Thanksgiving

follow this link for the "history of thanksgiving".

Election Day

Hi everybody,
let me tell you something about yesterday's election day in Upper Austria. In my community...
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please let me know in YOUR posting, what the political Situation is like in YOUR community, i.e.,
who won / lost the elections, how many percent the parties got, how the seats are shared now, how will be Mayor in your community, and compare your results with the 09 election.

"Body - Big Business" ??

In your posting leave a comment on the Topic, include answers to questions on p.65 as well as your result of the NHS' "sports aptitude test".

Slancha from Ireland !

3BK students are spending an exciting week in Killarney, Ireland. View our web album pictures HERE.

Thanxgiving and Black Friday

Today we are talking about Thankxgiving and Black Friday.
Prepare a ppt presentation of 5 -7 minutes, include as many "presentation phrases" as possible.
In your presentation answer the 5 W questions on the above topics.

First Test

topics FIRST TEST

These are the parts & topics of your first test.
Your test will include the following tasks:
PART 1 Reading Comprehension
Part  2   Listening Comprehension
Part 3 Writing (Different parts, e.g.: press review, essay/posting  correspondence/ inquiry)

Topics book: UNIT 7 politics and government (incl information on US, GB, Austrian system)
UNIT 1: diversity - clichés and prejudices
TRADITIONS: Guy Fawkes Day, Halloween

Press review

In this posting you write a press review about a current issue, e.g.  the Austrian election.
1. Choose an article dealing with the above topic.
2. Write a press review using the oral summary framework.

Start your posting by
I was reading an article the other day in the online edition of....... and it talks about the election in Austria. I thought you might be interested  because  ( many of you voted for the first time )
Basically what it says is (result of the election)