Activities for the course, Conversation topics and resources

Today I have registered the whole class on gleerups interactive web.
We shall go through this today and distribute the log ins


Yesterday we went through the curriculum (kursplan) and grade guidelines for the course.

We saw that the following activities need to be included in the course:

Reception
Listening (Watching)

• Films
• Lectures (Ted Talks)
• Information (videojug)  
• Youtube clips

• Text book texts (Context web)

Reading

• Text book (Context 1)
• Literature (2 books- novels or plays) 
• Internet- ezines; newspapers(net versions); official sites

Production
Speaking 

• Oral presentations 
• Pair discussions
• Group discussions
• Conversation topics
• Dialogues 
• Debates

Writing

• Assessments
• Stories
• Summaries
• comments
• Opinions
• presenting a case/argument
• Informal writing (emails etc)

Focus areas

• Chosen area (social sciences/music)
• International perspectives
• Comparison with Sweden
• English-speaking world 

Regular activities

•   Word lists- Every other week (check out Context word list)
• Conversations - Every other week. Here is the document 
• Oral presentations (once or twice a term)
• Literature (one book per term)
• Grammar (when needed but intensively when you get your computers)

 The rest of today's lesson we shall try to get you record your first conversation.  (Number 15- How I spent my Summer holidays)  Send it to one of my email addresses for the moment.

Once we get going with Vklass ALL hand-ins will be done there
(www.vklass.se) on the course web page.

Next Tuesday I will go through the Diagnostic test with you and we will be starting on the text book.


Don't forget your wordlist! ( Tuesday week 37)

I will give you time to work on that at the end of the class

NOW let's look at the planner