Monday, 25 November 2013

Presentations, essays and other things

Today we start to prepare the second presentation you will do this term in front of the class.

Last time you talked about an English speaking country. This time the subject matter is a free choice.

You should work with another person or maximum three people in a group.

You should present an area of interest for you

(Examples might be a sport, a hobby, a game, an activity, an item from history, a person etc.)

The presentation should be of about 5 minutes and should be done using a presentation tool (Prezi, Impress, Powerpoint etc.)

There should be a worksheet with 5 questions (as last time) based on your presentation.

Every student will assess one presentation (a worksheet is available)

The presentations will be on Tuesday week 49 (next Tuesday) and Monday week 50

Today we are going to discuss your essay individually.

Some basic comments:
  • Always have an introduction and a conclusion to your essay
  • Always use paragraphs- one idea= one paragraph
  • Written language is DIFFERENT from spoken language.
Your essay is assessed according to the following points:


Innehåll(content)



Tydlighet (clarity)





Fyllighet och variation (Completeness and clarity)





Sammanhang och struktur (Context and structure)





Anpassning till syfte, mottagare, situation, genre (adaptation to purpose, recipient, situation, genre)





Språk och Uttrycksförmåga (language and expression)

Kommunikativa strategier (language strategies)





Flyt och ledighet (Fluency and ease of expression)





Vokabulär (vocabulary)





Meningsbyggnad (sentence structure)





Grammatik (grammar)





Stavning och interpunktion (spelling & punctuation)




Today I will go through the essay of the following students:

Erik H
Hannes
Zinhle
Maja
Jonna
Elin Bäckstöm
Elin Ahlgren
Elisabeth
Jesper
Sana
Linnea E
Aleksandra

The others will be tomorrow

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Boy in the striped pyjamas 10-14

Today I want you to work in groups of 3-4 students and answer the questions about them


Discuss
1 What do you think Shmuel thinks of Bruno when they first meet?
2 Why doesn't Bruno like Hitler?
3 Bruno finds Shmuel's and his own story similar. How?
4 Why doesn't Bruno tell his family about his new friend?
5 Why does Shmuel react the way he does when Bruno talks about Lieutenant Kotler?
6 Is there anything in the book that suggests that Bruno understands what kind of place the camp is? If so, what?
If not, how is Bruno able to keep his distorted picture of the camp? 


7 What does the punishment of Pavel teach Bruno? Do you think this is something that people around Bruno have learnt too?

Here it is IN RTF format

I want you to try to find a quote "  "   from the book to back up what you say.

When you are done with these questions you can continue to work with your own chapter in Context. (chs. 3-7)

Finish off by doing a short recording with Mike about what your text was about.

Monday, 18 November 2013

On your own in Context

Remember the first lesson after the holiday?

You started to work on a chapter in the context book ON YOUR OWN. Here are the instructions again!

A chapter from Context which you 
choose ( numbers 3- 7)


  • Read the text (you can also listen to it but PLEASE use a headset or earphones)
  • Find 15 words (put them on a list and send them to me IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE IT)
  • Do one language exercise from the book(mail your answers)
  • Do one grammar exercise from the book (mail your answers)
  • Do one extra exercise from gleerupslms
 MAKE sure you know the text!

Mike will be coming around and asking you to tell him about it!!

The time you have over prepare for the work on " The Boy in the striped Pyjamas"  chapters 10-14

Chapter 10- The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

Chapter 11-The Fury

Chapter 12- Shmuel thinks of an answer to Bruno's question

Chapter 13-The bottle of wine

Chapter 14- Bruno tells a perfectly reasonable lie

Good luck!

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Writing today! Don't forget "Boy in Striped Pyjamas" for next Tuesday.

Today we are going to try the writing part of the national test.

As it is the first time we will do it on paper..

Don't forget to plan your essay.

Take some minutes to plan and develop your ideas.

Use all information

-Mindmap
-Key words
-Ideas

Don't forget LINKING words and PARAGRAPHS.

Good luck!

Next Tuesday we have chapters 10- 14 of "The Boy in the striped Pyjamas" to discuss. Please make sure you have read it.

Monday, 11 November 2013

Of mice and Men!!!

Sometimes we plan things without using our brains!!!!!!

Your term planner for English is a very good example.

It seem like I had a mental blackout at the time of writing!

So the new planner is now on the blog.

Everything in yellow has been replanned to fit in with the planners of my two colleagues working with your fellow "stud" students.

Let's start off by going through this together.

So today we are going to look at Skolverket's resources for the national test....

Tomorrow you will practise the "WRITING" section.

Here are two good links to help you
1. Bedömning/assessment of writing

2. Examples of different parts of the national test

The title of the essay which is marked is called "The good life"
Here is the paper which the students got.

Here is an essay on "E" grade level

Here is an essay on "C" grade level

Here is an essay on "A" grade level

What differences do you see between them?

Tomorrow you will write about a different subject in class.

As usual, there are two topics on the same theme:

One is more general (abstract)

The other one is more specific (concrete).

Points to remember

1. Plan
Plan the ideas you are going to use and how you will write them



2. Structure
a.
  • Introduction     (Use a grabber or not). Start off generally
  •  Points- compare or develop
  • Conclusion       What have you learnt?
b.
  • linking words
linkingwords
  • spelling (hard words)
 Here is a good link
3. Write  

4. Check
Check agreements, spelling, grammar

    Tuesday, 5 November 2013

    Conversation and "Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" chs. 6-9

    Hi everyone.


    Today we start off with an assessment. Fill in the document.. save it on your hard drive and then mail it completed to me. You can do it at the end of the lesson too!

    Now we do the conversation. First let's listen to a famous song from the Musical "Fiddler on the Roof" called "If I were a rich man"



     
    Now you can record your conversation about what you would do if you won lots of money

    If you haven't copied over the link from "Ljudinspelaren" to your desktop, start by doing so OR use another program like AUDACITY
     Save the file as money_name_name and mail it to me at
    michael.hegarty@leksand.se
    or
    habarimike@gmail.com

    Now we turn to the book.

    Here are the questions from the handout. You can either work on paper or on the word document HERE



    Finally.. On your own  Re-read chapter 8 and explain..

    How is the grandmother in the story portrayed. How is she different from the other representatives of the “Third Reich”?

    Please mail you answer (or answers) to me.

    If you have time over you can continue to work with your own chapter from Context.
     


    Monday, 4 November 2013

    Welcome back!

    Welcome back after the half-term break and Halloween



    Today we are going to do four things.



    1. An assessment. Fill in the document.. save it on your hard drive and then mail it completed to me.

    2. A trip to the UK with Erik, Hannes and Veronica


    3. An interview about your holidays with a neighbour (done on paper)




    4. A chapter from Context which you choose ( numbers 3- 7)

    • Read the text
    • Find 15 words (put them on a list)
    • Do one language exercise from the book(mail your answers)
    • Do one grammar exercise from the book (mail your answers)
    • Do one extra exercise from gleerupslms
    Today the class will finish at 13.40.

    13.50 you will have a film to watch for psychology