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

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