Joane - our new english assistant!

Hi everyone!

Last week in our english lesson our class had a nice visit and this was Joane. Joane will be our new English assistant for the next time, because our first English assistant Elise, went home and so Joane came to us. She is 20 years old and from Scotland and studies languages, German and Spanish. Joane also told us about her family and a lot of facts about Scotland, for examples: Ben Navis is the highest mountain in Scotland with 1300 meters, I think it isn’t really high, because here in Austria the highest mountain is about 3800 meters high. Also she told us 1 % of Scottish people speak Gaelic. And the inhabitants of Scotland are about 5 million people.

What interested me most is, that in Scotland the highest mountain is only 1300 meters high.

Hope you like my posting and enjoy your week.

Regards,

Jakob

Dress Codes & Fashion Competition

Hi everybody!

The last day we were talking about dress codes and fashion competitions at school. And I thought you might be interested because this is a very important topic. And now I would like to give you my opinion on that topic.

The school which I visit there are no fashion competitions. Everybody wears the clothes he or she wants to wear and nobody laughs at him or her. Maybe in other schools there are fashion competitions and the pupils want always to wear the most stylish and latest fashion. But in our school we do not have such a fashion competition.

In my school we do not have to wear school uniforms and I think this is good so you can wear whatever you want. But wearing school uniforms can also be a good thing because, it helps the parents to save much money and it takes less time to get ready in the morning and school intruders are more easily identified in a school of uniformed children. Those are some good things which argue to a school uniform.

So at the end I would be interested in your own opinion and what do you think about dress codes and fashion competitions?

Regards

Jakob

Hi erverybody!

Today I am writing about "my supermarket", in which I buy normally something. At school, we were talking about the supermarket and the tricks which the owners of the supermarkets use, that the customers buy more and more. First, the supermarket in which I buy normally something is called Billa. When you enter the store first, you can see fruits and vegetables. The fruits and vegetables are positioned near the entrance because they look so colourful and fresh and so maybe you will buy some. Then a few steps away there is the bakery, where you can buy some rolls and four or five kinds of bread. And when you come to the cash desk you find some sweets, magazines and newspapers and maybe you will buy even there some. And all the things in the supermarket are so positioned that you as a customer buy as much as you can, and these are only some tricks which the supermarket owners use.

I thought you might be interested because, I think many of you have been bought something in a supermarket you didn't really need.

Regards,
Jakob

Hi everybody!

Today in our English lesson we spoke about flims, cinema, theatre and other entertainment. And I thought you might be interested. So today I will write about of one of my favourite films.

One of my favourite films is the Fast and the Furious part 5 and it is an action movie. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are starring in it. What is it about? There are several films of the Fast and the Furious, but most the acts are that the actors steal money and cars and there is really a lot of action in the films. And in the end the main actors get a lot of money and all are happy.

I like films with a lot of action and explosions. So I can say that the Fast and the Furious films are really good films. And the critics said that too and the films got very good reviews.

Regards,

Jakob

Hi everybody!


I was reading an article the other day in the internet and it talks about Thanksgiving and Black Friday. And i thougt you might be interested, because I didn't knew anything about Black Friday and I was really shocked about this day.

Thanksgiving:

 Basically what it says is that thanksgiving is an annual holiday on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. On this day, they celebrate the harvest of the past year. It is traditional that families and friends get together and have a great meal, mostly with a big turkey and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day.

It originated in the autumn of 1621 when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited neighbouring Indians to join the Pilgrims for a three-day festival of recreation and feasting in gratitude for the bounty of the season.

Black Friday:

Black Friday is the following Friday after Thanksgiving Day often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day many shops have high percentage and a few shops open at midnight that the people can go shopping. It is really a busy shopping day.

Regards,

Jakob

November 5th - GUY FAWKES DAY!

Remember, remember the fifth of November!

Guy Fawkes was one of the members who planned the failed gunpwoder Plot of 1605, in which a group of Catholics attempted to destroy the Houses of Parliament and kill James I, the then King of England.

But who was Guy Fawkes? Guy Fawkes was born in Stonegate, York on April 13th, 1570. His father was called Edward and his mother was called Edith.

Why is he famous for? Fawkes is famous because he tried to destroy the government building, the Houses of Parliament in the hope of killing King James I, because the government was treating Roman Catholics unfairly. These men which would kill James I, were called plotters. One night these men put barrels with a lot of gunpowder in the basement of the government building. But some of the plotters were worried that some of their friends get caught in the explosion, so one man wrote a letter to warn them not to be there that day. But Lord Monteagle obtained the letter with the Warning and showed the letter to King James I. After this Fawkes jumped immediately before his execution from a scaffold where he was hanged and broke his neck.

This is the story why the English people celebrating the Guy Fawkes day every year on the fifth of November.

Regards,

Jakob

Hi everybody!

Today a nice girl came to our school and told us some information about her life, the university which she visits and so on.

Her name was Elise and she came from Basingstoke, a town which is about 30 minutes away from London. Elise came to Austria because she visits the Oxford University, she is in the third year of studies, and the students have to stay a few months in another country.

For examples what she told, that students which visit the Oxford University they have to pay 10.000 pounds, I think 10.000 pounds are really, really, really a lot of money. So many students have to take out loan, but the government do not give them money until they have a job.

And Elise told us before you pass the final exam you are an “undergraduate”, and then when you pass the last exam you get “bombed” with food like meat, fish, eggs or baked beans. I thought that must be an awful thing, but she said that’s traditional.

That’s some things which Elise told us. And today this was a really interesting and funny English lesson.

Regards,

Jakob