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Girls Want To Have Fun

Today we listened to a crazy reading of the story Girls Want To Have Fun (page 66-71) in class. We also did the exercises on page 72 together.

Homework for Wednesday, 1 December is to do the exercises on page 73 + the translation (exercise D) on page 74.

Please be on time for class, especially on Friday mornings. I will close the door when class starts from now on.

Can you believe that the new "City-tunnel signs" in Malmö had this grammatical error in English? The signs will now be replaced...

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Today's class + important information

Today some of the students shared their stories about an unexpected/interesting meeting. Kudos to those of you who were brave enough to share. Those of you who have not written your story yet, please e-mail it to me today. For instructions, see post below.

We also did the listening exercise on page 62-63.

Please note: English class on Wednesday, 24 November is cancelled due to different activities. 

Homework for Friday, 26 November: Study the text Girls Want to Have Fun (page 66-71). Study the words for the text as well (page 240-241).

Writing: An unexpected/interesting meeting

Today I talked to you individually about your current "grade" in this course. 

Today's task was to write a text of about 250 words about a meeting with someone special/interesting. 

An unexpected/interesting meeting

Write a text of about 250 words (write more if you like) where you describe a meeting with a specific person. Describe the meeting in as much detail as possible. Explain why this meeting was special to you.  

Read your texts aloud in groups.

Choose one text/group to be read to the class.

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Homework for those of you who are on "praktik" and those of you who were not in class today: Follow the instructions above. Bring your text to class on Friday, 19 November or e-mail it to me at asa.falk@pub.malmo.se if you cannot be here on Friday (that is if you are on APU).  

An Unexpected Guest

Today we read the text An Unexpected Guest on page 55-58 in your book. This text + the words on p 239 - 240 is your homework for Wednesday, 17 November. 


Also make sure that you answer the questions "Check your reading" on page 59 for Wednesday's class.

Tricky sentences

Today we translated these sentences into English. The grammatical rule that applies here is the rule about uncountable nouns in English. Some nouns like advice, money, evidence etc only appear in the singular in English, but usually in the plural in Swedish. Here Swedish speakers tend to go wrong in English. 

The other rule is the rule about the use of "det" in English. Here you need to use it, there is or there are. In some cases you need to rewrite the sentence in a completely different way (like in sentence number 14). 

1. Jag gillar skolan men knappast alla läxorna.

I like school but hardly all the homework.

2. Robin fick en stor applåd när han sjöng ”Yesterday”.

Robin received a huge round of applause when he sang ”Yesterday”.

3. Han blev frisläppt eftersom det inte fanns några bevis på att han var skyldig.

There was no proof that he was guilty so he was released. He was released since there was no evidence that he was guilty.

4. Lyssna aldrig på goda råd, om de inte är bra förstås.

Never listen to good advice unless it is good, of course.

5. Pengar är viktigt i livet, eller hur?

Money is important in life, isn't it?

6. Flickan på resebyrån gav oss en del värdefulla upplysningar om vår resa till Grekland.

The girl at the travel agency gave us some useful information about our trip to Greece.

7. Gamla möbler är ibland både vackrare och billigare än nya.

Old furniture is sometimes both more beautiful and cheaper than new ones.

8. Toni har goda kunskaper om amerikansk musik.

Toni has great knowledge of American music.

9. Vem är den där killen där borta? Det är Pete, min lillebror. Who's that guy over there? That's Pete, my little brother.

10. Det finns massor av trevliga människor där vi bor.

There are a lot of nice people where we live.

11. Jag tror inte att det finns något speciellt budskap i den här filmen.

I don't think there is a special message in this movie.

12. Det verkar vara något mystiskt med den där mannen.

There seems to be something mysterious about that man.

13. Det återstår en hel del arbete innan vi är klara.

There is still much work to do until we are finished. Some work remains before we're done.

14. Tycker du verkligen att det är gott med hamburgare?

Do you really like hamburgers?

15. Det hände en massa roliga saker när vi var i New York förra sommaren.

A lot of fun things happened when we were in NY last summer.

16. Vad kallt det är! Jag fryser om både händer och fötter.

It's so cold! Both my hands and feet are freezing.

17. Det blev rött ljus när vi kom fram till korsningen.

The lights turned red when we arrived at the intersection.

18. Det står just nu två-noll till Manchester United.

The score is two-nil/two-zero/two-nothing to Man U.