Lesson 21

Today's our last lesson together this semester...

...And I'm not able to be there!

What a shame!

Well, since I know that you all enjoyed watching That 70s show, 
that's what you'll do today.

ENJOY!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

See you in 2016!!!

Lesson 20

Good morning!

It's time for chapter 3 in our book - The Pelican brief...

But first of all - the book is about the Supreme Court of the United States. Here's a quick view of one case that the court has been ruling in recently.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/supreme-court-gay-marriage_n_6439926.html

1. What do you think their verdict was in this specific case?
2. Why do you think it was such a big issue that the Supreme Court would take up this case?

Today I'll hand you the questions before we start reading/listening to the book.

Page 10:
What makes it so hard to find the murderer?
What is Darby looking for in the library?

Page 11:
Tomas, the man Darby's seeing, speaks with his friend Gavin. How did they get to know each other?
What does Tomas want Gavin to tell him?

Page 12:
How old is Darby?
Why did Darby go to the court in Lafayette?

Lesson 19

Today, it's time for chapter 2 in our book: 

The Pelican Brief

So far, 4 people have been murdered. Two of them were Supreme Court judges who had FBI protecting them day and night. 
Khamel, the most feared killer in the world was paid more than ten million dollars to kill the judges. But by who?

Let's start with the trailer from the movie before we continue reading the book.

Now, let's read chapter two together....

Lesson 18

Now it's time for us to read some fiction. I've found a website where we can read e-books for free. 

I've chosen a book to read together. The book I've chosen is...

The Pelican Brief

By John Grisham 

You have to sign up before you can open the book. Then you're able to both read and listen to it! Today I want you to read on your computers while I play the audio file.

If there are words that you don't understand while reading and listening... 

...use Linguarana:

Linguarana translates the word that you double click on, and you can choose to listen to how it's pronounciated. 

Lesson 17

Today...
... let's continue with the exercise we did during our last lesson -i.e. preparing for the national test next week!

But before that...

...here's today's warm up:

Let's see who knows the most idioms and linking words, by playing some cards where the explanation is on one side and the idiom is on the other side...

All the idioms (and some linking words) can be found on Hanna's English planning at Balder or here: linking words, idioms 1, idioms 2, idioms 3.

Lesson 16

Warmup...

Listen to Neewsreel - News from the Englishspeaking world...


Today, we're going to prepare for the national test next week. 

We are going to practice at an authentic situation by using former tests that are now available for students in order to get used to the testsituation.

Warm up

Here's the link to the test if you want to have another go at home...

Lesson 15

Halloween is getting even closer now.... 

Åsa, on the other hand, is in Vänersborg today...

Watch this episode of Modern family

Now, let's play Jeopardy with Halloween words.