May 2011

Your homework this week consists of two parts.

1. Write a blogpost on what you do to improve your English. Think about it before you write it down. There may be a number of ways that you don't think of at first.
   At the same time - let me tell you that in some cases I'm sort of worried. There are blogs that haven't seen a new post in months. Does that mean those people do a lot of written homework the traditional way, hand-written ... and I just don't get to see it? Why could that be? Do those people think their English will improve by magic?
   
   
2. Have a look at this text plus worksheet: George Mikes, "How to Panic Quietly".
   You can do task 1 for warm-up, but you should write something for tasks 2, 3 and 4.
   Either publish your work on your blog, or send it to me via mail - by Thursday 19th.
   
   

I hope you'll enjoy working on your own. You can ask questions, of course, either here in the comments or via Twitter. See you soon.

Homework for Tue, 30 Nov

Please read this article:

"Attack on Michelle Obama shows Palin's ignorance of history"

and do the following tasks (using the article and other internet sources):

• Find out four interesting facts about the life of Michelle Obama.


• Find out
  - what Sarah Palin did during the last campaign for the US presidency,
  - what her position was at that time,
  - what she does now,
  - and how she is connected to the "Tea Party" movement.


• What important link is there between this article and our last English lesson?

1. Write down what you find and take your notes along to our Tuesday lesson so we can discuss them.


2. Write a coherent text on one of the above tasks for me to look at.