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Introduction
How to use Google docs and send in assignments on Larweb
Send in an assignment on Larweb
Exploring ChatGPT: Guidelines for Productive Schoolwork
Google Docs och skicka in på Larweb
Expand your vocabulary!
How can Chat GPT help me as a student?
How to learn English
How to improve your English outside the classroom
Create an account to our learning platform ”Larweb”.
Larweb instruktioner
Instructions to our learning platform ”Larweb”.
Skapa ett Google konto
Larweb manual för lärare
Grit and mindset
Engelska 5, 100 poäng
Engelska 6, 100 poäng
Engelska 7, 100 poäng.
Speaking
Present a Website
Make a video about formal and informal English
Do you want to improve your accent?
Analysing a speech
Analyzing Martin Luther King’s speech ”If I Had Sneezed”
Expressing Opinions
Recording of video and sound
Flipgrid
Making speeches
Oral presentation of American Historical Event in English 6
Analysing a speech
How to deliver a great speech
Present a Website
How to deliver a great presentation
News! Present an article
Present a celebrity
A Video Presentation of Myself
American vs. British English – Vowel Sounds – Pronunciation differences
How stuff works
Sound like a native speaker: the BEST pronunciation advice
Talking about school in British and American English
Interview each other!
Talk about two pictures
Memories
Reading
Prepare an article
Prepare an article for English 6
Habitable earth
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
Leave no dark corner
Edward Snowden: how the spy story of the age leaked out
One Month, 500,000 Face Scans
#MeToo a revolution that can’t be stopped
Should meat be banned to save the planet?
Merriam-Webster dictionary adds ‘they’ as nonbinary pronoun
Read a newspaper article
“The New Science of Happiness”
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
Little Rock Nine: the day young students shattered racial segregation
Stanford study says fossil-fueled cars will vanish in 8 years as ‘big oil’ collapses
Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts
The abuse of animals won’t stop until we stop eating meat
The unpredictable course of live streaming has caught us unprepared
Orwell rolls in his grave: Britain’s endemic surveillance cameras talk back
”I have a dream” by Martin Luther King
Smile or die – Ehrenheart (Eng 6 or 7)
Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief (Eng 6 or 7)
Kid Crazy: Why We Exaggerate the Joys of Parenthood (Eng 6 – 7)
“The Mayflower and Before” by Bill Bryson
Listening
Listening – mixed things
Learn English with TV-series/Movies
Learn English with TED-talks!
TED Talk Assignment
Talk about songs
Analysing a speech
Three kind of bias that change your world view – Marshall Shepherd
List of listening exercises for English 6 and 7
Real Life English
TED-talks recommended by my students
TED-talk: The one-minute secret to forming a new habit
The Inquiry
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
How I built this – Richard Branson
Shocking Cowspiracy Facts & Statistics
South Park: Truth and advertising
Should meat be banned to save the planet?
Take a break – Walmart
Boston Calling: Stars and Stripes
Climate change is happening
Brian Palmer: Courage can be almost as contagious as fear
South park episode ”All about mormons”
Meet the man behind the movie ”127 hours”.
Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model – Cameron Russell
Amy Purdy – Living beyond limits
What’s wrong with what we eat – Marc Bittman
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters … or heroes
Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory
Michael Norton: How to buy happiness
Democracy now in Almedalen (interview with Martin Smedjeback)
The climate crisis explained in 10 charts
Shocking Cowspiracy Facts & Statistics
My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality – Martine Rothblatt
Why 30 is not the new 20
Why do we sleep?
Melanie Joy – Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Steve Jobs – How to live before you die
How to deconstruct racism one headline at a time – Baratunde Thurston
Dan Gilbert – Lecture on Happiness
Ken Robinson on Education
Why giving away wealth has been the most satisfying thing we’ve done – Bill and Melinda Gates
TED-talk Peter Singer – The how and why of effective altruism
”Embracing otherness, embracing myself” by Thandie Newton
A Christmas Carol
Seth Brings Jon Snow to a Dinner Party – Late Night with Seth Meyers
Monty Python – Four Yorkshiremen (The good old days)
Literature
Recommended novels in English
Novel Assignment (letter) – English 7
Present an author orally.
Instructions – how to write a book review (English 5)
How to Analyse a Novel (English 6)
How to Analyze a Short Story
How to Analyze a Short Story – English 5
A short story – English 5 course examination
A Short Story – Course examination for English 5
A Short Story – Course examination for English 6, 2018
A Short Story – course examination for English 7
Oral analysis of a novel (English 6)
English Literature Canon
A Selection of Short Stories
A Short Story – English 6
Short story for English 7
Shakespeare and the Globe – course examination material
An excerpt from ”1984” by George Orwell
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Harper Lee Biography
Poems
The Story of an Hour – Kate Chopin
The Life of George Orwell
Recite your favourite poem
”The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson
Amanda Gorman’s poem ”The Hill We Climb”
REUNION: ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1971)
Write a poem or lyrics to a song
Slam Poetry
Analyzing literature (English 6/7)
Writing
How to Write a Discussion Essay
How to write an argumentative essay
Analyze a news article’s trustworthiness.
How to write an essay (English 5)
How to write a reportage
How to write a story
How to write a short story
How to write a letter
How to write an informative essay
How to refer to sources
How to write a formal letter
Exploring the World of Celebrities
AI – salvation or doom?
Argumentative essay – Fight Global Warming! (assessed as done/not done)
Analyze a news article’s trustworthiness (lesson)
Formal and informal English
Linking words
Discussion essay – explore a phenomenon in the English speaking world.
Grammar and Spell Checker for Google docs
The Pros and Cons of Mobile Phones
10 minutes writing – topics
List of References
Me, Myself and I
Food and obesity
An Important Historical Event in the US
Hur refererar man i en text?
Writing a diary
Travel Blog
A Formal Letter of Complaint
Write a discussion essay about Social Networking Online
Articles about social networking on-line
10 starters for a story
How to proofread you reportage
A Letter to Students in Ohio
Final Exam – English 7
Cosmetic surgery
Vocabulary
Collocations
Collocations for English 5
Collocation list English 6
Collocations for English 7
Phrasal verbs
Education – American and British vocabulary
Vocabulary booster
Guess the word – advanced edition (key)
English idioms
Education – American and British words
Adjectives to Describe People
Lund Word Championship 2007
Discussion
Studying English
Growth and fixed mindset
Discussion about food
What’s your opinion?
Artificial Intelligence
Parenting
Discussion/presentation about the climate crisis
Discussion – music
Discussion LGBTQ
The Climate Crisis
Courage
Eating meat or going vegetarian/vegan?
Racism
Celebrities
Cell phones/mobile phones
Procrastinate
Gender roles and equality
Education
Education (Ken Robinson)
Discussion – Global warming
What’s your opinion?
English Speaking Countries
Cultural studies
Quiz about English-speaking countries
1 Language, 3 Accents! – American vs. British vs. Australian English
New York city travel guide
The History of English in 10 minutes
Traditions in the English speaking world
How is power divided in the United States government? – Belinda Stutzman
US Election
The History of English in 10 minutes
The Commonwealth explained
Top 10 Things to Do in Cape Town
Auckland city guide, New Zealand
Hugh Laurie: the British slang vs the American
Top 10 London Attractions
British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg
San Francisco Vacation Travel Guide
Funny Differences Between British And American Culture
The History of English in 10 minutes
13 Very British Problems
10 Ways To Have A Very British Christmas
Thirteen days
Super Bowl : What does it mean to Americans?
Gandhi
What are the Americans like? (English 5-7)
American History Project (English 6)
Steve Jobs Biography
Martin Luther King Biography
Mark Zuckerberg Biography
John Pilger – The Last Dream – Heroes Unsung
Music
Talk about songs
Ordinary Love – U2
If I Were a Boy – Beyonce
Music and Lyrics
Song for Someone – U2
Rodrigez – This is not a song (Establiment Blues)
The Beatles
The Sick Note
Bob Dylan
Ylvis – Massachusetts
Films
My favourite film scene
Independence Day – Resurgence: Trailer
Men in Black 3 – trailer
Captain Fantastic – Trailer
How to present a film orally
Inside out trailer
Renee interviews Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
Avatar – trailer
Film review – instructions
Writing a Film Review
The Imitation Game – the trailer.
Frozen Fixer Upper
Selma – trailer
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows ”Three Brothers Story”
Mr Peabody and Sherman
In summer (from the Disneyfilm Frozen)
The Hunger Games
Brave – trailer
The Boat that Rocked – trailer
The Titanic – trailer
Chronicles of Narnia
Course examinations
Course Examination in English 5
Course examination in English 6
Course Examination in English 7
Course Examination in English year 9
The National Exam
Projects
Media literacy
Courage
AI – a threat or a possibility?
Social Networking Online
Social Networking Online – distant learners
Happiness
Current event
Elon Musk
English accents
TV-series
The Pros and Cons of Surveillance
Different Accents
Stories
Product Placement
Food
The Future
How it all began
Climate
News
Miscellaneous
Schedule for online lessons – 2023
Flipgrid
Study methods for learning English
Google extensions
Learn English with music
Grammar and Spell Checker for Google docs
Discuss music
How to study for a vocabulary test
Learning to Learn: The effect of spacing
Recording of video and sound
Record videos with the Google extension Loom
How does Google search work?
Grammar
Grammar presentations and videos
Websites about grammar
Kristian’s little grammar
Introduction to Phrasal Verbs
www.engvid.com
Punctuation – The Full Stop and the Comma
Subject-verb agreement
If I Were a Boy
Grammar videos
Irregular verb exercises 1-2 with key
Idioms, similes and proverbs
How to learn English
Spaced repetition
Apps to help students with reading or writing.
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