Mae Nak Phra Khanong

Greetings, students!

Today, you'll be making cartoon strips about the Thai ghost story Mae Nak Phra Khanong (แม่นากพระโขนง)

Actress Davika Hoorne playing Mae Nak in the 2013 movie Pee Mak

Your cartoon should:

• Explain the story of Mae Nak Phra Khanong to somebody who has never seen/heard of it before.
• Have at least six different panels- more than six is fine!
• Use at least one sentence of English for each panel.

Here's a Wikipedia article about the story, but try not to copy it exactly. If you can write the story in your own words, you will get a higher score.

Your cartoon must have at least six panels, but it can be divided any way that you like.

This is pretty cool!

You should start making your comic strip today, but if you need more time for drawing, writing, or colouring, the final date for giving it to Teacher Philip is Thursday, 3rd November

King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Greetings students,

Today, I'd like you to start working on a writing project about King Bhumibol.

You should produce one Word / Publisher document as a group of two or three students, giving information about the King and his work. Your work should also include at least one photograph or picture of the King.

You could talk about:

The Royal Projects

Sufficiency Economy (information here and here)

Information about the King's early life in the USA

Here is a BBC movie about the King (with Thai subtitles):

Frankenstein Summaries

Thank you, everybody for your excellent work summarising the Frankenstein reader. Rather than wasting lots of paper and printing a booklet for everyone, I thought I'd scan your summaries and put them on here. They're the original size, which is why they look huge!

Semester 1 Finals: Core Exam

Hello, students! These are the topics for the final core exam.

• Parts of an airport

• Going to for the future
• Present continuous for the future
• Defining relative clauses (who, which, where, what, etc.)
• Paraphrasing

"It's a place in Chiang Mai. It has lots of shops, restaurants, and a cinema"

• Present perfect + yet, just, already (Have you done you your homework yet? Yes, I've just finished)
• Present perfect or past simple? (I've been to China once/I went to China last year)
• Something, anything, nothing
• Comparative adjectives and adverbs (She is more intelligent than I am./I wish I played football as well as him.)
• Superlatives [+ever +present perfect] (What's the best place you have ever been to?)
• Quantifiers, too, not enough (How many cups of coffee do you drink each day? Probably too many.)

Most (but not all) of the exam follows the same format: there are some multiple choice questions where you have to choose and copy the correct answer, then a section where you have to think about the correct answer by yourself.

There are also some longer writing questions, worth about 5 points each. Try to write in sentences. You don't have to write a paragraph, but you could get more points if you do!

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Here's some work that you can do to prepare for the exam. Remember, apart from the parts of an airport, most of the exam is about grammar:

Textbook

• Revise & Check (p. 34) [already done]
• Revise & Check (p. 50) 
• Grammar Bank (p. 130-135)

Workbook

• Units 3-5 (p. 17-38)

Online

• Units 3-5

Supplemental Exam Preparation & Newspaper Work

Hello, students! Today we are going to look at the supplemental exam, which will be about the Frankenstein reader. The supplemental exam will be on Tuesday, 4th October at 11:00 am.

There are four parts to the exam:

• Vocabulary (30 points)
• Characters (30 points)
• Plot (30 points)
• Themes (10 points)

Now that you have some idea what will be on the exam, let's look at how to use quotes. This will be important for the 'Themes' section.

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Now, I'd like you to write a book review of Frankenstein. The best pieces of work will go in the student newspaper, along with some of your 'Wanted' posters. Here's what I want you to do:

- Join up with one or two friends (no more than 3 people!)
- Log-in to one of your Gmail accounts and start writing an email
- Write about the Frankenstein reader. Include:

• Who wrote the book? 
• What is the book about?
• What happens?
• Who are the most important characters?
• Why did you like it?
• What do you think could be better?
• Would you recommend this book to other students?

When you're finished, email it to m4seek@gmail.com. In the Subject line, write the nicknames of everyone in your team.

Q.O.T.W. 13

Hello, students!

The Question of the Week for this week is:

"Who do you think is to blame for William's death- Victor or the monster? Why?"

Frankenstein Computer Activities

Today, you'll begin working on a Frankenstein project in pairs or groups of three. You can choose any of the projects below:

1) 'Wanted' Poster

 

Make a wanted poster for Frankenstein's monster. Use information from the book and Google searches to describe the creatures appearance and personality. Include a picture.

Like this, but with more information!

2) An Interview With Victor Frankenstein

Imagine that you are interviewing Victor Frankenstein while he is still making his creature. Ask him questions about his work and what he is doing. You could begin by asking him questions about his family and where he is from.

3) Comic Strip

Make a short comic strip (6 pictures or less) about the story of Frankenstein so far. If would like to, you can print the words and design from the computer and draw the pictures by hand.