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

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.

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.

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

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.

Novels

After Christmas we'll begin reading this years novels. On your first day back in school you'll get to choose the book you'll read, but I would like for you to already take a look at the novels that's on offer, and think about which one you'll pick.

There is a limited amount of copies of each book, so you might have to think about a second option as well!

Click on the links below to read a review on each book.

• The Hobbit av J.R.R Tolkien (3 ex)
• Zlata’s Diary av Zlata Filipovic ((4 ex)
• The perks of being a wallflower av Stephen Chbosky (3 ex)
• The hunger games av Suzanne Collins (3 ex)
• My forbidden face av Latifa (4 ex)
• Briar Rose av Jane Yolen (4 ex)
• Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children av Ransom Riggs (4 ex)

Student's recommendations

During the autumn the pupils in year 6 have been working with individual exercises in English, which will improve their skills. In their work they have come across various websites which they would like to recommend to others.

• Alfred and Hampus recommend Elevspel.se where you can practise words, phrases and grammar. Did you know that your teacher has created some games here? (Engelska - plural and Oregelbundna verb)
• Jakob H and Anders are really fond of Lyricstraining where you can practise vocabulary and spelling at the same time as you are listening to really good music.
• Hannes often practises his weekly words with the help of Glosor.eu which is also available in app store. Create your own account and type in the words. If you have the app you can pracise your words anywhere!
• Liam, Melker and Emma all like  Learn English Teens where you can practise all different skills and at different levels as well. They have tried the listening and reading comprehensions and think the execises are great.
• Mea is a fan of Childtopia where you can choose from a whole lot of different stories for kids, listen to them or read them, and finally answer some simple questions on the content. They are like flicking through real story books!
• Ludvig and Anton A have pracised their English with the help of Read Theory. You read short texts with information about everything from smoothies to sloths and then answer multiple choice questions. You can create your own account to keep track of your progression.
• Nellie thought Classic Fairytales was a great website. Here you can read the famous stories by the brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.