The battle is almost over.
Our course is finished and soon your studies at Leksands Gymnasium will be a memory, hopefully to be looked back on with fondness.
I wish you all every success in your life choices and hope you will get gain from the English studies you have done this last academic year.
I want to leave you with the words of the Desiderata- a poem written by max Erhmann in 1927
We have now come to our final lesson of the year. No teaching today just informal talks about grades for those who would like it.
I will be around from 8.30 a.m. onwards.
Ok, instead of feeling the last lesson is just a waste of time why not read and discuss the following article:
http://www.australiansabroad.com/sweden/youknow.html
Thank you for participating faithfully in the course.
Don't just look at the letter you get as a grade result- look at everything you have learnt and how your English has improved this year.
See it as a life skill in this globalized age where communication in English pervades many jobs and different walks of life.
Remember aslo the value of literature in the original language. Shakespeare's plays are an amazing mirror on our present-day society where so much is governed by a desire for power and money.
We can see that the struggle was the same over 400 years ago.
Finally I want to wish you every success in your continued studies/life choices...
There is a life after Leksand's Gymnasium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you finish off your time at the school please don't allow alcohol and other consciousness-changing substances spoil the experience of saying farewell to many of the friends who you will carry with you throughout life.
Take care!
The marking of the essays and reports has taken me an enormous number of hours of work.
This means that by tomorrow I will be ready with the results of the 4 parts of the Cambridge Advance Examination ( Speaking, writing, reading and listening)
However I will NOT be ready with the Course grades until this Wednesday 28th May.
So please be patient.
Tomorrow there will be a list on the teacher's desk. We will start the talks at 8.50 and I will talk to you according to the order on the list.
If you have not yet done the course assessment DON'T come to the exam grades talk.
Remember www.leksand.se/kurs
Your final assignment for the English 7 course is to give an oral presentation of your project report.
You will do this in groups of five students.
The presentations are to take max. 8 minutes and follow the same format as the written report. Allow a minute at the end for 1 or 2 short questions from the others in the group.
There should be no two students with the same presentation in one group.
Try to mix students from different study programmes as far as possible
Here is the link to the document to fill in your names
Take time today to ask any relevant questions.
With regard to the CAE tests I have marked 2½ parts...
I will try to get the essays done by Wednesday...
I would like all students to do an assessment of the course.
This can be found at
www.leksand.se/kurs
Good morning!
Today we give those who missed the Cambridge writing an opportunity to do it.
8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
The rest of you have reports, assignments etc.
Our lesson on Monday will begin at around 8.50...
We will discuss the oral presentation of the reports next Friday.
Have a good weekend!
Today's lesson starts as usual around 8.50 a.m.- 9 a.m.
Since almost half the class missed the writing part of the CAE on Friday we will have to reschedule the course a bit.
Today I want to check up with each person individually how they are doing with regard to the remaining assignments.
This Friday's lesson will be used for those who missed the writing part of the CAE.. The others will have a lie-in or a chance to get precious work done!
We will cancel the debate and instead work towards the final task of presenting the reports orally in class- in small groups.
This will be done next Friday (week 21) on 23rd May.
Remember the deadline for handing in your reports is Wednesday 21st May
That means we will use the lesson on Monday week 22 for talking about grades and push our final lesson to Monday 2 June (week 23)
Today we are going to do the final part of the tests taken from the Camridge Advanced Examination- writing.
The test will take 2 hours and consists of 2 questions.
Part 1 is COMPULSORY and then you choose ONE question from numbers 2-5
Both pieces of writing should be around 250 words EACH.
Students from SA11 and any others who miss the Writing today will have a chance of doing it next Friday from 12- 2 p.m.
Please don't forget to hand in your assignments
Modern literature
Shakespeare
Report
The deadline is Wednesday 21st May.
On Monday we will prepare for our final assignment- the oral presentation of the projects in small groups. This will replace the planned DEBATE.
The lesson will start at 9 a.m. as usual
