Speech titles, deadline this Friday!

You will write a speech of 150-250 words for next Friday. After I have read them, you will present them in small groups. Check for tips on writing a speech on p. 116.

Write your essay on a Google document and share it with me at sanna.tarvainen (at) edu.hel.fi. The deadline is this Friday! Do not hand in your essay late. Every day your essay is late will lower your essay score by ten points. For example: if you hand in the essay two days late and your essay deserves 72 points (that's 7+), your score will be 62 points because it was handed in late. So be on time!!

Here are the titles.

1) It is your best friend's wedding. Write a speech where you congratulate the happy couple.

2) Stop bullying  (yo 2014)

Your school has launched a campaign against bullying. As the chair of the student council, you have been asked to give a talk about the issue in English at your school, which has a number of exchange students. Write an opening speech for the campaign.

3) Chalk and Talk or More Modern Technology? (yo2012)

You have been invited to give the students’ point-of-view in a youth delegation discussing what makes good teaching. Are traditional methods, like blackboards and exercise books, enough, or do we need the latest gadgets? Write your speech.

4) It is your 18th birthday and your friends have thrown you a surprise party. Write a speech where you thank your guests and share your feelings on this special day.

Wrath

noun

1.

strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.

2.

vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger.

adjective

3.

Archaic. wroth.

There was a student. He had read to a test for a week. On the exam day he was late for 1 minute but the teacher didn’t let him in. He started raging and the teacher told him to calm down. He told her that he had read to the test for a week. The teacher was wondering whether to let him inside. She didn’t let him inside. The student was thinking what to do. He was chosen by Satan to break all the windows. The next day the principal told him that he’s expelled. He seems to be dead because he is believed to have committed a suicide.

Miiko, Egor, Santtu, 

Greed

Greed

  Greed is excessive or rapacious desire especially for whealth of possessions.

Once upon of time there was a man who was known to be greedy and selfish. One day the mans wife told her husband to go to buy them food for dinner. So the man went. As he got to the store he was filled with greed as he saw the shelves full of delicous food and ingredients. His trolley was full with stuff he didn’t need. One of the cashiers saw the man wondering around with the full trolley and asked him “ Sir, do you really need all of that food?”. The man got very angry and spat to the woman to mind her own business. He paid and left the store. He felt himself content and peaceful. As he walked out of the store the man came across a homeless man. The man looked at the homeless man in disgust. The homeless man saw the mans bags full of fresh food and begged him “Please good sir share me a part of your delicious and fresh food I haven’t eaten in days”. The man laughed and said “To a filth like yourself? Never in a million years”. The greedy man walked away from the homeless man. On his way home the man decides to cross a busy road. The lights are red for him but he ignores them and start to cross the road. Out of nowhere a red truck appears infront of him. The car hits the man and he flies through the air. Later that day he wakes up in the hospital with a broken leg and three fractured ribs. His wife rushes to his side annoyed and says “You almost lost your life due to your greedy manners! You should be grateful to be alive!”. The man realises how wrong his ways were and tries to make a change.

Atte, Juulia, Camilla, Era, Gigbril

Gluttony

Gluttony

a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.

2.

a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something:

a glutton for work; a glutton for punishment.

-          - Dictionary.com

King of the England, Henrik VIII, was very gluttonous man. He always ate and drank too much. He also got married 6 times, and changed the church of England – so he was able to get married and divorced, of course. When the clergyman who was in charge of England’s religion told him he can’t get divorced, he told him that they are going to change their church to Anglican one. His dream was to have a son, but why he never got one, he didn’t know. It’s told that when he got older, he started eating more and more, mostly just meat.  He got overweight and he couldn’t walk anymore.  When he died, all his enemies said: “It was the God who punished him.”

Hilla, Joni, Sanni, Ahmed & Ouli

Pride

Pride

A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

I have my pride and will not sink to your standards

Blinded by pride

Once upon a time there were two kingdoms. Their kings were called Erkki and Pasi. Erkki liked to do his hair troweled back and Pasi forward. Once Pasi insulted Erkkis hairstyle. Erkki went home heartbroken and he was wondering what to do. After wondering a while, Erkki turned to his knights and told them to start a war. He was too proud to admitting this insult.

The following day Pasi looked down from his castle and saw Erkkis knights running towards his kingdom. He was wondering how he could defend himself and his people. Pasi seemed to be scared. Pasi thought that Erkki must have hurt his own feelings because of Pasis insult. Erkkis knights pillaged village that surrounds Pasis castle. Pasi got so pissed about it that he decided to fight back. So he called his knights to respond the attack.

After a year of fighting Jesus came down from the Heavens to help the kings. Jesus told the kings that he was there to help and end the war. Both of the kings told Jesus to F off, because they were blinded by their pride. They didn’t want surrender. Jesus got pissed and smited both of the kingdoms.

Julia Jernvall, Otso Aunola, Jesse Jalonen, Jere Laakkonen & Niklas Åhlgren

Sloth

SLOTH

-  ​Unwillingness to ​work or make any ​effort

Once upon a time there was a man who was wondering what to do while he was lying on the couch and watching television. Suddenly he realized it was fun and decided that he was going to stay there forever. His mother came into the room and told his son to get up but he wouldn’t. The mother wondered what had gone into him, he used to be so energetic and active. Even though he wasn’t doing anything, he seemed to be happy. Until to this day he is believed to be lying on that same couch and watching that same television channel.

Sonata,  Kasper, Seyda, Aino

Envy

Envy means a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

Once upon a time there were two friends and one of them won in the lottery. The other one seemed to be envious of the other one, because of the lottery. The other one wondered what to do about it. Was he going to be left out? Later that day he asked him what he was going to do with the money. He replied that he was going to donate the money to orphans and seemed to be pretty happy about it. The other one started to doubt him and asked what he really was going to do with the money. He told him again, that he was going to donate it, but the friend wasn´t happy about it. A week later he had donated them to the orphans. The lottery winning friend became famous for the donation and gained a lot of respect. The other one didnt seem to stand the fact and committed suicide.

By: Mira Valtonen, Lauri Tiainen, Luka Nousiainen ja Eric Keränen

Lust

Lust is a strong feeling of sexual desire or a strong desire for something.

Once upon a time there was a couple and they were happy. The man’s brother came to town after not seeing his brother in a long time. The brother fell in love with his brother’s girlfriend and was wondering if she’d love him back. The man’s brother told the girlfriend to break up with his brother because he  was cheating on her. The girlfriend believed him and was heartbroken and broke up with the man. Then the brother tried to hit on the girl but She didn't like it. Then the brother felt really guilty about it and jumped off a bridge.

Miska, Panu, Lumia ja Asmaa

The Seven Deadly Sins

1) You will be divided into seven groups. Each group will get one deadly sin to deal with.
2) Check an online dictionary for the English definition of your sin and include it in your text.
3) Then come up with your own story concerning that sin and your own moral for the story. You can add pictures (appropriate ones, please) to illustrate the story.
4) In your story, include

• 2 indirect questions (e.g. He was wondering what to wear.)
• 1 indirect statement (e.g. He told her he was deaf.)
• 1 indirect order/request (e.g. She told him to quiet down.)
• 2 active to infinitives (e.g. He seems to be happy. He came in to pray.)
• 2 passive to infinitives (e.g. He was chosen to play the drums. She is believed to have died.)

Start writing the text in a Microsoft Word document. Eventually, your text will appear in a blog post on this blog. One of you will log on to his/her school Google account and I will grant this person the right to act as writer on this blog. Ask for individual help at this point.

American suburbia in movies/TV shows

In text 4, Sloane Crosley writes that "there was a lot of suburbia in the movies during the 80s and the 90s". This is also true today - lots of today's TV shows or movies include characters living in suburban areas.

1) Find one movie or TV show that is situated in a suburban area. Find out information about the show/movie - who are the characters? What are the surroundings like? How are they described? Is it a life of golf clubs and summer camps and car washing?

Write your answers in the comment box of this blog post. Try to include some vocabulary from the text. Remember to also include your name!

or

2) Write 5 sentences where you use a word from the vocabulary list in text 4. Include your name

Summary practice

Now you will get to practise making a summary orally. 

1. Go here and choose one interesting article. All of the articles deal with hidden thoughts of one member of a particular professional/ideological/other group. Make sure you and your friend choose different articles.
2. Read the article through carefully. If there are words or structures you don't understand, look them up or ask.
3. Write down a couple of main points that you should definitely mention in a summary of this article.
4. Based on these, summarize the main content of the article to your friend.

Post a comment using your school account through clicking the link "Ei kommentteja", writing your comment in the text box and pressing "Publish".

Tentative course schedule

Period 1, ENA4 Tentative schedule

Week	Date	Course contents	Grammar
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	Thu, 13 Aug	Course plan
	Fri, 14 Aug	Text 1	Infinitive
	Tue, 18 Aug	Text 1	Infinitive
	Thu, 20 Aug	Text 2	-ing
	Fri, 21 Aug	Text 2	-ing
	Tue, 25 Aug	Word test: ch 1&2 Text 3	that
	Thu, 27 Aug	Text 3	that
	Fri, 28 Aug	Text 4	Indirect statements
	Tue, 1 Sep	Speech deadline Text 4	Indirect statements
	Thu, 3 Sep	SPORTS DAY - NO CLASS
	Fri, 4 Sep	Speech presentation in groups Text 4	Indirect questions
	Tue, 8 Sep	Text 6	Indirect questions
	Thu, 10 Sep	Text 6	Indirect speech
	Fri, 11 Sep	Text 8	Conjunctions
	Tue, 15 Sep	Text 8	Cohesive ties
	Thu, 17 Sep	Text 8	Cohesive ties
	Fri, 18 Sep	Revision	Revision
	Wed, 23 Sep	Listening comprehension test + revision
Test	Thu, 24 Sep	Test

Welcome!

This is the class blog for English course 4. During this course, you will learn about different approaches to issues such as marriage, religion, justice and life in general. You will learn lots of new vocabulary dealing with these topics and deepen your knowledge on grammatical points, this time focusing on the infinitive/-ing form, indirect speech and conjunctions.

This blog will serve as platform for some homework tasks as well as classroom activities. You can comment on the blog postings by logging in on your school account, which doubles as a Google account.

Hope you'll enjoy this course!