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Here are some links to words and phrases related to work and employment.

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Be sure also to look up words for different jobs you like.

Dietitian

Alla som missat ett prov eller en uppsats eller liknande kan göra omprov 5 maj i Skrivsalen. Kontakta läraren så kan denne lägga fram ett prov. Om jag är den lärare du vill kontakta, så kontakta mig omgående!

daniel.wernegren@edu.sigtuna.se

A link to a Thesaurus to find synonyms.

A link to a  visual dictionary.

A link to a page on paragrah and sentence development.

A link to a page on grammar and writing.

NOTICE!

Remember that any writing that you want me or Anders to read and correct must be handed in. We want a physical copy of all essays or other writing you submit. We do not accept attachments. Please leave essays in our respective mailboxes by the reception.

General advice
The following are some basic guidelines to good writing:

• Plan your essay in advance
• Use proper paragraphs with either indentation or a blank line.
• Use proper punctuation and commas.
• Jot down briefly the main ideas, supporting paragraphs and points. Write clear and simple sentences to express your meaning in simple words. Stay focused on the main idea of your essay. Re-read your essay in the end.
• While writing your essay, it is probable that you will make a few spelling or grammar mistakes. Hence it is a good idea to try to read through your essay once more and correct them.
• Use the language to its fullest potential. Use your vocabulary and use any fitting expressions and idioms that you know.

Grammar
1. Check all instances of I. They should be with capital I and nothing else.
2. Check all national words. They should have capital letters: English, Englishman.
3. Check all instances of a and an. A is used before a consonant sound, an is used before a vowel sound. (A European agreement, an honest proposal).
4. Check all verbs in the text.
• Present tense: He/she/it speaks
• Agreement: John jumps, Ted and Bill jump; John was late. Bill and Ted were late; John has diabetes. Wolves and dogs have fur; Samuel is sick. John and Bill are funny.
5. Check all Where and were. Where is used for placement: Where is the car? The city where I grew up. Were is used as a verb. We were late for class.
6. Genitive. When somebody owns something an apostrophe and an s is added to indicate ownership, as in: This is Daniel’s car. It is John’s wife.

NOTICE 1: Charles’ car.
NOTICE 2: It is = It’s. It’s a plane, not superman: The car is blue, but it has lost one
of its wheels.

7. Then and than. Then is used in all comparisons when they deal with time. Than is
used in all other cases. I first came to Newark and then I went to New York. I am
taller than you.
8. Who’s and whose. Who’s the new teacher? That’s the guy whose bike I stole.
9. Who or Whom. Who wrote the letter? He wrote the letter. Therefore, who is correct.
For whom should I vote? Should I vote for him? Therefore, whom is correct.

Correcting an essay
The following document is from the Swedish National Agency for Education and it contains some examples of how essays are corrected and graded in Engelska B (EN1202).

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Vi flyttar provet på Section 3 i Vocabulary Exercises till slutet av maj. Återkommer med datum.

Ways to introduce your essay…

1. Broad Statement: Using factory work as an example, you might start out by saying the following: Working in a factory might be one of the worst jobs. And then you go into the specific factory that you’re writing about, for example, an egg factory.

2. Contrast: Start with an idea that is the opposite of the one you will develop: Working in an office is a nice, clean job. You have comfortable chairs, a desk, a computer, a cup of coffee nearby, but working in a factory does not have the niceties found in an office.

3. Relevance: What makes your topic special? Convince the reader that the topic applies to them or is important. So many of our ancestors, when they first came to this country, found themselves working in factories.

4. Anecdote: An interesting short story that coaxes the reader into the world of your essay. The story should be related to your thesis. I once met a man named Victor who was missing two of his fingers. Victor told me that he lost his fingers because of an accident at work. He caught his hand in the wheels of a conveyor belt at the egg factory where he worked.

5. Quotation: Quote something from your research, or find a dictionary quote that relates to your topic:

“Perhaps it seemed to me,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any time for that one” (342). This is how I felt after working in an egg factory for two years. I had other lives to live. I had wasted enough of my life here.

Ways to conclude your essay…

1. A summary or final thought.

2. A thought-provoking question

Appeal to the reader that your subject is bigger than your essay. Comment on any one of these:

• The future
• Which choice should be made
• Why is your subject important

3. A prediction or recommendation.

4. End where you began.

Assignment

A.
Use each type of introduction to introduce an argumentative essay supporting or criticizing capital punishment. (3-5 sentences, approximately)

B.
Use each type of conclusion to conclude an argumentative essay supporting or criticizing capital punishment. (3-5 sentences, approximately) (To sum up… In conclusion…

(To write a summary is in conclusion 1, you have to imagine what your key arguments were and briefly summarize them.)

Next Thursday present one romantic poet and one romantic poem. Work in pairs. Focus on important details in the poet’s life. Explain the meaning of the poem as you see it. Also include personal thoughts and an explanation of new words.

Post which poet and poem ASAP.

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To watch the Simpson’s episode about Poe’s the Raven, click here.

One of the greatest pieces of literature to come out of America is, to my mind, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. The poem has beautiful language, but also a very intriguing story that leaves the reader wondering about questions like love and loss.

The Raven is widely known and quite popular, although some of the words in the poem are old. There is also some references to old myths and gods like Pallas (Athena), which would make it easy to think that most people wouldn’t like it.

Assignment
Discuss some (or all) of the questions below:
1. What is your reaction to the poem?
2. What, if anything, does the poem tell you?
3. How would you explain the poem’s popularity?
4. What examples of “old language” did you find in the poem? Why did he use such strange words? (Please also give a list of examples of diificult words with their synonyms, or Swedish translations).

Torsdag 22 april. Prov på Section 3.