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onsdag 3 maj 2017

English Thursday May 4th

Those of you who are not finished with your letter to one of the characters in Bully, finish that today. You will not get any more time for that. You hand in what you have written after today's lesson. 

If you are finished you will chose what to do yourself from different sections on Digilär. 
You can read texts and do exercises from Buildings and Places, Gaming, Supernatural or Sweets and Snacks. 
  1. Pick a Section
  2. Read the texts you find interesting
  3. Do the "123-questions"
  4. Do the Assignments
  5. Learn the new words.
Good Luck and we will see each other on Friday again!
Jennie

tisdag 11 april 2017

English Thursday

Hello!
On Thursday you are going to continue watching the movie Bully. If you have not seen the beginning of the movie you can go in to På Riktigt and watch the first 41 minutes to be prepared for Thursday.

Good Luck!

torsdag 30 mars 2017

Beauty and Body Image

Today we are writing the letter to your future selves. You have all the information on På Riktigt.

Tomorrow we are going to do a reading comprehension that is going to be graded. The text you will read is called The Importance of Looking Good.

See you tomorrow!

fredag 24 mars 2017

Beauty and Body Image lesson

First we are going to have a homework test on Words about appearance.

After that we are going to practise our writing skills by writing a letter to our future self. To get started we are going to listen to a song by Alessia Cara called Scars to your beautiful and after that we are going to look at a video clip by Kim Kardashian where she writes a letter to her future self.

After that you will look at some links to help you write a letter properly.




A letter to myself
How to write a letter

Go to På Riktigt to find out what to include in your letter. The letter will be handed in on Edmodo.
Good Luck!

onsdag 22 mars 2017

English Thursday 23rd of March

Since I am away correcting National Exams today Christian will be your teacher. We will not work with the new theme Beauty and Body image you are going to go to Digilär and work with Theme of the Month. This time you are going to learn more about something we talked a little about when we worked with the USA, St Patrick's Day.

  1. Go to Digilär go down to Library and choose Theme of the Month.
  2. Start reading or listening to the text called A Green Day
  3. Make sure you understand the text. Look up the yellow words. 
  4. Do exercises, four of them Find the facts, Match the words, Guess the green thing and Find the Answers. Hand in your answers on Digilär. 
  5. If you are finished, go to Quizlet and practise on your homework for Friday (we will move it to Friday because I am gone today). Homework test tomorrow. 
Good Luck!
See you tomorrow!

onsdag 15 mars 2017

Beauty and Body Image lesson 3

Hello!
Today we are going to do this:

  1. Homework test on the two Quizlets you had as your homework. 
  2. We are going to work with lesson three in our new theme. We call it Real Beauty. I will guide you through today's lesson. 
Homework for next Thursday are these words from Quizlet.



fredag 10 mars 2017

Beauty and Body Image lesson 2

This is the plan for today.

First we are going to do a listening exercise together in class.





Link to questions

Then we are going to practise the words from the two articles we read (or I read) yesterday. We will do this on Quizlet. Then we will play Quizlet live.

Don't forget! You have both Quizlets as your homework for Thursday next week. 


onsdag 8 mars 2017

Beauty and body image

It is time to start working with a new theme in English, Beauty and Body Image. We are going to start by watching a video-clip from Youtube.

Think about this:
  1. Would you go out to buy milk in your pyjamas?
  2. Would you open your door in your bathrobe?
  3. Would you cry if your hair was cut too short at the hairdresser's?
  4. Would you go on a date without styling your hair, putting on make-up and nice clothes?
  5. Would you go to school wearing socks in different colours?
Read the two articles below and think about this question: Is it important to look good?

Plus size model Tess Holliday 
Body image and self-esteem

After you have read the two texts about Body Image and Self-Esteem and Plus-size Model Tess Holliday sit in groups of two or three and talk about the following questions:

  1. Do you think it is important to look good? Why or why not?
  2. Who decides what "looking good" means?
  3. What does the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover mean? Do you agree? 
  4. The ideal of being thin in the westerna world is said to be why many people get eating disorders. How can we change that? It is possible to change?
  5. Why do some teenagers become anorexic, bulimic or take steroids?
  6. How can we change the fact that appearnace today seems to be too important?

We will go through the answers in class.

Homework for next Thursday. Look at both Quizlets and try to learn as many words as possible.





fredag 13 januari 2017

Finishing presentations

Today you are going to finish your Power Points about a state in the USA. The presentations will take place next Thursday.

Those of you who are finished are going to watch an episode of Family Foster USA. It is a programme that is 28 minutes long and afterwards you have some questions to answer on a worksheet.

Here is a link to the programme

Family Foster USA


torsdag 15 december 2016

Presentation about a state

We are still working with our presentation about the states. You are divided in to different groups and you have chosen states.

Here are the groups:

  • Linus, Linus and Isak - Alaska
  • Isabella, Hedvig, Alva T - Pennsylvania
  • Fredrik, Axel, Timmy - Ilinois
  • Kevin, Kao, Rebecce - California
  • Alva H, Hannah - Hawaii
  • Dennis, Isac - New York
  • Johnnes, Robin - Texas

What are you supposed to write down in your presentation?
Look at this document.




fredag 2 december 2016

English today

Today we are going to do our presentations about the holidays celebrated in the USA.
When we are done there will be a Quizizz to see if you have learnt anything new.

After that  we will start looking at opinion phrases and you will also write down some discussion questions that you are going to talk about in groups. The opinion phrases are also your homework for Friday week 49.


torsdag 17 november 2016

English tomorrow!

Hello, tomorrow you are going to do a reading comprehension and a writing test on the English lesson. The text you will read is about a girl in Los Angeles. She talks about her school and her school day. Your job is to read it and answer questions in English. After you have finished reading you will write a text where you compare the schools in Sweden to the schools in the USA. To prepare yourself you can go in to På Riktigt and look at what you wrote today about this and also look at the video clips again or read the texts again.
See you tomorrow!

onsdag 16 november 2016

Thursday's English

Hello, today we continue our work with the USA. But first  we are going to watch a video clip from BBC where young people are talking about the election in the USA and what they think about Trump's victory. If you for some reason cannot be on the English class tomorrow morning you can watch the clip here.

After that you will work with the school system in the USA. You are going to compare Swedish schools to American schools in groups created by me and hand in your answers on På Riktigt.

And of course, there will be a homework test.
See you tomorrow!


torsdag 10 november 2016

The USA

Today we started working with the USA. We are using "På Riktigt" where me and Emma have created a circle tool about the USA.
If you were home sick today or missing for some other reason this is what we did.


  1. We started by watching this clip from Youtube
  2. After that we listened to and sang the Starspangled Banner. 
  3. Then we read some facts about the USA. Here are the links
         Time for Kids
         Fact Monster

Tomorrow we will continue our work with the USA. You can find all the information on På Riktigt. 

fredag 28 oktober 2016

The U.S. Presidental Election 2016

Today we are going to continue working with the Presidental Election. Last time we watched at short movie about the election. If you did not see it you can look at it here.

Today you are going to be divided in to  five groups. You are going to get a topic
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
  • The President's mission
  • The Election
  • Two-Party system
What are you going to do in your groups?
  1. Go to Digilär.
  2. Open up English
  3. Go to Theme of the Month
  4. Read the part about your topic
  5. Find more information if you have to. 
  6. Make a short Power Point where you in English explain who your person is or how the election takes place or what the Two-Party system is.
  7. Present it to the class in English.

You have 30 minutes to complete the Power Point.
At the end of class we are going to do a Quizizz about what you have learned today.

For Thursday week 45, you have some words as your homework. You can find them on Quizlet.


fredag 21 oktober 2016

fredag 7 oktober 2016

English today!

Hello!
Today we are going to continue working with our essays. When you have finished rewriting the essay you hand it in on Edmodo. After you have done that you go to Digilär and you continue working with Assgnment 3 - Presentation of a music artist.

Good Luck!

torsdag 15 september 2016

Verbs

Hello, now I have read the texts that you have written about music on Digilär. I noticed that many of you don't know how to use verbs. So today we are going to talk about verbs, regular and irregular and also the present continous. We are going to go through how to use them and also do some exercises.


If you need to learn more about verbs you can look at these movies at home.





torsdag 8 september 2016

English Today

Today you are going to work with Assignment 1 on Digilär. Write a short story. You have three alternatives to choose between:

  • Dear Abby
  • Why is music so important to you?
  • My best or worst musical exprerience
If you don´t know how to start your essay/short story you can look at the paper Jennie hands out or click on the link below


If you finish that during the lesson you do this:
  1. Assignment 5
  2. Assignment 3
Good Luck!