Lesson notes for Tuesday 30 August

Thanks to all of you who sent in your introductions on time. However, 18 out of 28 is far too low.
The activity I had planned for today will be postponed until Thursday... By then every introduction will be in my mail box!
Today we are going to look at the way to work with the book. We always start off a new theme with a discussion in small groups.
The theme for this unit is leadership.
In small groups I want you to discuss the following three questions:
1. What makes a good leader? 5 key words
2. Give examples of good leaders from sport, politics and other areas
3. Are leaders born or can you be trained to be a leader?

Then we will introduce the text  about D-Day by seeing a short section from the DVD about it.

Then listen to the text "How the leaders led" and follow it in your book or on the screen.
As you read you should write up 25 new words.
You do this on the new word document. Save this document on your computer and every week you will fill in 25 words, your name and the week and mail it to me. this is compulsory for the course as without vocabulary you cannot express yourself.

You don't fill in the third column. You will do that in class for me.

Finally I want you to do some work in the book.

Page 12 Similes. Match the phrases using a word from (a) and a word from (b)
as BLIND as a BAT
as DEAD as a DOORNAIL etc.

Those of you who haven't done the diagnosis will do it at the end of the class today.

Homework for next Tuesday

Look at the link below "Introducing yourself in English".
I want to write about yourself in the same way as James has done on the Youtube clip.
You should talk about yourself, your background; what you do in school; what you do in your free time; your future plans (if any) and something unique about yourself-a skill, experience or anything else which is special to you!
This MUST be done by Tuesday and e-mailed to me before the class either at my school account
michael.hegarty@leksand.se
mike.hegarty@leksand.se

or to my gmail account:
habarimike@gmail.com

This assignment will not be graded.
However, if you send me an Mp3 version this will give a credit towards your final grade!

See you in a while!

We start on Thursday!

Hallo students. Just to let you know that there will be a blog for this course and I hope that as well as having teaching material on First Class on the two conferences "Noname" and "Kantarell klubben" there will also be all information available on this blog.
Great if you can make some comments and of course I want them to be in English!
Welcome!!

Introducing yourself in English

How about this? You can do even better!!