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English Language Course - Eastbourne, East Sussex, England

From September 15th to September 22nd we are going on an intensive language course to Eastbourne. Below you can learn about this seaside resort.

Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a seaside town sitting in East Sussex with a population of around 90,000 people.
In a perfect position on the South Coast of England, Eastbourne is a place for tourists and provides excellent shopping centres and streets.
The area has been occupied since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa lie beneath one of the seafront's main hotels and you can find medieaval architecture in Eastbourne's Old Town area.
The beach and seafront is one of Eastbourne's main attrations.

Eastbourne Pier

Eastbourne pier has a variety of shops. There's The Chippy, Arcade, The Waterfront Inn, Camera Obscura, Atlantic Nightclub and.

The bandstand

Eastbourne is proud of its well preserved 1930's bandstand. There people can enjoy a variety of concerts every summer.

Beachy Head

Beachy Head is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain. At 530 feet high, the majestic cliffs provide magnificent views.

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The Downs
The Downs around Eastbourne are an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Getting around

You will be staying in an English family and some of you will need the buses to get to our school. So study the bus schedules carefully. The lucky ones can walk. But have your maps with you all the time. Otherwise you might get lost and have to ask the way to the school.



The English people

English meals are quite different from Austrian ones.
You might have the chance to get a typical English breakfast.
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Etiquette

The English are said to be reserved in manners, dress and speech. They are famous for our politeness, self-discipline and especially for their sense of humour. Basic politeness (please, thank you, excuse me) is expected.

How to greet someone

English people are quite reserved when greeting one another. A greeting can be a bright 'Hello' 'Hi' or 'Good morning', when you arrive at work or at school.


Formal greetings

The usual formal greeting is a 'How do you do?' and a firm handshake.

First person "How do you do?"
Second person " How do you do?"

'How are you?' is a question and the most common and polite response is "I am fine thank you and you?"

First person "How are you?"
Second person "I am fine thank you and you?"

Nice to meet you – Nice to meet you too. (Often said whilst shaking hands)

Delighted to meet you– Delighted to meet you too.

Pleased to meet you – Pleased to meet you too. .

Glad to meet you - Glad to meet you too

Good Morning / Good Afternoon / Good Evening

Hi - Hi or hello

Morning / Afternoon / Evening ( They drop the word 'Good' in informal situations).

How's you? - Fine thanks. You?

Thank you / thanks / cheers

They sometime say 'cheers' instead of thank you. You may hear 'cheers' said instead of 'good bye', what we are really saying is 'thanks and bye'.

Names they may call you

You may be called by many different 'affectionate' names, according to which part of the England you are visiting. Do not be offended, this is quite normal. For example, you may be called dear, dearie, flower, love or mate. So the bus driver is not in love with you when he calls you "love."


Hastings


The Battle of Hastings

There was a battle won by Duke William of Normandy who fought against King Harold of England.For more information. William led the Normans and Harold led the Saxons.The Normans ran up and down the hill then finally the Saxons came after them but the Normans surrounded them. The Normans ended it with shooting Harold in the eye.

Hastings for its role in the story of 1066 and the Norman Invasion.

What happened at the Battle of Hastings?

The Normans under the Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror fought against the English under King Harold of England. For six hours until late afternoon the English seemed like they were going to win. The Normans tried again and again, but they couldn't break through the Saxon shield wall and had to go back down the hill again.

The Saxon's shield wall was a tough defence

Then the Saxons made their fatal mistake. Late afternoon some of Harold's men broke their shield wall to chase the Normans, who they thought were giving up.This was to be their biggest mistake because when the Normans reached the bottom of the hill, they turned round and cut the English to bits.

The Norman cavalry rode among the English, hacking them down.

Finally, William brought in his archers and Harold's luck ran out. The arrows didn't break the Saxon line, it is believed that one of the arrows hit Harold in the eye.

The battle lasted for six hours.

Hastings nowadays





Hastings is a nice English town in the south of England.
Hastings pier is home to all kinds of arts and craft shops together with bars, bistros and cafes.where you can sample the diverse range of fish that are caught in local waters.

You can visit The Hastings Museum & Art Gallery or Underwater World, where sharks, starfish and 70 other marine species can be seen in action.

In the heart of Hastings West Hill lies Smugglers Adventure, caverns that tell about the history of Hasting's thrilling history of smuggling.

Click here to take a tour.


Brighton

In Brighton we will visit the Royal Pavilion and the Brighton Sea Life Centre.

Parents' Evening - The English Cafe

With Michael and Franzi we took part in the British Quiz Show "Who wants to be a Millionaire". And there was even a contestant who won a million pounds - Mrs B, our tutor! Congratulations!




Bernhard and Niki presented the American Election System and the life of Barack Obama. Their performance was informative and and well structured.



Stefanie and Daniela informed us about British Customs and Traditions. Their powerpoint presentation was fantastic.


Monika and Mihriban told us that English and German are almost the same.

Here are some expamples:
Talking about the weather:
Ace rag net = Es regnet.
Ace weird an bloods reagan gay ben. = Es wird einen Platzregen geben.
Making a compliment:
Say sun a sow bears mud ale. = Sie sind ein hübsches Mädchen.




Chiara and Julia talked about Harrods and performed a shopping dialogue.






Do you speak English? - A sketch
Starring: Sandra, Armin, Samuel



Sevenoaks single - A Play
Starring: Melanie, Albert, Sandra, Niki




Anna F, Anna M and Teresa told us about the Sights of London. Their presentation was instructive and well prepared.







We were singing D.I.S.C.O and When two vowels go walking with Alexandra and Andrea.



Philipp and Sebastian did a fantastic informative powerpoint presentation on The Royal Family and Buckingham Palace.

William Shakespeare

The life of William Shakespeare



Video: The Globe Theatre at Shakespeare's time

Video: The Globe Theatre now



The Reduced Shakespeare Company presents Romeo and Juliet

Reported Speech - Questions

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6

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Vienna English Theatre - A Perfect Match

On April 29th, the second, third and fourth forms attended the Vienna English Theatre's production of "A Perfect Match" (by Sean Aita) in our school. Despite using almost no props the four actors offered a lively performance of the play, which the pupils had read and discussed over the previous weeks.

The play gave both the students and the teachers 60 minutes of good laughter.
Comparing the scenes with the sequences of a football match, the actors played the ups and downs of a "maybe" patchwork family.

How would you react, if you found out about your dad dating your history teacher?
After a lot of troubles and drama four lonely people became a promising family.

Plot:
We meet Angela, a young girl whose parents have just split up and who has moved to London with her dad. Her secret hope is that her parents might get back together again. She finds new friends and likes school but with one exception – she hates her History teacher, Ms. Anderson. One day her dad meets Ms. Anderson at a football match and they start dating. Angela is horrified and plays tricks on her dad to stop him from seeing her teacher. Her tricks don´t work and her dad takes her on a camping holiday to Norfolk. There she meets Chris, Ms. Anderson´s son, who also comes from a broken family. Like Angela, Kris is not too happy about his mother´s romance with Angela´s Dad, and so they decide to team up and break up the relationship. Both think they know what´s best for their parents and don´t want to´share´ them with new parents. In the end Angela and Chris find out that their parents also have a right to a personal life of their own. They tell them the truth and finally they move to a big house where they live as a happy and normal patchwork family.

Learn English with Mr Duncan - Lesson 7 - Exercise and Keep Fit

You & Me 3 - Unit 12

Bear attacks a picnic




Exercise 1 - Vocabulary in Context
Exercise 2 - The Grizzly
Test 1 - The Grizzly
Exercise 3 - The Grizzly
Test 2 - The Grizzly
Ordering exercise - The Grizzly
Test building exercise - The Grizzly



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You & Me 3 - Unit 11

Killerbees - Ordering exercise
Killerbees - Text building exercise
Killerbees - Ordering exercise
Killerbees - Another ordering exercise

The monster - Exercise 1
The monster - Exercise 2

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Reported Speech - Tense Chart

Basic Tense Chart

present simple I'm a teacher.	past simple He said he was a teacher
present continuous I'm having lunch with my parents.	past continuous He said he was having lunch with his parents.
present perfect simple I've been to France three times.	past perfect simple He said he had been to France three times.
present perfect continuous I've been working very hard.	past perfect continuous He said he had been working very hard.
past simple I bought a new car.	past perfect He said he had bought a new car.
past continuous It was raining earlier.	past perfect continuous He said it had been raining earlier.
past perfect The play had started when I arrived.	past perfect NO CHANGE POSSIBLE
past perfect continuous I'd already been living in London for five years.	past perfect continuous NO CHANGE POSSIBLE

Other verb forms also sometimes change:

will I'll come and see you soon.	would He said he would come and see me soon.
can I can swim under water for two minutes.	could He said he could swim under water for two minutes.
must All tickets must be bought in advance.	had to He said that all tickets had to be bought in advance.
shall What shall we do about it?	should He asked what we should do about it.
may May I smoke?	might He asked if he might smoke.

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Exercises - Reported Speech / Statements

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exericse 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Exercise 11
Exercise 12
Exercise 13
Exercise 14
Exercise 15
Exercise 16

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Past Perfect Tense - Exercises

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10


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Happy Easter!

Wishing you all a Happy Easter!

Reported Speech - Grammar

Aussagesätze

Wird ein Satz in die indirekte Rede gesetzt, gibt es zwei Unterscheidungen.

1. Wenn der Einleitungssatz in der Gegenwart steht, dann bleibt die Zeitform der direkten Rede auch in der indirekten Rede erhalten. Wird ein Satz in die indirekte Rede gesetzt, gibt es zwei Unterscheidungen.

Beispiel:

Direkte Rede: Susan: "I work in an office."

Indirekte Rede: Susan says that she works in an office. (Der Einleitungssatz ist hier: Susan says)

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2. Wenn der Einleitungssatz in der Vergangenheit steht, dann wird die Zeitform verändert.

Beispiel:

Direkte Rede: Susan: "I work in an office."

Indirekte Rede: Susan said that she worked in an office. (Der Einleitungssatz ist hier: Susan said)

Die Zeitformen werden dabei wie folgt geändert:

Verschiebung von Zeitformen
vom	ins
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive Formen
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

Verschiebung von Zeitformen
von	in
Peter: "I work in the garden."	Peter said that he worked in the garden.
Peter: "I worked in the garden."	Peter said that he had worked in the garden.
Peter: "I have worked in the garden."
Peter: "I had worked in the garden."
Peter: "I will work in the garden."	Peter said that he would work in the garden.
Peter: "I can work in the garden."	Peter said that he could work in the garden.
Peter: "I may work in the garden."	Peter said that he might work in the garden.
Peter: "I would work in the garden." (could, might, should, ought to)	Peter said that he would work in the garden. (could, might, should, ought to)
Progressive Formen
Peter: "I am working in the garden."	Peter said that he was working in the garden.
Peter: "I was working in the garden."	Peter said that he had been working in the garden.
Peter: "I have been working in the garden."
Peter: "I had been working in the garden."

Wenn im Satz eine Zeitangabe steht, dann muss auch die geändert werden.

Peter: "I worked in the garden yesterday."
Peter said that he had worked in the garden the day before.

Verschiebung von Adverbien

this (evening)	that (evening)
today/this day	that day
these (days)	those (days)
now	then
(a week) ago	(a week) before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
here	there
next (week)	the following (week)
tomorrow	the next/following day

Anmerkungen:
In einigen Fällen ist es nicht nötig, die Zeitformen zu verschieben, wenn z.B. Aussagen immer noch zutreffen.
John: "My brother is at Leipzig university."
John said that his brother was at Leipzig university. oder
John said that his brother is at Leipzig university.

oder wenn es sich um allgemein gültige Aussagen handelt.

Mandy: "The sun rises in the East."
Mandy said that the sun rose in the East. oder
Mandy said that the sun rises in the East.

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Daylight Savings Time

Tonight we had to put our clocks ahead. Daylight Savings Time starts.
Daylight Savings Time is a term we use to describe a system intended to save daylight where we either turn back the clock or set it ahead one hour.
The idea was first put into practice by the German government during World War I.
Soon after, the United Kingdom followed and then US Congress made it official.
Experts say, we save a lot of energy and have more time to do our outdoor duties.
A lot of people get confused when they turn the clock back or set it ahead.
To help this there is a saying – Spring ahead, fall back, which means, in the spring we spring ahead one hour, and in autumn we fall back an hour.
Now hurry up and set your clocks ahead!

Mixed tenses

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9

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Adverb - Adjective

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4

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King Arthur - The Sword in the Stone

How Arthur became King




King Arthur's death

Song: The Alvin Show - I've been working on the railroad

Now here is a funny song where you can practise the Present Perfect Progressive.

Present Perfect Progressive/Continuous - Exercises

Exercise 1: Choose the correct answer.
Exercise 2: Fill in the correct tense.
Exercise 3: Complete the sentences.
Exercise 4: Write the correct tense.
Exercise 5: Complete the text.
Exercise 6: Present Perfect Progressive - Sentences and Questions.
Exercise 7: Complete with the Simple or Progressive Present Perfect.
Exercise 8: Click on the answer you think is correct.
Exercise 9: Fill in the right tense.
Exercise 10: Final test


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You & Me 9 - King Arthur

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Vocabulary Exercise. Click here.

HS Lunz am See

Adverb or Adjective

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

HS Lunz am See

A Glimpse on the USA - Project

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July Fourth

July Fourth is the birthday of the United States. It is a national holiday. Another name for July Fouth is Independence Day.
Americans celebrate July Fourth as Independence Day because on July 4. 1776, the original thirteen colonies declared their independence from England.
Before 1776, the King of England ruled the thirteen colonies in America. The colonists were angry with the King because of taxes. They wanted their independence from England. A war started in 1775 between the colonists and soldiers from England. The colonists won the war. They wanted to say why they wanted their independence or freedom from England. So they chose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
On July 4, 1776, the leaders of the colonies signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It said that all people were equal and had the right to live in freedom. A new nation was born, People rang bells and fired guns for the birth of the United States of America.
Today, July Fourth is celebrated in many different ways.
During the day, many people get together with friends and family members for picnics. Many cities have parades with bands in the streets. At night there are noisy fireworks. These beautiful fireworks of different colors light up the sky all across the country.

Armin




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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. He was president from1901 to 1909. He was a very intelligent man. Theodore was a boxer, a soldier, a rancher, and an explorer.
He was not strong when he was a boy. He had problem with his breathing. Roosevelt had asthma. His father wanted him to be strong. After he became president, Roosevelt kept his body strong. One day, another boxer hit him in the eye. After that accident, Theodore became blind in one eye. His nickname was “Teddy”. When he was president, he often went hunting. One day he went hunting with some friends and saw a small bear. He did not shoot the bear and he said, the little bear must go free.
The next day the story of the small bear was in the newspapers. Soon people called toy bears for children “teddy bears”.
Then he went to South America to explore places that nobody knew about. Everybody loved energy.

Teresa

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States. He was born in Kentucky in 1809. His family was very poor. He didn’t go to school. When Lincoln was a little boy, he worked on his family’s farm and taught himself to read and write. Later, Lincoln studied law and he became a lawyer. After that, he became a politician.

Everybody liked Abraham Lincoln because he was intelligent and hardworking. He wanted to be good at everything he did. He said that he wanted to win the “race of life”.
Lincoln became president in 1860. In 1861, there was a war between the North and de South of the United States. The people in the South wanted a separate government from the United States. The North wanted the United States to stay together as one country. Lincoln was the leader of the North. In the war, brother killed brother. The Civil War was four years long. The North won the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Six days later, President Lincoln and his wife went to the theater. Inside the theater, a man went behind the president and shot him in his head. The man’s name was John Wilkes Booth. He was a supporter of the South. Lincoln died the next morning.

Melanie

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a black clergyman from Atlanta, Georgia. When King was a child, he learned that black people and white people did not mix in public places. Black and white children went to different schools. This kind of separation is called segregation. He was a good student and went to college at a young age. He was only fifteen years old, when he finished college, he began to fight segregation. He did not believe in violence. He helped black people to protest in peace. King also wanted equality for everybody. He wanted black and white men and women to have an equal chance in the United States. This is called the civil rights movement. In 1963, King was the leader of the civil rights march on Washington, D.C. Thousands of people listened to his famous speech. It begins, “I have a dream.” In 1968, an assassin killed King. He was only thirty-nine years old. His birthday, Janury 15, is a national holiday in the United States.

Mihriban, Monika

clergyman – Pfarrer
public – öffentlich
separation – Trennung
segregation – Rassentrennung
violence – Gewalt
equality - Gleichberechtigung
civil rights movement – Bürgerrechtsbewegung
speech – Rede
Nobel Peace Prize – Friedensnobelpreis
award – Auszeichnung
assassin - Auftragskiller



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Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore is mountain in the state of South Dakota.
The faces of four American presidents – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt – are carved into the mountain.
These faces, known as the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, are the largest carved figures in the world. The memorial is the work of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum. The state of South Dakota chases Borglum for the job because he was famous for his huge statues. But, even for Borglum, this memorial was a challenge. Borglum began work in 1927. The only way to get up the mountain was on foot or horseback. And Borglum and his helpers hat to make the trip hundreds of times just to bring up the equipment they needed. Borglum had prepared a smaller model of the faces. Workers then used drills and dynamite to remove rock and create the faces. The Mount Rushmore Memorial took fourteen years to complete. Borglum died shortly before it was done. His son finished to work. Finally, in 1941 the memorial was opened to the public. People were amazed. The faces of the presidents looked so real, and the are about sixty feet high.

Franzi


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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is a building in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. It has the offices of the U.S. Department of Defense. The Department of Defense includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard.
The word pentagon comes from the Greek penta, which means “five”. A pentagon is a figure with five sides. The Pentagon has five rings. The rings are inside each other. Each ring has five sides. The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world. It has seventeen miles of halls. People can get lost in the Pentagon. So the walls on each floor are a different color (brown, green, red, gray, and blue). This helps people to know where they are. There are also many maps in the halls!
The Pentagon is so big that it is like a city. Almost 30.00 people work there. The Pentagon has its own doctors, dentists, and nurses. It has its own banks and stores. It has a post office, a fire department, and a police department. It also has an important center for communications. This center guards the country. It is hundreds of feet under the ground. The Pentagon even has its own radio and TV stations.

Niki


The Government of the United States

The American President is one oft the most powerful men in the world.
He can make war or peace .
He can touch the lives of millions in many different countries. But the President cannot do just what he wants.
The Congress must agree first. In some ways, the United States is like fifty small countries and not one large one.
Every state has its own governot, its own police, and its own laws.
The government of the whole country works from Washington, the capital city. Congress has two parts, the Senate an the House of Representatives. Like the senators, they can make new laws. Americans choos a new President every four years. In America the President is the Head of State. He makes the most important devisions and chooses the members of his cabinet who will help him to govern the country.

Stefanie



The White House


Originally the White House was grey and was called the Presidential Palace.
The architect James Hoban won a contest which was held to pick a design for the president’s home. The president’s home was an important part of the plan. President Washington never lived in the Presidential Palace. The first president who lived there was John Adams and his wife. Mrs. Adams often complained about the cold in the Presidential Palace. Fifty fireplaces were not enough to keep the building warm. In war the British army destroyed the Presidential Palace. After the war James Hoban rebuilt the Presidential Palace in white.

Albert, Sebastian