Here we go!

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

Language skills

Reading	Writing
Listening	Speaking

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