9C - Homework for Thursday, November 30

Start learning the vocabulary for jobs in Trauner (p. 345, 346).  Don't just learn the words, try to use them in sentences (even better, think of words that are connected:  to achieve, achievement, over-achiever, under-achieving.  "My greatest achievement was writing a PhD thesis.  I was never an over-achiever, but achieving a doctorate showed my high school guidance counselor that I wasn't the under-achieving slacker he thought I was."

Start thinking about your dream job (What sort of education do you need for it?  Where do you want to work? What are your skills (Do you need English 😉?  What do you need to improve?  How much money can you make? How much stress is involved?  Is it more important to have a job you love or a job that pays the bills so you can have free time to live your life?)

7C - Lehrstoff, Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 5

7C – Lehrstoff for Schularbeit, Tuesday, December 5

Unit 2: Classroom Revolution Focus on Modern Technology 3
Unit 6: The Future is Green FMT 3
Unit 1 (Addiction and Dependence) Trauner
Unit 3 (Energy and Climate) Trauner
Unit 8 (Robots, pp. 144-147) Trauner

FORMAT:  2 hours

Listening comprehension
Reading comprehension
Word Formation
Writing section

TEXT TYPES
Article
Blog comment
Blog entry
Email
Letter
Report
Summary

TOPICS
Hurricanes (causes, connection to global warming, consequences)
Greenhouse Effect
Global warming/Climate change consequences for Austria
Addictions (reasons people get addicted, types of addictions, consequences, treatment)
Types of drugs (hard drugs, soft drugs, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, opiates, psychedelic, legal/illegal, socially acceptable)
Alcohol (causes, effects, consequences),
Teaching English without Teaching English (TED Talk)
Better Communication is worth your time (article)
Virtual education
Robots/Artificial Intelligence Jobs we'll lose to machines (TED Talk)
This Virtual Lab will Revolutionize Science Class (TED Talk)
EXTRAS:  Friday the 13^th, hazing, War Games

GRAMMAR YOU SHOULD BE USING REGULARLY IN YOUR TEXTS

Tenses (correctly)
Passive voice

If clauses

Gerunds
Indirect Speech
Comparisons
Modal Verbs

Linking words
PARAGRAPHS

3C - Lehrstoff for the Schularbeit, Monday, December 4

3C – LEHRSTOFF FOR THE SCHULARBEIT, December 4, 2017

Module 1, 2, 3 – Best Shots 2

FORMAT
A LISTENING COMPREHENSION
A READING COMPREHENSION
A GRAMMAR SECTION
A WRITING SECTION

TEXT TYPES
Email/Letter (NEW! Letter to the editor)
NEW! Article
Summary
Blog Entry
Blog Comment

GRAMMAR – (You will also be expected to use these in your text)
NEW! Passive voice (all tenses)
NEW! Past perfect tense
NEW! If-Sentences (aka conditionals aka Bedingungssätze)
You should know the other tenses (present simple, present progressive, past simple, past progressive, present perfect, going to future, will-future) in the positive, negative, and question forms
Difference between say/speak/tell/talk

TOPICS
Returning to school
Stress (causes, symptoms, ways of coping with stress, Big Rocks)
Holidays (types, comparing different types of holidays)
Musical genres
Hearing Loss
Noise in the classroom
Sound waves
The Beatles
Environment (student attitudes, green tips, plastic bottles, fossil fuels, renewable energies)
EXTRAS: Friday the 13th

9C - Homework for Monday, November 27

For Monday, November 27 you should:

1) Look up information on current events to talk about on Monday
(lots of things going on in the world... sexual harassment, mosque attacks, Trump claiming he is Time's Person of the Year, a lost Argentinian submarine, Saudi Arabia and Iran, new government in Zimbabwe, Charles Manson died, and then there's this guy who wants to prove the Earth is flat.)

Black Friday / Cyber Monday

A Blog Post by Dr. JoJo

Every year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving (Erntedankfest). In 2017, 51 million people traveled across the United States to celebrate this important holiday with their families.  The standard meal is turkey with all the fixins (Puten mit jeder Menge Beilagen), including stuffing (Füllung), cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie. After we have eaten, we watch hours of American football on television then fall into a food coma.

The Friday after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday." Perhaps you've heard about the crazy sales at the shopping malls on this day.  The malls open their doors at midnight and millions (101 million in 2016) go shopping for Christmas presents.  This day is called "Black" Friday, because it is a chance for shops to increase their profit (Gewinnsteigerung) for the year.  A profit (Gewinn) means that the shops are "in the black" (in den schwarzen Zahlen).  If they are in the red (in den roten Zahlen) it means the shops have lost money for the year.

The Monday after Thanksgiving is called Cyber Monday, and it is another important shopping day.  On the weekend, people learned how much televisions, computers, and other high-priced items cost in the shops.  On Cyber Monday people try to find those same products on the internet for a cheaper price.  Cyber (pronounced SEI-ber) is a term that means computer (think of cyber crime, cyber bullying, cybernaut).

And now you know about as much about Black Friday / Cyber Monday as I do!  If you read this, please leave a comment below!  I love hearing from my students!

7C - War Games

Here's the video we started watching in the Supplierstunde on Friday:
https://vimeo.com/groups/349208/videos/152524870

7C - Homework for Friday, November 24

Task 1) Read Virtual Eve, p. 23-24 (Focus on Modern Technology 3)
Task 2) answer the questions (ex 2, p. 24 ) to produce a summary
Task 3) page 25, write a short story about the comic using phrases in the word bank
Task 4) p. 26, need to review the passive voice?  Try ex 6!
Task 5) TRAUNER, p. 144, learn the vocabulary for robots

3C - Homework for Monday, November 27

Task 1) Finish the article about your environmental protection study.  Here's what we have so far...
You should have about 200 words (+/- 10%)
TITLE:  HTL Trieben – GOING GREEN

INTRODUCTION:

Have you ever thought about how important it is to protect the environment? A study by the second form shows that most students at the HTL Trieben do not care much about the environment.  We look into a few attitudes and suggest some ideas to become more green.

BULLET POINT 1 (Summarize the main findings of your project)

Most students take public transportation to get to school, because it is impractical to walk if you don’t live in Trieben.  But vehicles like buses put a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, which isn't good for our environment.  Students also... (Dr. Sandrock suggests two more concerns:  Students don't use refillable water bottles and students don't care how much water they use when brushing their teeth)

BULLET POINT 2 (Comment on your peers environmental attitudes)

BULLET POINT 3 (Give suggestions what teenagers can do to protect the environment)

CONCLUSION (Give your readers something to think about - see the language box on page 32)

1C - Homework for Tuesday, November 28

Look over the vocabulary for shopping in Unit 2, Focus on Modern Technology 1 (pp. 31-33).

We will do shopping dialogues in the lesson on Tuesday!

9C - In Class, November 20

Give a monologue of at least 3 minutes on one of the following topics.

What were your impressions of Munich as a tourist?  What are your best recommendations for a tourist to the city?  Places to stay, places to eat, attractions, etc.

What did you think of the Hofbräuhaus?  Is it representative of German culture or is it just for tourists?  Give reasons for your assessment.

Did you notice any environmentally-friendly practices in your hotel?  What would you recommend to the owners to make it a more eco-friendly stay?

9C - Homework for Monday, November 20

Task 1)  Bring your Focus on Modern Technology 4/5 book to class!

Task 2) Find information about the consequences of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (here's a good link! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/10/hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-seven-weeks-later-survival-mode/851084001/)

Task 3) Don't forget your journal entries from Munich - Dzenis (2), Julian S. (2), Edon (2), Larissa (2), Ivan (2), Jürgen (1), Daniel (1)