BLOGA3 English: 2019

Monday, December 9, 2019

7C - Lernstoff für die Schularbeit, Friday, December 13

7C – Lernstoff for the Schularbeit, Friday, December 13

FORMAT

Listening (no more than 2)

Reading (no more than 2)

Writing (no more than 2)

TOPICS

School motivation

Local tourism

Climate change

Greta Thunberg/Climate Strikes/Activism/Slacktivism

Greenhouse effect/Climate Change arguments/Al Gore
Conventional Energy/Fossil fuels

Alternative Energy

- solar

- wind

- water

- biomass

- geothermal

- hydrogen fuel cell

- nuclear

Energy Mix

Globalization

Symposium (including review topics))

Critical Thinking/Teaching English without Teaching English
Language week

TEXT TYPES

Article

Blog Entry

Blog Comment

Letter (NEW! Letter to the editor)

E-Mail

Report

9C - Lernstoff für die Schularbeit, Monday, December 16

9C – Lernstoff for the Schularbeit, Monday, December 16

FORMAT

Listening (no more than 2)

Reading (no more than 2)

Writing (no more than 2)

TOPICS

Tourism (mass vs individual, kinds of tourism, effects of tourism)

School motivation

Climate Change (causes, effects, predictions, myths, Greta Thunberg)

Sponsoring

Critical Thinking

Conventional Energy (fossil fuels)

Alternative Energy (including solar, wind, water, geothermal, biomass, nuclear, hydrogen fuel cells)

Globalization

Symposium (including Matura topics!)

Time management (Big Rocks)

Coffee (including coffee culture and effects on environment, fair trade)

Smoking ban

Sound of Music

TEXT TYPES (review the Kennzeichen in the Going for Finals B1 book or in the back of Trauner)

Article

Blog Entry

Blog Comment

Letter

E-mail

Report

EXPECTATIONS – As always, you should write your texts in paragraphs, and connect your ideas with linking words. Language expectations: in addition to vocabulary, grammar, and orthography, you should use upper level "Matura" language (passive, gerund, if-sentences, comparatives, relative clauses, modal verbs, etc)

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

5C - Homework for Thursday, December 5

Study for next week's Schularbeit. Lernstoff is here: https://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/11/5c-lernstoff-fur-die-schularbeit.html

You can do exercises on Digi4School (Best Shots 3) by downloading the app or online.

You can practice listening and reading in Going for Finals B1. The answers are in the back of the book.

9C - Homework for Monday, December 9

1) Watch this clip from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth:

2) Do some internet research about climate change arguments. Why do some people believe that climate change is "fake news"? What arguments do they make? Can 11,000 scientists be wrong?

3) What do you think is the most compelling argument for or against the existence of climate change? Be able to articulate your arguments in class on Monday, December 9.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

1ZBMI - Lernstoff für die Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 10

1ZBMI – Lernstoff for the Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 10

FORMAT – eine gute Stunde
Reading
Writing
Listening
Grammar

CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3 of Englisch für die Berufsreifeprüfung – Basis Modul (Topics and Language in Use)

EXPECTATIONS You should be able to...
introduce yourself
present your family
describe different types of families and relationships
describe the pros and cons of social networks
talk about friends and friendship
talk about your school experience
describe school subjects and comment on them
talk about your daily routine
present your current job and your attitude towards it
compare different jobs and their tasks and duties
explain what your dream job is
describe different styles of entertainment
talk about the music and musicians I prefer listening to
outline an artist's biography

N.B. (nota bene: that's Latin for "note it well") You should also be able to understand texts and recordings which deal with these same topics!

EXTRAS
Classroom English
Stress/Time management (Big Rocks)
Coffee

GRAMMAR We reviewed pronouns, word order, simple present, simple past, Saxon genitive, adjectives (-ed/-ing), false friends. But in your texts you should use as many structures as you know/feel comfortable with.

TEXT TYPES
Letter/e-mail
Description
Journal entry
Summary

5C - Lernstoff für die Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 10

5C – Lernstoff for the Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 10

FORMAT – TWO HOURS

Listening

Reading

Writing

CHAPTERS 1, 2, 5 in Best Shots 3

TOPICS

Summer vacation
New School Year/Motivation

Greta Thunberg/The Climate Crisis

Tourism especially Austrian Tourism (includes mass tourism, disaster tourism, slum tourism, tourism and climate change)
Sport Week

Violence/cursing in films

Homes/Housing/Housing innovations

Smart Homes

3D Printed homes

Basic Human RIghts

SOS Survivor

Life in Megacities

GRAMMAR – You are expected to use a variety of grammatical structures in your texts. This includes the correct use of tenses, the passive voice, if-sentences, gerunds, comparatives, relative clauses, modal verbs, indirect speech, etc.

TEXT TYPES

Article

Blog Entry

Blog Comment

Description

E-Mail (new: email of request!)

Letter

Summary

Monday, November 25, 2019

9C - In Class, Monday, November 25

Karlo, Oliver - Symposium

Blog entry for HTL English about the symposiums (actually, symposia) we are doing in the 9^th form. Your audience is students in the lower forms of the HTL, but also people from all over the world who check out the blog.

In your blog entry, you should

* explain what a symposium is (both the traditional meaning and what it means at the HTL)

* analyse the benefits of symposia, especially in the 4^th and 5^th forms

* make suggestions for improving symposia in the future

* ask for recommendations for interesting symposium topics

Give your blog entry a title. Write about 200 words (+/- 10%). Make sure you write in paragraphs and use lots of good Matura language. The best grades will be earned by students who write an authentic, convincing blog entry with good examples.

Friday, November 22, 2019

1C - Homework for Thursday, November 28

1) Make a vocabulary list from the text, page 28 (orange words you should know, blue words are new). Divide these words into TYPES OF HOMES, ROOMS, FEATURES OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, ACTIVITIES IN AND AROUND THE HOUSE.

2) Do the reading on pages 30-31. Add the vocabulary on page 30 to your vocabulary list.

3) Do exercises 2, 3, and 5, on pages 31-32. For exercise 5, see page 16 in your Companion book.

1C - Lernstoff für die Schularbeit, Friday, December 6

1C – Lernstoff for Friday, December 6, 2019

FORMAT
Reading
Writing
Grammar

PAGES 1-35, Context HTL 1 (Check your progress, pages 38-39)

TOPICS
Timetable

School Subjects

Class rules

Languages/Countries/Nationalities

Engineering

Describe yourself, your hobbies, your family, house, school, likes and dislikes, people

Families (Austrian, blended, boomerang, family members, etc)

Getting advice

Houses – Places to live – your dream house

GRAMMAR

Basics (alphabet, punctuation, capitalization, numbers, telling time)

Word order (positive, negative, question, frequency words, prepositional phrases)
Present simple tense (always, often, sometimes, usually, never, every, etc)

Present progressive tense (now, at the moment, today, right now, look, listen)
Past simple tense (ago, yesterday, last...,

Time phrases

Signal words

Saxon genitive
Comparative and superlative adjectives

Relative pronouns

TEXT TYPES

description
e-mail
letter
summary

1ZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, November 26

More Florida Man headlines! https://pleated-jeans.com/2019/11/22/florida-man-meme/

Finish the unit "Work to Live" (make sure you can talk about your dream job!) in Topics and Language in Use

Do vocabulary for the next unit (Let Me Entertain You?) - pp. 34-35 in Topics and Language in Use

Do exercises p. 38-39 (simple past tense - Topics and Language in Use

If you want more practice with the present simple tense, see the Workbook, pp. 82-84 and do exercises on pages 43-46 as time permits!

Thursday, November 21, 2019

5C - Homework for Tuesday, November 26

For Tuesday,
1) ask your last Questions About Unit 2 (Housing Innovations - passive Verbs, etc)

2) Practice listenings in the book (you can do this over Digi4School online or in the app)

3) For extra credit, you can look up a smart Gadget or device and present it in class next lesson.

4) Want to practice your reading skills? Take a look at the Going For Finals book, specifically the reading exercise on page 18 (One Day It Will Clean Itself)

5) Be prepared to start the next unit (Life in Megacities, p. 60ff)

3C - Homework for Monday, November 25

For Monday, November 25
1) use pages 30-31 to finish filling out the stress worksheet
2) do the reading on pages 32-33 and vocab/grammar on 34
3 FINISH YOUR COMMENT OR BLOG ENTRY (Need help? page 63 in the Companion to Context - the Purple book)

7C - Homework for Friday, November 22

1) Finish your letter to the editor re: Solar Power in the Sahara
2) Listen to this podcast: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758045669/can-global-shipping-go-zero-carbon. And be able to talk about it intelligently.
3) Start working on the globalization chapter (Trauner, pp. 120-133)

Here is the copy of Jena that John Mellencamp (the singer) posted. It isn't any better quality than the video we watched in class :-( But it does have a nice statement by Mellencamp himself in the notes section of the video.

3C - Lernstoff für Schularbeit, Monday, December 2

3C – Lernstoff for Monday, 12/2/2019

FORMAT:
(Listening)
Reading
Writing
Grammar

UNITS 1-3 (pages 1-35, Context HTL 2)

Topics – Summer vacation/internships

School year

Greta Thunberg/climate crisis

School stress (cause, effect, solutions)

Sleep

Education

How to improve your language skills

Changing the status quo

Talking about charts and graphs

Hopes and dreams

Who inspires you?

Making predictions

Cities of the Future

Our generation

Smartphones

Vienna Week

Grammar
tenses (past, present and future)
passive voice

linking words

Text Types –
e-mail
letter
blog entry
blog comment
description
summary

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

5C - Homework for Thursday, November 21

For Thursday, November 21

Finish your comment on the Sansung Smart Fridge (https://www.techadvocategroup.com/talking-samsung-smart-fridge/)

In your comment you should:

1) State your opinion about one or two of the author's ideas
2) Analyse the pros and cons of smart technology
3) speculate about the future of smart homes

write about 180 words (line paper, Korrekturrand, text burger)

9C - Homework for Tuesday, November 26

Homework for Tuesday, November 26

Write an ARTICLE about the Sound of Music from an Austrian perspective
In your article, you should

1) briefly describe the plot of the film (no spoilers!) - who, what, where, when, why, how?
2) examine the popularity of the film from an Austrian perspective (does it live up to the hype? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it? Does it show Austria in a good light?)
3) Speculate about the importance of the film for Austrian tourism

Write about 250 words. Make sure you use proper format (lined paper, Korrekturrand, text burger).

Monday, November 18, 2019

9C - Homework for Tuesday, November 19

Listen to this podcast https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758045669/can-global-shipping-go-zero-carbon and be able to summarize and talk About its Contents in the lesson tomorrow

Friday, November 15, 2019

1C - Homework for Thursday, November 21

For Thursday, November 21

* Study for a schriftliche Mitarbeit - grammar revision

* Write a detailed text about your best friend.
* Write in paragraphs (Text Burger!) on lined paper with Korrekturrand. Write about 180 words.

HINT: use the text about Marcela as a model!

STRUCTURE:

Paragraph 1 - Who is your best friend? How long have you known them? What do they look like?

Paragraph 2 - Describe their personality

Paragraph 3 - What do you have in common with your best friend? Likes/dislikes/hobbies

Paragraph 4 - Describe something you did with your friend (write this paragraph in past tense. Zum Beispiel: "Once when we were 13 years old, we went to a heavy metal concert...")

Paragraph 5 - What does your best friend mean to you? Can you imagine life without them?

1ZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, November 19

For Tuesday, November 19

1) read the text on page 27 of the Topics and Language in Use workbook
2) Think of questions to ask Dr. Sandrock about the American education system
3) Do exercises on page 29 of the Topics and Language in Use workbook
4) Do handout on "Privacy Online" (reading practice)

5C - Homework for Tuesday, November 19

Homework for Tuesday, November 19

1) finish the worksheet for 3D printed houses
2) Do exercise 1 on pp. 23-24 (review passive/actives)
3) do page 28 (Grammar review)
4) work ahead: write a comment About smart fridge (Handout in class)

3C - Homework for Monday, November 18

Homework for Monday, November 18

Study for a schriftliche Mitarbeit (passive Verbs, Topics in Unit 2)

To study, use page 14 in Context HTL Companion, or do exercises here: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

LOOKING AHEAD: Homework for Thursday, November 21

Write one of the following (text burger, paragraphs, lined paper with Korrekturrand):

A blog comment about teens and screens (page 35, Exercise 7 - Context HTL 2)

OR

A blog entry about Vienna week for the HTL English website

In your blog entry you should

* Introduction - give a brief overview of Vienna week (who, when, where, how)
* describe three activities (sites, events) and state why they were significant
* Conclusion - ask your readers to share their experiences with Vienna week

1C - Homework for Friday, November 15

Read the text you got in class (My best friend Marcela) - we will use this as the Basis for the text we write in class on Friday!

7c - Homework for Thursday, November 21

For Thursday, November 21

Fabian/Philipp Symposium

WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR ABOUT SOLAR ENERGY IN THE SAHARA (see handout)

Monday, November 11, 2019

3C - Homework for Thursday, November 14

1) download Digi4School using the code on the back of your book.

2) on page 22-23, do the listening exercise (use Digi4School or the CD that came with your book)

3) on page 29, do the grammar exercise (review of the passive voice)

4) on pages 30-31, review the vocabulary and talking points for school stress.

Friday, November 8, 2019

5C - Homework for Tuesday, November 12

Homework for Tuesday, November 12
1) send a picture of your house to frauprofressorsandrock@gmail.com or as PM on WhatsApp
2) Vocabulary on page 20
3) Read the text on pages 20-21 and answer the Questions
4) Want to work ahead? pp. 23-25, p. 28

pssst---Want something different? Look up Videos of 3D printed houses, Tiny houses, or recycled bottle houses - how cool are These???!

9C - Homework for Tuesday, November 12

Homework for Tuesday, November 12
1) finish blog entry about coffee ("coffee is great but...")
2) do the reading on page 42 in Going for Finals (green book)
3) be prepared to talk about coffee, coffee culture, and its effect on the environment in class on Tuesday!

Here's a link to the listening we did in class!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/08/492954687/how-coffee-is-perking-up-engineering-education

1C - Homework for Thursday, November 14

For Thursday, November 14
1) Download the Digi4School app
2) Do exercises on pages 24-26, Context HTL (vocabulary, listening, reading)

7C - Homework for Monday, November 11 (Supplierstunde)

Homework for Monday, November 11 (Supplierstunde)
1) write a text about Prof. Guzman's Teaching English without teaching English
2) Be prepared to talk about Guzman's TED Talk
3) Be prepared to talk about the pros and cons of alternative energy

Thursday, November 7, 2019

1C - Homework for Friday, November 8

For Friday, November 8
Rewrite the letter on page 23 in the correct order.

NOTE: Copy the capitalization, punctuation, paragraphs, and words exactly.
NOTE 2: Leave a space between paragraphs. Write on LINED paper with KORREKTURRAND.

For next week, make sure you download the Digi4School app so you can access vocabulary lists, flash cards, and sound files.

5C - Homework for Thursday, November 7

For Thursday, write a short article about the house of the person you interviewed on Tuesday. Try to make it interesting and use language like that found on pages 17-18 of Best Shots 3.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

IZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, November 12

UPDATE ON KRISPY KREME: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/us/krispy-kreme-minnesota-trnd/index.html

1) Don't forget to do your FERNSTUDIUM. That means do ENGLISH ACTIVITIES (watch videos/films/series, read articles/books/recipes, speak English online or with tourists, etc) and WRITE about them in your ACTIVITY JOURNAL (at least 100 words per entry). You are expected to write at least one of these entries a WEEK. Don't wait until the last minute. The idea behind this is that you write, you get feedback, you note the mistakes you make and the next time you write a better text.

2) Do present simple tense and routines in the TOPICS book (pages 24-26). For extra practice, read about the present simple on page 77 of the workbook, and do exercises on page 34-39. Or practice here: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present, Level One, Level 2, Level 3

3) You got a worksheet during the lesson: Practice your tenses! You will write 25 sentences in different tenses using different words. If you didn't get this worksheet, send me an email: frauprofessorsandrock@gmail.com and I'll send you a copy.

4) You also got a handout about "How to Write E-Mails/Letters." On page 21 of your topics book, you will find an e-mail from Brenda. Write a reply to her, using the Kennzeichen eines E-Mails/Briefes. Since you have English input, you may write this letter in your Activity Journal.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

5C - Homework for Tuesday, November 5

A little different kind of homework for Tuesday, November 5:

Be able to describe your house in detail (or it could be a house or a building you are very familiar with).

Make sure your audience is fully informed: Who? What`? Where? When? Why? How? How many? How much? How long? How big? What kind of?

Be able to discuss the history, the construction, the materials, the systems that are used in it.

Talk to your parents to find out some of the cool things you never knew!

You might look at the first couple of pages of "Revolutions on the Housing Market" in Best Shots 3 (16-19) for ideas.

1ZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, November 5

For Tuesday, November 5

1) Finish what you need to finish in the first chapter (Nice to Meet You) in Trauner.

a) See the checklist on page 21 for the COMPETENCIES you should have learned.
i) I can introduce myself
ii) I can present my family and its members
iii) I can describe different types of families and relationships
iv) I can describe the pros and cons of social networks
v) I can talk about friends and friendships

b) Review the GRAMMAR in the lesson
i) pronouns (introduced on pages 13 and 17 in the Topics book). If you need more practice, see the explanation on page 72 of the Workbook and do exercises on page 23 (Task 1) and 24 (Task 2). Or practice on https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns.
ii) the verb "have", the verb "be" (introduced on page 15 of the Topics book)
iii) Saxon genitive (introduced on page 16 in the Topics book). If you need more practice, see the explanation on pages 68-69 of the Workbook and do exercises on pages 20-21. Or practice on https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/nouns/exercises?04
iv) Word order (introduced on page 18 of the Topics book). If you need more practice, see the explanation of pages 87-88 of the Workbook and do exercises on pages 56-59. Or practice on https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order
v) Comparative and superlative adjectives (Steigerung, introduced on page 19 in the Topics book). If you need more practice, see the explanation on page 73-75 of the Workbook and do exercises on page 30. Or practice on https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs

2) Do the vocabulary for Unit 2 in the Topics book (Work to Live)
a) Match the meanings to the German on page 23
b) Use the vocabulary in the sentences on page 23-24.

3) If you want to work ahead, you may do exercises on pages 24-26 in the topics book.

4) Of course, you should do an English activity and write about it. I suggest watching this video and writing your reaction to it!

9C - Homework for Monday, November 4

You got handouts for the next Unit: Energy and Climate (Trauner p. 49-67) . Start filling these out.

We have lots of supply lessons next week, so we will be practicing old topics as well as learning new topics. Stay on the ball!

Monday, October 28, 2019

3C - Homework for Monday, November 11 and EXTRA CREDIT for Vienna Week

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY, November 11: Be prepared to tell a detailed STORY about your Vienna week. Speak for at least two minutes I want a detailed STORY! And your story should be different from everyone else's!

THESE ARE IDEAS (feel free to do your own thing!)

My crazy roommates
I've never laughed so hard in my life
That time I got lost

The best meal of all time

The most interesting person I met

My favorite excursion

Did you hear about the time...?
These people got in so much trouble!
I could never live in a big city

I am moving to Vienna the next chance I get

This was the last thing I expected

EXTRA CREDIT * EXTRA CREDIT * EXTRA CREDIT * EXTRA CREDIT *

So... you won't have English for a week and a half. What does that mean? Well, it's hard for me to give you homework, but I can give you EXTRA CREDIT.

Option 1) Make a scrapbook of your Vienna Week in ENGLISH. Pick up English brochures of the sites you see. Write captions for your pictures in English.

Option 2) Keep a journal ENGLISH of your Vienna Week. Make sure you use the ENGLISH names for attractions. Don't write about Stephansdom, write about St. Stephen's Cathedral. Don't write about the Kaisergruft, write about the Imperial Crypt. If you use German words for food, make sure you describe what it is in English.

Option 3) Make a video IN ENGLISH about one of the sites you visit.

Option 4) Perform a skit IN ENGLISH about something that happened during Vienna week and make a video of it!

Option 4) Interact with people in ENGLISH in Vienna (tourists, shop keepers, etc). Make a video of you interacting with English speakers in Vienna (make sure you get their permission first).

1ZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, October 29

1) Be prepared to talk for 2 minutes (freely, don't read) about your hobby.
Here are some questions to get you started:

What is your hobby? Describe it in detail!
How did you get interested in your hobby?
When did you get interested in your hobby?
Do you need any special equipment to do your hobby?
Do you do your hobby with anyone or is it something you do alone?
How much time do you spend on your hobby?
Do you make money from your hobby?
How important is your hobby for your work/life balance?

2) Read the article on page 18 of your Topics and Language in Use book (How the internet is changing our replationship) and be able to answer the questions on page 19.

During the lesson we'll plan the rest of the semester.

3C - Homework for Monday, October 28

Do the pre-reading of the article on page 26, read the article, and do the exercises on page 28. Be prepared to discuss the article! (write a summary)

7C - Homework for November 7/November 8

Homework for Thursday, November 7
1) Watch Dr. Guzman's TED Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pZa6R3rmRQ) and fill out the worksheet you got on Friday, October 25

2) BONUS: Watch the film "Harold and Maude" in English

For Friday, November 8
1) Be able to talk about the pros and cons of alternative energies
2) Be able to present you HDVC, solar, water energy article in a group.

9C - Homework for Monday, October 28

HW for Tuesday, October 28

Prepare to do a monologue About Tourism in Austria. You can prepare by working up Talking Points About the Tourist attraction you Chose for your Brazil penpal

Thursday, October 24, 2019

7C - Homework for Friday, October 25

Homework for Friday, October 24

1) SYMPOSIUM: Sorger/Kreutzer Euthanasia
2) Write letter About your Tourist attraction to Brazil (draft)
3) Make sure you can talk intelligently About the pros and cons of alternative energies: wind, solar, hydro, biomass, georthermal and nuclear
4) You received an article About different alternative Energy delivery Systems (water turbines, concentrating solar power, HDVC). Be prepared to summarize your Topic in small Groups.

1C - Homework for Friday, October 25

For Friday, October 25
Prepare for a quiz About Verbs:
Irregular Verbs,
present simple tense,
past simple tense,
(positive, negative, Question, Signal words)

Friday, October 18, 2019

1C - Homework for Thursday, October 24/Friday, October 25

TODAY: INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES - bring your worksheet from yesterday

STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM:
Work on homework for next week. There will be a quiz over irregular verbs and verb formation on Friday, October 25

For Thursday, October 24 - do the following exercises in your exercise book:

page 18 - exercise 1 (wordfields)

page 19 3a (relationships), 3b

page 20-21 - ex A (answer the questions about the text)

page 21 - ex. 3a (add vocabulary to your vocab list on page 18) , 3b (vocabulary)

page 22 - ex. 5a (identify past tense verbs in text), 5b (complete the text with past tense verbs)

For Friday, October 25 - Quiz over irregular verbs and verb formation

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

5C - Homework for Thursday, October 17

For Thursday, October 17

Prepare for a short schriftliche MA - topic and vocabulary: tourism! (see worksheet)

9C - Homework for Monday, October 21

For Monday, October 21

Prepare for a short schriftliche MA - topic and vocabulary: tourism (see worksheet!)

3C - Homework for Thursday, October 17

For Thursday, October 17

prepare for schriftliche MA on Thursday, over Stress/education/how to get what you want - see worksheet!

Current Events you Should be Following in English - October 15

U.S. Cities Banning Fast Food Drive Thrus
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/10/765789694/why-u-s-cities-are-banning-new-fast-food-drive-throughs

"Thunberg Effect" in Austria:
http://m.en.rfi.fr/environment/20190930-thunberg-effect-climate-worries-help-revive-austrias-greens

For Forest in Klagenfurt:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/arts/design/forest-stadium-austria-klagenfurt.html
https://www.meinbezirk.at/klagenfurt/c-lokales/die-100-vergessenen-for-forest-baeume-aus-klagenfurt_a3653418

Nike's Jesus Shoes:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-air-max-97-jesus-shoes-filled-with-holy-water-selling-for-4000-2019-10-11/

Reclusive Billionaire (Didi Mateschitz) hunts for hidden jewels (real estate) in Austrian Alps
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/reclusive-billionaire-hunts-for-hidden-jewels-in-austrian-alps/ar-AAIChaE?li=BBnb7Kz

Vaping
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/03/766997708/cdc-intensifies-warnings-about-vaping-illness-as-cases-top-1-000
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/14/767263587/high-school-vape-culture-can-be-almost-as-hard-to-shake-as-addiction-teens-say

Things People Can Do and Are Doing to Help the Environment
https://www.boredpanda.com/small-green-ways-to-help-environment/?cexp_id=21573&cexp_var=36&_f=trending
https://www.boredpanda.com/creative-eco-friendly-design-ideas/

Saturday, October 12, 2019

1ZBMI - Homework for Tuesday, October 15

*1) First and foremost: Bring your textbooks if you receive them!

2) You can sign up for the AOC Diagnose Check here: https://aoc01.cebs.at/ (Don't forget to take the practice test!)

3) You can check your learning type here: https://www.veritas.at/sbo/extproj/Lerntypentest/lerntypentest.php

4) For your Activity Journal, make sure you do ENGLISH activities. Don't just write about your daily life... you need English INPUT (vocabulary, grammar, idioms, etc) as well as OUTPUT.

For example, here's a great double lesson from Learn English with TV Series:

Friday, October 11, 2019

7C - Homework for Thursday/Friday, October 17-18

For Thursday, October 17

Fill out the worksheet(s) for Energy and Climate (handed out in class... extras posted to the bulletin board. If you need one sent to you, contact johanna.sandrock@htl-zeltweg.at

There will be a short, schriftliche Mitarbeit over Climate and Energy on Friday, October 18

Thursday, October 10, 2019

7C - Symposium Dates and Topics

Friday, October 25 - Dorian, Thomas K. - Euthanasia

??? - Markus, Philipp M. - ?? - NEED TO SHIFT THIS!

Thursday, November 7 - Manuel , Florian B. - Electric cars

Friday, November 8 - Daniel, Martin - Development of cars

Thursday, November 14 - Florian P., Thomas S. - Vaping

Friday, November 15 -

Thursday, November 21 - Philipp E., Fabian - Language Week in 4th form

Friday, November 22 - Thomas A., Max, Julian - ??

5C - Homework for Tuesday, October 15

For Tuesday, October 15

1) do the review exercises on pages 13-14 (ex. 1, 2, 3, 4)

2) wanna work ahead? Do one of these letters:
a) rewrite your tourism letter to your penpal in Brazil on nice paper OR
b) write the letter on page 12 OR
c) write the letter on page 15, ex. 7

7C - "homework" for Friday, October 11

No homework to speak of... Frau Prof. Sandrock will invent some climate change torture for you!

In the meantime, watch this clip from Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth:

1C - For Friday, October 11

For Friday, October 11 - Diagnostic Check

1) Sign up for the AOC Check here: https://aoc01.cebs.at/
2) Take the practice test
3) BRING HEADPHONES!

3C - Homework for Monday, October 14

For Monday, October 14
1) Read the reading on page 20 of Context 2
2) Make a list of orange words and green words in your notebook
3) Do exercise 1 on page 21
4) Do exercise 2 on page 21
5) Look at page 36 in your Companion book for words to describe Charts and graphs

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

9C - SYMPOSIUM DATES AND TOPICS

GROUP A:

~~Monday, October 14: Lucas K., Sascha - Gun violence in games~~

~~Tuesday, October 15: Kevin, Nico - Dictators past and present~~

~~Tuesday, October 29: Alexander, Christoph -alternative energies~~

Monday, November 25: Karlo, Oliver - Legalization of Marijuana

Tuesday, November 26: Fabian, Granit - Body modification

GROUP B

~~Monday, October 7: Daniel, Eldin - 4 Stroke motors~~

~~Monday, October 14 - Simone, Jan - Austria~~

~~Tuesday, October 15 - Lux, Lena - Greta Thunberg~~

Monday, October 21 - Julian S. - Motorsport?

~~Tuesday, October 22 - David, Maltrim - Tuning~~

~~Monday, October 28 - Geri, Many - Black driving~~

~~Tuesday, October 29~~ Monday, November 4 - Paul, Sales - Flat Earth

5C - Homework for Thursday, October 10

For Thursday, October 10

1) Reread the article "Carbon Footprint of Global Tourism is Huge"

2) Start filling out the worksheet "Tourism and Travel" using talking points from the book and class.

9C - Homework for Monday, October 14

For Monday, October 14

1) Finish filling out the worksheet on Tourism and Travel. You can do this by doing the readings and exercises in the tourism and travel chapter (p. 307-325, Trauner)

2) Do the Writing Task on page 325 (alternative: write a letter to your Brazilian penpal about a local tourist attraction - include where they should stay and food specialties they can try) - Write on LINED PAPER with KORREKTURRAND!

3) Watch this video on Death and Disaster Tourism:

Monday, October 7, 2019

3C - Homework for Thursday, October 10

For Thursday, October 10

1) Do exercise A7 on page 15 (informal letter of reply to Chrissie's letter). Write this on LINED paper, with a KORREKTURRAND. For help, see "Writing an informal letter or email" on pages 48-49 of the COMPANION to Context - or see "How to write a letter" in your notebook from last year.

2) Be prepared to report on your group's results from exercise B7 on page 19.

9C- Homework for Tuesday, October 8

For Tuesday, October 8
1) look over the vocabulary on page 317 (Listening exercise!)
2) Read over pages 314-317 - do individual exercise
3) If you want to work ahead, write the letter on page 325.

Friday, October 4, 2019

3C - Homework for Monday, October 7

For Monday, October 7

N.B. Don't Forget to bring 3 Euros for the Companion Grammar to Context!!

1) do the exercise on page 18 - this will be the basis of our lesson on Monday,

1C - Homework for Thursday, October 10

For Thursday, October 10
1) Do something in English (watch a video, read an article, speak English while playing video games)

DO THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT YET!
2) Read the text on page 13 of Context 1 (A day in the life of an engineering student)
3) Answer the questions on page 14 about the text. USE FULL SENTENCES
(If you need help, you have a COMPANION to Context. It is a thin, purple book. You can look up information about present simple tense on page 9, pronouns on page 6)

7C- Homework for Thursday, October 10

Homework for Thursday, October 10
*familiarize yourself with the different kinds of alternative energies (pages 58-68, Trauner)
* do the exercises on page 60-61 in Trauner

Monday, September 30, 2019

3C - Homework for Thursday, October 3

For Thursday, October 3
1) Review vocabulary for Unit 1, Context HTL 2.
2) Add vocabulary on page 16-17 and
3) do the exercise on page 18.

9C - Homework for Tuesday, October 1

Homework for Tuesday. October 1

Fill out Tourism Talking Point Worksheet (full sentences, lots of details and examples)

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Abend HTL - "homework" for Tuesday, October 1

For Tuesday, October 1:

2) Familiarize yourself with ego4u.com. If you know you are weak in tenses, or pronouns, or English word order, this is your one-stop shop for English grammar: https://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar

1) You should write another entry for your English Activity Journal. If you don't know what to write about, may I suggest the following: Write about Greta Thunberg and the climate crisis. You can watch a lot of videos at this link: https://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-videos-and-resources.html (I recommend these two:

1C - Homework for Thursday, October 3

For Thursday, October 3
1) Look at this page to learn more about the present simple tense (https://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simple-present) and do exercises.

2) Read the text on page 13 of Context 1 (A day in the life of an engineering student)

3) Answer the questions on page 14 about the text. USE FULL SENTENCES

(If you need help, you have a COMPANION to Context. It is a thin, purple book. You can look up information about present simple tense on page 9, pronouns on page 6)

Thursday, September 26, 2019

5C - Homework for Tuesday, October 8

For Tuesday, October 1 (er... October 8!)

1) Identify the different types of tourism on page 5 (ex. 2)

2) Look at the vocabulary on page 5, exercise 2.

3) Read the article on page 6 and answer the questions on page 7.

4) Do the vocabulary exercises on page 8 (connected to the reading on page 6)

5) Take a look at this Video About disaster tourism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aocfmfRbZ_I

6) be prepared to talk about Sport Week (travel, accommodations, food, activities)

3C - Homework for Monday, September 30

For Monday, September 30

1) Read the text on page 12 (One in Five Adolescents is not in School)

2) Do the exercises on pages 13-14 (Reading Comprehension - Note form, Answer the questions (ex. 3), Signposting phrases (Ex. 4a, b), Vocabulary (Ex. 5 a, b)

3) Be prepared for schriftliche MA about teen stress

1C - Homework for Friday, September 27

For Friday - Do exercises on pages 10-11 of your textbook (Context 1)

Be prepared to talk (and write!) about your timetable (subjects, time phrases, spelling!)

7C - Homework for Friday, September 27

For Friday, prepare for schriftliche Mitarbeit over Greta Thunberg and the climate crisis.

You should know (and be able to use) the terms on pages 50-55. Add: protect, restore, fund, slacktivism

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

5C - Homework for Thursday, September 26

For Thursday, September 26

In your textbook (Best Shots 3) do exercises 1-3 on pages 1-2.

If you want to work ahead, look at pages 4-7.

9C - Homework for Monday, September 30

Do vocabulary on p. 308, and readings and exercises on pages 309-314. This will give you a good Basis to do an inc-class exercise on Monday, September 30

Monday, September 23, 2019

9C - Homework for Tuesday, September 24

Group A - Be prepared to do an in-class exercise

Group B - We'll finish the climate change discussion we started on Monday. Then we will move on to tourism (which, of course, is connected to climate!)

3C - Homework for Thursday, September 26

Homework for Thursday, September 26

1) Read the text on page 10 again.

2) Finish exercise 3 on page 11

3) Review vocabulary on pages 10-11, add new vocabulary on page 12 (bottom left corner)

4) If you want to work ahead, do the exercises on pages 12-14

Sunday, September 22, 2019

7C - Homework for Thursday, September 26

For Thursday, September 26

* review the vocabulary on page 50-51 of Trauner

* Complete the exercises on pages 51-55 of Trauner

* watch the videos at this link if you haven't already! https://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-videos-and-resources.html

1C - Homework for Thursday, September 26

For Thursday, September 26

* Bring your textbook (Context HTL) and notebook(s) to the lesson

* Study the words for school subjects on page 13 of Context HTL.. There will be a spelling exercise in the lesson!

5C - Homework for Tuesday, September 24

For Tuesday, September 24:

1) bring your textbooks and notebook(s) to the lesson

2) Use this link ( http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-videos-and-resources.html ) to learn everything you can about Greta Thunberg, the climate crisis and the Global Climate Strike, September 20-27. How can you get involved?

Be prepared to talk intelligently about these issues on Tuesday!

3C - Homework for Monday, September 23

Homework for Monday, September 23:

1) Use this link ( http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-videos-and-resources.html ) to learn everything you can about Greta Thunberg, the climate crisis and the Global Climate Strike, September 20-27. How can you get involved?

2) bring your textbooks and notebook(s) to the lesson

3) Do the mind map on page 10 of your textbook and the vocabulary exercises on page 11 (2, 3)

9C - Homework for September 23

For Monday, September 23

1) Review pages 49-68 in your textbook (Trauner)
2) use this link http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com/2019/09/greta-thunberg-videos-and-resources.html to find out more about Greta Thunberg, the climate crisis, and how you can get involved.

Be prepared to talk intelligently about these issues in class on Monday, September 23.

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Abend HTL - Homework for Tuesday, September 24

For Tuesday, September 24, you should:

* get two notebooks for the lessons and bring them to class:
- one for your notes/vocabulary/in-class exercises
- one for your Fernstudium

* Check your answers to the orthography exercise here

* Finish your Student Information Sheet to hand in

* Finish two entries in your activity journal (CHOOSE FROM: "My Job", "English in my World", "My New English Teacher" or something else from this list)

* If you have books, bring them to class!

Abend HTL Fernstudium

English is the only subject that you can learn without studying
(Englisch ist das einzige Fach, das man "lernen ohne Lernen" kann) - Frau Prof. Sandrock

ENGLISH ACTIVITY JOURNAL

WHO: You!

WHAT: You will record in your journal the ways you use English outside of English class.

WHERE: Outside of English class!

WHEN: Whenever you can work it in to your schedule! (at least one hour a week)

WHY: Because 90 minutes a week isn’t enough to learn English for Matura.

HOW: At least once a week[1], set aside time to do some of the following:

WATCH! part of a movie in English (with or without English subtitles)

an episode of a series in English (with or without English subtitles)

videos in English

the news in English

sports or sports highlights in English

LISTEN! to music in English

to the news in English

READ! a book in English (you don’t have to read 250 pages at one sitting!)

poems in English

the news in English

memes in English

articles about your favorite band, sports team, actor/actress, etc

SPEAK! English with a classmate

English in an online gaming community

English with a native speaker or a tourist

WRITE! texts in your journal in English

in English on social media

in English in online gaming communities

forum entries on the blog (question of the day)

TRANSLATE! articles, music texts, poems, memes

SET! Your electronics (iPhone, iPad, computer, etc) to English

Your social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to English

EXTRAS! Make a recipe following the English directions

Make your own memes in English

Make a video in English

Write your own English texts (stories, poems, ideas)

Notice English in the world around you (especially in shops and advertisements)

DOs	DON’Ts
USE A LINIERTES HEFT MIT KORREKTURRAND!	Don’t wait until the last minute!
Do activities in English	Don’t copy from your classmate
Write your journal entries in English.	Don’t copy from the Internet
Use complete sentences.	Don’t use Google Translate
Include lots of specific details (date, length of time, activity, skills used, titles of films, books, URLs of websites, videos, links)
Write at least 100 words per entry.

MINIMUM: One entry per week

FIRST COLLECTION – Tuesday, September 24 (minimum 2 entries: Choose from - "My Job" "English in my World" "My New English Teacher" or see list above!)

See blog (ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.com) for ideas and inspiration!

[1] Students who do more than one English activity a week and/or write more than one journal entry are likely to learn more English and get better grades. Make it so!

Friday, September 20, 2019

Abend HTL - Answers to Orthography Exercise

Hello, my name’s Alex Dogaru. That isn’t a typical Austrian name. I come from Romania, you see. I was born on 11 June in Bucharest, Romania. I’m 18 years old and this is my first year at the technical college in Linz.

My family moved to Austria when I was five years old, so I speak very good German now. My sisters were born in Austria and they only speak German. But I still remember enough Romanian to talk with our grandparents when we go back to Romania to stay in their house in Bucharest. English is my third language.

My favorite subject at school is information technology because I’m very interested in computers. I want to be a software engineer when I finish my studies. But I’m not a typical tech-head because I also like music. I play trumpet and I’m quite good at it.

In the photo you can see me with my cat. His name is Dr. Strange. That’s because “Dr. Strange” is one of my favorite films. I’m 1,65 meters tall and have brown hair and green eyes.

I like travelling a lot and one day I want to go to the USA. My biggest dream is to fly in a helicopter along the Grand Canyon in Arizona. That would be great!

Well, I think that’s all there is to know about me. Hmm, maybe I should also tell you that I’m very bad at winter sports. I tried snowboarding once and broke my leg. But you can’t be good at everything, can you?