HALLOWEEN
Halloween is on October, 31st
Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallows' Eve.
Hallowed means holy.
Eve is the day before a holy day.
Halloween was an ancient British Celtic festival.
At Halloween the souls of the dead returned.
People lit bonfires to frighten evil spirits.
Now bonfires are only burnt on November 5th. Bonfire night.
Masks, costumes, ghosts, witches on broomsticks with black cats, skeletons, bats and spiders and Halloween lanterns have all become part of Halloween.
Children play trick-or-treat.
They ask for a treat hoping to get sweets.
Freitag, 29. Oktober 2010
Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2010
Today Farrah, a 22 year old girl from America spent our English lesson with us. She lives with her parents in Mayrland, a state near Washington. Farrah has no brothers and no sisters but she likes it because she gets everything she wants.
At home Farrah has got a dog, a cat, a turtle and a bird.
Her hobbies are reading, listening to music, watching movies, meeting friends and of course travelling. Farrah has done Austria's most popular sport - skiing, but for the first time she was not very good at it.
She has already visited New York, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Germany, France, Amsterdam, Switzerland and Greece.
Farrah is now living in Linz. She has visited the Austrian citys Linz, Vienna, Perg, Innsbruck and Salzburg. Farrah told us that she will stay in Austria till the end of May but she wants to spend some time here again next year.
The driving age in America is 16 and you get alcohol when you are 21 years old.
Then she told us about the big difference between America and Austria. In America everything is much bigger, so there are 25 000 students at one university. What she noticed is that in Austria dogs can go everywhere they want.
I think it was a really good idea to invite Farrah to our class.
At home Farrah has got a dog, a cat, a turtle and a bird.
Her hobbies are reading, listening to music, watching movies, meeting friends and of course travelling. Farrah has done Austria's most popular sport - skiing, but for the first time she was not very good at it.
She has already visited New York, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Germany, France, Amsterdam, Switzerland and Greece.
Farrah is now living in Linz. She has visited the Austrian citys Linz, Vienna, Perg, Innsbruck and Salzburg. Farrah told us that she will stay in Austria till the end of May but she wants to spend some time here again next year.
The driving age in America is 16 and you get alcohol when you are 21 years old.
Then she told us about the big difference between America and Austria. In America everything is much bigger, so there are 25 000 students at one university. What she noticed is that in Austria dogs can go everywhere they want.
I think it was a really good idea to invite Farrah to our class.
Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2010
Press Review
I read an article the other day in the online newspaper "the economist" and what it talks about is that a lot of MBA schools need to integrate new technology into their teaching.
Basically what it says is that employees who are used to expensive smart phones and notebooks in their personal lives now want similar things in their professional lives.
Some professors fear that "wired" things will detract from classroom discussions, but schools are still not deterred from experimenting.
In a lot of schools electronic versions of the learning matter are used instead of paper ones.
There are some concerns which are neither for nor against the new technology.
In the article there is also some information about how many students complained that switching between text and charts took far longer than in books. All the same there are some schools that are going to test the new Apple i-pad.
There have been some classrooms equipped with new TVs and software that allow students who are off campus to share data and opinions with those who are on it.
In my opinion I think it's a good idea to integrate new technology into the teaching system. But I wouldn't like to have only electronic versions of learning matter. I still prefer learning from my own books.
I read an article the other day in the online newspaper "the economist" and what it talks about is that a lot of MBA schools need to integrate new technology into their teaching.
Basically what it says is that employees who are used to expensive smart phones and notebooks in their personal lives now want similar things in their professional lives.
Some professors fear that "wired" things will detract from classroom discussions, but schools are still not deterred from experimenting.
In a lot of schools electronic versions of the learning matter are used instead of paper ones.
There are some concerns which are neither for nor against the new technology.
In the article there is also some information about how many students complained that switching between text and charts took far longer than in books. All the same there are some schools that are going to test the new Apple i-pad.
There have been some classrooms equipped with new TVs and software that allow students who are off campus to share data and opinions with those who are on it.
In my opinion I think it's a good idea to integrate new technology into the teaching system. But I wouldn't like to have only electronic versions of learning matter. I still prefer learning from my own books.
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Vocabulary:
to deter (abhalten) - Somebody deterred me from doing my homework.
chart (Grafik, Diagramm) - You can see par example the turnover of a company on a chart.
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