FINAL ASSESSMENTS

The end of term is approaching! this is what you need to do:

• complete your blogs by 25th March (7 in total for this term)
• prepare your presentations by choosing any of the topics you have covered in your blogs starting from last October. That gives you many options. Please refer to the marking criteria in your handbooks. You can make a comparison with your own country, but make sure the information is equally balanced. On the day of your presentations you should bring a copy of your slides.
• Bring a draft of your powerpoint and your laptops to class on Friday 25th for checking and practising.

Crime in the UK

Go to the website www.direct.gov.uk and choose Crime and Justice. Look at Burglary, Robbery and Other kinds of crime/knife crime.

• What advice is given to prevent burglary and robbery?
• What information is given about knife crime?

Which kind of crime is most common in your country?

Crime and Punishment

KNIFE CRIME:

Go to www.direct.gov.uk to find out about more about knife crime.

Read the summary of Brooke Kinsells's report on the Home Office website - click on crime and then knife and gun crime.

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

Find the 3 videos on www.nhs.uk and answer the questions. Choose another video and write 3-5 questions for the class to answer next week.

THE WELFARE SYSTEM

Find out more at http://direct.gov.uk/ .

For example -

1. What is Jobseekers Allowance and who can get this?

2. How much child benefit is paid for each child?

3. What are apprenticeships?

How does the system in the UK compare with the system in your country?

MEDIA - NEWSPAPERS

Can you name some of the daily national newspapers in Britain?

Each of the national papers can be categorised as either a 'quality paper' or 'broadsheet', which caters for the better educated readers, or a 'popular paper' or 'tabloid' which caters for a much larger readership. The popular papers contain far less print than the quality newspapers and far more pictures. They use larger headlines and write in a simpler style of English. Broadsheets devote more space to politics and other serious news, while the tabloids concentrate on human interest stories.

Find an example of each and make a note of the headlines as they appear on the front page. What are the differences? What other news/information do the papers contain, eg weather, tv programmes etc?

MEDIA - TV

Find out what programmes are on this evening and say what kind of programmes they are. Use a word from the list on your sheet.

Watch an episode of one of the programmes mentioned and comment about it on your blog.

SPORT IN THE UK

1. Some of the most famous sports played in the UK are:

• Tennis
• Football
• Golf
• Rugby
• Cricket
• Horse-racing

Find ONE famous sporting venue associated with each of these sports.

2. There are some VERY unusual sports too! Look at the website : www.learnenglish.de/culture/unusualsports.htm

Which do you think is the most unusual and why? Do you have any unusual sports in your country?

3. See if you can do the following sport quiz:

www.learnenglish.de/Games/VocabQuiz/sportquiz.htm

Good Luck!

The Monarchy

The British Royal Family is famous all over the world. How much do you actually know about the members of the Royal Family and the work they do? Look at their website: www.royal.gov.uk and choose someone or something you find particularly interesting and write on your blog. We will have a discussion in class next week.