{"id":12,"date":"2012-11-02T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/?p=12"},"modified":"2012-11-02T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:45:39","slug":"main-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/2012\/11\/02\/main-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the competence aims I will use as bases for my choice of activities and material that I hope will assist<span style=\"color: #000000\"> the pupils in achieving the competence required after year 10:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Language Learning:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">utilize various situations, methods and strategies for learning English.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">use various aids critically and independently<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">describe and evaluate their own efforts to learn English<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Communication:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">master a vocabulary that covers a variety of topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">use of basic grammar and text structures orally and in writing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">understand spoken and written texts on a variety of topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">express themselves in writing and orally with some precision, fluency and coherence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Culture, Society and Literature: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">communicate through digital media <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">present and discuss current and interdisciplinary topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">read and understand texts of varying lengths and genres<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">choose different listening, speaking, reading and writing strategies appropriate to purpose and situation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">write texts that narrate, describe, argue or present information, with appropriate basic structure and appropriate use of paragraphs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">use content from various sources independently and critically<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to assess the pupils&#8217; progress, and decide whether or not they&#8217;ve achieved some of the aims, I\u00a0make them &laquo;brainstorm&raquo; at the end of the lesson, and each\u00a0pupil has to say a different word or phrase to sum up what they have learned.\u00a0In addition\u00a0I have chosen to give them an oral task that\u00a0includes ICT. I\u00a0give the pupils about ten days to work with a Power Point or a PhotoStory presentation, about either South Africa or Jamaica. They\u00a0choose from a range of topics, and work individually with the presentation. While working with their presentation they will have a one-hour writing session at school where the task is to write an interview with either Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley or Mahatma Gandhi. These activities will help me assess their skills in oral, reading, writing, ICT, and listening. I give them a set of guidelines on how to make a good oral presentation, what I expect of them, how to use the internet, avoid plagiarism and what internet-sites that have images licensed for use in the public domain, e.g. Wikimedia Commons and FlickR.<\/p>\n<p>Before initiating the work with the presentations I spend three hours on preparing the pupils for the task: I give a quick introduction to Jamaica and South Africa. The pupils listen to a song by Bob Marley and discuss the lyrics. I give them a small grammar-test where they describe images in a slide show, writing sentences with \u201cit is\u201d or \u201cthere is\/there are\u201d, and some tasks\u00a0related to\u00a0concord. Instead of vocabulary tests I make them play a game similar to \u201cAlias\u201d where they describe the words in English and guess the words instead of write them. I robbed the idea from Marianne, who told me that she played &laquo;Alias&raquo; with her pupils. Apart from the writing session, most of the activities are either oral or a combination of written and oral work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I give the same tasks and activities to two different classes, both in year 10. Although the pupils are more polite and obedient than I ever imagined, one of my major challenges is that there is a huge gap between the very competent pupils and the emerging pupils. Another challenge<\/span> is how to make them speak English instead of Norwegian. After two weeks I realize that the lay-out of the lesson and how I organize the activities\u00a0influences very much the pupils&#8217; productivity. If I start the lesson by putting them straight to work with a demanding task, they become demotivated. But if I start with a game, a clip from youtube or something &laquo;fun&raquo;, they would be a lot more productive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the competence aims I will use as bases for my choice of activities and material that I hope will assist the pupils in achieving the competence required after year 10: Language Learning: utilize various situations, methods and strategies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/2012\/11\/02\/main-blog\/\">Les videre <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.uia.no\/krisla06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}