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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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:

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www.UltraMind.ws/directory

www.UltraMind.SupportGroup.ws

www.SilvaShop.com

www.SilvaInstructors.com

www.ESPsy.org

www.SilvaCourses.com

www.SilvaBooks.com

www.SilvaMethod.com

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AUTHOR: Ribič Pepe

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.

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.

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:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://oxforddictionaries.com/

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

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!