Thursday, August 30

Warm-up: Riddle

 You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?

• Do last bit of listening comprehension: 30ish minutes left.
  
• Watch this Ted talk: 

Discuss: 
What is the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset? Give examples!

What did you learn from the clip?

How can you apply what Angela talks about to your studies this year? 

Life Past and Present

Good Old Days & Bright New World
Have you heard people talk about the good old days, saying that everything was a lot better then? Today we will talk about how our lifestyle changed over the years.

Work with words here

1. http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3872
2. http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3873

Read the text on pages 12-13 in Textbook.

Work with these exercises

• http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/gruppera/5315
• http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/skrivtext/5317
• http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/skrivtext/5318

Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs

What's your Dream job? Who wants to be a golfball diver, an odour judge or a knife thrower's assistant? Today we will start our project about jobs. We will start with learning about odd jobs that actually exists.

1. Work with words here:  http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3772
2. Read (listen) the text Odd Jobs in What's Up 8.
3. Click or drag the Swedish words to the correct English translation.      http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/lucktext/5226
4. Do the Did you get it? in your notebook.

If time left: Work with words here: https://quizlet.com/287443963/people-at-work-flash-cards/

Pick five of the words from the Quizlet set and make sentences using them. Write in your notebook.

Jobs I

Today we are going to learn about different jobs.

• Practice words here: https://quizlet.com/242117339/people-at-work-flash-cards/ 
  Learn these words until next week if you do not know them!
  Some of you need more of a challenge. Work with these words instead: https://quizlet.com/285665776/job-titles-flash-cards/

• Listen to the three short dialogues and decide...
  
  What job does the person have? Where do they work?

• What kind of job would you like to have in the future? Explain.
  What kind of job would you not like to have? Explain... 
• Answer on Socrative: https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ 

The Accident

Today we will work with a text called The Accident.  It is a story about an accident that really happend and changed the lives of those involved.


Work with words from the text here:

http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/glosmastaren/3871

Read/Listen; The Accident in your textbook on page 8.

Work with the following exercises:

•  Click or drag the Swedish words to the correct English translation http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/lucktext/5313
•  http://ovningsmastaren.se/ovningsmastaren/index.php/exercise/lucktext/5314

Did you get it?

Fill in the missing words in the sentences. (Textbook, page 10)

Talk about it

We  are going to discuss following questions;

• Do you think that drinking and driving is very common in Sweden?
• Some people react very strongly against drunk driving. Why do they?
• What do you personally think about drinking and driving? Is is very serious, or could you accept it under some circumstances? Or would you perhaps rather go for a zero tolerance?
• What about other drugs and driving? Is it very common, and how dangerous is it?