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

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.

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!

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

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).

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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.