A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN OBJECTS

I would like to recommend you the fascinating series by BBC about the 100 objects contributed by the British Museum, London and which

narrates the history of the world. Open the website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/#/contributor/137/

and now use the scroll bar on the right hand side to choose a date/period you want to know more about. Pictures of objects appear and

you should choose one of them for more detailed information to appear. On the left hand side you can see another filter window.

I, for example, wanted to know more about “THE ADMONITIONS SCROLL”, one of the most important paintings in the world which

embraces three different art forms, painting, poetry and calligraphy. It’s in fact known as the admonitions by the instructress to the

courtladies. It’s an ancient guide of maners and above all of morals. I recommend you heartily to download the listening comprehension.

Here is the link with the detailed information.admonition The poem was originally written approximately 290 AD to reprimand the

empress Jia.

After having read the transcript or listened to the audio you can play the following game I’ve developed.

On the left hand side of the cards you have the first part of the sentences and on the right hand

side there is the second part. Try to match the sentences!BRITISHMUSEUM

I also add a vocabulary list  in English/German/Italian which should help you to understand the transcript of “THE ADMONITIONS SCROLL”Historyofvocabulary

The Sense of an Ending

I recommend you to read this mysterious  book during your Easter holidays. In this sense I wish you a good read and

HAPPY EASTER.

The sense of an ending2, posted with vodpod

GAMECARDS WITH QUESTIONS AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS

The sense of an ending1

The sense of an ending2

The sense of an ending3

Short summary to which you can just listen to with questions.THESENSEOFANENDING

This novella (short novel) by Julian Barnes, which won the Booker Prize 2011, is a mystery of memory and missed opportunity.

Tony Webster,a cautious, divorced man in his 60s who “had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded,” receives

an unexpected bequest from Sarah, a woman  he’d met only once, 40 years earlier. The mother of his college girlfriend, Veronica,

has bequeathed him £500 — a legacy that unsettles Tony, pushing him to get in touch with Veronica (their relationship had

ended badly) and seek answers to certain unresolved questions such as

1)   Why did Adrian commit suicide?

2)   Why is Veronica so angry with Tony?

3)    Why did Sarah bequeath Adrian’s diary to Tony ?

4)    Who are Adrian Jr.’s parents ?

5)    What is this book about?

6)    What does BLODD MONEY mean in this book?

7)   Why did Veronica burn the diary?

8)   Why did Veronica not give Adrian’s diary to Tony as wished by Sarah and why did Sarah have

it in the first place?

9)   Who is Mary?

I also include you an interesting summary by Jess. Her conclusions do, however, not

correspond with mine. Maybe you find out in what sense they do not .

Summary and questions to download:Julian Barnes

http://theseversons.net/reading-list/sense/

This book has been analyzed a lot and there are an indefinite number of opinions or questions such as the above mentioned

ones. because Julian Barnes never explains anything completely. I hope you will play the game I prepared for you with question

and answer cards that you can cut out and distribute on the table and try to match and that you will, after having read the

book, come to your own  and different conclusions.

Do you feel like partecipating in a poll?

I give you also the link to the summary of Frank Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending:

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/otros/kermode.html

MOTIVATION/D/E

This post is in German, English and Italian/Diese Nachricht ist auf Deutsch, English und Italienisch. Questo articolo è in inglese, italiano e tedesco.

Scroll down and you can see my first PREZI presentation!

Da wir eine gute Portion Selbstmotivation brauchen, um eine neue Sprache zu lernen, möchte ich euch dazu einige Tipps  geben und empfehle auch das folgende

Video anzuschauen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBHj7YQ5Mo

Also, ich kann mich motivieren, z.B./Allora, posso motivarmi, p.e. /So, I can motivate myyself, for example

-wenn ich ein Ziel habe. (Se ho un obbiettivo/if I have a goal)

- durch eine Prämie, oder Ansehen. (grazie a un compenso oppure  stima/thanks to a compensation or recognition)

- infolge Erniedrigung. (in consequenza ad un umiliazione/as a consequence of humiliation)

- wenn ich das Ziel eher als Frage und weniger als Tatsache sehe./ se vedo un obbietivo più come domanda che come fatto./if I see a goal more as a question than as a

   statement.)

-   wenn ich wirklich den Wunsch habe etwas zu tun. (se ho veramente voglia di fare una determinata cosa/if I really feel like doing a certain thing.)

-   dank der Begeisterung, das Vertrauen oder das Vergnügen etwas mit anderen Menschen zu tun.(grazie all’entusiasmo, fiducia e piacere di fare qualcosa con altre persone./

-thanks to enthusiasm, trust or pleasure of doing sth. with other people.)

-   wenn ich mich bei einem Problem frage: „Wie kann ich es lösen?“ anstatt ” Warum kann ich das nicht und warum schaff ich das nicht”

-(se, di fronte a un problema, mi chiedo: “Come posso risolverlo? invece di ” Perché non posso risolverlo?”/

-(if I ask myself in face of a problem:”How can I solve it? instead of:” Why can’t I solve it?”)

-  wenn ich mich frage: “Wer kann mir helfen z.B. eine andere Sprache  zu lernen?” oder “Welche Resourcen habe ich.”

- (se io mi chiedo: “chi può aiutarmi nell’imparare una lingua nuova?”"oppure ” Quali sono le  me risorse?.“/ if I ask mayself : “Who can, for example, help me so that I learn a new

- language?” or “which are the resorces I posses?”

- indem ich mich frage, wie ich früher ähnliche Probleme  gelöst habe./ chiedendomi come ho risolto nel passato problemi simili./by asking myself how I solved similar problems

   in the past.

Here you can also see my first PREZI presentation with sentences you can combine some fotos with and a video

about motivation due to failures!

http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swfMOTIVATION1 on Prezi

Ich verweise auch auf meine Beiträge auf www.langdi49.ch/, die sich mit dem Thema Motivation, “YES I CAN” oder dem Erfolgsrezept beschäftigen./I also recommend you my

contributions concerning motivation, “YES I CAN” or with the success recipe on my site www.langedi49.ch./Ho anche scritto su motivazione, “YES WE CAN”  or sulla ricetta del sucesso

su mio sito www.langedi49.ch

Titicaca-See/

Vielleicht könnten wir zuerst etwas zu diesem Foto sagen:

Die Menschen sind auf einer Schilfinsel. Ihre Kleider sind sehr farbenfroh.Die meisten Erwachsenen tragen Strohhüte. Man kann Frauen mit Zöpfen sehen. Es gibt einige einfache

Hütten und eine Art Getreidespeicher, auf den man mittels einer Leiter hochsteigen kann. Der Himmel ist blau. Sind das Europäer, Amerikaner, Chinesen oder stammen sie von

den Inkas ab? Übrigens, Titicaca-See heisst Sonneninsel.

der Mensch/die Menschen	la persona/la gente	the human being/people
das Kleid/die Kleider	i vestito/i vestiti	a dress/clothes
der Erwachsene/die Erwachsenen	l’adulto/gli adulti	the adult/adultsa
der Strohhut/Srohhüte	il cappello di paglia/cappelli di paglia	straw hat/straw hats
der Zopf/Zöpfe	la treccia/le trecce	plaits/pigtail/s
die Hütte	la baita/e	shack/s
die Leiter	la scala/le scale	the ladder/s
hochsteigen	salire	climb up
der Himmel/die Himmel	il cielo/i cieli	the sky/skies
blau/grün/gelb/	azzurro/verde/giallo	blue/green/yellow

Hier ein kleines Quiz:Geographiekarte

Die Antworten findet ihr am Schluss des Artikels schriftlich

Ist der Titicaca-See

a) ein grosser See in Südamerika?

b) 10mal grösser als der Bodensee?

c) der grösste See in Südamerika?

Antwort anhören:Peru1

Die Grenzen von welchen Ländern führen quer durch den See?

a) Peru-Chile

b) Peru-Bolivien

c) Peru-Brasilien

Antwort anhören:Grösster See

Welche Kultur hatte hier ihren Ursprung?

a) die Azteken.

b) die Maya.

c) die INKAS

Audio anhören:INKAS3

Für welche Handarbeiten sind sie bekannt?

a) Töpferarbeiten

b) Webarbeiten und Strickarbeiten

c)  Nähen

Antwort anhören:Strickarbeiten

Unter welchen Umweltproblemen leidet der See?

a) Überbevölkerung

b) Wasserentnahme zur Elektrizitätsgewinnung

c) Abwasser der Stadt Puno und Schwermetalle der Region.

Antwort anhören:Wasser

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.

Ascona/Kastanien/Herbst

Wortschatz, Fotos, Quiz, Nahrungsmittel

Da ich letztes Wochenende in Ascona am Kastanienfest war, möchte ich euch mitteilen, was man denn mit Kastanien so alles machen kann.Wenn ihr weitere Vorschläge habt,

könnt ihr mir diese gerne unterbreiten.Setzt die feffgedruckten Wörter richtig zusammen.

1.Kastanien kann man ganz einfach1.netsör und sie dann heiss essen. Das ist köstlich!

2.Man kann sie auch 2.ochkne und dann zu Vermicelles, oder Purée verarbeiten.

3. Es ist auch möglich die 3.atsanKeni zu Teigwaren, Brot, oder Kuchen zu verarbeiten.

4. Natürlich 4.nnak man auch Kastanieneis, oder Kastanienmarmelade herstellen.

5. Es gibt sogar 5.rBie aus Kastanien.

Hier ein kleines Quiz betreffend die Natur und ihre Umgebung.Die richtigen Antworten könnt ihr sofort sehen.

Some Questions, posted with vodpod

Sollten Sie in dieser Gegend wohnen wollen, hilft Ihnen vielleicht der folgende Link von Immobilien Sagl. Erica Hohler!http://www.immohohler.ch/de/index.html

Wollen Sie vielleicht genauere Informationen vom Verkehrsbüro, klicken Sie hier: http://www.ticino.ch/de/commons/details/Ente-Turistico-Lago-Maggiore/24359.html?itemId=24359&

Sul JAZZASCONA sehe auch http://www.langedi49.ch/langedi49/Blog_MUSIC/Eintrage/2011/6/22_JAZZFESTIVAL_5.html

ÜBERGEWICHT-KRANKHEITEN-KÖRPERTEILE

Zum Thema Körperteile und Krankheiten gibt es unten ein QUIZ.

Ihr könnt hier einige Fragen zu diesem Mann beantworten:

http://www.boeckli-spoerri.ch/martina/Fragen.htm (drag & drop= tirare le risposte da destra alle domande a sinistra/livello A1)

Uebergewicht wird  auch bei uns in der Schweiz immer mehr zu einem allgemeinen Problem und man kann sich natürlich fragen kann, wer  für die Kosten aufkommen soll,

oder wie man die Situation ändern könnte.

Die USA denken daran eine Steuer auf Süssgetränke einzuführen. Wäre das gerecht, oder gibt es andere Wege und warum ist es überhaupt so weit gekommen?

Neuste wissenschaftliche Studien zeigen, dass FDH, oder friss die Hälfte, ein längeres Leben garantiert, sofern die Erährung gesund ist!

Hier eine Uebung, in der ich mich mit dem Thema beschäftige. Fettleibigkeit. Man kann die Uebung selbst korrigieren.(drag & drop= livello da B1)

Quiz zum Thema Körperteile und Krankheiten:

Körperteile-Krankheiten, posted with vodpod

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.

more about “Music1“, posted with vodpod