Wishing you a great summer! I'm off to Spain!

I'm off to Spain in a few days and I'll be there with my family for two weeks - soaking up the sun, exploring Spanish sights and of course swimming a few lapses in the pool. Wishing you all a happy summer and I'll be back in August again!

Reading "All American Boys" - Global Read Aloud 2016

There has been a change of plans for me regarding Global Read Aloud since I'm changing work places and moving on up from junior high school to high school. This means  that "Orbiting Jupiter" will have to wait and instead I'm focusing on "All American Boys" to see if that is something that I can work with with my new students this fall. So far, after 100 pages of reading, it's promising and I'm slowly getting caught in the characters' dilemmas... I think this will be a great book to discuss and from it bridge into the US elections in November.

Travel-inspired idioms

Source: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/uploadedFiles/wwwmacmillanenglishcom/Content/Campaigns/summer/summer-travel-infographic.pdf

It's time for Canada Day - July 1st

July 1st is Canada Day - here you can read up on why this day is celebrated. 

Speaking English Activites

Reading - All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

Summer = reading. Here's a wonderful - and terrifying - short story by Ray Bradbury. A classic that needs to be read - that yearns to be read - and one that will stay with you for quite some time.

Some summer reading?!

Keep your English alive and kicking by reading a little this summer - here's a digital version with short stories, novellas and audiobooks at various levels. Maybe something for a rainy day?? :)

How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.

Well, I really need a good laugh right now... and maybe you do too?? Here you go - puns galore:

source: https://iwastesomuchtime.com/68616

Tea time - språkval 8

Today we started our Friday with tea time - Jaffa cakes and cucumber sandwiches, together with PG tips tea with milk. Yummie! 

Year 8 - a new Quizlet

Quizlet - verbs LAY-SIT

Year 8 - Popular proverbs/idioms

This is what I'll be reading this weekend!

I've decided to join the Global Read Aloud this year too - and this is the title we'll be reading this fall in year 7. Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt.  

Snapshot from today - Quizlet Live

I tried Quizlet Live today as a way of testing the students' knowledge of verb forms. As I expected, it was a success and something that many of them wanted to try again...

Homework for Tuesday May 10 - year 8

Homework for Tuesday: learn the forms of the verbs BE-DRIVE:

QUIZLET for practicing the verb forms

Video about Shakespeare's life - year 9

Here is an animated, easily comprehensible, video about William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare - year 9

Be ready for your presentations on Shakespeare on Tuesday May 17th! Instructions as follows: 

Follow Pernilla's English Classroom on Facebook

Now Pernilla's English Classroom can be found as a page on Facebook. Follow this link and "like" to get blog updates.

https://www.facebook.com/Pernillas-English-Classroom-1714786238804399/timeline

Grammar galore and popular proverbs - year 8

Link to list of idioms.

What's in the picture? - year 8 - språkval engelska

Link to quizlet and easily confused words

Quizlet

Easily confused words:
https://quizlet.com/_26zzb2