Reading and writing - New york city; week 5-12

During this theme we will work with New York. You will receive (få) texts to read and watch videos about New York in the class room. Besides (dessutom), we will also work with grammar.

Material: 

* Fully charged computer

* Your yellow file (mapp) with your texts about New York and grammar exercises from your teacher

* Pencil and rubber (suddigum)

You will receive (få) knowledge (kunskap) by:

* Reading texts about New York 

* Listen to information about New York

* Grammar lessons (grammatik) to improve (förbättra) your writing skills (färdigheter) 

* Answer questions in English

* Write a text in English 

* Work and improve (förbättra) your language (språk) when you write 

Schedule:

Lesson 1 - TEXTS and EXERCISES (övningar) - You will receive these texts from your teacher

Week 5: Read Welcome to New York City + written exercise 7.

 

Week 6: No lessons this week because of NP in Swedish

Week 8: Read Simon's diary entry + SLI-film about New York.

Week 9: Read A day to remember + written exercise 11 + music time (31).

Week 10: Read The Statue of Liberty + written exercise 12A. Hand in all your reading exercises, Thursday! (see exercise here at Unikum) 

 

Week 11-12: Work with your writing exercise and hand in on Thursday! (see exercise here at Unikum) 

 

Lesson 2 - GRAMMAR (grammatik) - You will receive (få) these exercises from your teacher

Week 5: Adjektiv (sid. 37-38)

Week 6: Verbet BE/presens (sid. 39) + preteritum (was/were)

Week 8: Verbet HAVE/presens (sid. 40) + preteritum (had)

Week 9: Work with the grammar (grammatik) in the texts you have written.

 

Week 10: Start with the Writing exercise. 

 

Week 11: Work with your writing exercise "A post card from New York" and use the response list. Hand in your text (Thursday). 

Response list:

* Correct vocabulary in the sentence (she’s/her, which/witch, meet/meat)

* 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. - dot (punkt) in the end of every sentence - Not too long sentences, use dots 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, because 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!

Assessment (bedömning):

See matris below (writing including grammar, work with your text but also reading and understanding) what we will look at. 

Uppgifter

Text and grammar exercises

7 – New York City (week 5) Read the texts ”Welcome to New York City” (as well as the ”Facts about New York”). Answer the following questions on your computer. Name the document "Text exercises, New York". 1. What is New York often called? 2. Explain why. 3. What does ”Manhattan” mean? 4. Why was New York called New Amsterdam in the 17th century? 5. How many people live in New York? How many people live in Sweden? 6. Give the names of 2-3 famous tourist sights. 7. Would you like to live in New York? Why or why not? ________________________________________ 17 – A diary entry (week 8 ) You are in New York for the first time. You and your family are visiting interesting tourist attractions. Write a diary entry about things you see and smell, what you eat, and how you feel. ________________________________________ 11 – A day to remember (week 9) Read the text ”A day to remember”. Write true/false-statements about the text. Now give your statements to a friend to complete. ________________________________________ 12a – The Statue of Liberty (week 10) Read about the Statue of Liberty. Decide if these statements are true or false. 1. The Statue of Liberty was a present from the people of France. 2. It was a present to celebrate 150 years of independence from Britain. 3. The statue was packed into more than 200 boxes. 4. The boxes were transported by train. 5. The statue was designed by Gustave Eiffel, who built the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 6. The statue was completed in 1886. 7. The statue has become a symbol of freedom. 8. The statue is 112 metres high. ________________________________________

Wrtiting exercise, writing a postcard from New York

Below (nedanför) you will see what you will do in this writing exercise (uppgift): WRITING - A postcard from New York Imagine that you are in New York City together with your family. You are going to send a postcard to a friend or a relative back in Sweden. Write a postcard and tell about your trip, what you have done and what you have seen so far. Please, write in English all the time and write as much as you can. Remember to motivate your answers (why you write the way you do).