3C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Thursday, May 7 (2 hours)

Focus on Modern Technology, Book 2:  Chapter 7 (Your Digital Life), Chapter 8 (The Business of Sport)
Into the Wild (basic story)

Grammar: Indirect speech, verbs (all tenses)

Text types:  email, blog entry, blog comment, article, summary, description

You can expect:
A listening section
A reading section
A writing section
A grammar section

2C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Thursday, May 7

From Focus on Modern Technology Book 1:  How a four stroke motor works
From Focus on Modern Technology Book 2: Chapters 1 (Adventure Travel, including parts of a car) and 2 (School)

Grammar:  if-clauses, irregular plurals, verbs (all tenses)

Text types you know:  summary, email, blog entry, description, review

You can expect:
A listening section
A reading section
A grammar section
A writing section

1HAS - Homework for Tuesday, May 5

Write a summary of one (or more) of the texts which were handed out in class on Tuesday.
1)  Summary of "Jamie Oliver" (p. 66-67) in your textbook Just Go For It
2)  Summary of "The World's Best Lasagne Recipe" (handout)
3)  Summary of "Mobile Learning" (handout)

A summary (Kurzfassung) contains the most important information in the text. What is the main message of the text?  Try to answer Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?

Make sure you write your summary in your OWN WORDS.  Don't just copy sentences from the text.

Also, look at this list of links to learn more about "False Friends." We will do a False Friends exercise on May 5 in class. https://www.google.com/search?q=false+friends+german+english&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=false+friends+german+english&tbm=vid

2C - Homework for Thursday, April 30

1)  Read email from Becky on p. 21. Then write a reply to her (Ex. 3, p. 22)  If you need help, see p. 110.  Write out your text to hand in.  5 points (but possibility of gaining 15 more!)

2) Read the text on pages 24-25.  Do exercise 4 on page 25 (Matura task!  - Put the headings in the right place in the article.  Then do Exercise 5, p. 26 (write out full sentences to the reading comprehension questions) and Ex. 6 p. 26 (vocabulary - copy the sentences with the correct word)
Total points 13 to 17.

3)  Help out an American high school student http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/help-out-american-high-school-student.html. Answer one or more of Philip's questions in the comment section below.  Put the number of the question(s) you are answering as well as your class and initials so I know who gets the points!

8C - Homework Options for Monday, April 27

Starting the Chapter on Globalization.  Here are the exercises you can learn from (reading comprehension, putting things in your own words, vocabulary, etc) and get points for!

1) Exercise 1 on page 70 (full sentences, written out on a separate piece of paper) - 5 pts

And/Or

2) Read the article on page 71 and do Exercise 2 on page 70 (full sentences, written out on a separate piece of paper) - 6 pts

And/Or

3) Read pp. 72-73. Do exercise 3 on page 74 (full sentences, written out on a separate piece of paper) - 8 pts

And/Or

4) Read pp.75-76 and do exercise 8 on page 76 - 4 pts

ADDITIONALLY:
You can write answers to questions from Philip as a comment on the blog at http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/help-out-american-high-school-student.html

1C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Monday, April 27

Chapter 3 (Home Entertainment) and Chapter 4 (Sports and Leisure)
Baseball
Tenses (especially present perfect and future)
Writing an email, letter, SUMMARY

EXPECT
A grammar section
A reading section
A writing section (e-mail, letter or summer)
POSSIBLY a short listening.

PRACTICE
Answers for the "Do You Remember 2" worksheet that was handed out in class can be found on page 143 of your textbook.

You can also practice by writing a summary of the article about Quidditch that was handed out in class.

Dutch Wind Wheel

Here are some articles about the Dutch Wind Wheel we mentioned in class last Thursday!

The Dutch Windwheel website:  http://dutchwindwheel.com/en/index
Review on Engineering.com:  http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/9659/How-Much-Wind-Energy-Can-the-Dutch-Windwheel-Harness.aspx
Article by the Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-dutch-wind-wheel-part-green-tech-showcase-part-architectural-attraction-180954377/?no-ist
Article on gizmag:  http://www.gizmag.com/dutch-windwheel-concept/36166/

What do you think?  Is this the future of renewable energy?

British Council VERB MACHINE

Got a verb revision coming up?  Check out the British Council's VERB MACHINE!

1HAS - Homework for Friday, April 24

1) Keep a food journal.  Keep track what you eat and drink over the next week. What did you eat?   Where did you eat? Who prepared the food?  Was the food healthy or unhealthy?  Did you like the food?  Here are some phrases to get you started:

today       / at / breakfast / I                 / ate             / roast pork.
yesterday /    / lunch       / my mother / fixed          / veal cutlet.
.                     / dinner      / my family / prepared    /
.                                                           / grilled out. /

I / don't / like / lettuce with pumpkinseed oil.
I /             / like / salad with chicken strips.   

My /                / favorite / food     / is / pizza.
       /               /               / snacks / are / pretzels and potato chips.  
.      / least       / favorite / meal / is / ham loaf.

2) Write a comment on the blog. Answer Philip's questions about Austria.  Make sure you put the NUMBER of the question you are answering and your CLASS and INTIALS (1HAS, JS) so I know who gets the points!
                                             
On Friday, April 24 we will have a vocabulary test over the words on pages 70-71.

4AHK - Homework Options for Tuesday, April 28

1) You MUST write a draft of the report on page 73.  Use some of the phrases from the handout and include a SUBJECT, INTRODUCTION, ANALYSIS OF RESULTS (p. 73) and CONCLUSION/RECOMMENDATION.  This is a Matura Textsorte, and we will do a second draft in May.

2) Write a comment on the blog to Philip in answer to his questions about Austria.  You can answer one or more of his questions. Make sure you put the number of the question you are answering and include your class and initials so I know who gets points (4AHK, JS).

3) You can get a head start on Chapter 7 by reading the text on page 70 (Researcher, Beware) and writing a summary.

4)  You may also want to read the text on page 72 (Some types of websites). This is of highest importance for next year's projects (Diplomarbeit).

Help out an American high school student!

Philip is an American student who respresents Austria in the Model UN.  Answer one or more of his  questions in the comments.  Make sure you put the NUMBER of the question you are answering and put your class and initials so I know who gets points (1HAS, JS)

1)  How do you imagine Austria in fifteen years?

2)  What is your opinion of America?

3)  What is the best part about Austria?

4)  What is the largest social or political issue in your country right now?

5)  What is the biggest challenge facing Austrian teens today?

6)  Finally, your teacher tells me that Austria is months ahead of the US in fashion. What is in style this summer? I’m looking to get a jump on my friends.

Thank You,

Philip Kiely

Note:  The comment will not appear immediately.  Keep a copy of your comment in case it gets lost in the cloud!

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