Saturday, December 24, 2011

22 december 2011 / Lara Ivanuša

http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm (his timeline tenses chart provides a handy reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to one another and the past, present and future.)

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive (there you can learn where you can use passive voice and you can see form of passive.)

http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/animals/snowboarding?param=&mark=simpapassiv (There is a grammar in text. This is „History of Snowboarding“ and it can show you how to use Passive Voice in practice.

http://svet-anglescine.com/kategorija/271/Trpnik_Passive_Voice
 (Slovenian definition of passive voice)

20 December 2011 / Samanta Kurtovič

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/passive_sentences1.htm You can expect the passive voice exercises at different grammers.
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=667 You can complete these passive voice with sentences.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/passive_quiz.htm You can compete with passive voice and that you got sentences in ddifferent grammars.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

22 December 2011 / Discourse Markers

Here's a short list of discourse markers that will help you organize your speech.
You are required to use at least 3 discourse markers from 3 different categories in your 3-5-minute speech. However, if you use more, you will not be punished:)


ADDINGSEQUENCINGILLUSTRATINGCAUSE and EFFECT
and
also
as well as
moreover
too
furthermore additionally
first, second, third…
finally
next
meanwhile
after
then
subsequently
for
example
such as
for instance
in the case of
as revealed by…
illustrated by
because
so
therefore
thus
consequently
hence


COMPARING


QUALIFYING


CONTRASTING


EMPHASIZING
similarly
likewise
as with
like
equally
in the same way
but
however
although
unless
except
apart from
as long as
if
whereas
instead of
alternatively
otherwise
unlike
on the other hand..
conversely
above all
in particular
especially
significantly
indeed
notably



16 December / Špela Baš

Špela found some websites to practice the Passive voice. Enjoy:) http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?05 here is exercise for passive, you have to rewrite the sentences in passive voice http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/active_or_passive.htm Decide whether the sentences are written in Active or Passive. Match all the items on the right with the items on the left, then press "CHECK". http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm Rewrite the given sentences in Passive voice. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_gaps.htm Put in the correct form of the verb in Passive into the gaps. http://www.e-grammar.org/passive-voice/test1-exercise2/

Friday, December 16, 2011

15 December 2011 / Tia Ilievski Andrič

We had a lot of fun at english class today. We did different kinds of stuff, which I'm going to tell them to you all. We watched a video on YouTube about the Zumba dance. It's a mixture of hip hop, salsa and other dance styles. All around the world, the Zumba teachers teach the same choreography, which is very interesting. We were also talking about healthy life, that people should have. We learned, that a normal healthy person doesn't eat a lot and does the exercises often. We learned, that if you want to loose weight, you mustn't sit around all day and watch TV or play computer games. You should help around the house, eat fewer sweets and go for a bike ride time to time. I really liked the today's lesson, because it was just awesome and it taught us a lot. I hope that more lessons will be similar to today's lesson.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

13 December 2011 / Anže Jenko

Soulutions of today work: "A" test 1. He stuffed himself with three breakfast 2. One's fine and it comes with fresh veg or salad 3. some kids spend the first time in tears 4. Burger or allowed- but in moderation 5. Mike blamed his parents for his weight problems 6. To see how many of them could resist the lure of "BIG MAC" 7. If you boycott junk food you'll avoid fatcamp "B" test 1. Squeezed 2. healthy diet 3. Spend he first week in tears 4. He was fat 5. Low- cal 6. Temptation

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

13. December 2011 / Sandra Porenta


Today we started the lesson with listening to a text in our course books. The text was about a boy, named Mike, who was very fat and that’s why he went to a weight-loss camp. There they had a lot of sport activities and they ate healthy so on the end Mike lost 54lb, which is about 24 kg.
 
 After that the teacher gave us two worksheets which were related to the text. On the first one there were questions like: Where in the text does it say that Mike ate too much for breakfast?
And you had to write the sentence from the text which explains that Mike ate too much for breakfast and that sentence is: “…and he stuffed himself with three breakfasts.”


On the second worksheet you had to write a word from the text which explains or has the same meaning as the word or sentence which was already written on the worksheet. For example: The word on the worksheet: Difficult; the word from the text that has the same meaning: Tough. On the end the teacher also gave us some homework: WB page 50, 51/ exercises 12, 13 and 14.

Monday, December 12, 2011

12 December 2011 / Jan Luštrek

Today we were talking about posters wich we will have to make during the holidays. Heading of my poster is OBESITY PREVENTIONS, and I was talking about it with my school mates. They were taling me that i have to write down about P.E.,healty food,drinking water and no juices, jogging.And I was discussing about my school mates themes as well. And that is all what we were doing this day.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

5 December 2011 / Gregor Berčič

Today was just another day we had english. When the teacher came in she told us she need some grades, and then she gave us work in CB. We were told to read GRAMMAR TIME OUT: conditional clauses. Like every time, best half of class were talking like we don't have english. Another thing she did was jelling at us becuse we didn't do our homework from last week. We were needed to write our theme of poster on a piece of paper. Then the class ended and we went home.

Monday, December 5, 2011

5 December 2011 / Aljaž markovič


Today, it was Monday – the non-grading day. But magicaly our teacher started grading again. She graded some students including me. Most of us, if not all got 5s. So it was a successful grading day. Apart from the grading part, we got some work/homework to do, we got our competition results back and talked about our health projects. For the last few hours we have been doing conditional clauses.

The If rule:

If-clause(condition), main clause(result)
Example: If it rains tommorow, we will go swimming.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

29 November 2011 / Dejan Kostič

Today we started class like usual, we stood upwhenthe teacher came in. The teacher said that we are going to play a game called if-chain, just like in the coursebook. After that she told us we got a task to decide on a title and make a 5 minute speech about it and all of the titless were for health. After that the teacher started questioning the students the rest of us got some assingments todo in the 15 min we got left:

  1. If-chain
  2. What-if and boatman coursebook page 94 
  3. Coursebook page 56/5 in the notebook
  4. Workbook page 43/2
  5. Coursebook page 56/6a, 6b in the notebook
  6. Homewor: workbook page45, 46/5,6, 7

29. November/ Luka Ilinčič


Today, we had a bit different lesson. We stated with an if chain. Than we were discussing our project about health. Mrs. Teacher gave us a lot of homework that we should do in class, but we didn't have time to.

1.       An if chain

2.       What –if CB p. 96- BOATMAN

3.       CB p. 56/5- in our Notebooks

4.       WB p. 43/2

5.       CB p. 56/6 a, b in our notebooks (9 sentences)

6.       WB p. 45,46/5,6,7

But we also had a little homework about our project. It was:

·         Think and choose a title of your project

·         Make a draft about our posters

·         Send her 3 links of page, that you choose to use in your project

·         And think about a type of poster, that you’re going to use

Because we don’t have a lesson on Thursday, we have a time till Monday.

Monday, November 28, 2011

28 November 2011 / Rok Štirn


Today I was picked to write a blog. At first we started with standing up than we were writing on papers what are we going to presenting aboat unit 2 Picture of healty ( 5 min). After that she started to grading. And the others have to do some exercises in our books. The graded persones got some great grades.I hope you anjoy and study a lot especially English.


Thursday, November 24, 2011

24 November 2011 / Rok Peršuh

Today i was picked to be the blogger!
We started the lesson with standing up and saying hello to the teacher as always. Then tacher explained what we needed to do. We did something about food on page 56 in workbook and something in corsebook but i don't remember what page was it. I was hungry that time so i haven't done it. While the pupils were doing what they were told to, teacher was grading. Only Klara and Gregor were graded. Luckily i wasn't! But at the end i wasn't so lucky becouse i got picked to be the blogger.

24 November 2011 / Luka Kermelj

Hello! Today at the class, we continued with a new unit, Are you a picture of health. First we solved some worksheets. After we solved the worksheets, we were listening some music, a Queen song. Then the teacher listed the work we had to do for this class. First we had to read some stuff in our course books, and then we had to work in our work books. What we didn't do at school is our homework That's all. Have a nice weekend, and study hard!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

22 November 2011 / Jaka Seliškar

Today's English class started at 12 AM. The teacher first typed the number of exercises that we should do from the course book at the blackboard. Then she started grading. She graded only our work books, so it was pretty easy (unless for those students who haven't done any exercise during the past months). The students graded were Vid, Blaž, Rok and I.

I can't tell you what the teacher gave us for the homework because I forgot. =S

22 November 2011 / Jan Tehovnik



Monday, November 21, 2011

21 November 2011 / Ana Trobec


Hello everyone! As for the first time i was picked when we gave the tests back. So there is not much to say… Yes, we were very nervous, because the test was pretty hard. So the results in third level were…GOOD ! J I think so. Nobody wrote one, we (almost) expected that. The easiest task was the first one. You had to fill the table with (affirmative, negative and interrogative) sentences in a given tenses. It was really easy. But the hardest one, was the second task. You had to complete the text with the appropriate tenses, but there was more than one solution. Third task were irregular verbs and the fourth one was the vocabulary. At vocabulary you had to match 10 English words with their definitions, added a Slovene equivalent and wrote a sentence. When we gave the tests back, we also had to do the correction. So, if you haven"t done it at school, do it at home!

Picture: It is connected with today"s theme. I hope you like it ;)

This is all from me! Bye J

21 November 2011 / Rok Mohorič


Today I was picked to by Mrs Sonc Šlenc to write a blog about our todays
lesson. At first we have got the tests. We wrote worse than teacher thought. I
was writting test two. The test we wrote more poorly, because they were only
two fours and no fives. The first task I had almost all the points. Another task I
wrote a very bad, because I had only six points of the twenty. In this
task we need to insert words that are missing in the text. The third task I have
a whole correctly. In this task we have to write all three forms of irregular verbs
and the Slovene translation. The last task, I wrote very bad. in this task,
we first need to find a definition for the word and then translate the word,
and finally write asentence in which you use that word (example. Rugged -
Not smooth or flat - valovito,hribovito - Julian Alps are rugged ). And these
are all tasks in the test.
I am posting a picture related to stereotypes, because we talked about that before the test.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

15 November 2011 / Neža Knific

Yesterday at English class we were practising for the test. Our teacher told us that the test is going to be difficult but if we study enough nothing can be too hard. On the test there will be irregular verbs, all tenses that we learned in the last three years and general grammar. We all know that grammar usually gives us most minus points so we really have to study hard, practise and repeat and we will get a grade that we will be proud of. Bye I have to go study now!

Monday, November 14, 2011

14 November 2011/Gašper Bokan

Today I was picked to by Mrs Sonc Šlenc to write a blog about our todays lesson. At first we have checked our homework. That was:
WORKBOOK:
PAGES:1-42
EXERCISES:1-63
Then she started to asking us. Graded were Ana and Igor. They booth get five. We have forget
to check our homework in our word books.
There was not any much working to describe, so I had desided to paste some links about ESP Ultramind sistem:
ULTRAMIND ESP SISTEM IS A SISTEM WHICH HELPS YOU LEARN AND RELAX EASYER.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Vocabulary UNIT 1

During the last three lessons you have chosen the following words from UNIT 1 to be on the test. I will chose 10. Don't forget - you will be required to use the words in sentences that illustrate the meaning - the length of the sentences will not be limited  (e.g.: "The Romans invaded England" is not enough for 1 point - you should add at least some circumstances, like the date or the place, or a consequence or a reason from which it is obvious that "to invade" means "to send army and occupy another army", so a sentence with "to invade" for 1 point would be something like: The Romans invaded England nearly 2000 years ago and changed the country profoundly.)

Here's the list:

AN INTERESTING ENGLISH WORD FROM UNIT 1 - PAST TENSES: dangerous, tribe, lifestyle, the Bronze Age, knowledge, relatives, to invade, huge, penicillin, reservations, settlers, tradition, revise, journey, overland, chalk, unemployment, passport, expect, continent, spice, reign, period, the Tudors, New World.
AN INTERESTING ENGLISH WORD FROM UNIT 1 - PRESENT  TENSES: tribe, ideas, entertainment, secondary, sunset/surise, drive-in, amazing, member, example, traditions, poverty, catholic, experience, speakers, gay, economy, junk food, influence, shoplifting, substitute, population, steer, touchstone, beret, red carnation, spectacular.
AN INTERESTING ENGLISH WORD FROM UNIT 1 - FUTURE TENSES: engineer, surface, rover, mimic, neural, network, extinction, adaptation, foresee, generation, confetti, intelligence, proud, author, process, rugged, constellations, decipher, terrain, fortune teller

Happy studying and use on-line dictionaries (see my previous post) to find the meanings, explanations and good examples of words' usages.

Friday, November 11, 2011

10 Nov 2011 / Jakob Šilar

Today it was the hour English very good at the beginning we checked homework. then searched for words in a book that could explain ourselves. rest of the hour the teacher asked. at the end of the hour, we repeat for the test. 

10 Nov 2011 /Zala Jamnik


Today at English class we checked our homework.  We had to choose a word and find out  what that word means and then we use that word in a  sentence. The teacher said that this exercise will be in the test. Today we did the same thing, but we had to find a different word from the course book  . I chose the word drive-in. We wrote the word on paper and on the other side of the paper we had to write its meaning  and a sentence with that word in it . Later we put all the words on the blackboard. There were a lot of words on it. I hope we do more of exercises like this one because we learn from it and they are fun and entertainment.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

8 November 2011 / Irena Sonc Šlenc

So, the second round of blogging is on. The first post should be from Gabriela, but anyway...
Both levels are writing a test next week. Over the Autumn break I have given them a home assignment. The instructions were published on this blog, but it seems only a few students actually took the time to read them. For the second round of blogging I expect the students to find a picture that goes with their post or to comment on one of their peers' post - thus trying to encourage the students to make their posts more appealing, read the blog posts and be better informed.
In class this week we are preparing the vocabulary list from which I will take 10 words that the students will have to show understanding and usage of in the test. If we succeed tomorrow to select the final 20 word from the "future section" of UNIT 1, I might publish the list of words that can appear on the test. If we don't, I will pick the words by myself and I will not publish them.
Meanwhile, I'm posting here a list of websites that might help the students prepare for the grammar/tenses part of the test.
http://www.eflnet.com/grammar/verbtense.php - verb tenses quiz 10 multiple choice questions


http://a4esl.org/q/f/x/xz88mgu.htm - 20 questions multiple choice with sound

Here are some sites where you can find exercises on different topics. 


http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/ - quite detailed explanations and different types of exercises
http://www.tolearnenglish.com - Find link Find the correct tense
http://www.nonstopenglish.com - chose intermediate level
http://www.englishmedialab.com - grammar through games

Oh, and here are some links to on-line dictionaries that I mentioned in class:

Pick your favorite.

Last, but not least: don't feel too sorry for yourselves and you will learn better, or as T. Szasz has put it:
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  

Learn like young children!


Friday, October 28, 2011

27 October 2011 / Samanta Kurtovič

Autumn break is already here. That means no school, no studying and no homework. I'm going to be home. But unfortunately I will have to study for school and I will have to do my homework. If I will have enough time I'm going to go shopping. But the best thing is that I will go to my dance lessons. And my best friend is going to go to the spa (toplice) with her mother. I hope that they will have good time. Some friends will be at home. Other will go somewhere. I hope we are going to have fun during the autumn break.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

27 October 2011 / Autumn Break Home Assignement

I, MYSELF AND ME

You need to write 20-25 sentences minimum about a person. It can be you, your friend, your idol, a fictional character... Organize your essay into three paragraphs:
1. this person as he/she/it is at PRESENT
2. this person in the PAST
3. your predictions and beliefs about this person's FUTURE.

On the sides mark the number of tenses' usage as it is numbered in the following translations from your textbook.


The Past Simple
1. We use this tense to express actions that happened and ended in the past. The time is definite or known or understood from the context.
The Past Continuous
2. We use this tense to describe actions that were happening in a certain time or period in the past.
3. In relation to the Past Simple Tense we use the Past Continuous Tense to express a longer action that lasted for some time while with the Past Simple we express a shorter action that happened suddenly and interrupted the previous act.
The Present Perfect
4. Expresses actions in the past the consequences or results of which are seen in the present.
5. An action that happened in the past but the time is not definite, known or important. We use it to express our experiences.
6. An action that started in the past and is still going on (also use Present Perfect Continuous, especially with activity verbs: play, do, watch, live, sing, rain, work, wait)
The Present Simple
7. General facts, not time-limited
8. Actions, events or conditions that are true for a longer time
9. Habits and repetitive actions
The Present Continuous
10. Speaking about actions taking place at the moment of speaking
11. Talking about future acts that are decided at the moment of speaking
12. Talking about things that change or develop in present  time or the time of speaking
13. Talking about something that only happens for a certain period, occasional actions
The Future Simple Tense - Will Future
14. Objective opinion
15. Forecasts, expectations, hopes
16. Immediate decisions
Future with 'going to'
17. Expressing intentions, plans and decisions for the future planned before the time of speaking
18. When we can conclude on the basis of signs and circumstances that something will happen


Think about the tenses you use.
Enjoy your Autumn Break and don't procrastinate.

Monday, October 24, 2011

24 October 1011 / Jakob Šilar

Hello, today in English class, we had fun. First, we worked in the book and then we had to write, we compared the human and the robot looking for unfamiliar words, we answered questions on the blackboard and the teacher prepared us in rehearsals for unfamiliar words. At the end of the lesson, the teacher graded a couple of students. For homework assignment we have to finish answering the questions on page 34 CB.
By Jakob :-)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

18 October 2011 / Andraž Babnik


Last English hour we were talking about present continuous. Then we were doing some exercises about present continuous in textbook in pairs.
Here are some rules about the use of present continuous:
·         When we are talking about acts, which are placing right now, at this moment.
- Are you coming with us or not?
- We are flying by plane right now.
·         When we are talking about agreed future actions, which are at the time of talking already firmly established.
- We are visiting grandparents every week.
- I am flying to France on Friday.
·         When we are talking about things, which are changing or developing in the present.
- Computers are becoming more and more important in our lives.
·         When we are talking about something, which is happening only in fixed-term . It is going about a temporary or transitional actions.
- Miha is on holiday this week. He is staying with his parents in London.

When we read that, we were doing an exercise about present continuous in eleven sentences. At this time teacher was grading some pupil and then the English hour ends.