It's beginning to look a a lot like Christmas

• Hand in all the work for "Girl Missing"
• Do a review quiz from the fall (autumn) of 2018
• Discuss learning English and do a self-asssessment
• Talk to me about your self-assessment
• Write a short story based on the document

"It was getting close to Christmas at Excel"

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!

After you have done the story and put it on the teacher's desk I want you to take the REVIEW QUIZ of 2018 (autumn/fall)

Write your name and answer the questions.

the first ALL correct answer will receive a prize before Christmas

Alfred Nobel and Learnenglishfeelgood.com

• To make sure you have handed in all the work for "Girl Missing" chapters 1-4
• To give feedback in English to a film about Alfred Nobel
• To go in on the learnenglishfeelgood.com site and check out different exercises

Have you done all the work with "Girl Missing"?

chapter 1- Worksheet. 

chapter 2- Worksheet

chapter 3- 5 questions about the chapter

chapter 4- quote recognition

Please make sure you hand it in asap.

You received the following email from an English-speaking friend.

"Hi................

I saw on the tv that it is Nobel Day in Sweden.

Lots of people at a big banquet with the King and Queen of Sweden.

But who is that Alfred Nobel? Can you tell me anything about his life?

Your friend,

Kim"

Watch the film about Alfred Nobel's life. Then write a letter to Kim explaining a little more about the man behind the prizes. Mail it to/share it with me. Write between 50 and 100 words.

Finally, go in on the learnenglishfeelgood.com site.

Check out some vocabulary and grammar exercises

Mike's challenge plus Girl Missing Chapter 4

• To work on building up your vocabulary
• To do some reading comprehension
• To finish off the work from chapters 1-4 of "Girl Missing"
• To decide if you want to do Mike's challenge and do it!

First of all, from now onwards there will be an extra assignment on the blog called:

Take it or fake it

Use it or lose it!

The decision is yours.

Here is challenge NUMBER 1

Open it! Copy it! Paste it into a word document

Answer it and share it with me.

Thanks for many wordlists that you sent me. I will get them back to you by next Monday.

Now the work on "Girl Missing"

Chapter 1- Questions (all done except 1 person)

Chapter 2- Questions (over half of the class done)

Chapter 3- 5 questions to me for answering

Chapter 4

TODAY- Who said this? (see document)

Time over?

1. Read Theory

2. ESL-Lab (see link on side of blog)

Lucia, Quiz and Girl Missing

Lesson Aims

• To see a film and have a discussion about Lucia in Sweden
• To do a general knowledge quiz and write up any new words
• To read chapter 3 of "Girl Missing" and write 5 questions which should be sent to/shared with Mike

We have now entered December which is a busy month in Sweden for high days and holidays.

Apart from Christmas and the days surrounding it we have Lucia, Nobel Day and, of course, the New Year.
LUCIA 
Today we are going to watch a short film about Lucia. Afterwards I want you to discuss in pairs what Lucia means to you. Why do you think a tradition which came originally from Italy has such significance in Sweden?

Some of you will write instead of speak..

It's been a while since we did the last quiz. I know the wordlist was for last week.. but a lot of students have NOT sent  in their latest one. Use the words from the quiz to complete it please and share....

GIRL MISSING
I want you to read chapter 3 of "Girl Missing"
Please send me 5 questions about the chapter that I need to answer.  You can share them in a document so that  I can answer directly

Your questions should reach me before the lesson on Wednesday

Girl Missing- background and chapter 2

Aims of today's lesson

• To know some facts about missing children
• To read (have read) chapter 1 & 2 of the novel
• To do a worksheet for chapter 2 (reading comprehension)- see below

Eleven kan förstå det huvudsakliga innehållet och uppfatta tydliga detaljer i talad engelska i måttligt tempo samt i lättillgängliga texter i olika genrer. Eleven visar sin förståelse genom att översiktligt redogöra för, diskutera och kommentera innehåll och detaljer samt genom att med godtagbart resultat agera utifrån budskap och instruktioner i innehållet.

Today we are going to continue with our class novel "Girl Missing"
Last time we did a worksheet about chapter 1
The results were good but I am missing the work from 6 people.
If you forgot to hand it in please do so and if you were absent please catch up!
Maybe you think that this is an unusual happening.

Please look closely at the first page of the following internet site.

This means that if you take the number of people living in the whole of the district of Leksand you have to multiply it by over 50  to get the number of children missing EVERY YEAR in the world!

Here is a short clip as an introduction to "Girl Missing"




Today we continue reading "Girl Missing"
By the end of the lesson I want you to have worked on your wordlist (for this week)
and answered the questions on the worksheet
(which is on paper)

Girl missing and writing follow-up

Aim of the lesson

Begin reading our class novel

write up new words on a digital wordlist

Get feedback on your writing assignment

Do a worksheet on Chapter 1

Today we will be starting to study our class novel-
Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie.

We will distribute to those who were absent last time. You will have a worksheet to complete during the lesson.

Method 

• Read chapter 1
• Write up any new words on the wordlist for next week
• Do the worksheet.

While we are doing this I will call you out one by one to go through the writing asignment from the test.

Good luck!

We continue our speaking

• To distribute our class novel
• To practice speaking
• to build up vocabulary
• to work, systematically, on the grammar.

Welcome back after your weekend. Hope you had a good one. We will start off  today by giving out the copies of the class novel- "Girl Missing" written by Sophie McKenzie.
From now on you will not need to ask where you get the words for your word list. Our next wordlist is week 48 (next week)....
With regard to your writing, we will look at the writing part of your test on Wednesday. 
Today we want to continue to practice speaking English.

Here is the link to our list of conversation topics.

We will take number 8 today- my best friend.

To get a bit of inspiration we can listen to Cathy and Barry giving their views about what makes a good friend. The text is on page 78-79 in the Happy books.

Grammar
We are going to start to work our way through the grammar section. We start today with the articles (indefinite and definite ) on page 108-09 and the plural forms on pages 110-112

Test results, speaking, reading

Goals for today's lesson

• To go through the word-related part of the test
• To see how the speaking examination works in English
• To give you some tips and ideas about the speaking test
• To introduce our novel- Girl Missing
• Time over- work with read theory

Today we get to check through the word-related part of the test ( I will correct and give feedback on the written part on Monday)

After that we will look briefly at the speaking part of the National test as some students will be doing it week 48/ 49

1. Information sheet

You will receive an information sheet with some instructions JUST BEFORE you do the test.

Use your time WISELY with your partner to decide how you will tackle the topic (ämne)


It is important to think of good linking phrases and words

Here is a very simple clip from Engvids to get you
 started


Obviously you will need to ask each other questions.
How do you make the simplest of questions
(do/did)?
What are the most common question words?
What? Why? How? Where? When? Who? How often? How much? 

HERE are some words and expressions to think about.

Try to do a conversation about:
"Planning a holiday together"

Try to record it using Quick Time Player
Ny ljudinspelning
Use alt key to pause

Finally- Next week we will begin with our class novel "Girl Missing" written by Sophie McKenzie.

It is an up-to-date theme and there are cliffhangers at the end of every chapter.

If we have any time over then please do your read theory!

Quiz and read theory

Aim of Today's lesson

• Work on words to do with current affairs (Quiz)
• Write up any new words in your online wordlist document
• See your progress on Read Theory
• Do AT LEAST three (3) new texts from the homepage

Today we are going to start off with  a quiz.
Here is the document.

We will go through the answers and then look at some of the new vocabulary in the document. Don't forget to write up any new words on a digital wordlist.

Now we will go over to Read Theory

Please log in to your account. As you can see the number of texts read varies greatly. Some have not done the diagnosis to find out your level.

Today you should do at least three texts from the website.

I will check up after the lesson on your progress and results.

On Wednesday we will go through the results of the test together in class.

Welcome back!

Today will be a revision lesson because on Wednesday we will be having a test based on the first unit in Happy 8- Let's talk family

Before we do that I want you to interview a person in the class you didn't meet during the holiday.

Here are some questions to ask:

What did you do during your holiday?
Where did you spend most of your time?
With whom did you spend your time?

Which of the following things did you or did you  not do(express it in the past tense)

-Go to the cinema
-Study
-Do a job
-Eat pizza
-Watch a movie
-Travel to Stockholm
-Go by train
-write a poem
-Buy some clothes
-be sick (ill)

Now we will begin with the revision
1. Let's talk family A

• Phrases from text on page 4 (see Workbook page 4)
• Mother and Daughter 10  adjectives to describe people on page 5 in Workbook
• Words from text What are your parents like? on page 6 & 7 in text book.
• Words from They make me blush on page 8 and 9
• A text with some mistakes in to be put right
• A listening exercise
• A reading comprehension
• A translation exercise from Swedish to English

THEN either

Text B OR Text C

• Words from the text
• A short writing assignment

To warm up you will have a Read and write exercise

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor

Today we are going to look at your work experience programme (PRAO).
Today I want you to write and speak about your work  experience programme (WEP).

A short text and presentation about the following points:-

Where you were

What you did

Who you worked with

When were you there

Why you liked/ didn't like your experience

You have 10-15 minutes to write and prepare

PRESENTATIONS- Tell the class briefly about your experience..

Jobs!

Jobs

1. police officer	2. nurse	3. farmer	4. shopkeeper
5. scientist	6. artist	7. princess	8. dressmaker
9. civil engineer	10. bricklayer	11. caretaker	12. accountant
1. singer	2. cook	3. secretary	4. student
5. driver	6. engineer	7. president	8. painter
9. police officer	10. nurse	11. receptionist	12. flight attendant
1. actor	2. teacher	3. manager	4. soldier
5. gardener	6. musician	7. writer	8. chemist
9. social worker	10. surgeon	11. bee-keeper	12. baker
1. doctor	2. housewife	3. baker	4. pilot
5. factory worker	6. cowboy	7. builder	8. dentist
9. solicitor	10. secret agent	11. Psychologist	12. businessman

What are they called in Swedish? 
Here is a funny little song to help you on your way!!

Now I want you to get into groups of four pupils

One person chooses one of the jobs above..

The others have 15 questions to try to guess which job the person has chosen.

You are allowed to answer either "yes" or "no".

Write up the number of questions asked.

Use the worksheet "What's my line" to help you. The person who guesses correctly gets to choose a new job. otherwise the first person continues.

Finally today, we are going to start to prepare for the test which will be on 7 November based on the first theme "The family" from the Happy 8 books.

Here are the relevant study areas:
1. Let's talk family A

• Phrases from text on page 4 (see Workbook page 4)
• Mother and Daughter 10  adjectives to describe people on page 5 in Workbook
• Words from text What are your parents like? on page 6 & 7 in text book.
• Words from They make me blush on page 8 and 9
• A text with some mistakes in to be put right
• A listening exercise
• A reading comprehension
• A translation exercise from Swedish to English

THEN either

Text B OR Text C

• Words from the text
• A short writing assignment

You will have the entire lesson on Monday 5 November to revise