Developing our reading skills

For a few weeks now we will work with reading texts and developing our reading skills. You will be divided into smaller groups where you read and answer questions together.

1. Read the text you get together (out loud). Take turns so that everybody reads.
2. Look at the questions together.
3. Start answer the questions.If you have a question where there is just one question, I want you to really think and develop carefully! Always think about your grades.
4. Report it to the class (spoken)
5. Hand it in to me, Filippa, and start a new text..


You can find the texts online and work at home here:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading-skills-practice

A very small story project

If you are finished with you persuasive speech, you are now going to make a story. Click to link below and follow the instructions:


http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html


Or you can try some other excercies here:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/garden

Try to do this listening comprehension

Try this listening comprehension for the weekend!


http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening-skills-practice/good-nights-sleep

Make a persuasive speech

Write a persuasive text!

Watch this together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us0lFtzh9iU - this is a persuasive speech

1. Check the wordlist "Persuasive text vocabulary" on glosor.eu --> filippani
2. Watch all the Youtube clips, but wait! When you have watched the first one you will write a short text and tell what it is about. And then continue writing a short text about every episode. You need to know what every episode is about! (in pairs)

What is persuasive writing?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9arWXIddM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiexHnX0xZY

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHCYvNvV68c

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbWJKIvl2c

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O2FjJ4EoIg

3. So, now you will make a mind-map with all the good facts you have from the youtube clips. Answer these questions in your mind-map, in pairs:

1. What is a persuasive text?
2. How do I start when I want to write one?
3. Name three important things to know about when you write a persuasive text.

And now, answer these questions alone:

1) What do I want to write about?

2) How will I start?
3) What are my arguments?

4) What could be someones counter arguments?

5) How will it end?

Get help from the poster on the wall or here on the blog.

4. And now, please start writing your text!

5. You will perform your text in front of the class.

http://persuasivespeechideas.org/

Work on your own and find out with what (y/r 6)

This week you will try something new. You will, together with the one you worked with last week, go to this site: http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=337907.

On that site you will find this weeks assignment. 

You are supposed to listen to some youtube clips, read some information and then you will answer some questions. After that you and your friend will decide how you will present your facts and conclusions.
But seriously, you have ALL info at the site. Go check it out, NOW!


Best regards,
Filippa

Y/r 4: Make your own Wizard!

Y/r 4 works with Wizards this week. First we watch this short movie and then we listen to the Wizard poem in Happy (p 30). After that we are making our own wizards in pairs.

We will also make some poems in the end of week.

Y/r 6! Harry Potter!

You are going to work with the first movie of Harry Potter. 

To your work you will have this site for help:
http://www.shmoop.com/harry-potter-sorcerers-stone/harry-potter-character.html

Information about the Hogwarts houses:
http://pottermoreanalysis.tumblr.com/post/29570824705/the-traits-of-the-four-houses-by-request


The questions you are going to work with:

1. Which magical subject would you be most excited to study at Hogwarts, and why?
2. Which of the Hogwarts houses do you think the sorting hat would place you in? Why?
3. If you could pick one of the many animals described in this text to be your pet (including Mrs. Norris, Scabbers, Hedwig, Norbert, Fang, or Fluffy) which would you choose and why? What do people's choices in pets reveal about them?
4. Do you agree with Hermione that "friendship and bravery" are "more important things" than "books" or "cleverness" (16.288-89)? Why or why not?
5. Who is the most evil person in this film?
6. Who do you think the most courageous character is? How is courage defined in this text?
7. If you looked into the Mirror of Erised, what would you see? What do you think Dumbledore actually saw when he looked into the Mirror?
8. How would Harry be different if Dumbledore decided that he should be raised in the magical world, instead of with the Dursleys? Did Dumbledore make the right decision?

The task!

1. Watch the movie “HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER´S STONE”
2. You are working in pairs. Together are you going to discuss the questions and then write it down.
3. Show the teacher for correction.
4. Present it to the rest of the class.