Samstag, 19. Mai 2007

Let us take a concord -dance

Status: 19.05.2007

Come on babe, let us concord-dance.

You do not know this dance. Oh, babe you must be an alien. Everyone knows the concordance.

Come on baby, let's do the concord-dance.

Okay, I see many lack of comprehension. I try to explain what" concordance" is meaning.

If you do not trust your teacher (in private - never trust the teachers) , use the concordance. A tool what help you to check if the (English-) teacher observe the rules.
If you want know more of this tool, please call the phone number - 0900/666666 - Our Swedish female student Brigitta will help you (7€/minute).

Okay, let us get down to buisness.
Bob - you know Bob? You have to know Bob. Everyone knows Bob, even my mother.
Also Bob have made a presentation. This presentations has been concerning how do you formulate a question in English.
If you want know more of this presentation, please call the phone number - 0900/666669 - Our Spanish female student Estela will help you (7€/minute).

After them we read an article from our school book. The same article was homework one week before. The article describes the powerful help of "Fair Trade". This idea was start in the 60's from nice Dutchmen to help several poor farmers of Nicaragua. Up to date is "Fair Trade" a important branche of trade with a high economic growth.
If you want know more of this topic, please call the phone number - 0900/666696 - Our female student from the Netherlands, Gurda will help you (7€/minute).

Oh - yes. Some new vocs as following have we also learned:
commodity:
are this things like gold, silver and so before machining.

poverty:
the people in Iraq lives in poverty

prosperity:
hm... If you call the above mentioned phone numbers, I will leave in prosperity.

And last but not least - we discuss about the different between. unfilled, uncomplete, incomplete, blank, empty.

Now, my bottle is blank so have to come to the end.

See you soon!




Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007

How are' ya mate

Stauts: 12.05.2007

Interviewer: Hello Ladies and Gentlemen in the front of the monitor. We are visit Mr. RR again. And we will ask him - I think you know what we would ask him - "WHAT DID YOU THE LAST ENGLISH LECTURE"
Unfortunately is Mr. RR in the bathroom and take a bath. But as we are waiting for Mr. RR I have the honor to talk with his nice girlfriend, Ms SL.
Hello Ms. SL - How are' ya mate?

Ms. SL: ???

Interviewer: Just kidding. How are you?

Ms. SL: Oh, thank you for your concern. I'm fine.

Interviewer: Can you say what Mr. RR did last English lecture?

Ms. SL: Sorry. Indeed he speaks very often about the English lecture, but not so in details. More about the jokes and fun what he or his colleagues made. I guess the English lecture is one of his likeable lectures at the school of applied sciences. And I am in the know about the required outclass activities. I'm often taking a part of them.

Interviewer: And you do not enjoy these activities?

Ms. SL: Oh, no. I like it - most of the time.

Interviewer: Most of the time?

Ms. SL: Well, once in a while he goes over the top. It was really funny at the zoo - he asked for the English zoo guide and we made a really nice discovery tour. But the whole time at the zoo, he spoke only English. The problem was that he mixed English with German. If he did not know the correct English word - he replaced it with the German word. This is okay - we speak in this form often at home. But the information guides believe he would them taken for a fool as he as ask for instance: " Can you tell me how and at which time you fütterst this großen hässlichen bird"

Interviewer: This sounds funny.

Ms SL: Well, you have not seen the facial expression of the information guides. They looked not so funny. Or a further example. We were went out for diner last sunday... in our favourite resteraunt. The waitress knows us very well. But he spoke only English. Ask for the English Menue and so on. And when she had spoken in German, he was just pretending that he did not understand.
The waitress looks was very similar to the looks of the zoo guides. It was embarrassed, I will never go in this resteraunt again. It is a great pity, the salad taste really good.

Interviewer: Do you thing Mr. RR have improved his English due to outclass activities?

Ms SL: Definitely! I do not know if this only the outclass activities but he had improved his English since last year. For instance, we watch the U.S. TV-Series "Friends" in the original language. As we start with season 1, he asks me very often what about the people talk. Now, we are at season 4 and sometimes I have to ask him what they talk.
Hm... I think... hm... yes, he understand almost everything. But as mentioned before, he had still problems with speaking.

Interviewer: And writing!?

Ms. SL: Buh... read this BLOG and decide for yourself.

Interviewer: Ohhh.. I see Mr. RR is leaving the bath room.

....will be contiuned....

Samstag, 5. Mai 2007

I don't pull my finger out - I will pull ten fingers out

Status:05.05.2007

Interviewer: Welcome! We are sitting here at the living room of Mr. RR. He will tell us something about the last english lecture.
Mr. RR - Let us start with a simple question. What did you last english lecture?

RR: This is not so simple. Let us start 3 weeks ago.
Oh, no let us start from the beginning. I think, it was one of the first english lecture. Martin - he is the man who has the rewarding task to teach us.
Well! Martin had the idea that we all start a BLOG - like this.
In this BLOG we should we wrote, what we did last lecture. Similar the topic by this interview. Therefore we should take notes of the lecture.

Interviewer: Yes! I think this is an good idea. How does it work?

RR: Hmm... It works. More or less. But I think less than more. And I suppose Martin has the same opinion.
This bring us back to actual question; the last english lecture.
Martin ask us what we did last leture at the beginning. The last lecture was 3 weeks ago. Succinctly, It was not so sucessfull. As a result of... hm... I would say as a result of too less notes.
And of my point of view was this the reason for a new idea from martin. We have to write a book entitled as "ENGLISH". And this book is the BLOG in writen Form.

Interviewer: And you have only discussed about this book?

RR: Oh, No way. We spent approximately an half an hour at this topic. Afterwards we got a very good presention that deals with the difference between "have to" / "must" and "doesn't have to" / "must not", respectivetly. The presenter was our collegue Martin - the ohter Martin.

Interviewer: And now you know what is the difference beetween the mention phrases.?

RR: Of course. Or let me rephrase that. I know it now better than before the presentation.

Interviewer: And how long takes it?

RR: What? The presentation? 20 minutes, I guess.

Interviewer: And then?

RR: Ohhhh!? Wait a minute. I have to get my notes.

Interviewer: Okay.

RR: Sorry. I hope you havn`t wait too long.

Interviewer: No, it was okay.

RR: Where did we stop? Oh, yeah - I know it already. After the presentation, we made some exercises from our course book. Cultures was the topic. Especially the right words in daily business situation depends from the country where you are.

Interviewer: The book is okay?

RR: Yeah. The books that we use are quite okay.

Interviewer: Oh, I see it is time to go now. Anything else?

RR: Well! Finally, we got the Homework and really nice explanation about the correct use of phrases. :o)

Interviewer: Thank Mr. RR for this nice interview.