McNally's word list

I länken nedan finner du en lista över engelskans mest vanligt förekommande ord. Intressant är att kan du de första 12 orden kan du 25% av vilken tryckt text som helst! Kan du de första 100 orden så förstår du 50% av en tryckt text!
Börja plugga om du inte redan kan de första 100 orden. Som du säkert förstå kommer det att hjälpa dig mycket med din framtida engelska :)

McNally's word list

Genitiv

Repetitionsprov vecka 47

Till repetitionsprovet vecka 47 ska du kunna följande:

Förstå innehållet i följande texter och kunna svara på frågor om dessa

1. Was it a crime? s. 68-69
2. Whose fault was it? s. 70-71
3. The great train robbery s. 72-73
4. Ronnie Biggs s. 74

Oregelbunden plural av substantiv s. 110-113 i workbook

Genitiv s. 114-115 i workbook

Glosor tillhörande texterna 1-3

Repetitionsprovet kommer även att innehålla en hörförståelse.

Irregular verbs - week 46

Irregular verbs - week 45

Irregular verbs - week 43

Irregular verbs - Week 42

Today's grammar lesson

Today's grammar lesson

Todays grammar lesson

ESL English

Check out this webpage for various levels of audiobooks! Not only does the books come with sound, you can also read along in the text. A brilliant page for those of you who love books, or simply wants to practise our English.

ESL English

ESL English contains a lot of boos, from classic books, to novellas and short stories. To make it easier for you to find suitable books, I've listed some of them below. Click on the different links to access a book of your liking.

Year 7

Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney

Peter and the starcatcher by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

The absolutely true story of a part time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The wonderful wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum

Hotel for dogs by Lois Duncan

The wonderful story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl

Hank the cowdog - John R. Erickson

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald dahl

Year 8

Black beauty by Anna Sewell

Holes by Louis Sachar

Watership down by Richard Adams

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S Lewis

Year 9

A long way down by Nick Hornby

About a boy - by Nick Hornby

I am the messenger by Markus Zusak

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien

The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Water for elephants by Sara Gruen

Speaking assessment

As we are finished with reading The Body, watching Stand by me, and writing about the two, you are now to prepare a short talk about your favourite book or film. You have 70 minutes on Monday to prepare your talk. During that time you are to write down some key words, practise on your own, and then together with one or more friends. Remember, practise makes perfect!
On Thursday and also Monday next week I will listen to you all individually as you present the book/film to me.

The information that is to be included is:

• Title
• Author (if you are talking about a book)
• Where and when the story takes place.
• Main characters. Describe him/her/them.
• What the story is about. 
• Your own thoughts on the book/film. What makes it your favourite.
• How would you recommend the book/film to? Age, gender etc.

You are of course allowed to add other things you feel are of importance. 

Make sure to practise what you are going to say as I would prefer if you don't bring a lot of notes when presenting the book/film. If you are not fully prepared after Monday's lesson, completing it will be your homework for Thursday.

Remember, this will be my last opportunity this term to assess your speaking skills!

The Help

During the last few lessons of this semester we'll be watching the film The Help.
The story is set in Mississippi during the 1960s , and the main character of the film is Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to be a writer. She decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families, and in the process of doing so Skeeter turns her friend's lives - and the Mississippi town - upside down. 

Before watching, discuss what you know about America in the 1960s. In what ways were the lives of the white people and the black people different?
After having watched the film we will discuss the following questions, so it could be a god idea to take some notes while watching:

1. Who was your favourite character? Why?
2. How much of a person’s character would you say is shaped by the times in which they live?
3. Do you believe that Minny was justified in her distrust of white people?
4. Do you think that had Aibileen stayed working for Miss Elizabeth, that Mae Mobley would have grown up to be racist like her mother? Do you think racism is inherent, or taught?
5. Do you think there are still vestiges of racism in relationships where people of color work for people who are white?
6. What did you think about Minny’s pie for Miss Hilly? Would you have gone as far as Minny did for revenge?

My father's sword

This week we will be working with the text My father's sword on page 34-35. It is quite a difficult text, so it is important that you also read it at home. 

The text is about a boy and his experiences during the American Civil War. Before you start reading the text I would like for you to watch the video below. This will give you a better understanding of what the text is about.

Henrietta will be looking after the class on Tuesday, so remember to impress her with your English :)

On Tuesday the 17th of May we will have a vocabulary test on the following words:

1. remember - komma ihåg
2. fireplace - brasa, eldstad
3. slave - slav
4. cotton - bomull
5. slavery - slaveri
6. build - bygga
7. poor - fattig
8. fight for - kämpa för
9. sword - svärd
10. yelled at - skrek åt
11. terrible - fruktansvärd
12. flame - låga

Google Classrooms

I am now introducing Google Classrooms for all pupils in year 6-8. Use your GAFE accounts to log in. Some of you are already familiar with the classrooms and some of you will be introduced next week. I hope you will enjoy this platform for various communication!

Unexpected visitors

This week we'll be working with the text Unexpected Visitors which is about two aliens who get to experience the first moon landing. We'll work together with understanding the text, but I would like for you all to prepare at home by reading/listening to the text.
We will also focus a little extra on twelve of the words from the text. We will have a vocabulary test on these words Tuesday week 18.

The words are: 

• creature - varelse
• meal - måltid
• suit - dräkt
• ladder - stege
• suit - dräkt
• giant - jätte-, stort
• clumsy - klumpig
• ground - mark
• took off - lyfte
• rubbish - skräp
• engine - motor
• blow - blåsa

Class 6A will also learn more about how to use a and an, which class 6B did last week. 

The Body/Stand by me

Here's the instructions for your text on novel The Body and the film Stand by me. Your paper is to be handed in no later than the 12th of May. The computers are booked for the next few lessons and we'll begin writing tomorrow!

Do not forget that you are to send your work in progess to me at least once before the 12th as I would like to give you feedback on your work before it's finished.

The Body - instructions

Presentation Year 7

Next week the class will begin to prepare your oral presentations in connection with our work with the theme Football (Good Stuff B).
We will work with the preparations during weeks 16-18, and present our work during week 19.

For information on the presentations, click on the link:  Presentation Sports

A peptalk

Aussie Rules Football

During week 15 we will be working with the text Aussie Rules Football on page 80-81 in textbook. In class today we spoke about some of the words from the text. The words are your homework for this week. You need to know the translation, the article (a/an), which ones are nouns and which ones are adjectives, what the nouns are in plural, and how to compare the adjectives. Your test will be quite similar to the one you had last week.

Be Funky

I just came cross a brilliant web page where you can make photo collages for free! This can really come in handy when you work with the yearbook. Check out befunky.com.

Editorial groups - Our yearbook

Group 1: Ebba, Melissa and Teodor - News from the world and news from Sweden

Group 2: Joel G, Michelle and Oscar - General lay-out

Group 3: Mikael, Essie and Mette - The award pages

Group 4: Axel, Maja and Jacob - Pictures and quotes

Group 5: Astrid, Ida och Desirée - The cover

Group 6: Joel N, Benjamin and Ulf - Fashion and music

Group 7: William and Kevin - The price of necessities

As group 2 is responsible for the general lay-out, all your work has to be sent by email to Joel, Michelle and Oscar. Please send to all three.

Memoirs of a referee

This week we are working with the text Memoirs of a referee on page 78-79 in textbook. In class today we spoke about some of the words from the text. The words are your homework for this week. You need to know the translation, the article (a/an), which ones are nouns and which ones are adjectives, what the nouns are in plural, and the additional words for the slang words copper and bloke.

Our Yearbook

On Monday we'll begin working with your final big task of year 9: Our yearbook.
Please click on the link to access the powerpoint that will also be shown in class!

PowerPoint Our Yearbook

You don't need to have superpowers to be a SUPERHERO!

At the moment, you are all superheroes! Well then again, to me you always are!

You are doing a super job working at your presentations, and I can't wait for you to present your superhero to the class!

Both 6A and 6B will do their presentations during week 14. Next week, make sure to gather all the facts you need, create your power point and practise what you are to say. The more you practise the less you need to focus on your notes. I'm sure you'll all do excellent!

Exploring English - week 5

We're are soon to begin week 5 of Exploring English- Language and Culture, the online course offered by FutureLearn,
So far you have learned about the language, music, famous authors such as Emily Brontë and Shakespeare and much more. I'm really enjoying reading your comments and it's nice to see that some of you are interacting with other learners :)

Exploring English - Language and Culture

The on-line course Exploring English - language and culture begins on the 22nd of February. That is the Monday of your holidays. I would strongly recommend you to begin the course then, even though your off school. It's possible to catch up once back in school, but it will require you to work extra at home.
If you have already signed up (which most of you have), you will get an email with information on how to proceed once the course has begun. If you haven't signed up, do so as soon as possible by clicking on the link below!

Exploring English - language and culture

Week 6 - Class 9B

On Monday I won't be present, but Henrietta will stand in and be your teacher for the day. We'll skip the grammar exercises, but instead you'll spend more time on your book talks. Each group will get 15 minutes to prepare a summary of what you've read so far. This summary will then be presented to Henrietta who will take notes of your participation, as well as of how well she was able to understand the summary. Will waiting for Henrietta to get around to your group, you spend the time either reading your book or writing on your essay. This is also what you'll do for the rest of the class after Henrietta has listened to your summary.

On Tuesday you'll begin class by doing an adjective exercise on Grammarwise and then continue reading or writing. If you haven't yet signed up for the on-line course, Exploring English - language and culture, youäll get time to that that during this lesson.

Be aware that this week will be the last week during which you will get time in class to read and write. After the holidays all lessons for the following 6 weeks will be dedicated to the on-line course. This means that you will have to do the rest of your reading and writing at home. The first draft of your essay is to be handed in Tuesday week 9.

Deadline for your completed essay is on Thursday the 24th of March. 

The Body

Earlier this week we begun our work with Stephen King's book The Body. The book, which was written in 1982, is the story of four friends on an adventure to find the body of a dead boy.

In the link below you'll find all the information you'll need for the coming two and a half months.

Bedömningsmatris
Pedagogisk planering
Study questions

The information is also available on Edwise.

You will get the lesson on Thurday to finish reading chapters 1-7, as well as answering the questions belonging to these chapter. The questions will have to be completed for Monday 15th of February.

Information about our work with the book, and later on also the film, will continuously be posted on this blog.

Textskrivande och superhjältar

Denna vecka (vecka 6) fortsätter vi att arbeta med våra texter som hur ni firar jul och nyår. Ni har verkligen arbetat på bra och de flesta av er är i full gång med att bearbeta era texter. Vi kommer att arbeta med texterna på tisdagens lektion, men det är dags att lämna in vid lektionens slut, så se till att använda er tid väl.

När ni bearbetar texten så var noga med att utveckla era tankar så mycket ni kan, och även se till att stavningen är bra, och att stor bokstav och skiljetecken är på rätt ställen. Kom även ihåg att det är viktigt att ni lämnar in både det första utkastet och den färdigbearbetade texten, så att jag kan se i vilken utsträckning ni har bearbetat er text.

Som ni tidigare har blivit informerade om bedöms er text enligt följande:

• Hur tydligt och sammanhängande ni kan formulera er skriftligt.
• Hur pass ni kan bearbeta och göra förbättringar av er text.

Ni som vill får gärna publicera era färdiga texter på www.jossanspupils.blogspot.se

På fredag bekantar vi oss sedan med den första texten i temat Superheroes. Texten vi ska arbeta med heter Sid, the Super Artist. Vi kommer att prata om vad som är typiska superhjältedrag, vilket jag vet att ni tidigare diskuterat även på svenskalektionerna. Förbered er gärna hemma genom att lyssna/läsa texten och skapa förförståelse innan lektionstillfället.

Pronomen, och naturligtvis book talk :)

Under vecka 6 fortsätter vi att repeterar pronomen genom att på måndag läsa om och träna possessiva och demonstrativa pronomen och på tisdag fortsätta med relativa pronomen. Vi tränar med hjälp av www.grammarwise.org, där ni först läser informationen och sedan gör quizet och visar mig resultatet.

På måndag kommer vi även att samlas i läsgrupperna för att diskutera veckans ämne som är

Describe the antagonist(s) in the book. Try and explain their actions, their reasoning and their path through life.

Is the novel similar to/does the novel remind you of a book you have previously read or a film you have seen. If so, in what way?

Det är fortfarande långt tid kvar tills dead-line för er uppsats, men använd er tid väl och ha i åtanke att vår on-line kurs från British Council börjar den 22/2. Det innebär att ni efter det kommer att få mycket mindre/ingen tid till att läsa och skriva i skolan.

Snart går årets The Big Challenge av stapeln. Jag vill att ni börjar fundera över om ni önskar att ta del av tävlingen i år.

Sid - the super artist

Here are the words for next Tuesday!

Level 1

1. cloud - moln
2. someone - någon
3. promised - lovat
4. stripe - rand
5. real - verklig, riktig
6. enjoyed - gillat
7. claw - klo
8. tooth - tand
9. teeth - tänder

Level 2

1. exhaused - utmattad
2. watched - tittat (på)
3. rescued - räddat
4. black mask - svart ,mask
5. cape - mantel
6. drawn - ritat
7. threatened -hotat
8. comic - serietidning
9. bitten - bitit
10. superpower - superkraft
11. exciting - spännande
12. poor - simpel, stackars

Level 3

1. mass destruction - massförstörelse
2. pointed eras - spetsiga öron
3. Batcave - Batmans grotta
4. radioactive - radioaktiv
5. flown off - flugit iväg

Book review

In this post you'll find the instructions for your forthcoming book review. It is very important that you answer all the questions! Also, if you are aiming for the higher grades, make sure to answer the star marked questions as well.

When you are writing, revise your text at times to make sure everything makes sense and is correctly written. You might want to change words or phrases to improve the text. Once you are finished writing, proof read your text before you hand it in. You might also want to ask a friend to proo f read your text. Instructions for revision and proof reading can be found below. Use the checklist!

Book review
Writing checklist

Do- omskrivning och pågående form

Idag repeterar vi do-omskrivning och pågående form på lite olika sätt.
Do-omskrivning repeterar du genom att titta på filmen nedan och göra den vanliga typen av quiz.

Pågående form repeterar du med hjälp av sidan Grammarwise.

Länk: Grammarwise

Här behöver du börja med att skapa ett konto, vilket är gratis. När du väl har en inloggning har du tillgång till alla "lektioner" och övningar.

Börja med att läsa informationen om pågående form och gör sedan den quiz som finns på sidan. Eftersom ditt resultat här inte skickas automatiskt till mig vill jag att du visar mig hur det gick innan du stänger ner sidan,

Jag finns hela tiden till hands för att hjälpa till om det hänger upp sig eller är svårt att förstå.

Cinderalla at Spring Bank

This week we'll be working with the text Cinderalla at Spring Bank om page 80-81 in your textbook. It is the script to the Cinderella story that the teachers at Spring Bank School perform every Christmas.

We will help each other to understand the meaning of the text, as well as act out some of the scenes together.
We have already studied some of the words belonging to the text by picking out all the nouns as well as repeating indefininte articles (a/an) and plural. NextTuesday you will be given a vocabulary test on the words we mentioned earlier in the week (not just the nouns, but all of the words).
The words are:

Level 1:
fairy - fe
sight - syn
fair - rättvis
rest - vila
curl - locka
wand - trollspö
gown - klänning
frock - klänning
marry - gifta sig med

Level 2
perform - framföra
confused - förvirrad
Cinderella - Askungen
invitation - inbjudan
wipe away - torka bort
appear - uppenbara sig
coach - vagn
seem - verka
slipper - aftonsandalett
guessed - gissat
cheat - luras

Level 3
pantomime - julspel
the Fairy Godmother - den goda fen
marvellous - fantastisk
midnight strikes - klockan slår tolv
the kingdom through and through - land och rike runt
quest - sökande
fella - kille

Verbböjning och tempus

Genitiv

Time to continue our grammar lessons by swiftly moving on to the genitive. 

But wait! What now? Doesn't that voice sound familiar?

Lesson plan - Matilda

Here comes the lesson plan for our work with the book Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Lesson plan

I've given you all a hand-out with questions which to answer while reading the book. The questions for chapter 1-3 has to be done and handed in at the last lesson of next week (that is Thursday for 7A and Friday for 7B). In case you've lost the hand-out, you can find it here:
Matilda - exercises

Good luck with your reading, and I hope you'll enjoy the book :)

Lesson plan

On request, here comes the lesson plan för the next two months.
 Don't forget that the first part of your books has to be read by Monday! If you for some reason don't have your reading schedule yet, check with a friend who is reading the same book as you are.

Countable and uncountable nouns / articles

Svara på frågorna, först om räknebara och oräknebara substantiv och sedan om bestämd och obestämd artikel. Var noga när du anger din mailadress. Skriver du fel får du inte tillbaka ett svarsmail med dina resultat. Skriv också hela ditt namn under frågan Vad heter du? Alltså för- och efternamn. Tänk också på att du måste skriva första bokstaven i dina meningar (de gånger du förväntas skriva en mening) med stor bokstav och avsluta med rätt skiljetecken. Slutar meningen med punkt så skriver du punkt och slutar den med frågetecken så skriver du frågetecken. Datorn är smart när den ska rätta, men inte så smart att den kan rätta allt!

Carols at Christmas

Christmas is just over, but it appears the pupils in class 6A are still in the festive spirit. When deciding what theme from Happy they wanted to begin working with, the theme Christmas and New Year won, hands down.

The first text we'll be working with is Carols at Christmas on page 78-79 in your textbook. The text is about five children discussing their favourite Christmas carols or Christmas songs. Do you know the difference between a carol and a song? Think about it and be prepared to discuss it in class.
Below you'll find videos of the carols mentioned in the text.

Both class A and class B will have their vocabulary test Tuesday the 19th of January. Here are the words you need to know:

Level 1

1. enjoy - tycka om
2. simple - enkel
3. even - jämn
4. cruel - grym
5. crib - vagga
6. choice - val
7. gig - spelning

Level 2

1. priest - präst
2. holy - helig
3. mild  - bräcklig
4. louder - högre
5. gather - samla
6. fuel - bränsle
7. underneath - under
8. celebrate - fira

Level 3

1. mince pie - köttfärspaj
2. yon - där borta
3. tender - späd
4. heavenly - gudomlig
5. servant - tjänare
6. feast - högtid
7. crisp - hård
8. in sight - inom synhåll
9. manger - krubba