Book talks- book reading & preparation for the Listening and Reading

Today we start our book talks. In small groups of people with different books you will have the chance to talk about the book you have read.

During this time you have three options:-

1. Prepare for your book talk

2. Read AT LEAST the first sixty pages of "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" - if you were absent last time get a copy from Björn in the library

3. Prepare for the listening / Reading sections of the National Test by going through the questions which are available on the net:

Here is a link to the relevant practice exercises.

Remember to make every day and every lesson count! They don't come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Planning, new book and preparations for book talk

Today we are going to go through the planner for this term.

Here are the results of your planning you did in small groups:

Måndag 18 januari 2016 kl: 13:22

What language skills do you think we should give priority to this term?
1. Writing
2. Speaking
3. Listening (to different accents!)
4. Reading

Which areas/methods should we focus the most on? - Working in the text book and using the internet! That incorporates the other areas (grammar, vocabolary) in a good way.


2.Decide in the group on one way we can practise listening
Watch documentaries and speeches with different accents. Listening to songs without knowing the lyrics is also a good way to practise listening.


3. Decide one way in the group we can practise speaking.
Have discussions around current topics. Read the texts from Context out loud in groups instead of listening from the CD.


4. Decide on AT LEAST one text from "Context 2" we can work on together.
The drover's wife.

5. Decide on one topic in the group we can do a writing assignment about.
Social media

// Hannah, Christoffer, Edit, August and Karl

Måndag 18 januari 2016 kl: 13:22

Work on grammar
Focus on writing 
Watch movies filmanalys 
Work alone or in smaller groups 
Talk more, in small groups
using the internet as a resource, for example the music ”quiz” we did last year. 

Feminism, equal rights and racism - good subjects to write about.

Lisa’s group

1

1. Speaking

2. Listening

3. Writing

4. Reading

1. Using the internet

2. Practising grammar

3. Working in the book

4. Vocabulary

2..Watching clips or films without subtitles.

3..Discussions. Play games.

4..Number 5.

5.Poverty.

Group: Erik, Ebba, Harald, Anna.

Måndag 18 januari 2016 kl: 13:18

1.   
a)speaking, writing, lisning and the reading
b)building up vocabulary, grammar, textbook and then internet

2.
Radio program/movie without text and then answer questions afterward

3.
Train hard words that are hard to pronunce and sit in groups and talk. In the groups you use card to see what you´re going to talk about.

4.
Battle hymn of the tiger mother, chapter 6

5.
How you want your life to be when you are 40 years old

Frida’s group

Måndag 18 januari 2016 kl: 13:17

1. We think we should focus on speaking and listening 
2. By doing hearing exercises and then answer questions to that! Watch movies with english subtitles.Listen to different english accents so you can learn to distinguish them. 
3. In small groups discussing intresting subjects. 
4. We have chosen the text "My son the fanatic" to work on together.
5. Write about your favorite musical artist. If you don't have one just write about what music you listen to the music. 

// Nora, Amanda.M.A, Mattis N.L , Rasmus

Måndag 18 januari 2016 kl: 13:16

Writing, grammar
Movies without subtitles, music, 
Speaking in groups 
text 8
Something about school

Anton, Amanda, Julia, Hanna, Matilda

It is also time to distribute the new novel for this term which we will read together.

It is written by Alexander McCall Smith and is called 
"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

This Wednesday we start with the book talks.
Here are the relevant qyestions:

Literature Questions for book reading

These are the 10 questions I want you to think about when you talk about/ write about your book.

1. Which character (person)did you like the most Why ?

2.Who is the most important character in the book ? Why do you think that?

3. Do any characters change ( förändras) during the course of the novel (romanen) ? Explain!

4.In what way Is the language in your novel difficult ? Give examples!

5. Is there a lot of dialogue in the novel ? How do the characters communicate?(for example letters/ e-mail/ text-messages etc.)

6. Did you enjoy the plot (handling) of the novel ? Explain!

7. Is the plot of your novel believable or unbelievable ? Give examples!

8. Describe an important scene from your novel.

9. What is the message (budskap) of your novel ?Was it clear?

10.Did you enjoy the novel or not ? Explain your opinion(åsikt).

Finally In week 6 you will be doing the Listening/reading test for English 6.

Here is a link to the relevant practice exercises.

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still homesick!

Today we continue to work on the text of "Homesick".

Thank you for your corrections and suggestions to improve Xiao's English.

I have also got your suggestions for the course and am working on them.

Today we continue to work on the text.

First of all everyone will get a chance to correct 3-4 lines orally.

Then we will look at some of the obvious problems a Chinese learner seems to have with English.

Xiao is obviously going through a culture shock. That is something you may have already experienced.

Some of our students go through a  shorter form of culture shock when we travel to Uganda.

Let us do a listening exercise about this.

Xiao has other problems as well.

Chinese is not a "diplomatic" language and Chinese people are often thought of as rude in the West.

Try to help Xiao with this.

We are going to do Exercise G on page 26.

People come to Britain from so many countries to learn.
What languages do they speak?
Do the crossword in PAIRS

Finally there is the language problem of interference.

Every language has different areas of interference.
We have looked at Chinese. Here is a worksheet with some funny signs trying to be in English.

What about Swenglish then?

Finally do the exercise on YOUR OWN on the back of the worksheet.

Planning and work on Context 2

We start off today by doing the planning which we didn't have time for last Wednesday:-

1. What language skills do you think we should give priority to this term?  (speaking, writing, reading, listening) ?

 Which areas/methods should we focus the most on?

•  practising grammar?
• working in the text book?
•   using the internet as a resource?
• building up vocabulary (lists etc.)? 

2.Decide in the group on one way we can practise listening

3.Decide one way in the group we can practise speaking

4. Decide on AT LEAST one text from "Context 2" we can work on together.

5.   Decide on one topic in the group we can do a writing assignment about.

Mail your answers to me by the end of the lesson on vklass


Then we will work on the text "Homesick"chapter 2 in the book.

We can listen to the text together. 

Her English is not very good!!!!

In pairs I want you to find at least ten mistakes in the text and help her to correct them..

What areas especially does a learner from China seem to have problems with?

Go in on the Gleeerups web ( gleerupsportal.se)
and do the text related word exercise plus one word formation (1 or 2) exercise

Welcome back after the Christmas break

Hope it feels ok to be back at school.
We start off by doing an interview about your Christmas holidays.
Here is the document You will do it on paper!!

When you have finished you can read the following:-

http://www.dearcustomerrelations.com/2014/12/dear-santa/

Open a new word list and start writing in any new words + sentences.

Then write a reply to the letter from Santa Claus to Anthony....

Send it in as a  document in DOCX format to Santa letter on the course page on Vklass

I want to start give a little feedback from the assessment.

The final thing today is to do some planning in groups of four:-



1. What areas do you think we should give priority to this term?  (speaking, writing, reading, listening) ? Which areas/methods should we focus the most on (grammar exercises, text book, internet, vocabulary lists etc.)? 

2.Decide in the group on one way we can practise listening

3.Decide one way in the group we can practise speaking

4. Decide on AT LEAST one text from "Context 2" we can work on together.

5.   Decide on one topic in the group we can do a writing assignment about.

Mail your answers to me by the end of the lesson on vklass