Philadelphia part 2

Today we will watch the end of the film "Philadelphia" starring Tom Hanks as an introduction to our theme about gender equality.

On Friday you will have an opportunity to complete the discussion questions and see some clips from different Internet resources on this subject.

We will also look at the results of the test.

Next Tuesday we will go through this in the class together.

Remember to read your book.

Those who want to discuss their bbook earlier are welcome to do so.

Please let me know who you are.

Gender equality

Today we are going to start a new theme which will last two weeks.

It is the theme of gender equality.'

We start off today and Tuesday by looking at a film which deals with this issue.

The film is "Philadelphia" from 1993 starring Tom Hanks.

Here are some study questions which we will discuss after the film on Tuesday and next Friday..

     Philadelphia Movie Questions

Based on the movie Philadelphia that we watched in class answer the following questions.

1. What was the workplace environment like before Andrew’s bosses found out that he had AIDS?

2. What was the workplace environment like after Andrew’s bosses found out that he had AIDS?  Would you call this a poisonous environment?  Why or why not?

3. What were the prohibited grounds for discrimination in the case portrayed in the movie?

4. Why did Joe agree to take Andrew’s case after first refusing to do so?

5. Why was the woman with AIDS not fired like Andrew was?

6. What do you think would have happened if something like this had occurred in Sweden?

7. Were there subjects that were brought up in the trial that did not seem

relevant to the main issue, which was why Andy was fired?

8. Because Beckett has AIDs, is it his responsibility to inform and educate his coworkers about his condition? Should he attempt to make them feel more comfortable with it? On the other hand, is it morally OK for him to keep his condition secret?

9. Miller overcomes his homophobia as well as his fear of contracting AIDS from Beckett. Miller sees Beckett as a regular man and even befriends him. Is ignorance an excuse for Miller’s intolerance, or were his values askew? Can someone’s moral values truly change?

Let's watch it now!

Test is best! Letter is better!

Today there will be an opportunity for those who missed the test to do it.

Here is a list of those who missed the test on Friday:

Nils Andersson
Johanna Carlsson
Erik Stålfors
Jesper Thomasson
Denise Trädgårdh
Maja Tucker
Hannes Wahlström

The rest of the class will sit somewhere and write their letter to the new pen friend in Soroti.

These letters will be taken by the group leaving the day after tomorrow and when they return you will (hopefully) receive a letter from your new pen friend.

Your letter should include the following:

A description of you and your life. Talk about your family, your home, your studies and your interests.

Say something about your daily routine and how you spend your leisure time.

If you have a photo (a digital one) attach it to your letter.

Give also an email address and say if you have a facebook page or a skype address since a lot of the students travelling now know their pen-friends (epals) very well thank to social media

Even those doing the test today MUST write a letter and email it to me AT THE LATEST 2 p.m
TOMORROW Wednesday.

I will make sure all the letters are printed  and put in envelopes

michael.hegarty@leksand.se
habarimike@gmail.com

Quiz and Final Revision

There is a second quiz up on the blog. First correct answer will be the proud owner of a Mars Bar!

Then on to the revision.

We shall go through examples of the words in the text and exercises from the web today.

Then a word about the final writing assignment.

You will choose from one of the following:

1. A piece of factual writing  ( see page 235 in Context 2)
the important thing here is to use NEUTRAL English.

It should be CORRECT with no SLANG and APPROPRIATE

2. Descriptive writing (see 232-234 in Context 2)

It should be IMAGINATIVE, RICH in description and can contain SIMILES, METAPHORS etc.

3. Reflective writing ( see pages 235-236 in Context 2)

 It should contain your views and opinions.

Useful phrases are things like:

In my view, opinion
Personally
I believe, I think
For me
As I see it

It should contain something of one's own personal feelings and views

Good luck on Friday!

Distribute novels + work that should have been on Tuesday

Next week we will be having a test one day and concentrating on Uganda the other day.

You need to decide today.

Most of the work today will be what was missed on Tuesday when you were running the school election.

The only extra thing is the distribution of novels where you will discuss the book in small groups . They will be done immediately after Christmas.

So, you can either borrow a novel from the cupboards, from the library or a book you may have at home.

Have a good week-end!

Short lesson today?

Since your class will be running the election process today I'm sure it will be a very short class.

This is our revision week. I want to start off by giving you a hand-out about words to do with politics and elections.

They will not be in the test but they can help you with your word lists as there are a lot of excellent sentences with the words in context.

Here is a scan of the handout


Apart from that I want you to continue to work on the grammar and words for the test.

The test will consist of the following:

1. Unprepared Reading Comprehension
2. Word knowledge based on " I'm sorry but I'll have to let you go"
3. Grammar items 1-4 from R&P

• Genitive with apostrophe and "of"  (Pepy's Diary)
• Regular and irregular plural nouns  (-s/ -es/ - )
• Nouns- singular in English but plural in Swedish (furniture)
• Nouns- plural in English but singular in Swedish (Scissors)

4. A piece of writing
Choose between:

• Factual
• Descriptive
• Reflective

Keys of the kingdom

We have our first quiz today. Check it out on the right side of the blog. Today I will give you a copy of the first part of the key for the text book.

It is also available here as a file.

Let us have a quick look at the grammar section in Context 2 and the exercises which are referred to in the key



By now all of you should have got back the documents you have sent...

I am still missing some writing exercises

It is extremely important that you do your corrections

Part of the first test will be a writing task.

Let us look at the Resources pages in Context 2 staring on page 232

Then try to write your own short description.
Include AT least one metaphor and one simile.

Good luck!!

We will finish off with a TED talk. It is by Sherry Turkle and deals with our digital lives

Results of diagnosis/ grammar/ corrections etc!

Hi!

Today you will find out how things went with the diagnosis...

Also i have graded a number of your film reviews/ dialogues. Please do the corrections.

This is of paramount importance!!


Those of you who haven't done the online exercises for chapter 1
please do so.


Log on to www.gleerupslms.se


The rest of the lesson will be spent working on the grammar 1-4 on R & P

and we will finish off with the listening exercise on page 16-17

Friday's lessson will be much more inateractive but we are building the foundation at the moment for this course!

Good luck!