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Task 1:  (Individual). Write a description of everything you can see in picture A. Use as much detail as possible. When you don’t know the technical name for something, find a way to describe it in your own words. (2 minutes)

Picture A (click to enlarge)

Task 2: (Discuss with your neighbour.) Pictures A and B show the opening of the British parliament and the Swedish riksdag. What are some similarities and differences? What do the two pictures tell us about Swedish and British political traditions.

Picture B

Task 3: (Discuss with your neighbour). Compare the scenes in pictures C and D. When and where do you think that they were taken? What is going on?

Picture C

Picture D

Task 4: (individual) Write a short paragraph comparing either picture A and B or pictures C and D. Use some of the ideas we have discussed during the lesson and your own knowledge.

Today we will be taking a closer look at a couple of the poems we listened to on Monday, and exploring ways to write and talk about poetry.

My first piece of advice is to remember that poetry is often ambiguous (it can mean different things) and paradoxical (it expresses ideas or emotions that seem to contradict  each other). So when you are reading, if you come across a word or line or whole verse that seems a little confusing, don’t worry too much about pinning down exactly what it really means. Weirdness, ambivalence, mixed emotions, might have been exactly what the author was aiming for.

Fortsätt läsa ”Reading poetry”

Today we will be training our aural comprehension skills by listening to three poems, each in a very distinct style.

Click the link to the worksheet. You will hear each poem twice. Listen very carefully. Don’t worry if you don’t catch every word.

Describing what we see

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The world’s most fashionable city

Listen to the news story and fill in the blanks the worksheet.

MP3

Dressing up down under

Watch the video and answer the questions on the worksheet.

Today you will be working in groups to analyse a short speech or extract.

Each group will give a presentation to the class, covering the following points:

1. What is the speaker’s aim or objective?
2. What techniques does the speaker use?
3. What ideals or principles does the speaker appeal to?
4. In what ways is the speech similar or different to others we have watched/read

Malcolm X, at the Organisation of African Union founding rally in Harlem, 1964. (Full text) 

Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Message to the people of America on the partition of India, 1947.

Olof Palme, Christmas 1972 broadcast in response to the US bombing of Hanoi, North Vietnam.

Joseph Goebbels, 1943 speech to Nazi party rally at the Berlin Sportpalast (also broadcast on national radio). (Full text)

FEEDBACK FORM

Not now, I’m eating my lunch.

I’m meeting him at the pub after work.

Every day I’m meeting him at the pub after work

I climbed over the railing again and kicked the French window in used my hat for a glove and pulled out most of the lower small pane of glass I could now reach in and draw a bolt that fastened the window to the sill the rest was easy there was no top bolt the catch gave I climbed in and pulled the drapes off my face neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in although only one of them was dead

Raymond Chandler, ‘

It’s been 80 years since the war. The aliens, or as most people call them, buggers, lost. A second war is inevitable but this time the humans lack the great general Mazer Rackham whowon them the war last time. In the story we follow a boy called Ender. He has to make a choice between his family and ordinary life, or join a battle school and help humanity win against the buggers.

Wilmer

Ender’s siblings, Valentine and Peter play a much bigger role in the book than in the movie. In the movie all you see of them is at the beginning and when Valentine meets Ender after he has come back to Earth, while in the book they basically take over the entire world. You miss out on so much: Peter getting help from Valentine even though she does not trust him, Valentine playing a role she does not agree with and her dad agreeing with the things she writes. You get to read about how she struggles to not becomethat person, as Mr Scott Card nicely puts it: “Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be”.

Simon

I was first introduced to “The Ender” universe when I watched the movies and I really enjoyed it, but compared to the book they are very dull. The book is much better than the movie because we learn more about Ender and that’s really important when it’s about such a complex character as Ender. The biggest different in my opinion between the book and the movie is Ender’s psychological health: in the movie he is just a lonely guy, but in the book it’sa lot more complex, he is almost depressed at one point. At the end of his training he wants to quit. This is something we never see in the movie and when we first meet Mazer Rackham he tells Ender that he is going to break him down, it really sets a tonefor the situation Ender is in. when even his trainer is going to break him down just to see if he is “the one”.

Jesper H.

“Ender, the best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

I think she is explaining to Ender her view of a human life. She is telling him that he must look through the fact that people have used his life. Ender wishes he could be totally free, but in the end he knows that they all must serve someone. He chooses to serve the bugger because he wants to know the path they have set out for him.

Johan

• correct grammar
• correct punctuation
• more concise description
• better use of quotation
• comparison with other books/films
• response to critics

Post the original and improved paragraphs in the comments, clearly labeled Before and After.

A closer look at JFK’s “Moon speech”

In todays class we will take a closer look at JFK’s 1962 speech at Rice University, where he defended the goal of putting a man on the moon.

Step 1

Register an account  by following the link below:

https://hypothes.is/register

Step 2

Click the confirmation link in the email to activate your account

Step 3.

Click the link below to the transcript of Kennedy’s speech:

https://via.hypothes.is/http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

Step 4. Get annotating!

• What rhetorical devices does Kennedy use?
• How does he respond to opposing arguments?
• What ideas and ideals does he appeal to?  (You can use some ideas from your study of ideologies in samhällskunskap)

List of rhetorical devices:

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/extras/rhetoricalexamples.htm

Video of the full speech:

(In retrospect, we tend to imagine that everybody was behind the Apollo program. It’s worth remembering that some people saw things differently.)

Homework assignment:

Video yourself making a short speech (2-3 miniutes) on your chosen topic. Use some of the persuasive techniques we have discussed in class.

Upload the completed speech to the TE15 youtube channel  (You should have received an invitation in your school mail to manage the youtube channel. If you have problems, you can upload to my google drive folder instead.)