Wattpad - share your own stories

Wattpad is a place where you can share your own fiction writing in a blog-like format as well as read and comment on other people's works. No one needs to know who you are and you'll have readers who may leave encouraging comments on your message board.
Wattpad is a a great way to share your stories and to discover new ones.
One of my brilliant students told me about this wonderful digital tool, and he wrote this about it:

"Wattpad is a popular, free-to-join social platform where everyone - young or old, experienced or unexperienced - may create and share their own stories, as well as reading other people's works. There are no costs whatsoever; one may join the community, post stories and read stories without even thinking of payment.
The stories that are posted will be accessible for anyone to read, but the writer is able to save drafts that are only visible to him/her. Readers may vote for a story they like, as well as placing comments. The amount of readers, votes and comments is put down on the front page of each story, which gives an overview of the story's popularity.
Join Wattpad today"

Stian.

Here is one of his stories: Outcast

Enjoy reading it :-)

New English spelling reform

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'.

Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'.

This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Task: correct the mistakes in this text.

source

Describe a peer - compliment tree

Compliments make people feel good. They show that you have noticed something positive about another person or something special he/she has done.

The aim of the compliment tree is to give your peer a little reminder that there are many positive things about them and that they do have reasons to smile :-)

Write a compliment to a friend on the paper provided then place it on the compliment tree.

Personality adjectives 

Positive Personality Adjectives List

Norway and Norwegians ..? :-)

This is Norway - a brief introduction




Read about weird things Norwegians do here

and how to make things "koselig" here :)

Last but not least watch this video about socializing with Norwegians



Write your own text about Norway and Norwegians.

Outsourced - learning about cultural differences

Todd is an American who works as a manager in a company that sells American trinkets. He is sent to India to train his replacement. There he is introduced to the Indian culture. He learns many lessons about their cultural norms (shared beliefs and practices). The Indian workers also learn about how Americans live and some beliefs that they have

Introduction - before watching the film answer the following:

1) What is “outsourcing”?

2) Why do companies outsource to India?

Answer the following questions. Refer to the film!

1) What is typical of the Indian culture. Also list some of the norms you noticed and the reason behind the norm

2) Todd first tells the new employees in India that they must learn more about America. Why does he feel that this is impotant? Explain. Do you agree with him?

3) Explain the difference between American and Indian cultures when it comes to family.

4) How did Todd change during the movie and become more accepting of the Indian way (norm) of life? 

5)  Did some of the employees become more like an American? Explain with two examples.

6) According to some of the characters how does a “native” speaks English? What mistakes in language usage are represented in the film?

Sources

Film review or film analysis?

This might help you:

Review	Analysis
Subjective evaluation	Aid to understanding
Introduce and identify      Title, director, genre, producer, studio, (country), year, running time, actors/cast, rating. The reviewer often situates the film with reference to other work by the same director / main actors, and other films in the same genre.	Simple identification is enough (Title, year, director). Other elements mentioned as necessary
Analyse/sum up the plot	Assume that the reader has a working knowledge of the plot – no summary is necessary unless the plot is your focus.
Discuss the genre Evaluate the acting Broader context	Chooses one or several elements and analyses how they work and contribute to the film (setting, narrative, theme, characterization etc.).

This document shows an introductory paragraphs for a film review and a film analysis for 3 different films. 
Read it and try to write your own introductory paragraph for a review and an analysis of a movie you have seen.

My first Kahoot! :-)

My students love Kahoot! and I think it is amazing. I have tried it with my German classes as well. It certainly was a huge success :-) 


I started the school year with this Kahoot!:
Introduction to the English speaking world (you need to sign in first).

Want to make your own? Take a look here.