Puhutaan englantia, Thursday 17.00-18.30

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22.4.

On zoom, we checked the homework, listened to Yle News in English, continued ex. 5 on p. 51, read pronunciation on p. 53 and did an additional exercise on selling different types of houses and apartments.  In the end of the lesson, we played "Heads Up!" (alias suomeksi), a word game, (heads up, varoitus). We watched a video with Harrison Ford and Ellen de Generes playing this game. In groups you chose a word and gave hints to others without using the chosen word. This was our lest lesson of the spring.

 15.4.

On zoom, we checked the homework, listened to Yle News in English, did the pronunciation on p. 45, moved to chapter 4 "home", read ex. 1 on p. 47 and started ex. 5 on p. 51. Homework: Do ex. 4 on p. 50 and ex. 7 on p. 52.

8.4.

On zoom, we checked the homework, listened to Yle News in English, did an additional exercise on hobbies and started exercises on Time on p. 39 1&2. Homework: Do ex. 8 on p. 43 and think of your answers for ex. 7 on p. 43, too.

25.3.

On zoom, we checked the homework, discussed ex. 3a&b on p. 30 (hobbies), did ex. 4 & 6 on p. 32-33 and read the hobbies on pages 35-36 and listened to the pronunciation on p. 37. Homework: Do ex.7 on p. 33.

18.3.

On zoom, we checked the homework, did ex. 2 on p. 11, ex. 1b on p. 14, ex. 3 on p. 15 and did an additional questionnaire regarding diffrent situations. Homework: Think in advance your answers for exercises 5&6 on page 26.

11.3.

On zoom, we listened to Yle news in English, discussed the articles you read, read an article from the Guardian to do with gossip, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/11/gossip-reserves-oprah-harry-meghan-chat . We did an additional vocabulary exercise. Homework: Do these additional voacabulary exercises (you can see the answers, too). You can find this in the pdf.

25.2.

We read about the upcoming Finnish "lockdown" from The Guardian, did ex. 5 on p. 200 in pairs & in pairs did a crossword exercise  on society vocabulary (p. 202-203). We read about the Finnish political parties from wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Finland and studied the parties in parliament and in opposition. Homework: Read an article (can be anything) in English.

18.2.

We listened to Yle News of the day, checked the homework, did in pairs ex. 6a&b, listened to pronunciation on p. 203 and in pairs discussed ex. 4d on p. 199. Homework: Do exercise 5a (think in advance) and b on p. 200.

11.2.

We checked the homework, started chapter 20 "Society" by doing ex. 1 on p. 196, ex. 3 a&b on p.198 and ex. 4 on p. 199.  Homework: Read in English a piece of news/page about the Finnish government https://www.eduskunta.fi/EN/Pages/default.aspx 

4.2.

We checked the homework, did exercises 2 (p. 189), studied ex. 6 (p. 192), listened to pronunciation (p.195) and an additional listening ex. on natural disasters. Homework: Read an article in English to do with the environment and tell about it shortly to the others.

28.1.

We discussed the articles you had read, the words aboriginal vs indigenous people, did exercise 2b on p. 189 and discussed ex. 5 natural disasters on p. 191. Homework: Do exercises 3 (p. 190) and 8 (p. 193).

21.1.2021

We checked the covid-19 situation in England, https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus and watched the laureate Amanda Gorman recite a poem for Joe Biden, https://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2021/01/20/amanda-gorman-youth-poet-laureate-full-poem-biden-capitol-inauguration-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/cnn-style/ We did an exercise in groups watching photographs and inventing a piece of news out of it. We started chapter 19 and discussed ex. 1 on p. 188. Homework: Read an article in English to do with the environment and tell about it shortly to the others.