English week 18 - English in a Swedish environment

Last Wednesday, some of the students went looking for English words in Södertälje. This is what they found...

Samaher and Wisam walked into Södertälje and saw all this...

American-Italian: Is that a good combination?

There can be only...

Some reading for the summer holidays.

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What you wear on your feet:

Well-dressed British men love this Swedish shop that includes British clothes sizes (inches) on their labels.

"Suit up" is a very macho phrase. Shame the rest of the sign is in Swedish. Lovely light and reflections in this picture...

A bit like "pit stop":

Lovely soft focus shot to match those soft, gentle soaps and creams: 

Registered in the Bahamas and sailing in Södertälje:

Try speaking English in this shop:

This is English as long as you pronounce the letters as, /eɪ/, /bi/, /si/

Meanwhile, Sandra, Cecilia and Lizette walked from Hagaberg to the nearest Konsum and spotted the following. ..

"Group" is so much cooler than "grupp"

Swedes really like adding "man" to verbs, don't they!

English week 18 - things of beauty

Here are photos that students took last Wednesday when I sent them out to record interesting things....

Streetlamp in Södertälje
This is a very beautiful lamp, it's located at the Södertälje Square, right outside the old "guildhall" (Rådhuset). I've seen 2 of these lamps - maybe there are a few more? (Siri)

Memento mori
This is on the town church wall, (St Ragnhild's Church) in Södertälje. I like these skulls and all the decorations around. It's powerful but in a subtle way. Memento Mori is Latin for remember that you will die or "remember your mortality". The church is pretty old (oldest parts are may be 800 years old) and have survived city fires including one big city fire in 1850.  (Siri)

Kungsträdgården in Stockholm.
I just had to take the chance to take a few shots of the flowers there - too bad it was dusk.  (Siri)

More Crime stuff

In the UK there is a sentencing guide to help judges decide what punishment to give to a person convicted of a crime.

Crown Prosecution Service: Sentencing Manual

It's pretty advanced, so not suitable for everyone!

Many criminal offences are punished by a fine.

For example, damaging property (e.g. smashing things up, breaking windows and painting graffiti) can get you punished by a "level 4" fine:

Level 1 - £200
Level 2 - £500
Level 3 - £1,000
Level 4 - £2,500 (or 3 months imprisonment)
Level 5 - £5,000 (or 6 months imprisonment)

Source: http://www.cans.org.uk/notes/administration-of-justice/treatment-of-offenders/52-maximum-fines-the-a-standard-scalea


Here you can find some easier to understand guides to how the law works in the UK:
Courts, sentencing and tribunals

This is particularly interesting: How sentences are worked out

English week 12-13

Our topic right now is CRIME.

I've put all the material we've been working on in Twinspace (Project activities > Documents).

Here is the exercise we're working on right now...

Police & Crime in popular culture

The aim of this exercise is to get a broad picture of how police and crime are portrayed in mass media.

Think of a song, film, TV series, book (including comic books) or newspaper/website that deals with police and crime.

Post examples in Twinspace (Project activities > Police and Crime) that you want to talk about in class - you can write in Twinspace as well, but that's optional.

In class, we'll look together at what you've posted and you can tell us more.

1) Why did you choose this material?

2) Give a little bit of background information about the material.

3) What does your material say about crime/police?

4) How do you feel about what it says?
For example:

• is it realistic?
• is it positive/negative/neutral?
• what perspective on police/crime does it take?
• do you share this perspective?
• can people learn anything from it?

So login to Twinspace and get posting!

English week 10

This week we're completing our work on adverts by presenting them to the class and (if time allows!) starting our new study of law, crime and the police.

Here are the adverts we're looking at:

Firaz - Armani perfume for men

Gustav- ICA

 

 

Justina - B&Q - a British DIY chain 

 

Lova - Libero nappies

  Maria - L'Oréal mascara

Milo - Quick loans

Norea & Anette - Dolce & Gabbana

Polos & Anette - Volvo cars

Robab - Pampers nappies

Samaher - Rimmel nail polish

Siri - Rom (chocolate bar)

 

Timmy - Moose park

Tugba - Levis jeans

 Wisam - Camel cigarettes

English week 8

This week we're finishing off our work on adverts in Twinspace.

See English week 4 for instructions.

After our half term break ("sportlov") we shall present our adverts for the class.

The idea is just to talk for 2 minutes about your chosen advert and then take some questions from the group.

You can use the same ad that you wrote about in Twinspace or (if you like) take a totally different ad.

If the advert is a film, then you can show us the film and then talk for 2 minutes.

What you talk about is entirely up to you - it could be the ad itself or the product or other things that you have been thinking about in relation to this project.

The quickest and easiest way to do your presentation is as a MS Word (or similar) document.

Go to Arkiv > Utskriftsformat and choose "Liggande" as your page layout.

You can then use the "Print screen" key to take pictures of your film and paste them into your document.

Finally, turn your document into a PDF.