VOCABULARY BOOKLETS 3rd LEVEL

VOCABULARY BOOKLETS 2nd LEVEL

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4 June 2012 / Anže Jenko

 Hello,

Today, there was nothing special at the English lesson. The teacher mostly completed our grades and graded the students who hasn't been graded yet. Those people were Zala, Jaka, Jakob and some others students I don't remember. Other students were either listening to what teacher was grading, or they were just talking about random stuff, like where're they going for vacation. When the lesson almost started, the teacher said to me that I need to write one more blog post and two more comments to get a better grade. So, here I am, writing a blog post.

Hello!
Now I will write something about learning tips we know many learning tips I will describe just the most frequent and successful learning tips:


The visual learner
Do you need to see your teacher during lessons in order to fully understand the content of a lesson?
Do you prefer to sit at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions (e.g. people's heads)?
Do you think in pictures and learn best from visual displays including: diagrams, illustrated text books, overhead transparencies, videos, flipcharts and hand-outs?
During a lecture or classroom discussion, do you prefer to take detailed notes to absorb the information?
!Learning Tip - you may benefit from taking part in traditional English lessons, but maybe private lessons would be better.

The auditory learner
Do you learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what others have to say?
Do you interpret the underlying meanings of speech through listening to tone of voice, pitch, speed and other nuances?
Does written information have little meaning until you hear it?
!Learning Tip - you may benefit from listening to the radio or listening to text as you read it. You could try reading text aloud and using a tape recorder to play it back to yourself.

The Tactile/Kinesthetic learner
Do you learn best through a hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world around you?
Do you find it hard to sit still for long periods?
Do you become distracted easily?
!Learning Tip - you may benefit from taking an active part in role plays or drama activities.

  

Hello!
I saw that are almost all of the posts already commented (except the one from Mojca (there is no mistakes))   so I decided to write post except of the comment. I will write about pages where you can learn English ''free''. I saw many different pages and realized that some of  them are very boring. On other pages you can learn a lot about English on interesting and a fun way. But you have to work every day and work hard if you want to learn a lot of English. For our class I think the most suitable page is for improving English. On this page there are some strategies how to improve your English :  http://www.learnenglish.de/improvepage.htm
And here are few rules for improving English:

• Join an English course - a virtual one or a real one (and attend regularly).
• Do your homework.
• Read a book or a comic every month.
• Learn a new word every day.
• Visit an English speaking forum every day.
• Read a news article on the net every day.
• Do 10 minutes listening practice every day.
• Watch an English film at least once a month.
• Follow a soap, comedy or radio or TV drama.

31 May / Vid Čarman

Today we had not-that-interesting lesson. The lesson started when the teacher came in the class and she said she's going to start grading the booklets. Firstly, she opened her notebook and showed us what grades we have from our comments on the blog, blog posts, homeworks and other stuff. Then she started grading. She graded only a few people: Jaka, Tomaž, Rok Mohorič and maybe also someone else, but I don't remember. Meanwhile, we had to finish our booklets if we haven't yet and do tasks from the coursebook.

24 May 2012 / Matic Herceg

Helo. On thursday, we had a very boring hour. At the start of the class the teacher said we have to complete our booklets, then she started grading people who haven't been graded yet. Those were: Anže, Zala, me and some other students I don't remember. At the end of the hour the teacher noticed that Tomaž sent her an email message with music to listen during the class, but unfortunately it was too late, so she said we'll listen to it the next hour.

29 May 2012 / Rok Mohorič

Hi! 
This lesson started as usual. Of course the teacher was a bit late but we liked that. At first, the teacher handed us out our booklets which we have been doing for 2 weeks now. We write 10 words from our English book (Unit 4 and Unit 5) in the booklets each lesson, and use them in a sentence. Today we wrote the last 10 words, completing the 70 needed. After we have finished them we decorated the library a bit and gave the booklets to the teacher, who will grade them on thursday. Then we were planning to play and listen to music, but we didn't since nobody sent it to the teacher's e-mail. That is pretty much it from this English class.

29 May 2012 / Tomaž Tomšič

Today we finished our booklets at the english class. Everyone should have 70 words by now, chosen at will from our English book - Unit 4 and Unit 5. Then we have used these words in sentences and written them in our notebooks as this helps us remember the words easier. We will later recieve a bonus grade of 25% from this booklet. This percentage consists of creativity (looks-10%), word selection (words we haven't known before-10%) and testing if we really understand these words-5%. Then we asked the teacher if there is anything missing in this bonus grade, which consists of homework, writing or commenting the blog, weekly writing on the blackboard and library. Each topic brings 25% and that way we can get a very good grade, which can rise our average and make our final grade better.

21.5.2012

Hello! Today's lesson was very fun. We started the lesson with talking about our closing trip. It was fun because some people have done a lot od medness on the trip. It was very good for us because we were talking in english, so we may have exercised our talking and vocabulary. After that we were doing our booklets. In our booklets we must write 70 different words. At the same time we must make sentence which contains one word from our booklet. When we will finish that, the teacher will ask us these words, so that's mean that we must teach all these words and memorize them. At the end of lesson we were listening music, which was sent by Luka. That's all, Have a nice evening!

10 May 2012, 5 BONUS POINTS... Booklets page 2

Today almost everybody was in class (only Kristina was absent) so everybody should at list have the front page of their booklet done. Some booklets are becoming very original - see the pictures below. I will try to take some better quality pictures next time.
On the third level we actually managed to listen to some music and we played the Hot Chair. It was quit fun, but some cheated and than others got a bit upset.

There are three spelling mistakes in my text. 5 points to the first student who sends me corrections by e-mail.

Our last weeks together - we change the way we work

23 April 2012 / Lara Ivanuša

Hello!
Today's lesson was very interesting, fun and different than others. We were working in groups of three. There were six tasks. 

1. On first one we had to create three riddles about different kind of commercialization. (e.g. It doesn't have mount, but it still tells you everything.)
2. In task 2 we had to cast lots six words and then draw them (e.g. dreams, message in the bottle, TV..)
3. Task 3 was the hardest on. There we had to choose 10 new nouns from UNIT3 and described them (e.g. cartoon= a TV show for children)
4. Task 4 was similar than one before, but it was easier. We had to choose 10 new adjectives from UNIT3 and describe them. (e.g. lazy= is someone who doesn't want to work)     
5. In task 5 we wrote down 3 examples for showing our expiration and then described them. (e.g. Go out! = point index finger towards the door)
6. And the last one was surprise for us. Time for grading.   

All this we wrote in big piece of paper. Then the bell rang and the class was over. I wish we will have more lesson like this.

HAVE A NICE DAY! :D       

17 April 2012/ Katja Mrak

Hello!
Today in English lesson we have the time to read letters of English girls who had refractors
problems in love life...Those letters find in a textbook on the page 125 and 126. But then we
in groups of two or three would have to write three typical problems in teenage life. It was

fun.

17. April 2012 / Ana Trobec

Hello!

Today we started the lesson with talking in pairs about some sticky situations that can happen in friendships. Then we were listening the text in our course book (page 125). There were three letters, published in British teenagers" magazines. Young readers of such magazines often write letters to them in which they ask for advice about their problems. In first one, Cathy wrote about her friend, who betrayed her and embarrassed in front of a lovely boy. in the second letter, Belinda described her problem with her boyfriend. Namely she had a feeling that he became a different person (terrible temper, jealous, shouting...). And in the third letter one girl was asking if there is a chance to get pregnant from French kissing. Than we listened the responds from advisers who try to explain the situations and give the best solutions and advice. In task 2. we had to define if the words/expressions are similar in meaning or opposite (e.g. fall in love ≠ fall out of love ; at the moment = now ;...). In task 2a. we had to write what problems are mentioned in letters. And for the end we worked in groups. Our job was to describe one problem. This hour was very interesting for me, because these days people have a lot of problems and here i realised how to solved them :P

Enjoy the rest of the day! :)

3 April 2012 / Jan Luštrek

First we chech homework and we all have it so teacher was happy. Than we were doing grupwork for small grades and again we all done great so it was really good english hour.

2.April 2012/Luka Ilinčič

This class was a bit different from our normal class. Today, we also had the 1st level too. First we began with painting some squares in our textbook. Than we had some group work. We were talking about friends, and what we expect from them, can we have more best friends, etc.

We had no special homework today, but we will check our last homework tomorrow.

Just to remind you; it was in text book on page 102/103 no. 9- we had to fill in the missing words and translate all 14 examples in our notebooks.

 

There was also some in our work book. It was from no.1 to no. 30 or from page 96 to page 115 (there is a part of task 30 on page 116)

27 March 2012 / Tia Ilievski Andrič

In today's english lesson, we had fun, like usually. We took a new topic and wrote some things about it in our notebooks. Ten or fifteen minutes before the end of the lesson, we played a game. Teacher 'lent' us small papers of different colors, but not to everybody. For example: pupils who had orange papers, were in the group together and pupils who had white papers were in group together. Each group had to pick a student from the group on their left, and describe her or him in a certain way - if s/he was an animal, s/he would be a parrot. We had to make at least five sentences like that, using the same student, but different beginnings of the sentence - if s/he was a subject, food, sport, color, etc... I was in group with Luka Ilinčič and the teacher.

Gašper Bokan/26.3.2012

Today, I was picked for writing a blog abot today's class. At the begining of class we have talking about that if our parents ever said to us: ''You are too young for this film''. Then we were learning about second conditional (pogojnik za sedanjost op.p.)

If- stavek	Glavni stavek
If+past simple	would+ infinitive
If you had TV in your room	You would watch it all time

Then we had to connect pictures an diffrent words and sentences in CB on page 108.

HOMEWORK:

CB 102/9 PUT IN THE RIGHT PLACES AND TRANSLATE.

20 March 2012 / Aljaž Markovič

Our class started with teletubbies presentations. We ran out of time in the previous class so we had to finish it now. We had a lot of fun as always. We continued by checking our homework. We spent a lot of time doing it so we had very little time for our group work. We had to list positive and negative sides of either TV or Youtube. Our group chose to do it for TV. We came up with quite some reasons. But it was rather hard to find the positive ones becouse we prefer to use internet these days. We did not have enough time to finish it so we have to do it for our homework.

20 March 2012 / Maja Lapajnar

At today's English class we were spoken about movies and actors. We had to present an excerpt from some film or cartoon and act it or made a dialogue in the notebook. My group was composed of four students, me, Matjaž, Jakob and Tia. We played a scene from the cartoon Scooby Doo. I played the role of Scooby Doo, Jakob played Shegy, Tia was Wilma, Matjaz was Brad. Our presentation was rather short. Today's English class was very fine for me becouse it was diffrent than usualy.

19 March 2012 / Sandra Porenta

Today in English class we had a lot of fun.
At the beginning of the class we checked our homework and some of us had to read it out loud.
Then the teacher got to an idea and we watched teletubbies:

After that we did some group work:
we made four groups of four and we had to make a play where we were the teletubbies. Two of the groups already already acted out their scene (but one of these two groups will play it again since they were laughing so hard that they couldn't do it very well) but than we ran out of time, so the other two groups will do it next time.

And on the end of course we chose the blogger, which is obviously me. :)

13 March 2012 / Luka Kermelj

Today we had a very interesting lesson. We were talking about TV programs and kinds of TV programs (films, shows,…). I realy like the new unit, which is called Unit 3 communications. First we checked our homework. I think that only a few girls had homework and no one else. Then we started to work in pairs. Last thing we did was group work. We had to invent 4 new programs. We lacked some time so we only invented 1. We have a homework which is work book on page 98 and 99.

And that is all!

12 March 2012 / Katja Mrak

Hello!

 Today I have been selected to write our blog. Our school lesson was very interesting. We take a new unit, Unit 3, which is about communication. Is very interesting. We solve the task in the textbook page 98/5. Before we solve the exercise, we go into groups of three students and answer on questions in those orders and get a half of the grade. For homework we had page 96 and 97 in workbook.

12 March 2012 / Irena Sonc Šlenc

Hello!

So, the Health Unit is over. I think it was quite a success, especially judging on the essays that the students wrote in the test (if I'm wrong, please comment). No, I'm looking forward to the poster contest results. The posters are already exhibited, later in this month, I hope, we will distribute the voting leaflets among 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th graders and the teachers and then get some prizes (besides honor and praise) for the winners...
Finally, we started talking about something not related to health. Or is it?
Communications is the title of Unit 3 which we shall mostly study in groups. Every lesson I shall prepare a short group task that the students will have to do and hand in the results/works at the end of the lesson. The grade for this unit will consist 50 % of the work done in class and 50 % of the oral assessment.
Today we talked about TV and how parents and children cannot have a common TV set. I learned that most students have their own TV sets and they don't really watch that much TV (I guess they spend more time on FB and doing homeworks:)
For homework I gave the first two exercises in the WB (p. 96,97) because tomorrow in class groups will discuss and produce an ideal TV programme.
See you soon.

1 March 2012 / Tia Hafner

Hello. Today I have been selected as a last one to write our blog. Our school lesson was very interesting
and it was the last hour before the test. First we have been practicing how to write and pronounce
big numbers ( npr. New York has population of 7,330,000; Mount Everest is 8, 848 m high,...).

Then our teacher showed us the test from previous two years and we solved it together. The test
contained similar tasks to the ones we will be writing. However, if you happen to forget what we
are write:
UNIT 2
1. Reading comprehension ( food, health, sports) gap-fill, true - false - not given
2. Grammar + language is use - MC
3. Writing (200 words) -intro, -body, -concl.

13 February 2012 / Anita Kalan

The Arctic was the last zone on Earth populated with humans. There was settled the oldest ancestors of today's Inuit people. They came across the Bering bay, in that time the bay was maindland, then they went over Alaska and then to North. Because of the list (razsežna) and uninhabited tundra, neighborhood support among small groups of people was not possible.
Eskimos got their name from a North American Indian tribe and means eaters of raw meat. Eskimos call themselves Inuit, which means the right people. The Inuit people are known as nomadic, which means that they are without a permanent residence. They migrate in family communities and maintain themselves with hunting (mostly they fish)

14 February 2012 / Mojca Erzin

Today, during the English class, we played a game. We had to form four groups. Each group got 17 pieces of paper and had to write the names of all the members on one of them. Then the teacher proceeded to explain the game to us. We had to write down the answers of the questions that appeared on the electronic board or fill in the gaps in a sentence or complete it. A member of the group, then had to run to a table on which four papers were located, with a number from 1-4. The numbers represented the amount of points the group would be getting. So whoever wrote their answer down first, or was the first to reach the table, got to choose how many points he or she wanted. His or her group would then get those points as well as an additional point if their answer was correct. Unless of course, the answer was complete nonsense. There was some arguing concerning the placement of the table with the points, as all the groups weren't at the same distance from it. The teacher said that we will have to do exercises in our work-books instead of playing the game and miraculously, the class fell silent. I remember some of the things we had to do:

-We had to write who invented Windows and when.

-Who invented roller skates and when.

-Write the alphabet backwards.

-Write the date with words.

-Change an active sentence into a passive and the other way around.

-Write down a really big number with words.

-At the end we had to answer a riddle.

13 February 2012 / Igor Šušteršič

Firstly we were talking about Friday and Saturday- 10.2 ; 11.2. Those
days were information days on high schools, where we will go at the
end of 9th grade. That will be our first important decision. Tham we
started new subject. We started talking about eskimos (eaters of raw
meat) or better Inuits. They dont like to be called Eskimos, but Inuits-
`Real people`. First we had to answer questions with: True or False
than we read text in textbook- page 74. It was very interestin and it
talked about how they lived. Now Inuits are progressive and don`t
live in igloos anymore but in good houses. Later we had to do some
questions about Inuits and each group had to ask 3 questions, and
all class was answering. 1 Group contained 2 students. Example for
questions, that u can answer in comment:

-Which is most valuble animal, that is hunted by Inuits?

- Sledge is pulled by who ?

- What are larger boats for hunting whales named ?

-Which animal do people know best in Antarktica?

And more of those questions...

Competition Literature

http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/railway-children/1/

QuizStar / Deadline 30th January!!!

Hello, students!

Your presentations have been going on very well. A bit too well, maybe. It's hard to keep track. Many topics are very interesting and I hope we will be able to have some discussion as soon as the grades are in Lopolis.
I decided to extend the deadline for all quizzes until the 30th of January. On the last day of January you will all get the rounded grade for the Health Project (presentation grade + listening comprehension, i.e. quizzes grade). I hope you are enjoying the quizzes. If there are any problems do not hesitate to send me an e-mail (in English, if possible).

p.s.: Will somebody please remind me next time to draw the next blogger before everyone is out of the class. Much appreciated :)

16 January 2012 / Andraž Babnik

We got a nice hour of English today. Firstly we got a presentation of Luka Kermelj. I think he had a great presentation. He was talking about outdoor sports. He was talking loudly and slowly, so everybody could understand him. He wasn’t reading a lot, sometimes he looked at the paper to remember the words. When he finished presentation, we had a little talk about it. I think that he will get five. Later our teacher gives us homework.

9 January 2012 / Blaž Bernard

 Today we had first presentation. Jurij and I made a presentation of saunas. We had stage fright, so we were making mistakes at pronunciation, but we did all tasks before presentation (Quiz, links,…). Now I'll tell you something about saunas. Sauna is a small room or hut heated to around 80 degrees Celsius. Sauna room is very hot, so you start sweating, if you are in sauna. If you go to sauna you'll come out relaxed and stronger.  We know minimum 4 Types of saunas: Smoke sauna, Wood stove sauna, Electric sauna and Infrared sauna. Sweating is good because it helps to body clean. Here is picture of finish wood stove sauna. Every second or third Finn have own sauna.

5 January 2012 / Klara Gaber

So we were doing exercises in workbook today at hour of English. Worked are exercises on pages 46( exercises 6a, 6b and 7, we checked out too remember box on this page) 51( namely mission 14, and as on a page 46 remember box ), saved are too 29 exercise on 65 pages. Today( happily) didn't get none homework, and we have so unschooled weekend. We already will start the first presentations of posters on Monday. First, who will be introducing poster will Blaž Bernard and Jurij Košenina. Selected are self theme Saunas. They will prepare quiz at last. I already look forward to the first presentation.

3 January 2012 / Jurij Košenina

Last hour we were speaking abaut posters and when we end, we oupen book's and we draw: HAPPY 2012 !

Down of it we draw: New year resolutions and one of them is: If we rescept other, we will be better. 

How to make an effective poster

Here's a (short) list of sites on how to make an effective poster. Before you start doing your own, read some tips from professionals in the field.

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/documents/QuickReferenceV3.pdf

http://www.ehow.com/how_5849095_design-effective-posters.html

http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/agalvez/poster/

http://go.hrw.com/resources/go_ss/teacher99/toolkit/TOOLKT07.pdf

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Poster

http://www.lemanic-neuroscience.ch/AnnualMeeting/2007/files/poster%20guidelines.pdf

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Poster-That-Stands-Out