Zum Jahr/About the year/Sull’anno/

Beim Gedanken an das  kommende Jahr, kommen mir z.B. die Monate, Wochentage und Schaltjahre in den Sinn.. Deshalb habe ich dazu

einiges geschrieben.

By the thought of the approaching new year, the months, the days of the week or the leap years  have come to my mind. For this reason

I’ve written a post on the subject..

Riflettendo sull’anno a venire ho pensato ai giorni settimanali, sui mesi oppure sull’anno bisestile e ho fatto alcune osservazioni in merito.

Dies ist der Link zu einem Spiel mit einem Terminkalender:Kalender

1.: Woran erkennt man ein Schaltjahr?

1:  How do you recognize a leap year?

Antwort:

Zum Schaltjahr gemäss Gregorianischem Kalender:

a) Ein Schaltjahr hat einen 29.Februar und die Jahreszahl ist genau mit 4 teilbar ist.

b) Wenn die Jahreszahl mit 4 und mit 100 teilbar ist, gibt es kein Schaltjahr.

c) Alle 4oo Jahre wird es richtig kompliziert, denn dann wir ein Jahr ein Schaltjahr,obwohl es mit 100 teilbar ist,

    denn es lässt sich mit 400 teilen.

Answer:

To the leap year according Gregorian calendar

a) A leap year has 29 days instead of 28 and the date, for example 2012, can evenly be divided by 4.

b) Wenn the date is divisible by 4 and by 100 it is not a leap year.

c) It’s getting real complicated every 400 years because then

the year becomes a leap year, because the date can be divided by 400 and despite the fact that it is also divided by 100.

2. Die Wochentage/The weekdays

Zu den Wochentagen/To the weekdays

die Sonne/sun	der Sonntag	Sunday	la domenica
der Mond/moon	der Montag	Monday	il lunedì
der Mars	der Dienstag	Tuesday	il martedì
der Merkur	der Mittwoch	Wednesday	il mercoledì
der Jupiter	der Donnerstag	Thursday	il giovedì
die Venus	der Freitag	Friday	il venerdì
der Saturn	der Samstag	Saturday	il sabato

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Erklärungen zu den Namen:

Die Sonne ist der Stern im Zentrum unseres Sonnensystems. Um unsere Sonne kreisen acht Planeten. Der Uranus

und der Neptun sind in den Wochentagen nicht vertreten. Der kleine Pluto ist am weitesten entfernt und gilt heute

nicht mehr als Planet. Alle Planeten bewegen sich. Die meisten Sonnensysteme haben sogar zwei Sonnen.

In Deutschland ist nun der Montag der erste Wochentag, aber in England z.B. ist es noch immer der Sonntag.

Explanations to the names:

The sun is the star in the centre of the solar system. There are eight plants moving around our sun. Uranus and

Neptun are not represented in our weekdays’ names. Pluto is very small and the farthest away is today not considered

a planet anymore.

Monday is now the first day of the week, whereas in England, for example, it is still the Sunday.

3. In der folgenden Power Point Präsentation habe ich Fragen zu den Monaten mit Fotos und Audios gestellt.

    (Leider funktionierten die Audios nicht nach der Publikation.)

3.In the following Power Point presentation I’ve asked some questions about the twelve months of the year with fotos and audio

    in German and English. (Unfortunately the audios did not work after having the presentation published on scribd.

 

View this document on Scribd

Wie viele Wochen und wie viele Tage hat ein Jahr?

How many weeks and how many days does a year consist of?

E GUET’S NEUS -EIN GUTES NEUES JAHR-BUON ANNO-HAPPY NEW YEAR-BONNE ANNEE

A Christmas Carol/Charles Dickens

As Christmas is approaching some of my students want to tackle this beautiful story by Charles Dickens. The vocabulary is always very rich in his books, so I give you

some help/translation for the first pages of the book.

1.SUMMARY OF  A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS

2.Vocabulary list regarding the reading you can listen to.

3. Power Point presentation with questions regarding the story.

SUMMARY :Ebeneezer Scrooge’s partner Marley is as dead as a door nail, that’s for sure and Scrooge the old miser is in his counting-house

not wanting to have anything to do with Christmas. As usual his employee, Bob Cratchit,is very cold because his employer doesn’t want to spend money on coal.

His nephew, Fred, comes to pay his uncle a visit and to wish him merry Christmas and to invite him to his home for Christmas dinner.  In answer to this

Scrooge is morose  and only spits out angrily „Bah! Humbug! He behaves in the same way towards  two portly gentlemen who drop by to ask in order to ask

for some money or help for the poor.

In the evening  Scrooge takes his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern, reads his newspapers and then goes to his gloomy rooms and to bed.

When he puts his key in the knocker, this turns into Marley’s face. In the room there is a fire in the grate and spoon and basin are ready,

but he can’t see anybody. Everything is very strange when suddenly the bell begins to ring and Marley’s enchained ghost leaps up and tells

or warns Scrooge that he is  continuously forced  and punished to wander  around the world to share what he didn’t share with the others but

could have  shared. Scrooge is informed that he has one last chance to escape the same fate and that therefore three spirits will appear.

The first Ghost represents Christmas Past. The strange phantom looks like a child but also like an old man diminished to a child’s proportions. It takes

Scrooge back to the Christmases of his childhood school days, where he meets a lonely child, to  his days as an apprentice at the jolly and generous merchant Fezziwig and his engagement with Bell, who left him because he became to absorbed in money and unable to love. Scrooge is very touched by what he sees

and sheds tears of regrets.

Scrooge is lying in bed when the bells toll one. He is expecting the second Ghost of Christmas Present. He gets up softly and shuffles to the door

and the moment his hand is on the lock he hears a strange voice calling him by his name. He enters the room which has undergone complete

transformation and  is full of delicious food and green leaves.

The Ghost of the Present is clothed in one simple deep green robe, bordered with a white fur. Scrooge is being taken to the Cratchit family so he can see how it prepares a miniature feast in the simple house and he also discovers the crippled son, Tiny Tim. This boy is very courageous, kind  and humble and warms

Scrooge’s heart. and he wants to know whether the boy is going to live.

The Spirit then takes Scrooge also to his nephew’s family or their Christmas celebration which  includs singing and playing games such as blind-man’s buff.

He is so delighted by what he sees that he wants to stay until the end.  As the day passes the spirit is getting older and towards the end of the day he

shows Scrooge two starving children. The boy is Ignorance and the girl is Want!

The Ghost of Christmas yet to come takes Scrooge through a sequence of strange scenes concerning an unnamed man’s death. The latter sees a

businessman speaking about the riches of the death man and some vagabonds are selling his personal things. One couple even expresses happiness

about the man’s death because now they don’t have to pay back a debt. The Ghost takes him to the churchyard where he sees his own name on the

tombstone and is really shocked. He pleads with the Ghost to give him another chance and that he will change his stingy ways, his indifference towards

others and celebrate Christmas.

He then wakes up in his bed.

He looks out of the window and is informed that it is Christmas  and because this answer makes him so happy that he  asks a boy to go and buy the

biggest turkey available at the Poulterer’s. He sends it then to the Cratchit house and attends Fred’s Christmas celebration. Tiny Tim doesn’t die

and he treats him as if were his son, gives generous gifts to the poor and treats the other human beings with kindness and understanding.

DISCUSSION: Is money more important or human relationships?

Die 4 Jahreszeiten/Power Point

Das ist ein Quiz zu den 4 Jahreszeiten. Es gibt dazu viele Fotos und ich hoffe, dass es euch Freude macht.

South Africa/Nelson Mandela

more about “South Africa“, posted with vodpod

(I’ve taken off the  wordpress slideshow because, infortunately, it doesn’t open properly.)

Deutschlerner finden unten auf dieser Seite eine Power Pointübung mit Fragen

The kick-off of the first FIFA world Cup on African soil , or more precisely in South Africa, will be on the 11th June 2010. The whole world will therefore have its eyes concentrated on that country. I don’t understand anything about football and would therefore like to write something about the person who has certainly done very much for his country so that the apartheid system has been abolished.

Listen and answer:M1

First something about South Africa’s history. The first white people from Europe arrived on the most southern coast of Africa in 1652. For the next 200 years the bushman fought against the whites who took their land. But in the end the old weapons of the indigenous people could not win against the modern weapons of the Europeans.

Listen and answer:M2

After the discovery of diamonds in the British city of Kimberley in 1867 and the discovery of gold in the African province of Transvaal in 1886 the black people were forced to dig in the respective mines. and the money went mainly to the whites.

Listen and answer:M3

In 1936, while Nelson Mandela was at school, the white Parliament in Cape Town removed the right to vote from those Africans who had that right and a new law forced all African men to carry a passport in order to travel, otherwise they were put to prison.

In 1948 the political system called „apartheid“ was introduced by Dr Malany, which means that there were signs, which indicated where „Only Whites“ had the right to be.

Listen and answer:MM

Early one morning in December 1956 Nelson Mandel was taken to Johannesburg’s old prison, the Fort, where he discovered that the police had arrested 156 people; members of the ANC and other freedom groups.

In the 50s there was the Treason Trial and in 1963 the Rivonia Trial. He was then accused of sabotage,, a crime that could be punished with death. In court Mandela said that the black people wanted equal political rights and the ANC was fighting fort  that.

Listen and answer:M4

He was found guilty and  was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1964-1970. He was released from prison in 1990. He ran for presidency in 1991 and retired in 1994. It was certainly thanks to him that so far in South Africa there has been no civil war, but people are still worried that the day Mandela dies there could come up many problems.

Listen and answer:M5

This link leads you to a BBC audio documentary about jobseekers in Johannesburg.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/04/100421_at_the_edge_in_soweto.shtml

More about Africa on my website:books

About Music

violin, piano, mandolin, harp

trumpet, saxophone

drawings by R.Ramsauer

from A1onward/English

Ho preparato una presentazione con Power Point concernente musica, artisti, gruppi e strumenti. Se cliccate su

http://www.boeckli-spoerri.ch/martina/MUSIC1.ppt potete scaricare (download) ed aprire in seguito e, usando i numeri da 1-20, cercare di rispondere alle domande. Se invece lavorate con il video qui sotto funzionano unicamente le frecce per andare avanti. Non è importante sapere le risposte, ma di cercare di capire il contenuto e magari ascoltare un qualche “song” e leggere le parole delle canzoni.

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Ein kleines Quiz

Ho cercato di fare un piccolo quiz concernente la Svizzera. Usando il video qui sotto funziona soltanto con le frecce per andare avanti e indietro e non con “Antwort” oppure “zurück zum Start”. Se liccate su questo link,Quiz Schweiz2(2) potete scaricare la presentazione.

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Der Froschkönig

Zusammenfassung des Märchens der Froschkönig der Gebrüder Grimm

Es war einmal eine wunderschöne Königstochter, die oft mit ihrem Ball in der Nähe

des Brunnens spielte. Eines Tages passierte ihr ein grosses Missgeschick, der Ball fiel nämlich in den Brunnen und sie weinte deswegen sehr. Auf einmal erschien ein Frosch und bot ihr an den Ball für sie aus dem Brunnen zu holen, aber er wollte etwas dafür bekommen. Er wollte keine Juwelen, schöne Kleider oder gar die goldene Krone, sondern er wollte mit ihr Spielkamerad sein und sie sollte ihn gern haben mit ihm am Tisch essen. Sie versprach ihm alles, was er wollte, doch später wollte sie das Versprechen nicht einhalten. Ihr Vater der König bestand jedoch darauf, dass sie tat, was sie versprochen hatte. Nach dem Essen wollte er auch noch in ihrem Bettlein schlafen, das war dann zu viel für die Prinzessin und sie warf ihn gegen die Wand. Der Frosch aber starb nicht, sondern verwandelte sich in einen Prinzen, den die Prinzessin gemäss Willen des Königs heiratete

Hier eine  Hot Potatoes-Uebung zu diesem Thema, die ihr auch selbst korrigieren könnt,

http://www.boeckli-spoerri.ch/martina/Froschkoenig.htm

sowie meine erste Powerpoint -Uebung mit Relativpronomen. Wenn ihr auf den Link Relativpronomen klickt könnt ihr die Uebung herunterladen und sie euch als Bildschirmpräsentation ansehen und die Fragen beantworten.

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Sicherheitsdienste/Security Services

A2-B2/Deutsch & English

This is a Power Point presentation with questions concerning the security services:

Security services, posted with vodpod

Hier ein Quiz zu den Fragen, die den Sicherheitsdienst betreffen.