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
24 June 2009
18 June 2009
3 June 2009
Vienna English Theatre - A Perfect Match
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.
12 May 2009
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
Source: Herder Landesschule
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
Source: Herder Landesschule
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
Source:
Herder-Landesschule
21 April 2009
Reported Speech - Tense Chart
Basic Tense Chart
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| 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 | 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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16 April 2009
3 April 2009
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)
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.
Source: englisch-hilfen.de
29 March 2009
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!
26 March 2009
10 March 2009
3 March 2009
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
Source:
smic.be
usingenglisch.com
english-4u.de
englishpage.com
tolearnenglish.com
learn4good.com
esl.about.com
19 February 2009
8 February 2009
A Glimpse on the USA - Project
Photo: marinifamily.files.wordpress.comJuly 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
Photo: all-inspirational.com
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
Photo: sonofthesouth.netAbraham 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
Klick on the photo to enlarge and read the text.Photo: infinitygoods.files.wordpress.com
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
Photo: upload.wikimedia.org
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
Photo: oneworldnews.files.wordpress.com
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
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