Crime - The Great Train Robbery

Your homework for next Tuesday is the words on p. 48-50 in textbook. As usual you can practise at Glosmaskinen!

The homework test will be a gap text, so I highly recommend that you read the text as well.

Here is some extra stuff on the robbery and Ronnie Biggs!

Lords of Dogtown

About the movie, from Wikipedia

Movie Review

·       The name of the movie

·       Describe the main characters; name, appearance, age, personality, family etc…

·       Describe the plot of the movie (briefly)?

·       When (during what time) is the movie set? How do you know?

·       Where is the movie set? Country, city, location etc…

·       What is the message of the movie? Explain!

·        What was good in/about the movie?

...... was good, because .......

·       What was not so good in/about the movie?

..........was not so good, because ...........

·       What happened after the movie, do you think?

·       Grade the movie, 1-5!

Write about the movie using these points. Write a text, not just answers. Remember to explain and motivate your thoughts and answers!

For more information about Tony Alva, go here!

Famous athletes

Since you're working with presentations about athletes this week, I thought I would let you in on some of my favorite athletes. I would also like to give you some pointers on giving a speech!

Ice dancing

One of my favorite sports is ice dancing. This is my all-time favorite routine from this great French couple. They were always underdogs and most often beaten by a Russian couple, but I always thought they were the best. Just imagine doing this on skates!



I also like ice skating, but only men's skating. The women don't know how to jump, if you ask me... Here's my favorite male skater. Perhaps you recognize him from when Russia won the Eurovision Song Contest a few years ago; he was actually on stage in that number!

About 30 seconds into this clip you see him do a quadruple-tripple-tripple combination. For those of you who skate or snowboard,  that means he does a 1440 and then two 1080:s...

Giving a speech

Some people find talking in front of a group of people the most natural thing in the world, others almost faint... Which ever category you belong to, these tips are very useful!

Action tips on giving a speech

Here is also some inspiration for you. You should always aspire high!

Sports Theme

Sports Theme Homework for week 3 is the words on p. 23 in your textbooks!

You know you can practise the words on-line, right?

Good Stuff C | Libers glosmaskin

Have you just slept and eaten candy during the break or...

Cast your vote here!



Here you can see the results, in case the embedded frame doesn't work...

Have a look at the actual race from the homework text!

Finally, some inspiration for the winter sports day and Romme...