Week 37

Thursday

Stereotypes & Gender roles

Crying men
The phrase "Like a girl"

Have a look at these questions and discuss together in groups.

Check your first class account. You should have recieved a mail from Gleerups with a username and password for the web materail to Context 1. Try to log in. If it doesn't work, tell me! You can now listen to the text yourself and you have access to a key and several different tasks.


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Wednesday

Since I am not here today because my daughter got a fever you could do your homework already now! Brilliant! You have one for Friday this week (I know we do not have English then, but you're going to send it to me) AND you have one for next Wednesday.


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Before Friday this week:

Remember you were going to pick 40 words from Dashed hopes and learn these words? I would like to know which words you picked.

Either you...

Write by hand first
I would like you to pick up a piece of paper and write headlines, similar to this document. If you don't have a computer write by hand now and rewrite on computer when you get home OR borrow computer in Green Room.

OR

Computer...
If you have computer open this document and write your first 20 words from the text Dashed hopes Swedish/English) and also put each of the words in a correct English sentence. Practise to use your words in a context.

Like this:

frustrerad     frustrated   I could see that she was frustrated. 

Write your first 20 words like this and send me your list on pernilla.enmalm@leksand.se before Friday this week.
(Skriv Dashedhopes + ditt namn som ämne när du skickar mailet.)
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Homework until next Wednesday:

Read the following text about the art of "Reading"

Different types of Reading:

To skim through a text:

Skimming is a quick reading to get: 

- to know the general meaning of a passage.

- to know how the passage is organized, that is, the structure of the text 

-  to get an idea of the intention of the writer
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Skim through this text, to get the overall meaning.
What teens wants You might want to take notes (keywords-nyckelord) to remember. We will discuss this article together in class on Wednesday next week.