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.

English week 5

Steven Seagal sadly cannot make it to Monday's
Aktivitetstorg but sends his best wishes.

This week we're doing all sorts of different stuff.

From the outside, it looks chaotic but if you look very closely, you'll see that it's actually very highly organised and disciplined.

Aktivitetstorg

A-bas students have an "aktivitetstorg" to prepare for Monday 3rd February, so they've got to pull out all the stops for that. If anyone can think of how to translate "aktivitetstorg" to English, they deserve a medal.

Artist's impression of student
in English class at Hagaberg.

Appearance

Meanwhile everyone else is slogging their way through vocabulary exercises about physical appearance. Actually, it's a very rewarding activity - I have never seen such a contented, happy looking bunch of students.

Advertisements

A rare window of opportunity opens on Wednesday - the computer room is free! This will allow students who are not busy with their "Activity square" preparations or their appearance vocabulary to continue analysing adverts.

Have a good week!

English week 4

This week we're analysing advertisements.

There are two aims with this activity.

1) We learn a lot of English to do with feelings, desires and products.
2) We learn about how advertising works and how it affects us.

I posted the following exercise in Twinspace so our partners in Sophie-Scholl-Schule, Leutkirch, Germany can see what we're doing and maybe even join in.

The activity is partly inspired by this document:  Lopez, Antonio. "Advertising Analysis". Accessed 19 January 2014. http://www.medialiteracy.net/pdfs/hooks.pdf

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Here are the questions I posted in our Twinspace under "Choose an advert..." - post your adverts and answers there!

First of all, choose an advert - not just any ad but one that catches your attention.

1) What product is being advertised?

2) Describe the setting of the advert - all the background details.

3) Describe any people you see in the advert.

4) What hooks does the advert use to make you interested in the product?

5) Who do you think the advert is aimed at?

6) What feelings do you experience when you see this advert?

7) Add any final thoughts about this advert and the product it advertises.

8) Look at someboday else's advert and post some comments on their chosen ad - to see how much our perceptions differ.

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Next week, it would be really nice to present your adverts to the class and discuss each one - think about it!