Tue, September 5th, 2006

Topic: Understanding current News: "Bullying"

• please read the BBC article "Mother tackled bully on internet" |article|

• collect key-words for on oral presentation of what the article is about (word. doc --> personalized folder in "donath")

• add about 10 useful words & phrases concerning this topic

• email the word.doc to your private email-account

• @home: learn the vocabulary you wrote down and write a) a comment on Kerry Kilsbywhite's actions or b) an informative text about reasons for bullying or c) about victims of bullying --> just use the links the BBC page offers.

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Thurs, September 7th, 2006

Topic:. What's new(s)

• please go to the BBC News-page |BBC News| and get an overview of its structure

• decide on an article of your interest in any of the categories on the left

• read it, understand it, take notes (word.doc -> to be saved in your folder like yesterday) and prepare an oral presentation; if time allows, click for further information; ten words/phrases wanted as well

• @home: learn the vocab you wrote down and...

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Tues, September 12th, 2006

Topic: England & Germany - the German perspective of DER SPIEGEL

• let's read & understand the printout of "Blair's Secret Date to leave" |online| 

• wanted: list of words and an idea of 'journalistic writing'

• @home (no lesson on Thurs, sorry, I'll do s eminar for teachers of German in Cairo): "German Survival Bible" --> you'll be given a text: read it, sum it up in your words and write a personal comment; 10 interesting words/structures are wanted as well :-)

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Thurs, September 21th, 2006

Topic: Mma Ramotswe

• please create your personal Blog at http://blog.com/ 

• the title (=web-address) of your blog has to be "ramotswe-surname" --> example: ramotswe-hannahs or ramotswe-henning

• don't start writing anything now, but when you have created your blog (remember password and address, please) go to http://ramotswe.blog.com/ and look for more information

• then start researching for more information, write the results of your research into your personal blog and decide whether you'd like working with that novels or not.

• have a look at the others' blogs and write comments on their texts, please

|vocablist September 21st --> holiday in Spain ;-) |

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Tue, September 26th, 2006

Looks good what I've seen so far and most of you are interested in reading a book by Mma Ramotswe.

Today:

• finish your blog from last time (which you should already have done, sigh)
• read at least two blogs from others in the course and write a comment
• decide on a novel you'd like to read, you can choose from the 7 on the list http://www.randomhouse.com/features/mccallsmith/books.html
• decide after you've researched the contents in more detail from the web; might  be advisable to work together with your friend/mate/neighbour on the same novel
• New entrance in your blog with the title: "The others about Mma Ramotswe novels" --> sketch out, what other sources from the web say in general about the Ramotswe novels --> sum it up in your words and include the link to the web-source as well, please
• if you need an intro to get along with blogs: http://www.englisch.schule.de/mmf/blog_anweisung.doc

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Thurs, September 28th, 2006

Morning folks, hope you won't miss me too much and that the coffee is already being worked on. Milk is on the fridge, help yourself, please.

Today you are asked to get in insight into Botswana to learn about the country where all of ther Mma Ramotswe books take place. Use a word.doc to collect all the information you research (use websites in English, please). Just research and then sum up the interesting and important facts you find about Botswana in your own language. Expected is a text "Worth knowing about Botswana" and at the end some links with the www-addresses you used to get the information.

Please, not just geographical/political facts and not just the info from wikipedia.com but topics like AIDS, diamonds, health, life expectancy as well. And if you look for pictures, you can include some of them to improve your word.doc.

Idea: to get a clear picture of a country which we don't know much about.

When you are through/finished with that, please save it under: Schule auf Eule - Donath - GK - Botswana with your name in the file-name.

Step 2: Copy your word.doc (at least text) and paste it into your individual BLOG, the WWW-addresses you used as well and if a picture works, fine ;-)

I want to read this text as well as the task from Tuesday in your BLOG these days (and in Locarno) --> that's part of your "Note"....

If you can't publish your text in your BLOG, make sure that it definitely is to be found here on the school's server and/or send it by email to donath@emsnet.de .

By the way, please order the book you have decided on, either via amazon or at a local bookshop. You should use the holidays to read it because we will start with the novels right after the autumn vacation and the Klausur will be about your book as well. Might be easier to order books together with your friends ;-)

And at the end of the lesson: coffee cups back please and a beautiful computer room which loks as decent as never before. Thanks and all the best

dt

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Tue, November 16th, 2006

What's helpful to work on the Ramotswe books?

--> perhaps my collection of bits & bytes |here it is|

--> definitely: discussion questions [and various other pieces of information] at ReadingGroup Guides.com [for "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency". "Tears of the Giraffe", "Morality for Beautiful Girls", "The Kalahari Typing School for Men" and "The Full Cupboard of Life"]

Reading tip: Africa's forgotten AIDS cases

Tue/Thurs, November 21st/23rd, 2006

Topic: AIDS & Africa - useful informatiaon to be found:

http://www.aidsandafrica.com/ 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/aids/ 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/africa/2000/aids_in_africa/default.stm 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_in_Africa 

NEW: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/health/2005/aids_crisis/default.stm 

The BBC produces a series or a film:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/africalives/features/real_ladies.shtml 

Klausur & Grammar:

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Thurs, December 7th, 2006

Research on one of the following topics with summary of results in your blogs please and a short oral presentation next Tuesday

• Germany and colonies in Africa

• Botswana as a British colony

• diamond industry in Botswana (and blood gems in Africa)

• AIDS education in Botswana

• witchcraft in southern Africa and AIDS

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Thurs, December 14th, 2006

• start FRONTPAGE and open your file [Eiko knows the name]

• click http://www.ulricianum-aurich.de/ramotswe/  and read, improve, correct your page, add names (surnames), find possible links to blog texts

• needed: about author, about diamonds, colonial situation, Kalahari, San, etc. (--> Botswana)

• read: Bushmen & Kalahari http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6174709.stm 

• info about mining http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15842524/ 

• Kalahari, bushmen (San) & diamonds: http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=561&fSetId=662&fArticleId=3544629 

• homework --> blog "Bushmen & Kalahari", based on BBC article and links on that page

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Thurs, January 11th, 2007

1. Historically Hot in 2007

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=Met+Office 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070104.html 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/higher/climate_change.html 

Words
1. contributing factors
2. emissions
3. methane - carbon dioxide
4. greenhouse effect
5. mountainous region
6. to issue a forecast
7. glacier; glacial period
8. average global temperature
9. monsoon, hurricane, cyclone
10. multi-decadal influence

2. What a man...

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway 

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html 

http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/ 

http://www.reclam.de/detail/978-3-15-009120-3?query=Hemingway 

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Tues, March 13th, 2007

Please cope with the meaning of the end of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by help of Cliff-Notes: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-10,pageNum-56.html 

Is that your interpretation as well or is it simply far-fetched?

Interesting text about Hemingway: http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?what=ErnestMillerHemingway 

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These are our blogs:

http://ramotswe-bjoern.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-dagmar.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-jakob.blog.com 

http://ramotswe-nina.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-hanna.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-sten.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-moritz-filipfunkandthefoxyfive.blog.com

 http://pirathunter.blog.com/ [Henning]

http://ramotswe-doro.blog.com

http://ramotswe-susanne.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-antje.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-hannahh.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-hilke.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-heiko.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-hannahjulia.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-kristina.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-kerstin.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-maren.blog.com/

http://ramotswe-marlis.blog.com