I have listened to all of your Ireland Revisited Interviews. They were very good.
Today is Thursday and that means you get the whole lesson (well almost!) to work on your Powerpoint presentations / Essays.
I am returning your Wave journals. They finally appeared from the printer so I have corrected them and commented them with ink not pixels!!
I want you to realize that the only way to learn is by making mistakes and then correcting them.
That's why I am sending out a copy of a correction document to help you see what kind of mistakes you have made.
We also have a book to read "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". Last night Episode Six out of Seven was on SVT 2. If you want to get a feeling for the settings in the book check out the last episode at 8pm on SVT2 next Wednesday..
To help you get started I am sending you a Powerpoint about the book which summarises all the chapters.
Next week for your homework I want you to do two simple exercises about the first two chapters just to get you going with your reading.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Next Tuesday we will be working with the two texts from the book taken from Joan Lingard's "Across the Barricades". In the book they are called "A Painful Decision 1 & 2"
That's a very good place to get words for your wordlist!!!!
It should be sent to me by next Monday at the latest.
Have a good day!
Mike
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Tuesday 27th September
There was no blog for last Thursday's lesson as you were supposed to use the time to work on your powerpoint/essay about a conflict in the world.
Two words a number of members of the class need to learn and apply- responsibility and accountability.
Today we start with a wordlist..... Only 12 out of 28 have sent it to me this time! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
Then we go to the Lingotek to do an interview exercise. One of you is a journalist interviewing the Professor who has revisited Northern Ireland. The name of the Professor is Peter Rose.
You should include the following questions:
When was the last time you were in Northern Ireland?
Why did you come here?
What memories do you have of that visit?
Were there any outbreaks of violence during your visit?
What was your contribution to try to resolve the conflict?
What changes did you notice now when you returned?
Were you surprised by what you saw?
What is the city like now?
How do you feel about the future for Northern Ireland?
Is there a chance of lasting peace?
What will it depend on if they succeed?
After this I want you to work on the words from the Computer programme. The we will work from the book.. The following exercises on on page 32-33
E- Matching exercise 1. Bill 2. MP 3. Poll 4. Referendum etc
I Make words using the prefixes- 1. Re-establish; 2. Intervene etc.
L. Use of From, in of 1. in 2. from etc.
This Thursday will be Powerpoint/Essay. Next Tuesday we will look at the texts from "Across the Barricades"
DON'T FORGET YOUR WORDLIST!
Two words a number of members of the class need to learn and apply- responsibility and accountability.
Today we start with a wordlist..... Only 12 out of 28 have sent it to me this time! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
Then we go to the Lingotek to do an interview exercise. One of you is a journalist interviewing the Professor who has revisited Northern Ireland. The name of the Professor is Peter Rose.
You should include the following questions:
When was the last time you were in Northern Ireland?
Why did you come here?
What memories do you have of that visit?
Were there any outbreaks of violence during your visit?
What was your contribution to try to resolve the conflict?
What changes did you notice now when you returned?
Were you surprised by what you saw?
What is the city like now?
How do you feel about the future for Northern Ireland?
Is there a chance of lasting peace?
What will it depend on if they succeed?
After this I want you to work on the words from the Computer programme. The we will work from the book.. The following exercises on on page 32-33
E- Matching exercise 1. Bill 2. MP 3. Poll 4. Referendum etc
I Make words using the prefixes- 1. Re-establish; 2. Intervene etc.
L. Use of From, in of 1. in 2. from etc.
This Thursday will be Powerpoint/Essay. Next Tuesday we will look at the texts from "Across the Barricades"
DON'T FORGET YOUR WORDLIST!
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Tuesday 20th September 2011
We should start off today as usual on Tuesdays with a word list!
However, we will do it next Tuesday instead!
Today I want to know what you will be doing for your conflict assignment and for the Economists- with whom.
Last Thursday we had a lecture on Northern Ireland to try to get an idea of the reasons for conflicts; what keeps them alive; how they can get worse and what is necessary to solve them.
WE continue on this theme today with an article from an older edition of Read and Proceed. It gives a clear short history of the conflict and is called "Ireland-A divided Island".
It is on three pages:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Then I want you to read/listen to the text "Northern Ireland revisited".
You will recognise many of the things I talked about on Thursday (if you were listening!!!)
Do exercise A on page 30-31 and use these words for next week's word list:
These are some of the words you are looking for:
revolution, prosperity, setback, reward, increase, tranquility, struggle, dividend, Good Friday,
Fragile, toll, impression, revolution, citizen, dreary, classified, decade, constabulary,
intermittent, tension, advertisement etc.
The word areas in this chapter are to do with government and conflict.
On page 32 you have words to do with the British system of government.
What about the Swedish system?
This page gives all the information you need!
Finally today I want you to go in on the CD-rom programme and do the first part
of the Grammar- 5-Bestämd och obestämd artikel... Do 20 examples and check out some of the rules.
This Thursday we will meet in the classroom and I will give you back your journals on the Wave.
Then you will have time to work on your essay/powerpoint.
Peace out!
Mike
However, we will do it next Tuesday instead!
Today I want to know what you will be doing for your conflict assignment and for the Economists- with whom.
Last Thursday we had a lecture on Northern Ireland to try to get an idea of the reasons for conflicts; what keeps them alive; how they can get worse and what is necessary to solve them.
WE continue on this theme today with an article from an older edition of Read and Proceed. It gives a clear short history of the conflict and is called "Ireland-A divided Island".
It is on three pages:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Then I want you to read/listen to the text "Northern Ireland revisited".
You will recognise many of the things I talked about on Thursday (if you were listening!!!)
Do exercise A on page 30-31 and use these words for next week's word list:
These are some of the words you are looking for:
revolution, prosperity, setback, reward, increase, tranquility, struggle, dividend, Good Friday,
Fragile, toll, impression, revolution, citizen, dreary, classified, decade, constabulary,
intermittent, tension, advertisement etc.
The word areas in this chapter are to do with government and conflict.
On page 32 you have words to do with the British system of government.
What about the Swedish system?
This page gives all the information you need!
Finally today I want you to go in on the CD-rom programme and do the first part
of the Grammar- 5-Bestämd och obestämd artikel... Do 20 examples and check out some of the rules.
This Thursday we will meet in the classroom and I will give you back your journals on the Wave.
Then you will have time to work on your essay/powerpoint.
Peace out!
Mike
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Thursday 15 th September
Today we are going to have a lecture about a Conflict- namely Northern Ireland.
This is to give you some ideas about your assignment- SPSP2- an Essay SPEI2- a powerpoint presentation
about a conflict in the World.
You will not need your computers today until the very end of the lesson.
All the material for the lecture you will find here:
The powerpoint about Northern Ireland
The Song text
and the Song called "The Patriot Game"
By next Tuesday you should have started your project.
I need to know the conflict you will be studying and for the economists who you will be working with.
Presentation of Powerpoint - Thursday week 40 and Tuesday week 41.
Essays should also be ready to hand in during week 41.
Good luck!
This is to give you some ideas about your assignment- SPSP2- an Essay SPEI2- a powerpoint presentation
about a conflict in the World.
You will not need your computers today until the very end of the lesson.
All the material for the lecture you will find here:
The powerpoint about Northern Ireland
The Song text
and the Song called "The Patriot Game"
By next Tuesday you should have started your project.
I need to know the conflict you will be studying and for the economists who you will be working with.
Presentation of Powerpoint - Thursday week 40 and Tuesday week 41.
Essays should also be ready to hand in during week 41.
Good luck!
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
New week new topic-CONFLICT!
Today we are starting a new comprehensive topic, namely CONFLICT.
Before we do so let's have a brief look at How a movement like "The Wave" can exist in
an everyday situation.
The clip about the dancing guy shows that Movements- even crazy ones- can be created in three minutes.
Amazing!
We will start off the theme of conflict by doing some role plays.
These are to get you thinking and speaking...
Then there is a document I want you to write and return to me about conflicts on a
personal level. It's intended to get you writing a bit... nothing more!!
The actual instruction for the conflict assignment will be given out on paper but here is a copy of it.
Basically the students of civics (spsp2) will work on an individual essay in Swedish- but with one English-speaking source.
The students of economics will work in pairs and do a powerpoint presentation about a world conflict which will include a geography (map) assignment.
The powerpoint presentations will be done on Thursday week 40 and the date of handing in the essays will be around that time. I'll get back to you with an exact date.
Today we also start reading this term's novel "The No 1 ladies' Detective Agency"
This gives a bit of a picture of life in Africa but also how a woman starts a company and runs it..
Good for both social scientists and economists..
We haven't had a Detective Agency as a UF company yet!
I will be giving you different assignmeents from the novel until Christmas.. So, start reading.
You can also see much of the novel on SVT at the moment..Wednesdays at 20.00 on Kanal 2.
I think that's enough for today!!
Before we do so let's have a brief look at How a movement like "The Wave" can exist in
an everyday situation.
The clip about the dancing guy shows that Movements- even crazy ones- can be created in three minutes.
Amazing!
We will start off the theme of conflict by doing some role plays.
These are to get you thinking and speaking...
Then there is a document I want you to write and return to me about conflicts on a
personal level. It's intended to get you writing a bit... nothing more!!
The actual instruction for the conflict assignment will be given out on paper but here is a copy of it.
Basically the students of civics (spsp2) will work on an individual essay in Swedish- but with one English-speaking source.
The students of economics will work in pairs and do a powerpoint presentation about a world conflict which will include a geography (map) assignment.
The powerpoint presentations will be done on Thursday week 40 and the date of handing in the essays will be around that time. I'll get back to you with an exact date.
Today we also start reading this term's novel "The No 1 ladies' Detective Agency"
This gives a bit of a picture of life in Africa but also how a woman starts a company and runs it..
Good for both social scientists and economists..
We haven't had a Detective Agency as a UF company yet!
I will be giving you different assignmeents from the novel until Christmas.. So, start reading.
You can also see much of the novel on SVT at the moment..Wednesdays at 20.00 on Kanal 2.
I think that's enough for today!!
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Last Day on Leadership!
Today we finish off our first theme for the year namely Leadership.
We have read the text about D-Day and seen a short extract of the film about it.
Focus was on Dwight Eisenhower who led the entire invasion on Sweden's National Day in 1944.
WE also discussed what makes a good leader and examples of leaders we know.
On the theme of the Second World War I asked you to find out 10 facts about any of the topics-
they are both in the book on page 16 and on the computer programme under "Länkar" "Kapitel 1"
NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE THIS. The results should be sent to me by e-mail.
FICTION
You should have seen the film version of "the Wave" and written a journal based on the experiences of one the main charcters (see last blog post).
if it's not done then get it done!
Then there are the two texts- The Experiment I and the Experiment II.
Use them to get your 25 words for next Tuesday and mail them to me by Monday at the latest.
Don't forget the listening comprehension for The Experiment II. Again mail your answers to me.
LANGUAGE
We have done the idioms on page 12. Here are the correct answers.
GRAMMAR
We have studied how plural words are made and how these vary between Swedish and English.
In the book this is on page 14-15. On the computer programme numbers 2 and 3.
Here is an exercise to do
And one more for the road
Next week we will begin a new topic- CONFLICT.
This will involve a much bigger piece of work covering several school subjects.
Peace out!
We have read the text about D-Day and seen a short extract of the film about it.
Focus was on Dwight Eisenhower who led the entire invasion on Sweden's National Day in 1944.
WE also discussed what makes a good leader and examples of leaders we know.
On the theme of the Second World War I asked you to find out 10 facts about any of the topics-
they are both in the book on page 16 and on the computer programme under "Länkar" "Kapitel 1"
NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE THIS. The results should be sent to me by e-mail.
FICTION
You should have seen the film version of "the Wave" and written a journal based on the experiences of one the main charcters (see last blog post).
if it's not done then get it done!
Then there are the two texts- The Experiment I and the Experiment II.
Use them to get your 25 words for next Tuesday and mail them to me by Monday at the latest.
Don't forget the listening comprehension for The Experiment II. Again mail your answers to me.
LANGUAGE
We have done the idioms on page 12. Here are the correct answers.
GRAMMAR
We have studied how plural words are made and how these vary between Swedish and English.
In the book this is on page 14-15. On the computer programme numbers 2 and 3.
Here is an exercise to do
And one more for the road
Next week we will begin a new topic- CONFLICT.
This will involve a much bigger piece of work covering several school subjects.
Peace out!
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
All the text disappeared.
WE are going to work on the Wave today.
Look at the clips and write a journal as if you were one of the main characters.
These are Ben Ross, Amy Smith (friend of Laurie); Laurie Saunders; David Collins (her boyfriend);
Robert Billings (bullied by the class); Christy (Ben's wife).
Your journal should be at least half-page A4.
Mail it to me.
We start with 25 words.
21 out of 28 send them. That's 75 % of the class who want to get a grade!
There are 500,000 words in English! Don't tell me you know them all.
Your words for this week should be based on the two texts in the book
The Experiment I
The Experiment II
both from the book version of the Wave
Homework:
1. Journal from a character in the Wave- sent to me by Friday
2. 25 new words- mailed by AT THE LATEST Monday week 37
3. Listening exercise from The Experiment II on page 22,23- by Thursday
Good luck on an autumn Day
Look at the clips and write a journal as if you were one of the main characters.
These are Ben Ross, Amy Smith (friend of Laurie); Laurie Saunders; David Collins (her boyfriend);
Robert Billings (bullied by the class); Christy (Ben's wife).
Your journal should be at least half-page A4.
Mail it to me.
We start with 25 words.
21 out of 28 send them. That's 75 % of the class who want to get a grade!
There are 500,000 words in English! Don't tell me you know them all.
Your words for this week should be based on the two texts in the book
The Experiment I
The Experiment II
both from the book version of the Wave
Homework:
1. Journal from a character in the Wave- sent to me by Friday
2. 25 new words- mailed by AT THE LATEST Monday week 37
3. Listening exercise from The Experiment II on page 22,23- by Thursday
Good luck on an autumn Day
Thursday, 1 September 2011
A new month with new opportunities!
WE start off our first lesson in September with an ICEBREAKER.
You need to get on your feet and get active..
A prize for the first correct answer!
After that the prize winner for the quiz will also be announced
Then we will continue working with the material from the book and CD-rom.
WE started with the similes on page 12 last time. Don't forget to mail your answers to me.
Today we will work with the grammar on page 14-15 in "Read and Proceed"
Check out the examples of how to make plurals and words which are PLURAL in Swedish
like "möbler" but are SINGULAR in English "furniture".
We say "Where IS the Furniture?" and not where are the furniture.
Go in on the CD-rom programme and click on Grammatik . Choose number 2 and 3.
Do at least 20 on each.
Afterwards discuss with a friend and formulate some rules about plurals in English.
Last time we studied the theme of leadership based on D-day.
Please click on länkar and choose kapitel 1
Go in on one area and write down ten facts about it.
That's about it for today.
Don't forget to mail your new words for week 35 to me BY TOMORROW.
We will be testing them next Tuesday so practise them at home.
Don't forget....
If you don't learn it you'll probably burn it!
You need to get on your feet and get active..
A prize for the first correct answer!
After that the prize winner for the quiz will also be announced
Then we will continue working with the material from the book and CD-rom.
WE started with the similes on page 12 last time. Don't forget to mail your answers to me.
Today we will work with the grammar on page 14-15 in "Read and Proceed"
Check out the examples of how to make plurals and words which are PLURAL in Swedish
like "möbler" but are SINGULAR in English "furniture".
We say "Where IS the Furniture?" and not where are the furniture.
Go in on the CD-rom programme and click on Grammatik . Choose number 2 and 3.
Do at least 20 on each.
Afterwards discuss with a friend and formulate some rules about plurals in English.
Last time we studied the theme of leadership based on D-day.
Please click on länkar and choose kapitel 1
Go in on one area and write down ten facts about it.
That's about it for today.
Don't forget to mail your new words for week 35 to me BY TOMORROW.
We will be testing them next Tuesday so practise them at home.
Don't forget....
If you don't learn it you'll probably burn it!
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