5AHK - "Lehrstoff" for SA2, Monday, February 29

We have done lessons on linking words, speaking freely, entrepreneurship, business plans, NGOs, how to succeed at the oral Matura, Super Bowl and advertising, current events (NPR), and writing an article.

This SA will be 2 hours, and will include one listening task, one reading task, two writing tasks.  Pretend it is the Matura and get the best grade you can. It is worth 40% of your overall grade this semester.

2HAS - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Monday, January 18

2HAS Lehrstoff, January 18 – 1 hr SA

You are responsible for all skills, vocabulary and topics in Modules 1-4 of Just Go For It 2

You can expect to:

- Write a text

- Do a listening

- Do a reading

- Have a grammar section

TOPICS

- Stress

- Youth hotlines

- Getting over a breakup

- Rage rooms

- Working in an office

- Office equipment

- Business letters (inquiry, offer)

- Making phone calls

- Emotional eating

- Work/life balance

- Setting priorities

- Be happy with yourself as a teen

- Transporting goods

- Methods of transport

- What can go wrong with orders/deliveries

- Supermarket chains

- Product packaging

GRAMMAR

- past tense

- present perfect tense

- adverb

- adjective

- modal verbs should (ought to) and must (have to)

SKILLS

- Writing a letter/email of enquiry

- Replying to letters of enquiry

- Writing an offer letter
- Summary
- general email/letter 
- telephone dailogue

2C - Homework for Thursday, January 14

For Thursday, January 14 - We will repeat the Schularbeit in the first  lesson.  All students may take the SA for a better grade.  Schwerpunkt:  PASSIVE VOICE.  You should try to pass with a C or better (Make your English teacher happy... get an A or a B!) Lehrstoff is here:  http://ennsvalleyenglish.blogspot.co.at/2015/11/2c-lehrstoff-schularbeit-thursday.html

You should also be able to describe a four stroke motor in the second lesson.  You can find a description on pages 123-125 of Book 1 of Focus on Modern Technology 1.

Bring Focus on Modern Technology 2 to class.

1C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit Wednesday, January 20

Grundsätzlich alles, was bisher im Unterricht an Stoff durchgemacht wurde.

- Unit 0, 1, 2, + 3 bis Seite 47
- Alle Vokabel dieser Units
- Irregular Verbs
- Texte:
a. letter: introducing yourself or somebody else, letter of apology (p. 38)
b. describing your room, describing where you live
c. shopping dialogues
d. summarising a text
e. What tools/appliances do you need for around the home and what can you use them for?
- Grammar
- Tenses:  present simple, present progressive, past simple, past progressive.  Includes positive statements (bejahte Aussagen), negation (Verneinung) and questions (Fragen)

5AHK - Lehrstoff for SA, Monday, December 21

FORMAT - Two hours

You can expect
A LISTENING section
A READING section
TEXTS (includes reminder letters, brochures, and our old friends letter/email, blog entry, blog comment and report)

You are responsible for VOCABULARY and CONTENT of the following units:

Unit 7 - Tourism
 - positive and negative effects of tourism
 - service industries in tourism
 - what is 'responsible' tourism?
 - examples of cultural tourism
 - how to write a brochure
Unit 8 - Globalisation
 - definition of globalisation
 - advantages and disadvantages of globalisation
 - outsourcing
 - anti-globalisation movement
Unit 9 - Work/Life balance
 - What is burnout?
 - Wellness programs
 - Modern stress factors

Unit 6 - Focus on Modern Business Communication
 - How to write reminder letters

EXTRAS
 - Big Rocks, all verbs/tenses

5AHK - Homework for Monday, December 14

For Monday, December 14, you should start reviewing the Lehrstoff for the Schularbeit on Monday, December 21.

We will do 1 minute talks on the following topics:

Unit 7 - Tourism
 - positive and negative effects of tourism
 - service industries in tourism
 - what is 'responsible' tourism?
 - examples of cultural tourism
 - how to write a brochure
Unit 8 - Globalisation
 - definition of globalisation
 - advantages and disadvantages of globalisation
 - outsourcing
Unit 9 - Work/Life balance
 - What is burnout?
 - Wellness programs
 - Modern stress factors

Unit 6 - Focus on Modern Business Communication
 - How to write reminder letters

EXTRAS
 - Big Rocks

You will draw topics out of a hat.

4BHK - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Friday, December 18 (2 hours)

For the Schularbeit on December 18, you are responsible for the following topics and skills:

FORMAT
Listening
Reading
Writing (two tasks:  includes enquiry letter, sponsorship/fundraising letter, letter/email, AIDA description)

FOCUS ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY 4/5

Unit 1 -  marketing departments, marketing strategies, sponsorship goals, sponsorship types

Unit 2 - AIDA (describing an ad using the AIDA formula, advertising process, advertising methods, branding, children and advertising, online advertising

Unit 3 -  sectors of the economy, distribution chain, online shopping,

FOCUS ON MODERN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Unit 4 - Enquiry Letters

EXTRAS
press release, 4Ps (Marketing Mix), Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday

For more about each chapter, see:
Unit 1 - Terms and vocabulary
Unit 2 - Terms and vocabulary
Unit 3 - Terms and vocabulary

7C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Thursday, December 10

For the Schularbeit, you are responsible for the following skills and topics:

FORMAT - TWO HOURS
Listening - Allgemeines Thema
Reading - Allgemeines Thema
Writing - Possible text types:  letter/email, blog entry, blog comment, article, report, summary

Chapter 2, Focus on Modern Technology 3
Classroom revolution:  describing diagrams and graphs, human interaction computers, robots, passive voice,

Chapter 3
Keeping in touch, Indirect speech

SONSTIGES
Pros and cons of cell phones in the classroom, writing reports from graphs and charts, travel/Sprachwoche,

3C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Thursday, December 10

For the Schularbeit 

For the Schularbeit on December 10, you are responsible for the following units and skills:
FORMAT:  
Listening - Allgemeines Thema
2 Writings - Possible text types:  Summary, letter/email 
(letter of application, giving advice), blog entry, blog comment,

CHAPTER 3, Focus on Modern Technology
Casual jobs, stress, review of all tenses

CHAPTER 4
Neighbours
Focus on Technology Universal Design, Automatic Doors, modal verbs

SONSTIGES
Stereotypes, prejudice, disabilities, accommodations, CV, letters of application, rage rooms, comparing cultures (US and Austria for example) Krampus

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2C - Lehrstoff, Schularbeit Thursday, December 10

For the Schularbeit on December 10, you are responsible for the following units and skills:

FORMAT
Listening - Allgemeines Thema
Reading - Allgemeines Thema
Grammar - some/any, much/many, a lot of, plenty of, (a) few, (a) little, passive voice, all tenses, modal verbs
Writing - summary, review, blog entry, letter/email

Vocabulary, topics, and grammar - Chapter 6
Fitness and Food:  weighty problems, eating in different cultures, ordering from a menu, some/any, much/many, a lot of, plenty of, (a) few, (a) little

Vocabulary, topics, and grammar - Chapter 7
Moving pictures TV and Cinema: Types of films/series, writing a review, how to produce an animated series (Simpsons), history of film making/how a film is produced, passive voice (all tenses), passive with modal verbs

SONSTIGES:  Choose My Plate, Thanksgiving, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

4AHK - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Friday, May 22

Chapters in Focus on Modern Business 4/5
Chapter 4 - Customer Service
Chapter 5 - Body is Big Business
Chapter 6 - Examining Media

Text Types:  e-mail/letter (both formal and informal), blog entry, blog comment, summary, NEW:  report, letter of complaint, responding to complaints

Topics:  Customer service, complaints, plastic surgery, sports enhancements, history of media, old media vs. new media, how to tell the difference between good websites and bad websites

Extras: Fawlty Towers, Super Bowl

Expect 1 listening
Expect 1 reading
Expect 2 texts to write

1HAS - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Tuesday, May 19 (1 hour)

CHAPTERS in "JUST GO FOR IT 1"
Chapter 4 - Time to dress up or down?
Chapter 5 - A special place to be
Chapter 6 - Simply Enjoy

GRAMMAR
Present tense (simple, progressive)
Past tense (simple, progressive)
Forms of verbs (go, went, gone)
Adjectives (1st form-positive, 2nd form-comparative, 3rd form-superlative: good, better, best)

WRITING
E-Mail
Summary

TOPICS (including vocabulary)
Wizard of Oz
False Friends
Synonyms (words that mean the same:  big, great, large, huge)
Fashion
Housing
Food

8C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Monday, May 11 (2 hours)

Chapters 4, 5, 6 Focus on Modern Technology 4/5
Topics:  Transit traffic, ecotourism, globalisation
Grammar:  Word formation, verb tenses, relative clauses (defining and non-defining), terrible twins and triplets 
Text types:  formal email, informal email, blog entry, blog comment, summary, NEW:  report
Extras:  Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Superbowl

Expect:  a reading section, a listening section, a writing section (2 hours)

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

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.

2C - Grammar Practice for Schularbeit (Thursday, January 15)

PASSIVE EXERCISES
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/passive-forms

ADVERBS/ADJECTIVES
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/adjektiv_adverb.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/dg-eding.html

BASIC TENSES
Present simple
+ I have football practice on Mondays.
- She doesn't have football practice
? When do you have football practice?

Present progressive (aka present continuous)
+ I am studying.
- He is not studying.
? Are you studying?

Past simple - Regular verbs
BASIC TENSES

Present simple
+ I failed the driving test.
- He failed his driving test.
? Did you fail the driving test?

Past simple - Irregular verbs
+ I took a taxi.
- She did not take a taxi.
? Did you take a taxi?

Past progressive
+ I was playing my guitar.
- She was not playing the guitar.
? What were you doing (when the car crashed into the tree)?

To be - Present and past
Present simple/present continuous:
+ I am at the cafe.
- He is not at the cafe.
? Where are you?

Past simple/past continuous.
+ He was late last time, too.
- I wasn't late.
? Were you late last time?

1 HAS - Lehrstoff für Schularbeit, Tuesday, January 20

1 HAS - LEHRSTOFF – SCHULARBEIT 1

The Schularbeit will be one hour on Tuesday, January 20, 2015.

You can expect

-          a grammar section

-          a writing section

-          a reading section

GRAMMAR

die Zeiten, die wir bisher gelernt haben, wie und wann wir sie verwenden, und wie wir sie formen in positiven und negativen Sätzen, und Fragen

Present simple

Present progressive

Past simple

Past progressive

Nouns, verbs, adjectives

VOCABULARY

Essential verbs (hand out)

Chapter 1, pp. 5, 12

Chapter 2, p. 24

Chapter 3, p. 38

TOPICS

Describing yourself

Describing other people

Describing pictures

Your relatives

Shopping

Your last shopping trip

Hobbies

Activities in winter, spring, summer, fall

How to get the most out of English class

Holidays (Feiertage, Ferien)

Describing your winter break

3C - Lehrstoff für Schularbeit, Thursday, January 15, 2015

3C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Thursday, January 15, 2015

CHAPTERS IN FOCUS ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY 2
Do you remember? -  p. 56-57 (conditionals, irregular plurals, questions, negations, tenses  including present simple, present progressive, past simple, past progressive, modals

Chapter 5 - Communication - how to write an email, wifi risks to children, how wifi works, passive and by-agent

Chapter 6 - Food and Health - food allergies, how to eat healthy, food groups, 

GRAMMAR
Passive voice

By-Agent

Grammar from Do You Remember and Grammar Revision sheet handed out at the beginning of the semester (question word order, negation word order, pronouns, articles, tenses, some/any)

Relative pronouns

Terrible twins and triplets of grammar

TOPICS

Health risks of modern technology (wifi, cell phones)

Fad diets

TEXT SORTEN

Formal email

Blog entry

FORMAT - 2 hours
1 listening
2 readings
2 writings
Grammar section

1C - Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Monday, January 12, 2015

CHAPTERS IN FOCUS ON MODERN TECHNOLOGY 1
0 - getting started, talking about yourself, school, English, jobs
Do you remember? -  verb "to be", "to have", question word order, personal pronouns, possessive pronouns
1 - Houses and Homes; talking about your house, your room, Nick Cooper, home appliances, tools
2 - Shopping: Shopping language, Adam steals a mobile phone, video surveillance,

GRAMMAR
personal pronouns
possessive pronouns
verb "to be", "to have"
regular verbs
irregular verbs
present simple
present progressive
past simple
past progressive

WORD ORDER (all tenses)
positive statement
negative statement
question

FORMAT - 1 hour
1 listening
1 reading
1 writing
Grammar section