We will start off today by briefly going through the curriculum (kursplan) and grade guidelines for the course.
As you can see the following activities need to be included in the course:
Reception
Listening (Watching)
- Films
- Lectures (Ted Talks)
- Information (videojug)
- Youtube clips
- Text book texts (Context web)
Reading
- Text book (Context 1)
- Echo Short Stories
- Literature (1 books- novel or play)
- Internet- ezines; newspapers(net versions); official sites
Production
Speaking
- Oral presentations
- Pair discussions
- Group discussions
- Conversation topics
- Dialogues
- Debates
- Role plays
Writing
- Assessments
- Stories
- Summaries
- comments
- Opinions
- "Regular" exercises from text book
- presenting a case/argument
- Informal writing (emails etc)
- WORD LISTS
Focus areas
- Chosen area (social sciences/music)
- International perspectives
- Comparison with Sweden
- English-speaking world
Regular activities
- Word lists- Every other week (check out Context word list)
- Conversations - Every other week. Here is the document
- Oral presentations (once or twice a term)
- Literature (one book per term)
- Grammar (when needed but intensively using your computers)
The rest of today's lesson we shall try to get you record your first conversation. (Number 15- How I spent my Summer holidays) Send it to one of my email addresses for the moment.
Once we get going with Vklass ALL hand-ins will be done there
(www.vklass.se) on the course web page.
Next Tuesday I will go through the Diagnostic test with you and we will be starting on the text book.
Don't forget your wordlist! ( Tuesday week 37)
I will give you time to work on that at the end of the class
NOW let's look at the planner
By the way have you seen the first quiz.
First correct answer to michael.hegarty@leksand.se
wins some candy!!
Finally you have a reading assignment for next Tuesday.
Hi and welcome back!
Don't forget your name signs and from now onwards we have a 5- star cellphone hotel where your smart phones can take a rest and enjoy lots of company (You've seen the El Giganten ad on TV, right?)
Today we have two items on the agenda:
1. Check out the text books
Context 1 is an all-in-one book but with its own web.
Once you get your computers we will register you for this.
Echo Short Stories will replace one of your novels (we normally read two during English 5) and also has its own web-(the address and log in details are on the inside of the front cover).
After that the rest of the lesson will be given over to the diagnostic exercise.
When you're done- you're done
Welcome to a new school, a new term and a new course.
Today we will start off by talking about the course and about some of the different ways of working.
I will be going through some rules and regs. with you (boring but necessary)
- Cell phones
- English as the language of communication
- Blog
- Blog address: 1516eng5saes.blogspot.se
- Digital handouts and assignments in Vclass or Google docs
- Names
- Homework
- Lessons
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Reading
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Writing
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Listening
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Speaking
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We will be doing the following assignments and using the following methods:
Assignments
- Formal writing
- Informal writing
- Listening exercises
- Conversation topics
- Oral presentations
- Two novels (one ht/one vt)
- Film study
- Thematic studies/comparisons
Methods
- Diagnosis
- Recorded dialogues
- Flipped classroom
- Group work
- Pair work
- Vocabulary building
- Blog/Vclass as sources of information
Today you will get a chance to interview a person in the class and give a short presentation of the following:
Name
Age
Date of birth
Domicile(where living)
Family
Summer holidays
interests/hobbies
important person (living or dead)
Hope it works out better than this interview:
On Tuesday we will start to look at the course a bit closer and do a diagnosis of your basic language skills
