Catching fire, week 4-9

We will watch the movie "Catching fire" and work with writing and speaking but also listening.

We will work with the movie "Catching Fire". When we watch the movie there will be no subtitle and hence you practise your listening ability. Moreover, you will produce a text and show me your speaking qualities by discussing the content. 

What I will look at: 

* Express yourself in speaking (vocabulary, expressions, pronunciation, ability to motivate)

* Express yourself in writing (vocabulary, expressions, grammar, variation, ability to motivate) 

* Strategies for interactions

* Understanding 

Exercises:

* Speaking exercise (individual) 

* Group discussion

* Writing exercise (individual) 

You will hand in all the exercises Wednesday week 9

Week 4 - Watch movie 

Week 5 - Watch movie + Start with writing exercise  Note: Hand in everything written at the end of each class, so I can see the progress! Hand in on Showbie.

Week 6 - Continue to work with writing exercise Note: Hand in everything written at the end of each class, so I can see the progress! Hand in on Showbie.

Week 8 - Go through response list (and look for appropriate linking words). Finish writing the exercise and hand in no later than Wednesday week 9 Note: Hand in everything written at the end of each class! Hand in on Showbie. Final product is handed in here on Unikum. No time to write during class will be given week 9.

Response list:

Correct vocabulary in the sentence (she’s/her)

Grammar mistakes (is/are, was/were, have/has, wordorder, verb tenses)

Spelling mistakes (whit = with, to/too, your/you’re, its/it’s, meat/meet

Spoken and written language (gonna-going to, wanna-want to, you-u)

* Then make sure you have;
a capital (stor) letter in the beginning of every sentence and capital letter on I in a sentence.
full stop(punkt) in the end of every sentence
no really long sentences. Use full stop and commas.

* If you use abbreviations (förkortningar) (it’s, wasn’t etc., make sure you put the apostrophe in the right place (not its).
If you are unsure about how to use abbreviations, just write it is, was not etc.

* Look for variation in your text
How to begin a sentence (not too many I, he, she) 
You mustn’t begin a sentence with and, but etc. (these are linking words). 
Use a variation of difficult words and expressions. 
* Look for correct preposition words, i.e. angry with (not at), look at (not on).

OBS! Before you hand in your text you let at least (minst) one person read your text!

Läroplanskopplingar

Syfte

• förstå och tolka innehållet i talad engelska och i olika slags texter,
• formulera sig och kommunicera i tal och skrift,
• använda språkliga strategier för att förstå och göra sig förstådda,
• reflektera över livsvillkor, samhällsfrågor och kulturella företeelser i olika sammanhang och delar av världen där engelska används.

Centralt innehåll

• Åsikter, erfarenheter, känslor och framtidsplaner.
• Talad engelska och texter från olika medier.
• Talad engelska med viss regional och social färgning.
• Muntliga och skriftliga instruktioner och beskrivningar.
• Skönlitteratur och annan fiktion även i talad, dramatiserad och filmatiserad form.
• Olika sätt att bearbeta egna framställningar för att variera, tydliggöra, precisera och anpassa dem efter deras syften.
• Muntliga och skriftliga berättelser, beskrivningar och instruktioner.
• Samtal och diskussioner samt argumentation.

Uppgifter

Writing exercise

Catching fire The written assignment is to write an article where you take the point of view of the capitol or any of the districts. This means you will have to know a bit about the views of the view you take. Choose from one of the options or choose one of your own: The quarter quell The tributes The rescue The capitol catching Peeta The rebels The mocking Jay How are you going to write? A news article is based on facts. Here you make up your own facts according to the district or capitols point of views. You can’t include your own thoughts though it has to be obvious what views your district has. You need to include headlines to your article. Search different news websites to see how an article is designed. When you are done you follow the response list before handing in at Unikum. When I assess your text I will look at grammar, spelling, variation of vocabulary and expressions but also the way you discuss the content.