Welcome

This blog is setup for the English Group at Røde Kors Mortenstrud.

We meet on Thursdays between 17.30 and 19.30 every week, apart from schools holidays. We would like to thank all the student that attend every week for their support.

In this blog we will post details about the topics that are covered.


We look forward to seeing you...


Tony and Sivale

-------------------------------------------------

Røde Kors Mortensrud

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Festivals

Writing exercises
Likes and Dislikes of Festivals
Reading
Giving
Parent / Child game

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Movies

'Law abiding citizen'

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Class Divided

Personal Goal Setting

Reading

NLP Test

Film 'Class Divided'

Obama peace prize

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Knowing yourself

This week we will be covering the following:

Reading - True story ' Days to come'

Writing - filling in knowing yourself quiz

Writing - Personal Accomplishment form

Discussion
Personal Achievement

Personal Achievement

Reading - True Stories

Knowing Yourself

Discussion - 3 Topices

Film.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Sterotypes

This week we will be covering the following:

Reading Exercise: Sterotypes,

Questions

Discussion: Sterotypes?

Confidence Building

Writing: Comic Art 'captions'
Postive statements

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Failure

This week we will be covering the following:

Reading Exercise: 'Failure' -
Questions

Listening Skills: Sounding of words

Discussion: Discussion from previous week?

Writing: Write about favourite subject


Thursday, 5 November 2009

Make up artist

This week we will be covering the following:

Reading Exercise: Make up artist
Questions

Word games

Discussion: How to gain confidence and How it is being a teenager.

Writing: Postive statements

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Blue Boy

This week we will be covering the following:

Reading Exercise: Blue Boy - about peace
Questions
Listening Skills: Sounding of words
Discussion: about Faviourite person and why?
What would it be like to be someone else?
Writing: Postive statements

Monday, 19 October 2009

True Stories


This week we will be covering the following:


Reading Exercise: Bridget, A Burn survivor story


Discussion about Faviourite person and why?

Monday, 8 June 2009

Life

We will be covering the following on 09th June.

Reading Exercise

Discuss: Four Different Books
-The boy who taught the beekeeper
-Adrian Mole
-Mates, Dates and...
-The Curious incidents of the Dog in the night

Eyes movement process

"How has your life changed"

Monday, 1 June 2009

Branding

We will be covering the following on 2nd June.

Reading ' Branded'

Verb Quiz / Crosswords

Conversation

Discussion 'How important is Branding'

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Cancelled due to exams.


Good luck.


See you next week.

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Games
We covered the following on 19th May

Games - Words games, crosswords, puzzles

Reading ' How to use a Norwegain'

Talking skills

Positive Words

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Reaxation

We covered the following on the 12th may.

Word Game

Making up stories

Reading ' never giving up'

Relaxation techniques for exams.

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Freedom

We covered the following on the 05th may.

Word Games
What if you were not allowed to go to ...?
Freedom
Reading
Competition

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Discussion
We covered the following on the 28th April.

Reading
Discussion

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Story Time

We will be covering the following on the 28th April.

Reading Exercise 'The Little Prince'

Story Time Game
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words
("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work.

Positive Statements..

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

The Wave

We covered the following on the 21st April.

Film 'The Wave'

Word Game

Reading Exercises ' The Little Prince'

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Tuesday 14th April

Sorry, We had to cancel.

Friday, 27 March 2009

Words

We covered the following on the 31st March

Reading Exercise

Word Game

Story time

Managing a Team

Monday, 23 March 2009

Movie Time

We covered the following on Tuesday 24th March.

Reading Exercises - "Sweet Love"

Film 'Signs'

Writing Exercise

Meaning of Words, And the Power Of Word

Two handed Exercise.

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Extraordinary People

We covered the following on Tuesday 17th March.

Extraordinary People - Film

Things you are good at.

Presentation Skills - Part2

What is possible?

Reading Exercise
- Mission On a March

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Role Models

We covered the following:
Presentation – Role Models

Reading Exercises – I have a dream


  • Who are your Role Models
  • What are your dreams
Presentation Skills – Part1
  • Presentation Techniques
Reading Exercises – Sean’s story

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Moral

We covered the following:
Reading Exercises – Popcorn, chewing gum and potato chips

Meaning of words

Film – Tales of the Unexpected (Moral)

Writing Exercise – About film and Moral Values

Words in Songs – Rihanna “Take a bow”

Tuesday, 24 February 2009


History of Pop

We covered the following:
Reading Exercises – History of Pop

Meaning of words

Description of music terms – Pop, R and B, Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop

Reading Techniques (Brief)