Discussion- No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Today we are going to talk about chapters 6 to 12 from our book "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith.
The chapters are called:
Chapter 6-   Boy
Chapter 7-   Mma Makutsi deals with the Mail
Chapter 8-   A conversation with Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni
Chapter 9-   The Boyfriend
Chapter 10- Mma Ramotswe Thinks about the Land while Driving her Tiny White Van to Francistown
Chapter 11- Big Car Guilt
Chapter 12- Mma Ramotswe's House in Zebra Drive

Come in groups of four (all students must participate) and the rest of the time can be used for:

• Anthology
• Report writing
• Powerpoint
• Reading the book
• Other exercises you habve missed

This Thursday the Social Scientists will present their powerpoints in class for each other.
The economists will have more time to work on their reports  (work in Green Room, Library, Cafeteria)

Thursday 24th November

Last lesson I was asked by one student why the report is being written in English whereas the Social Scientists wrote their essay in Swedish.. Well everyone is going to do a report, based on the requirements below from the curriculum (kursplan)

Eleven ska:

•   kunna (muntligt och) skriftligt sammanfatta och kommentera olika slags texter särskilt sådana som anknyter till intresseområden eller till studieinriktning,

• ha förmåga att skriftligt presentera ett innehåll på ett klart och väl strukturerat sätt samt kunna uttrycka sig varierat, personligt och med anpassning till mot­tagare och situation,

• kunna kritiskt granska och analysera information från olika källor. 

Hope that clarifies a bit!


Today will be tutoring/mentoring (handledning) for those who need it.

SPEI2- you have today and next Thursday to get your report written
SPSP2- You have today's lesson to get your powerpoint done.

Here is a good place to start if you want information about the EU in Swedish 

Here is a more general site with lots of basic information about EU in Swedish 

Here is the same site in English 

For more concrete information use Wikipedia 

Here is information about Europe's trading policy 

Here is a good article about Trade blocs 

Good old Wikipedia gives us much of what we need to know about the European market and the four freedoms


Finally Swedish Trade and European Trade and the relationship between them.

Slight change of plan next Tuesday!

Next Tuesday, 22 November I will be attending a conference about net-based teaching.

That means that our talk about "No. 1 ladies'" chapters 6-12 will be on Tuesday 29th November (week 48).
You will be able to use next Tuesday to do the anthology, read the novel (There will be a test on it- Thursday week 50) or work on your assignment (Powerpoint or Report).

Make sure you use your time wisely as we are going to be busy until Christmas.

Weeks 46-48

We know go into a period when we continue with our literature work on the Tuesday lessons and on the Thursdays there will be a new project. The project will be as follows:

Economists- Write a report according to the following documents:
1. What is a report?
2. What is the report about?

Social Scientists- Do a powerpoint about one aspect of life in Uganda
Here is the document. 

 Here is the scheme for the next weeks
Week 46 TODAY- work on Anthology; Read No. 1 Ladies'
               THURSDAY- start project
Week 47   TUESDAY Discuss chs. 6-12 No. 1 ladies' with me in gps of 4
              THURSDAY -continue with project
Week 48  
               TUESDAY - Literature work continues
               THURSDAY- Presentations SPSP2/ SPEI2 finish off report

Literature studies (continued)

We continue today with our literature studies.
First some revision of what we did last time. Go in on Glosboken.se and do the two exercises just to get you warmed up. (See on the right side of the blog)
Then I want you to learn something about the following 5 periods:
1. The Renaissance
2. The Enlightenment
3. The Romantic Period
4. Realism (Victorian)
5. The Modern Period
I want you to use the following Resource:
http://www.kursnavet.se/
Click on Engelska B
Start
Literature

Take some notes of your own..
Write down three points for each period

Now it's time to start on the Anthology.
You will need to write down New words
You will try to find 40 this time
Here is the document you will need.
Then follow the instructions.
1. Author.. As we did on the timeline. Write when the author was born and died.
Put the author into his/her context (which literary period?)
2. Text and language- Write up any new words and check their meaning
3. Comments- What was the text about? How easy was it to understand? What were the characteristics of the writing (poetry/description/dialogue etc)? Did you understand everything? (Be honest!!!)
4. Write more in depth in your own words about any one literary period. You have the information from Kursnavet at your disposal. The link on the document doesn't work now! Don't trust the internet!!
Use the following link instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature
Good luck!!!
The work on the Anthology should be sent to me by Week 48

Welcome back!

The holidays are now just a fleeting memory and it's back to the nitty-gritty of getting your English on track. We start today with some quizzes and a compendium. The idea is give you an introduction to the literature of the English-speaking world.

First the quizzes!
World literature 1
World Literature 2

And now the Compendium/Anthology... We will be working with this over the next week or two

By the end of the lesson I want you to mail me or give me a paper copy of the results of the literature quizzes.
Prize for the best answer.
And taking of prizes there is a new quiz on the blog for November.

Good luck with that!