Happy Thanksgiving!

Considering that it is already very late and the majority of the ELKs will probably read this irgendwann am Wochenende (?) this is more a reminder or a side note...

It's Nov 26 2009 which means, today, America celebrates Thanksgiving :)
I didn't even know that till somebody pointed that out haha

So, now you know that Thanksgiving of 2009 was today and now you can brag with your knowledge ;)Interesting to know how people define Thanksgiving ;)

Technology and Environment

Hello everybody,

Here's your homework for Monday:
1. Read the excerpt from "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens (pp. 29-30/Viewfinder Special).
2. Translate the first twenty lines into German (pp. 29-30).
3. Do one of the analysis tasks (p. 31/3 or 4).

Don't forget to bring along your books on Monday.

Have a pleasant weekend all the same.

Your favourite moment?

Have a look at the following video and decide which is your favourite (and your least favourite) moment.



(via Der Englisch-Blog - highly recommended)

Is this a worksheet which I see before me?

If you want to practice some more, look at this:

A. P. Rossiter

There is no translation task there, but you can start at the beginning ;-)

~.~

fair is foul and foul is fair...

good evening L(K)adies and Mr Ringeisen!

Maybe you can remember Mr Ringeisen explaining the meaning of the phrase in the headline to us?!

So this is what I thought when I wanted to search for some more details about the drama today!
You might now wonder why... Well, until yesterday I only could imagine our play when anybody talked about "Macbeth" but our lovely WIKIPEDIA disabused me:

Macbeth is also...

• a scottish king (as we also should know)
  

• an opera from Guiseppe Verdi bades on Shakespeare's play

• a drama fram Roman Polanski based on Shakespeare's play (as we know from today)

AND:

• one german and one italien metal band

So, that's how Macbeth sounds like...
(maybe it will soon be the soundtrack of a modern drama movie version of Macbeth ... ;)

What do you think about it??

p.s.: Jessy and Sabrina, I hope you had a pleasant day in munich and found the perfect universtiy!!

International College Day in Munich

Hello fellow course-mates and Mr Ringeisen!

We won't be attending school tomorrow because we will go to Munich for shopping.

Ha, joke! In fact, we are going to the "International College Day" in Munich.

We just wanted to inform you of that in case you should wonder about our whereabouts. Of course, we will tell you about it on Monday if you are interested.

See you then, and have a nice Thursday!

Sabi and Jessi, i.a.
xoxo

Claudia's words!

Hey everybody, it's me, Claudia! I can't think of my password.. here's my list:

crowd tickler Publikumsrenner
crass grob, derb
to tame zähmen
to deduct schlussfolgern
quatrain Vierzeiler
Hals-, & Beinbruch! Break a leg!
to cure heilen
interest die Zinsen (Pl.)
traitor Verräter
to hasten sich beeilen

Hey ladies.
here are my words

truncheon - Schlagstock

insurrection - ein Aufstand

to blackmail sb - jdn erpressen

heretic - Gotteslästerer

distinctive - auffällig, prägend

poignant - schmerzlich, ergreifend

dye - Farbstoff, Färbung

repulsion - Abscheu, Abstoßung

to estimate sb. - jdn einschätzen

skill - Geschick