In the beginning ................

Welcome to English 7. I hope that this course will provide an intellectual challenge to each of you this year. After some comments that there was now sufficient time to get things done we will retain the same structure as last year.

The Monday lessons will begin at 8 and go to about 8.50. Thereafter you will have 50 minutes to work on your assignments. If you use this time wisely you will have a good foundation for the rest of the course.

The Friday's lesson will be the full 100 minutes (from 8 a.m. to 9.40 a.m.)

However, today we will use the time at our disposal. The lesson will consist of some administration and  a couple of tasks.
Having distributed the books (English C ) we will endeavour to look at the curriculum for the course.
Here it is in digital format.

Get into groups of 3-4 students.  Give concrete examples of different activities for the Reception and Production areas.
Send your suggestions as a message on Vklass.

By Friday I shall endeavour to put your observations into some kind of planner for the autumn term.

I  have also included a letter to you  digital format. I want a reply to this by Friday AT THE LATEST. Here is my letter..


This is intended to get you writing again!
Send your letters as a document to the course page on Vklass





The planner will be affected by the field trip to Uganda with SA14 and 2 students from ES14. During this time you will work with a reading assignment (See below!) and prepare for a spoken presentation about aspects of the English speaking world for week 41

Since the language used in the document is complex I have included a copy in Swedish of the original document. It is here on the right-hand side of the blog.

It is important to see this course as a melting-pot where we will be able to contribute ideas and give input.

Some things are compulsory-  writing workshop, presentation of "gymnasiearbete" literature etc.. Others need to be planned and formulated.

Welcome to what, hopefully, will prove to be a stimulating and challenging experience.

I want you to start off by discussing in pairs/threes the issue of gender parity on  government boards

http://www.thelocal.se/20160902/sweden-achieves-gender-equality-on-government-boards

Read the article and discuss your views about how important this is. What is your opinion?

On Friday morning you will get a chance to borrow a classic book and be given your first assignment. As well as this we will work on a text in the English C book- Bill Sprockett's Land