continue to work on the Uganda project as planned.

You need to have the text and presentation ready by next Monday.

It will be Birgitta Dalin who will be assessing the Monday Presentations.

The running order will be done on a lottery basis at the beginning of the class.

Today I want to talk to all of you who have NOT had feedback about their Courage Essays.

Uganda work and going through the essays

Today we continue to work on the materials for the presentation and texts about Uganda.


Here is the list:-

SA14

History- Ebba, Anna, Julia

Importance(role) of English- Madde, Melinda & Frida 

Education System  -Klara, Edit and Hannah P

LRA- Julia M, Ida and Amanda M A,

Economy- Karl, Rasmus Per

Writers and literature in English- Erik Berg, Harald Hilding and August Testad.

Aids, malaria and other sicknesses- Amanda L, Nora & Hanna M

Situation of women- Mattias M and Marcus L

ES

Taste in music Uganda vs Sweden- Lisa/Moa

Dancehall & RB in Uganda- Christoffer Knuts n Mathias nykvist

HipHop & Gospel- Matilda & Filippa

Kandongo Kamu and Kidandali- Anton/ Victor

At the same time I will be going through the essay with about 12 or more students.

Anyone who missed writing the essay needs to do it today.

Winding up with the anthology

Today we start off by briefly going through the time-line document which I asked you to look at.

Where would you put the authors from the anthology on the list?

Which literary periods do they belong to?

Then we will start on our projects which will end up with a presentation and a text.

You can see the results of some  of the texts from last year in the handbook for Uganda.


Now it is your turn. You will be working in groups of three (ES in two's)

Here are the topics:

SA14
History

Importance(role) of English

Education System

LRA

Economy

Writers and literature in English

Aids, malaria and other sicknesses

Situation of women

and for ES

Taste in music Uganda vs Sweden

Dancehall & RB in Uganda

HipHop & Gospel

(Kandongo Kamu and Kidandali)

Presentations on Monday week 50 (and handing in the texts- about ½ page A4)

We will divide the texts.

Then we will start going through the essays today. (8 people)

The Estetkällare is OUT OF BOUNDS for the duration of the project period during English lesson time.

Finish off the anthology this week

Hi everyone. Hope you had a good week-end.

No English classes this week because of the utv. samtal (appraisals).

Finish off the anthology by doing the following:

Check through this this time line document (We will go through it together afterwards in class)

Where would you put the authors from the anthology on the time-line?

Choose one of the literary periods mentioned in the document

Middle English/Medieval

Elisabethan

Victorian

Renaissnance

Enlightenment/Augustan

Modern

Post-Modern

Romanticism 


and write a few lines about the main characteristics of that period.

Send all your answers in a document (NOT MEDDELANDE please!!!!) to vklass on the course "engelska 6" ANTHOLOGY

Do any of the writers from the anthology represent the literary period you have chosen?

Write

All right. So write right, Right!

TAKE COURAGE

Don't forget to use your homework time this week to work on your anthologies.

What if you don't even understand what the texts are about?

Well the most desperate measure would be to go back to the first lesson we worked on these texts and open the online version of the texts. There you could use a translation tool to give you some idea about what is going on!
(However, the idea is that your vocabulary level should be expanding all the time!)


This Wednesday, as you can read on the planner, we will be doing the mock writing exercise.

The theme is courage. So, today I want you to start looking for resources to help you prepare for writing about it.

In the national test at English 6 level you will receive preparation materials a week before the test- to get you thinking..

Today there will be "Improve your writing" booklets to remind you about some important issues.

Here are five key words you need to think about:-

1. Organization
2. Structure
3. Style
4. Clarity 
5. Register

The last thing I want to go through with you is the Writing skills  the checklist!

Use your time wisely.

Don't forget all the great advice Pernilla gave you last year on her blog

http://sa14es14.blogspot.se/2014/11/week-47.html

One last idea.

In small groups you can decide what grade to give the essay on
"Smoking ruins your health" from a theme about TEMPTATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anthology and book talk

Back on the 24th August I asked you to borrow a novel of YOUR choice to read this term....

Hopefully many of you have read it and all of you will give a short book talk in small groups before Christmas.

From today onwards there will be an opportunity for those 

who want to get their book assignment out of the way.

Be prepared to talk about:

• The story

• The characters

• The setting

• The message/relevance of your book.

Otherwise today we are going to work on the anthology.

The anthology consists of short extracts (utdrag) from 

classic works in English from the UK and USA.

All of them are at least 100 years old.

Some are easier to understand and some are harder.

Your task is to find out a little about the author then read 

(listen to) the texts and work out what each one is about.

You can write a short comment about them ( try to do all 

the texts if possible) and make a wordlist from the 

anthology.

All questions don't hesitate to ask father Christmas!!!

Week 47 we will talk about literary periods and you can

do the final task then.

Welcome back!

So, how was your break? Hope you managed to rest a bit 

and recharge your batteries.


To get you speaking some English do the following interview 

with your neighbour:

Holiday & Holidays

Interview your neighbour by using the following questions. Don't forget give some feedback if required

1. Where did you spend your mid-term holidays ?

2. Where did you spend your best holiday ? Why did you enjoy it so much ?

3. Would you prefer to have your holiday in Sweden or abroad ? Why ?

4. Which of the following countries would you like to/not like to visit for a holiday ? Give your reasons.  a)Portugal b)Greece c)Norway d) Kenya.

5. If you had a lot of money (money no object) where would you go for a holiday ?

6. Put the following holidays in order of preference:

a) A package holiday in Ibiza.

b) A trekking (walking/hiking) holiday in the Alps.

c) An adventure holiday with camping & outdoor activities.

d) On safari in Kenya

e) A sailing holiday in the Mediterranean

f) Las Vegas

g) Inter-railing with a friend in Europe.

Why did you choose as you did?

7. What was the worst holiday you have had ? Why was it so bad ?

8. You are going on a sun/beach holiday. Give a list of things you need to take with you.

9. "Bort bra men hemma bäst". Put it into English !

We are going to  start today with some quizzes and a 

compendium. The idea is give you an introduction to the 

literature of the English-speaking world.

The question is WHY?

First the quizzes!

World literature 1

We will go through the first quiz together

World Literature 2

And now the ANTHOLOGY... We will be working with this over the next week or two

A wordlist please by the end of next week

By the end of the lesson I want you to mail me a copy of the results of the  Second literature quiz.


Prize for the best answer.


Also a prize for the first correct answer to quiz number 6       

( see the quiz section of the blog)


From this Wednesday onwards there will be an opportunity

 for those who want to get their book assignment out of the 

way.

Be prepared to talk in a small group about:

• The story

• The characters

• The setting

• The message/relevance of your book