tisdag 10 januari 2012

Things we lost in the fire

Class 9!


Your task is to write a film review! Here are some guidelines below. Your review should be 
at the least 1 page long with size 12 for text and space 1,5 between the textlines. Please use times new roman. Due tuesday 17 Jan.

Film Review Guidelines

Paragraph 1:  Offer your overall impression of the film while mentioning the movie's title, director, and key actors.

Paragraph 2:  Summarize the plot of the film.

Paragraph 3: How did the actors portray key character roles? 

Paragraph 4:  Were any particular film techniques used in key scenes?  How did the film techniques anmd music enhance the setting and themes of the film?  You may need two paragraphs to explain this information.


Paragraph 5: Ending paragraph--your last opportunity to guide the reader.  Offer a clincher that tells the reader to attend the film or not.

tisdag 20 december 2011

Chemistry with class 6 and 7

Hi,

In January we will combine the subjects chemistry and english for a period of time.

This will mainly concern class 6 and 7.

We will make some experiments and work with the films on this page.

http://www.untamedscience.com/year-of-chemistry/january.php

We will also in January have the theme Asia, and we will work a bit more with these people from Asia who have been rewarded with the Nobel prize in chemistry.


CHEMISTRY (8)
1981 Kenichi Fukui (Japan) 
1986 Yuan T. Lee (China/USA) 
2000 Hideki Shirakawa (Japan) 
2001      Ryoji Noyori (Japan) 
2002      Koichi Tanaka (Japan) 
2008      Osamu Shimomura (Japan)
                Roger Y. Tsien (China/USA) 
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (India)

All best

/Erica 

tisdag 13 december 2011

Nationella prov engelska

Hi,

Next semester you will start with your "Nationella prov" in english. I have found a link were you can practice with older tests.

http://www.nafs.gu.se/prov_engelska/exempel_provuppgifter/engelska_ak9_exempeluppg/

all bests,

Erica

måndag 7 november 2011

Welcome back!

Hi,
welcome back from your autumn holiday.
I hope you enjoyed it and had a chance to celebrate Halloween?

We will now start on a new 6 week period and this period will be a bit different except for class 9, who will continue working with their essay.

This link is for year 7 and for their test in irregular verbs the 18 Nov.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

tisdag 18 oktober 2011

Human Planet - Åk 7

Hi,

Last week we saw one of the films from the series Human Planet.

Your task is to answer the questions below. We will then discuss these questions on Monday the 24th oct.
So come well prepared. When you have written your answers, email your answers to me (erica@humfryskolan.se)

Questions:

1, Tell us briefly about the Amazon rain forest in 10-15 sentences.

2, Give examples of food you find in the rainforest.

3, Write down your reflections about how you would find a life in a rainforest (10-15 sentences).

4, Describe one hunting technique you saw in the film Human Planet.


Keep up the good work!
/Erica

torsdag 6 oktober 2011

Presentation

Simple Presentations 
FRAMEWORK STRUCTURE
The following are some of the suggestions of phrases often used in presentations and framework that can help you structure your work. 
Introduction
(Good morning, afternoon, evening)
I'm happy to be here.
I'm glad to have this opportunity to . . .
Today, I'd like to talk (to you) about . . .
My topic today is . . .
The focus of my remarks is . . .
I'd like to share some thoughts on (topic)
Main points
Let me start by . . .
First, let me tell you about . . .
I've divided my topic into (three) parts: (They are . . .)
Giving examples
For instance,
Let me illustrate,
To illustrate,
Conclusion
In conclusion,
To conclude,
To summarize,
To sum up,


Let’s Talk
Purpose: Practice speaking English
Simple Oral Presentations
Task: Make an oral presentation about:
Subject: The Person Who Inspires Me
The Person I like/admire
Work individually or in pairs.
You may choose between traditional presentation, role play, interview, newsflash, or whatever comes to you mind, as long as you speak English.
Duration: 3 to 5 minutes
Deadline: week 42
Grades Criteria: shall be delivered next week
SUGGESTED WORK PLAN: Just to help you on the way!
week 40: decide on pairs, subject person, technique, ( homework: 10 keywords for presentation
week 41: Information gathering; we will talk about SPEECH ANXIETY; Analyse gathered info, be able to summarise in own words (summarise article about chosen subject)
week 42: Compilation
Exercise, exercise some more!
Ask teacher the things are hard to do or just for a bit of moral support.
And then comes SHOWTIME! Time for presentations!
Enjoy your work and go break your leg!!!! 
Lejla