Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Book talks and other animals

So, hopefully after over five months you have completed your book.

A few students did their talk before Christmas. This week is the deadline for the talks. You will do the talk in small groups and discuss with each other about the plot, characters and relevance of your book.

I will send a worksheet around to be filled in.

Otherwise this week it is to practise for the mock reading ands listening next week

Listening on Tuesday- Reading on Friday.

Good resources are to be found on Mr, Smedjeback's blog (see earlier blog entry) and at the following address:-

http://nafs.gu.se/prov_engelska/exempel_provuppgifter

Not finished with the planner yet but basically the next few weeks look like this:

week 4   book talks

week 5  Reading & listening National Test

week 6  Finish off Archer- Christine Rosenthal

week 7 Tuesday- Archer test


Friday, 16 January 2015

Courage and A la Carte

First of all a really good resource that I can recommend for you:-

https://smedjeback.wordpress.com/

Today we are going to talk about the essay on courage.

While we are doing this there are three work sheets to do about A La Carte

1. Discussion Questions- Here is the Link

2. Discussion questions for the story. Here is the link

3. Words to do with food/food preparation:here is the link.

So, don't sit around.. Get on with it!

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Read A la Carte by Friday (Archer)

Please read A la Carte by Friday.

The mp3 files for listening are here.

Start  after 6 minutes and 10 seconds on this file.

Then go on to this one!

Finally listen to 4 minutes and 29 seconds here!

Welcome back to 2015

Well? Did you get your presents on Christmas Eve?
This year I got about 100 wordlists for Christmas. Thanks!
You will get them back by Friday!

Here is the Bruce Springsteen version of the famous song about the man who brings the presents.


We start off today with two role plays which will be done in pairs.
They are both connected with the song above.

Then we are going to do an exercise with a worksheet which I will hand out.

Our final part of the introduction is to write comments on the following document and mail them in to me. There needs to be an explanatory comment for each heading.

Dates to be noted.
Week 3
 This Friday 16th January- planning in small groups, Archer and individual grade talk

Week 4
Archer, book talks

Week 5
Reading /Listening "Mock" National Test