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)

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.