Swedish teen sectioned over computer addiction

Read the magazine article: Swedish teen sectioned over computer addiction which is posted on Rex Net. Express your opinion about the article here on the blog. Post your comment as "kommentar".

Sweden no longer immune from royal gossip

Via your learning platform Rex Net you have now read the magazine text Sweden no longer immune from royal gossip. Please express your own point of view on this matter here on the blog. Use "kommentar" to post your anser on the blog please!

Reality Bites

No Place to Call Home by Lee Stringer

Life in the Underworld by Charles Dickens


Please answer the following questions:

1) Tell us about the narrator's everyday life as it is described in Lee Stringer's extract from the novel No Place to Call Home.

2) Thousands of people are sleeping rough on big city streets every day and night. In your view, is it true that we accept homelessness if we do nothing about it? Do we have a responsibility? Or is the problem something social workers can solve? Is it a state or community issue? (Blueprint B p. 81)

3) Summarise the text extract Life in the Underworld in your own words.

4) Just like Oliver Twist in Charles Dickens' text, many children in Africa are orphans - due to the AIDS epidemic. Give us some convincing arguments to make people donate money for this course, to help them build an orphanage, a school etc. (Blueprint B p. 82)

Swedish news in English

In the right hand column you can see some net addresses. Go to the address called SR International Radio Sweden and activate the link. Here you will visit Radio Sweden - Swedish News in English. To the right you are to see a blue sign saying Podcasts. Please click on the link and then choose 3 Radio Sweden programmes from different dates and inform yourself about what happened in Sweden at that time. Good luck and I hope you will enjoy listening to news in this way.

Jane Austen

You have informed yourself about the autor Jane Austen via Rex Net. Write some facts about who she was and what she did, the way she wrote etc. Deadline: 3 March

What are your absolute dating no-no's?

Having read the extract Meet Mark in your Blueprint coursebook p.11-15 you are to express your opinion on nr 1 Reflect and Share p. 16. What are your absolute dating no-no's? Make a list of three things that you consider absolutely out of the question on the first date. Please comment on one of the lists of your coursemates as well. Go to "kommentar" and activate that link and write your thoughts about someone else's no-no list.

Deadline: 1 March

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hello everyone,

I have made some changes concerning the final test of Big Mouth&Ugly Girl. The changes have been published on Rex Net, however I will post them on our course blog as well.

Please read the following:

w.2 We'll meet in class on 14 January between 16-18 to discuss the novel in depth. Learn all the Big Mouth &Ugly Girl words on the hand-out given to you on our previous meeting. When we meet on January 14 you will sit a vocabulary test on the words and write an essay in connection to the novel read. This time the final analysis of the novel will be in writing. The results from your last vocabulary test will be issued.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and try to recharge your batteries!