3 good reasons!

Today I want you to start off by taking a few minutes to talk to your neighbour- in front of you or behind you about your plans for the Easter holiday.

What special celebrations ( if any) do you normally have at Easter?
Do you have any family tradition connected with the Easter Egg ?

Then we have three good ways of using the rest of the class.

1. Your Human Rights Report
As you know from the Report instruction, you need to:

• Use at least one creditable English source (see Friday's blog)

• Write an abstract in English

Today you have an opportunity to work on this

2. Context (Free)

According to the term planner this lesson could be used to work with a text in the text book, reading, listening, discussing, writing or working on the vocabulary and grammar

3. National Test Practice
As the National test is approaching it can be a good idea to work on the different parts of the national test

Here is the internet address:
http://nafs.gu.se/prov_engelska/exempel_provuppgifter/engelska_6_exempeluppg

The most important thing is to "Carpe diem"- seize the day and make use of this time wisely.

I wish you all a happy Easter!

Presentations, speaking and human rights

Today we continue with the presentations from last time. (see Tuesday's blog)

Hopefully we will get through most of the others today...

Then there is an opportunity for some people to do the National test exam in speaking today. We begin straight away with that.

Finally you have an assignment where you will write a report about human rights:

Here is the instruction

Sam 2

Rapport - Mänskliga rättigheter

Syftet med arbetsområdet är att du ska bredda, fördjupa och utveckla dina kunskaper om människors livsvillkor och de mänskliga rättigheterna utifrån ett vetenskapligt förhållningssätt.

Du tilldelas ett land i världen och ett syfte till rapporten: ”I vilken mån uppfyller landet de mänskliga rättigheterna?”

Din uppgift är att utifrån syftet formulera frågeställningar och välja en lämplig metod och därefter författa en rapport.

Arbetet ske inom ramen för samhällskunskap, svenska och engelska.

Resultatdelen får (exklusive figurer) omfatta maximalt 8 sidor text.

Inlämning ??? OBS! Rapporten ska inlämnas i pappersformat (tre ex) och digitalt till respektive lärare (samhällskunskap, svenska och engelska).

Krav för E (samtliga ämnen):

Du använder den rapportmall skolan tillhandahåller.

Du använder minst en seriös engelsk källa och formulerar en sammanfattning (abstract) på engelska.

Here are some internet resources:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListOfIssues.aspx

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/137/human-rights-issues

http://www.hrw.org/topics

Presentation Day, Quizzes and speaking

Today is presentation day.

As usual your presentations will be filmed for the purposes of marking. You will have a bit of time at the beginning of the lesson to get things organized.

There are three new quizzes on the blog today in case you have time over..

The usual rules apply.... First CORRECT answer sent on FC (not Gmail) will receive a prize.

Finally on Friday there is the opportunity for eight intrepid souls to do the speaking part of the National Test..
 test
The theme is respect.. Only  apply if you plan to be well-prepared.

The first four pairs that sign-up on First Class will have the chance to do the speaking test


Presentations done
Marcus, Zinhle, Nils   Gap year in Tuscany

Petronella, Elvira, Simone (Denise)   Space

Jennifer, maja, Johanna   Sweden in Soroti

Aleksandra, William (Tobias)    Sweden in Soroti

Presentations to be done
Elisabeth, Elin, Sana, Hannes           Backpacking

Jonna, Clara, Linnea                          Skate

Erik, Patricia, Erik                             ??

Jesper, Max                                     Sweden in Soroti

Project work

Today we continue with our project. Some kind of presentation on Tuesday!!!!

Those who are groupless need to organise themselves QUICKLY and get something happening

Project week- Presentation next Tuesday

First of all Happy St. Patrick's Day
http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-St.-Patrick%27s-Day
We start off today by distributing a worksheet about Respect

This is the topic for the speaking exam in the national test. Some of the other classes will be doing it this week. As you know from the planner we have scheduled the speaking for week 17.

This week on the planner it says:
"Group work/Project"

You need to do an English based study this week and present it in some shape or form next Tuesday.

Instructions

• Groups of 3-4 students

• Divide the work

• Present your results for class next Tuesday

Suggestions

Backpacker
It's time for you to graduate from school. You and some friends enjoyed your trip to Uganda so much that you want to go back and do a backpacker journey. Your air ticket is paid and you have $1100 for your trip. You plan to stay in Uganda two weeks and visit Soroti and a national park.
So go in and get planning.
You have to think about food, travelling and accommodation costs.

Sweden in Soroti
You have heard that when you will be in Uganda that you are going to give a presentation about life in Sweden for the Ugandan students.

Divide up some relevant topics in your group and prepare them.
Your class mates (next Tuesday)will be the guinea pigs for you to present for.

Volunteer
You were so taken by the film about Rocky that you have decided to go out as a volunteer in a project.
Check out at least one volunteer project in Asia and in Africa.
Compare them and say which one you would like to do and why

Gap Year
You are going to present for your classmates some of the possibilities for a gap year after High School in English speaking environments

These are only suggestions. However, by 8.40 you need to have decided:

• who you are working with
• on what

Good luck!

My son the fanatic- finish off. Discussions and roleplays

Today you will have the opportunity to finish off the exercises about Chapter 5.

The exercises were:

page 67-68

D,E,F

page 70
H- Discussions. Give your opinion about the statements

Web
Exercises 
Vocabulary 1 & 2

Then we will go over to some discussions and role plays.

Here are two addresses for discussions:

Work in 2-3 students

http://www.tedpower.co.uk/discuss.html

and

http://iteslj.org/questions/

Work on one topic from each resource.

Finally in groups of THREE do these simple role plays:

http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:1141640364-4283.txt

Have a good week-end!

Chapter 5- My son the fanatic

Today we are going to listen to a short story which is very topical.

It is taking place in almost all the major cities in the Western world.

We have seen its results in Paris, in Stockholm and in many other places.

This story is set in London.

We are going to listen to the whole story.

Then I want you to work in three areas:

1. Vocabulary and words
Wordlist 25 words

2. Text book- Discussions and language exercises

page 67, 68 Exercises D,E, F 
Discussion questions p. 70-  
H What do you think?

3. The online resources from www.gleerupslms.se

Vocabulary 1  Vocabulary 2

Good luck!

Welcome back!

Welcome back after your mid-term break. Hope you had a good time and have recharged your batteries.

Today we had planned to start with Chapter 5 in the Context book.

However, we will wait until Friday to do that...

Today I want to start off by getting you to write a couple of sentences about your break (holiday). Try to write something that was unique for you.

After that we will watch a film which was definitely the high point of my holiday...

It is about a young man who dedices to help kids who are HIV positive in a home in India.

Afterwards write a short comment here on the blog about your reactions to the film