Week 41

This week, some of us are continuing the food and nutrition theme, making up an alphabet of words related to the topic here:

Food and nutrition alphabet (Google Docs)

For inspiration, try these A-Zs:

http://daa.asn.au/for-the-public/smart-eating-for-you/nutrition-a-z/

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/nutrition-a-to-z/

 http://www.dietitians.ca/Your-Health/Nutrition-A-Z.aspx

Those in the group who are working on "health threats to Sweden" will get a bit of help and encouragement from me this week...

Patrick was saying he's interested in animal behaviour and biology - maybe more of the group would like to look at this topic. Here's an interesting video to get you started:

de Waal, F. (2011, November). Moral behaviour in animals [Video file]. Retrieved from: http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals

 

The transcript is here: Frans de Waal, Moral behavior in animals

Week 40

This week we're looking at the following TED talk:

As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify

Here are the rules:

1) Understand what your people do

2) Reinforce integrators

3) Increase total quantity of power

4) Extend the shadow of the future

5) Increase reciprocity

6) Reward those who cooperate

The thing is, how can you implement these things if you are a boss in a workplace?

Can we implement them in our school?

How can we share these ideas with our fellow students and teachers in Hagaberg?

We're also looking at food and diet with the help of the following:

BBC 6 minute English: Cutting down, eating up

BBC 6 minute English: UK's first healthy pizza

BBC 6 minute English: Dieting

 

Week 39

This week in class we're looking at the following news items:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/09/140919_witn_scotland.shtml

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/09/140915_witn_cycling.shtml

We're also practising conditional sentences with the help of the following websites:

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/cond.htm (explanation)

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/if.htm (exercises and explanation)

Collaborative presentation on threats to Sweden

During today's lesson, our bloggers are invited to collaborate on this presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VY2LM2DQPh7wYJvVDFL7IKtRTwDAjaoSrvVxDDX5DKI/edit?usp=sharing

Follow the link and start creating!

Autumn term 2014: Blog projects

Autumn term 2014: Blog projects 

Our English class contains a motley collection of students this term!

Some of the students are going to try to create online portfolios of their work using blogs.

beststina.blogspot.se - Stina

damiensenglish.blogspot.se/ - Damien (Dennis)

thingsaremadeofstuff.blogspot.se - Carl

emiliasalminenenglishclass2014.blogspot.com - Emelia

englishlearninghagaberg.blogspot.com - Andreas

The rest have been dipping into BBC Six minute English, listening for detail and discussing what comes up in these programs.

There's a lot of chopping and changing between groups at the beginning of term. It sort of reminds me of this:

English week 19

This week we've started looking at countries and nationalities.

The plan is for everyone to give a 5 - 10 minute presentation on a country of their choice on Monday 19th May.

Please dig out information that you will not find in tourist brochures.

Here are some sources:

CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice

Culture Crossing: http://www.culturecrossing.net/

Here you will find lots of statistics. 

Remember, a statistic is USELESS unless we have something to compare it to. So use Sweden as a benchmark when telling us things like how many people can read and write, how many people die in car accidents, etc.

Happy Planet Index: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/data/

Transparency International - Corruption (by country): http://www.transparency.org/country

World Bank Data: http://data.worldbank.org/country

index Mundi - a compilation of data from different sources: http://www.indexmundi.com/

Your mission

Write 1-2 sides of A4 about your chosen country - to be emailed to me by 18th May.

Present your country to the class on Monday 19th May - preferably with music and pictures!

Marknadsföring

Denna veckan börjar våra Fritidsledare 2 klass en kort kurs i marknadsföring...

Här är några filmer som vi ska diskutera:

Lockwood, A. (2011) Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo [video file] retrieved from: www.ted.com/talks/amy_lockwood_selling_condoms_in_the_congo

Godin, S. (2009) Seth Godin: The tribes we lead [video file] retrieved from: www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead

Cobley, D. (2010) Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing [video file] retrieved from: www.ted.com/talks/dan_cobley_what_physics_taught_me_about_marketing

Godin, S. (2003) Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread [video file] retrieved from: www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_sliced_bread

Övning

Gå in på en hemsida av en organisation som har en liknande verksamhet som du kan
tänka jobba med.

Hur ser deras marknadsföring ut?

Målgrupp(er)?

Innehåll  - vad ger de för information?

Vad är bra/dåligt ur marknadsföringssynpunkt?

Vilka medier skulle de behöva komplettera sin marknadsföring med?

Hur ska den se ut?
(innehåll, målgrupp, utförande)