Eng - Relative Pronouns

A relative pronoun is used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun. You see them used everyday with the most common relative pronouns being: who, whom, which, whoever, whomever, whichever, and that.

Examples from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde:

p. 5 ... as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

p. 9 ... at least had been chatted about in the penny newspapers, which is the  nineteenth-century standard of immortality.

p 17 ... made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.

p.28 ... Lord Henry Wotton strolled /.../ to call on  his uncle, Lord Fermor, /.../, whom the outside world called selfish ...

p. 30 Who are her people?

Rules and excersises 

Ginger

British Council 

Sv 3 - Språkhistoria

Svenska språkets historia och framtid

Ur det centrala innehållet för Svenska 3:

• Det svenska språkets ursprung, historiska utveckling och släktskapsförhållanden. Språkförändring.

Kunskapskrav för A

Eleven kan utförligt och nyanserat redogöra för några aspekter av det svenska språkets släktskapsförhållanden och historiska utveckling. Dessutom kan eleven dra relevanta generella slutsatser om språkförändring

Lektionsplanering:

Tisdag 9/2  Indoeuropeiska språkträdet och andra språkgrupper

Måndag 15/2  Svenska språkets historia från vikingatiden till idag

Eng7 - Relative Clauses

Relative clauses, and some good sites on the web

We have gone through the relative clause, both the defining and the non-defining one. Now you can do some more reading up on the subject, and/or do some exercises.

English grammar online

British Council

A guide to learning English


It might be good with a more fun explanation to "who or whom"

Oatmeal

Here is another link which might be of use to you, one about the semicolon

And here you can find the whole Advance Grammar in Use. Work with whatever chapter you think you need. There is something for everyone. You need to print the pages you want - do not print the whole thing!

Eng 7 - Africa

Africa - yesterday, today and tomorrow

On Friday 6th of November you will write an in-class essay about Africa. You are to base your essay on the material used in class, which will be the following texts and films.

1. Excerpt from the History course book: Building Overseas Empires
2. Interview with Mugabe
3. The White African
4. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
5. Articles about Africa
     a. Omar al-Bashir slips through the net (from Africa Today)
     b. Will 2015 be a year of political change for Africa (from Aljazeera America)
     c. Africa Promotes Agriculture for a Bright Tomorrow (from E-agriculture)

Do not forget to bring all the documents on the 6th of November. You need to be able to make correct references.

Lesson plan

Since you all work at different speed, the lessons plan below will be a guideline.

Monday 12th October
Read  Building Overseas Empires aloud in pairs, and answer all the questions and assignments. Write down your answers, as a help to remember when writing the essay.

Friday 16th October
Continue with  Building Overseas Empires.
When finished with the text, watch the Interview with Mugabe. Write a summary and hand in.

Monday 19th October
Watch the Interview with Mugabe. Write a summary and hand in.
If finished, start watching the film The White African.

The White African  is to be watched at home. It takes about an hour and a half.

Friday 23rd October
Articles about Africa - not yet decided which ones.

Monday 2nd November
English in use

Friday 6th November
Write an essay in class. It has to be based on the material used, texts as well as films.

Eng 6 - My digital rights and Government Control

My Digital Rights and Government Control

In week 43 you will hold debates about  digital rights. To do this properly we will work our way through some exercises until it is clear what to do when holding a debate.

Each debate topic will be introduced by a short film from the British Library, and you are to choose what you want to debate but no on which side you want to be. Everyone should realise the opinions stated in the debates may not be personal.

Here are the topics:                                Affirming the question       Opposing the question

Prisoners right to use the internet                         Niclas, Johan,                                    Lucas, Robin,

Internet - a human right?                                        Felicia, Patrycja,                              Nathalie, Wilma

The Web in times of crisis                - not used

Should schools censor the internet?      - not used

Cyberbullying and the freedom of speech           Kevin, Linda, Frida,                      Sofia, Adam

CCTV     - noCCTV                                                 Emma, Everlina, Simon,                 Elina, Lisa, Justina

Eng 6 - News of the World

There are English newspapers on the web from all over the world. Today you will each find two articles to read from one newspaper. One article should be about international news and one should be about something local. You will be assigned a newspaper to read.

This is your assignment:

1. Read the newspaper; skim the articles until you find something interesting.
2. Copy each article and paste it in a Word document. Do not forget to copy/past the URLs.
3. Highlight all the words you do not know.
4. Look them up and write the explanation/translation as a footnote for each word.
5. If you know all the words, the article is too simple for you. Find another one!
6. Write a summary of each article.
7. In groups of one from each continent, you will tell each other about your news items.
7. Hand in your copied articles, with words highlighted and explained/translated, and your
    summaries, via Vklass. It will not be graded. This is an opportunity for you to learn more words.
8. Learn the words. They will be your homework for next Monday.

Europe

Malta 
Scotland
Ireland
Wales

North America

Toronto, Canada
Anchorage, Alaska
Washington D.C., the US
Mexico

Australia & New Zealand 

Victoria
Tasmania
New Zealand
Indonesia

Asia

India

Japan

China

Thailand

Africa

South Africa

Tunisia

Morocco

Kenya

Eng 7 - Walk with Talks in London

On Sunday 20^th of September you will all (almost) guide us when we walk through London.

Your task at hand is to find an interesting walk between the two landmarks given, and then decide who is going to talk about what. Each walk should last 1-1.5 hours. There will be some walking to do.

Walk 1. Hyde Park to Westminster Abbey

Christoffer, Drilona, Pontus, Elin

Walk 2. Big Ben to Trafalgar Square

Alva, Erik, Matilda, Ola

Walk 3. From Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square via Covent Garden

Henny, Fanny, Olivia, Shkurte

On Tuesday 22nd of September

Oscar will talk about the Imperial War Museum before we enter, and

Hilda will talk about the Globe Theatre before we see the play.

How to do this:

• Use maps on the internet to see what there is
• Do not just pick the shortest route. We have all afternoon to walk around.
• Everyone has to talk – at least a few minutes.
• Make it interesting. Do not just talk about buildings and statues, but also the people connected to them.