Friday, 11 January 2019

Welcome back to English

The aims of this lesson are:

  • The students say something to the class about their Christmas break
  • To plan for the "Lord of the Flies" seminars
  • To go through the "Study techniques" document for English which Ms Walsh and I used on Wednesday
So, how was your Christmas?
Highs and lows?
Home or away?
Friends or family?
Soft or hard presents?

Now, over to our book. We start next week with the seminars.

Seminar leaders for Lord of the Flies

Chapter 2          Eskil              week 3
Chapter 3 .        Elsa               week 4
Chapter 4          Filippa           week 5
Chapter 5          Viktor            week 6
Chapter 6          Oskar           week 7
Chapter 7          Amanda       week 8
Chapter 8          Fanny           week 10
Chapter 9          Liam             week 11
Chapter 10        Linnea         week 12
Chapter 11        Alma            week 13
Chapter 12        Ida               week 14



The seminar leader will:

  • Decide which day we will have the seminar
  • Have written answers to the questions
  • Will give 25 words from his/her chapter on a document
  • Will ask the questions to the rest of the class about their chapter and discuss them
Here are the questions for 
chapter 2
Chapter 2:  Fire on the Mountain
“If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us.  So we must make smoke on top of the mountain.  We must make a fire.”

1. How does Ralph attempt to establish order and authority?


2. What is the general attitude of the boys to their situation? How does Piggy's view differ from the rest of the group?


3. Theidea of the beast is first introduced in this chapter. 
     A.  How does Ralph respond?

    
     B.  How does Jack respond?
               

4. What did the boys use to start the fire?


5. Who is the first boy to die?


Quotes
Why are these quotes important to the story
"How do you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?"

"I told you to.  I told you to get a list of names!"

"We'll have rules!  Lots of rules!  Then when anyone breaks 'em-"

Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach
If you’re hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if--…There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but—being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”

  1. As this chapter opens, what is Jack doing? How has his appearance changed since the last chapter?


  1. What is Ralph doing down by the shore? Why is he frustrated?


  1. Why is there tension between Ralph and Jack? What are Ralph’s objectives or goals? Jack’s?


  1. What reasons does Ralph give for needing the shelters?


  1. Who first suggests they might not be on a “good” island? What has become unmentionable amongst the boys?


  1. Where does Simon go when he leaves the boys?


Quotes
 Why are these quotes important to the story

  • “I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they’d come running. Then we’d be, you know, very solemn…when the meeting was over they’d work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting.”  
  • “Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was.” 
  • “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.”

Finally a quick run through the study techniques:

I give it as a document so that you can look through it yourself. We may continue with it on Monday (Elevens val) if I have the class


Studieteknik
Engelska

Ha fokus på de fyra färdigheterna - “speaking”, “reading”, “writing” och “listening”.
Men du behöver även kunna grammatik, ständigt utöka ditt ordförråd
och ha realiakunskaper (kunskaper om engelsktalande länder).
Tips:

Speaking
Våga använda nya ord och sätt in dem i ett sammanhang.
Uttala de nya orden högt.
Lär dig de fonetiska tecknen. Läs dem varje gång du lär dig ett nytt ord så att du får rätt uttal.
Tips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iU6_EDIVFk - introduktion till fonetik
http://www.bernerson.com/fonetisktalfabet.htm - det fonetiska alfabetet på engelska

Reading
Läsa på engelska högt för sig själv eller för någon.
Översätta till svenska högt - mening för mening eller hela stycken/texter.
Dramatisera texter när det är olika repliker i texten.
Tips:

Writing
Tempus
Grammatik
Struktur (ej för långa meningar, styckesindelningar)
Faktatexter - Inte översätta svenska texter utan använd engelska hemsidor.
Det går inte att ordagrant översätta svenska till engelska
eftersom det blir fel på många sätt - inte bara grammatiskt utan även rent talesmässigt.
Idétorka - Utgå från ditt eget intresseområde om du har möjlighet att fritt välja ämne ex.
Kunna beskriva
Kunna berätta om sig själv
Tips:

Listening
Tips:



Överlappa färdigheter
“Read and Write” - en elev läser högt ett stycke och en annan
elev skriver ner det hen hör. Sedan jämför eleverna den skrivna
texten med orginaltexten och rättar tillsammans.

Grammatik
Ex. oregelbundna verb - “nöta in”
Läs alltid igenom grammatikregeln först innan du gör övningarna
När du lärt dig en regel kan du själv lära ut den till en klasskompis
eller till klassen för då lär man sig bäst.
Kunna prepositionerna för att kunna beskriva.
Tips:

Ordförråd
“Frequently used words” - lista. Viktigt att kunna sätta in och använda
det nya orden i ett sammanhang ex i en mening eller i en liten text.
Tips:

Realia/Kulturstudier
Du behöver kunna fakta om engelskatalande länder.
Du behöver kunna jämföra Sverige med några engelskatalande länder.
Du behöver veta hur man lever i olika engelsktalande länder.
Det finns olika sätt att arbeta med realia - göra en resebroschyr,
göra ett reseprogram (film/ljud) eller göra en presentation eller dramatiering.
Det kan vara kul att brevväxla med elever från engelsktalande länder.
Man kan chatta med skolor från engelsktalande länder.
Tips:



Lär dig nya språk rekordsnabbt!
Tips:

Studieteknik engelska!
Tips:

Inspelade lektioner!
Tips:

Glöm inte! - För att bli riktigt bra på ett språk behöver du:
Vara motiverad
Lägga ner tid på att lära!
Göra övningarna ordentligt!
Träna, träna, träna!

Good luck with your English studies!

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Last lesson of 2018

  • To complete the division of chapters for "Lord of the Flies"
  • Do a review quiz from the fall (autumn) of 2018
  • Discuss learning English and do a self-asssessment
  • Write a short story based on the document
"It was getting close to Christmas at Excel"




Welcome to the last lesson in English of 2018.

We will start off by completing the assignment of chapters for "Lord of the Flies" (Those who were absent last time)

We will start off with a quiz review. Because of the preparations for the Ireland trip and the follow-up, we haven't done so many quizzes.

However, the quizzes are a good way of improving your general knowledge. We will use the lollipop stick method!

Learning English
I want you to have a look at the following chart about learning English
You will get a paper copy to keep and reflect over.

Self-assessment
Please fill in the chart with a cross (X) marking your level in the different skills. Write some comments at the bottom about the areas you need to improve.
REMEMBER  Writing includes spelling

Talk with Mike/story writing
I want you to bring along your self-assessment papers and talk to me one by one.

During this time you will write a short Christmas story on the hand-out.
Here are some true (and not-so-true) stories to inspire you!

All that remains is to wish you a great Christmas!




Friday, 7 December 2018

Last chance café

At Disneyland in Paris there is a place called:


When I worked in Tanzania there was a little shack called "The Last Chance Hotel". After that there was a couple of hundred kilometres of bush.

Today is your "Last Chance Café" to get the work done for the first chapter of "Lord of the Flies"...

I will send round a list for chapters 2- 12

The rest for today I will explain when I get to the lesson.

I may be late today because of car problems.

If so get working.. Thanks for doing such nice pictures on the whiteboard!!!

Great picture of Mumin Ida...

So now the list has gone around.
Seminar leaders for Lord of the Flies

Chapter 2          Eskil
Chapter 3 .        Elsa
Chapter 4          Filippa
Chapter 5          Viktor
Chapter 6          Oskar
Chapter 7          Amanda
Chapter 8          Fanny
Chapter 9          Liam
Chapter 10        Linnea
Chapter 11        Alma
Chapter 12        Ida

The seminars will start DIRECTLY after Christmas.

The seminar leader will:

  • Have written answers to the questions
  • Will give 25 words from his/her chapter
  • Will ask questions to the rest of the class about their chapter.
The questions will come on the blog before Christmas


Some new chapters to listen to

CHAPTER 3



Male voice


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Female voice

CHAPTER 4


Female voice




Male Voice


Wednesday, 5 December 2018

Study technique and motivation

  • To look at some tips as to how to learn the language
  • To see why reading novels is important
  • How to study literature effectively
  • Work on your assignment for "Lord of the Flies"

You have now had some lessons when you have been working on your own.

Today we are going to look at the most important ways to learn English (or another foreign language).

There are thousands of webpages to help you.

Here is a typical one.

As part of the English course you are expected to read books in English:


Lyssna och läsa – reception

  • Talad engelska och texter från olika medier.
  • Talad engelska med viss regional och social färgning.
  • Muntliga och skriftliga instruktioner och beskrivningar.
  • Olika former av samtal, dialoger, intervjuer och muntliga framställningar.
  • Skönlitteratur och annan fiktion även i talad, dramatiserad och filmatiserad form.
  • Sånger och dikter.
Why read books?
Here is an excellent answer

When you read a book, use all the resources you can. 
-Audio
-Video (we can see the beginning of the black and white film today)
-Vocabulary lists (you already have)

and if all else fails:-
A translated version in Swedish (Flugornas Herre)

I have extended the deadline to the end of this week for your first assignment. After that NO EXCUSES!

Almost there!

I've put out a song from Michael Jackson which says a lot:- Here are the lyrics:- No matter how hard The task may seem Don't g...