fredag 20 december 2019

Week 2

Thursday

Welcome back to the final months of high school!


During the following weeks we will be reading the novel Girl missing by Sophie McKenzie.

You will practise: reading- listening comprehension, writing and speaking + get some cultural knowledge. 


As an introduction to the novel, please look closely at the first page of the following internet site







This means that if you take the number of people living in the whole of the district of Leksand you have to multiply it by over 50  to get the number of children missing EVERY YEAR in the world!

Here is a short clip as an introduction to "Girl Missing"






What if everything you thought you knew about your life was a lie?

Lauren is adopted and eager to know more about her mysterious past. But when she discovers she may have been snatched from her family as a baby, her whole life suddenly feels like a sham. Why will no one answer her questions? How can she find her biological parents? And could her adoptive parents really have been responsible for kidnapping her? Running away from her family to seek out the truth, Lauren's journey takes her deeper and deeper into danger as she realises that someone wants to stop her uncovering what really happened when she was a baby... at any cost... 


A nail-biting YA thriller. Girl Missing has sold over 150,000 copies in the UK alone.

'Page-turning' 
The Independent 

'Will have you gripped for hours' 
Sunday Express 

'Please read this book: it is brilliant!
The Guardian


HOW will we work with this novel?

Monday: Read novel during class. Homework: reading. 
Thursday: Do excersises. Write answers/discuss with a friend every second week. 

Sometimes we will have words for homework.
When you have read half of the novel you will write a text + when you have finished the novel you will write a test which includes various open questions about the novel + some grammar. 

onsdag 11 december 2019

vecka 50

Thursday

In the UK...

Det är osäkert om Boris Johnson får den majoritet han önskar sig.

UK: Conservatives (Boris Johnson) vs Labour (Jeremy Corbyn)
January 31st BREXIT???? Election TODAY! (every five year)

US: Republicans (Donald Trump) vs Democrates ?) 
(Election November 3rd 2020) (every fourth year)



In the USA...

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Time Magazine  - Greta - youngest ever

The Guardian - England

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Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. Martin Scorsese (the Irishman, Taxidriver, Maffiabröder....) is an executive producer. The film is presented by National Geographic.