Counties of England
(also: Preparation of Fremdsprachenwettbewerb Englisch)
Englisch
Tasks and Rules of the Project
- Form a group of 4 - 5 pupils.
Together choose a county of England that you would like to work on.
- Collect information on your county from different English sources.
Do not forget to note down your sources (titles of books, internet addresses).
Do not start with any texts in German.
Start a group folder for texts, pictures, notes and leave it in school.
- Sort out and group your information according to the aspects of
* Geography / Towns, Villages (What does the county look like?)
* History (When did people first hear about the county? Was there any special event in history in this area?)
* Economy / Agriculture (How do people earn their money? What do they produce?)
* Tourist attractions / events (Why do tourists come to places in the county?)
* Special sights (Are there interesting buildings, monuments, ancient remains?)
* Famous persons (Is there any well-known sportsman, writer, artist, politician, doctor, inventor ... who was born there or lives there?)
- Write your own texts on the given topics and illustrate them.
Do not just copy them from the internet or from elsewhere.
Two thirds of the texts can be group work, one third should be individual work.
Decide as a group what you would like to write about in each way.
Write eight to ten pages altogether. Type them carefully.
- Correct each other's texts and / or get them corrected by your teacher or other persons with a good command of English.
Add a vocabulary list of at least 30 - 40 words at the end and learn them.
- You can work in the computer room and / or in our classroom in lessons.
Talk English during lessons.
Give yourselves some homework after / for each lesson.
Note down on the platform what exactly you have done in a lesson and what your homework is.
- Hand in your work on Monday, 18th December, 2006.
In the double period on that day prepare a lecture to the class on your county / counties to be presented in the first week after the Christmas holidays.
These are our lessons till Christmas (with double periods on Mondays):
Thursday, 9-11-06
Monday, 13/11/06
Thursday, 16/11/06
Monday, 20/11/06
Thursday, 23/11/06
Monday, 27/11/06
Thursday, 30/11/06
Monday, 4-12-06
Thursday, 7-12-06
Monday, 11/12/06
Thursday, 14/12/06
Monday, 18/12/06: Hand in your work and prepare your oral presentations.
Christmas holidays.
So plan your work now (9-11-06).
Have fun!
Northumberland
by Vanessa, Jana, Dennis, Lauritz and Sebastian.
In the lesson:We searched for information about the topics(earning money there, famous persons & famous sights) we do in group.
Homework:start doing the topics at home!
Monday(13rd November): Dennis&Sebastian wrote some texts about famous persons. Lauritz&Vanessa wrote down some information about Hadrian´s Wall.
Homework: Write a text about Hadrian´s Wall.
9-11-06:What about your information on lesson and homework?
Thursday(16th November): We made a plan for the next lessons and planned what everybody has to do. Then everybody got a famous sight and started to work on the text.
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- Jana: Events that take place every year
- Lauritz: Bamburghcastle
- Dennis:Nationalpark
- Sebastian:Lindisfarne
- Vanessa: famous battlefields
- Homework: Finish the texts about the famous sights.
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16/11/06:
Who has to do what according to your plan?
Who got which sight?
Where do you get your information from?
Try and give more details.
And please give your texts on the platform a minimum layout.
They are easier to read then. Thank you.
23rd Novermber
Written texts revised and searched for additional information.
27th Novermber
Texts writing:
Dennis: Gateshead
Lauritz & Vanessa: Economy and industries
Sebastian: Festivals in Northumberland
7th December
Sebastian: Working on text about geography
Lauritz: Working on text about Bamburg Castle
Vanessa: organisation
Dennis: Working on text about history\\
14th December
Finishing everything, start with the layout (we're going to finish with the layout on the weekend)
Greater Manchester
by Caroline Roberts
I searched for some information on the culture and the people in Manchester.
My homework is to find more information and to write a new text about the population in Manchester.
13/11/06
For today I will find some information about the Geography of Manchester. My homework will be to write a text about the Geography of Greater Manchester and what the county looks like.
16/11/06
History of Manchester
Today I will make a vocabulary list of the first part of my work, which is the Geography of Greater Manchester.
The vocabulary list will be in the back of the Facharbeit.
20/11/06
part of History and Economy/Agriculture
Today I searched for some informations of the economy and agriculture. I also complete my Vocabulary list. For homework I will write a text about the economy and agriculture in Greater Manchester and I will make the first page(Deckblatt) for my folder.
23/11/06
Economy/Agriculture
27/11/06
Tourist attractions and Events
30/11/06 and 4/12/06
Special sights
7/12/06
Famous persons
Today I will search for some information about famous people of Greater Manchester. I' ve got the idea to write a text about Take That and Robbie Williams, because they were born in Manchester. For homework I will write a text about this topic. Than I will print out my Table of contents so that I have complete my project map.
11/12/06
Famous persons and last check of the work
Today I would show my text of Famous people, but I didn't pass it so for homework I complete my Vocabulary list and then I'm ready with my work project.
14/12/06
Last things like checking the sides and the texts
Today I complete my Vocabulary list. For homework, I will check my folder and then I'm comletely ready with my work.
18/12/06
Hand your work in.
16/11/06:
Your plan is excellent but it is a lot of work for one person. Are you sure you can manage?
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Lancashire and Yorkshire
by Jana Lesmann, Clara Mittelgöker, Svenja Hartmann, Evelyn Urban, Catharina Fey
During the lesson: We searched for information on Lancashire/ Yorkshire.
Clara & Evelyn: We 'divided' Lancashire up into 4 or 5 parts so that everybody has got a job.
Towns, Villages:
Manchester: Caro
Liverpool, Parishes: Evelyn
Lake District: Clara
Geography:
Economy, Agriculture: Clara, Evelyn
History: Evelyn
Tourist Attractions, Events: Evelyn, Clara
Special Sights (Buildings): Clara
Famous Persons: Evelyn
1st Week: Geography and Famous Persons
2nd Week: Economy Agriculture
3rd Week: History
4th Week: Tourist Attractions and Events
5th Week: Special Sights, Towns and Villages
geography(villages,towns and cities): Svenja
tourism and sights: Catharina
history: Jana
traditions and stereotypes: Svenja
famous people: Jana
specialities: Catharina
dialect;accent: Svenja
Yorkshire food: Catharina
politics: Jana
flags: the group
13.11.06
We´ve finished the text about the Arctic Monkeys and Catharina started to search for information about traditional Yorkshire food.
16.11.
Yorkshire:Jana searched for information about history.
Lancashire: During the lesson: structure for the folder(themes)
homework for next week is: everybody can do what she wants to do for her theme for the folder.
27.11.06
Lancashire:
Clara wrote a text about the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (A4).
Evelyn wrote a text about history and economy of Lancaster (2xA4).
That was our homework!
Today we're going to search for pictures of the Walker Art Gallery and for information about the history of Lancashire \\
Homework Lancashire:
Clara: text about and geography
Evelyn: text about the Lancashire Heeler and history \\
23.11.06
Yorkshire: we searched for information about politic and history! Svenja looked for information, too!
16/11/06:
Okay, you seem to work well and planfully.
Please give your texts on a platform a minimum form of layout. They are easier to read then. Thank you.
20.11.
Yorkshire:
Catharina searched for information again and she finished her first part!
Svenja finished her text about the flags and she looked for information, too.
homework: everybody has to look for more information!!!
23.11.
Yorkshire:
Catharina and Jana looked for information about history.
And Svenja wrote a text about flags and she looked for information, too.
30.11.
today, Svenja wrote a text about dialect and accent and jana made a layout for her first text about Artic monkeys.
04.12
Jana wrote a text about history.
Svenja corrected the text about dialect and trditions and start to wrote the text about geography.
11.12
svenja finished her text about geography
homework:svenja write a text about agricultur
clara has finished 4 texts: geography (economy, agriculture), Duchy of Lancaster, Lancaster Castle, Walker Art G.
1 text not finished: the rose of Lancaster
is going to give her folder a structure
evelyn: forest of bowland, geography,economy and agriculture, the lancashire heeler, lancaster history and economy
11.12.
Catharina has written a text.
Jana has finished her text about history.
Cornwall
by Rebecca, Julia, Philipp, David and Jana
In the lesson: Printed out information for the texts that we do together.
Homework: Find more information on agriculture
What topics do you plan to write about together?
History
Geography/Towns, Villages
Economy/Agriculture
Famous persons
Today: 16th November:write textes and surch fo rinformations,homework:write teh things to the end
16/11/06:
Please correct the above entry yourselves. And give your texts on the platform a minimum of layout. That makes them easier to read. Thank you.
Time Table:
1 week: History
2 week: Geography
3 week: Famous persons
4 week: Economy/Agriculture
Surch for Vocabulary, start with tehe text history and geography
Homework: Surch for information about history and geography
16/11/06:
Please note down the dates of your entries.
16/11/06
text about history
20/11/06
Economy and famous people
23/11/06
Agriculture text
27/11/06
famous people and Economy text
30/11/06 and 4/12/06
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7/12/06
Vocabulary list
11/12/06
check our work
14/12/06
hand out the work
20th November: Text of Ecconomy, search for information about famous people
23rd November: Couldn't go into the internet. The problem was that some computers didn't work this morning. We met at home and wrote a text about famous people.
27/11/06 finish our text about famous people and economy/agriculture.
Homework: Write our own text about famous sights.
30.11.06
We corrected the text and our homework is to write our own text.
4/12/06: We wrote the Vocabulary list and the Sourcelist. Now we have got all our texst that we have to do together. (famous people, history, geography and economy/agriculture) Our homework is to put pictures in our texst and to write our one texts about special sights and tourist attractions
7/12/06: We search for information for special sights and attractions.
Homework: Write our own text at home or begin with that.
11/12/06: We finished our vocabulary list and have now everything in our map. We put pictures in the famous people text.
Homework: Do the layout of the other pages.
14/12/06: We finished our texst and did our layout
18/12/06: We hand out our folders and start the poster of Cornwall
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Somerset
by Kim Hemke, Valerie Stock, Bianca Kalinowski, Ina Retzlaff.
09/11/06:
During the lesson: We read some texts about Somerset.
Homework: Everyone chooses a settlement of Somerset: Minehead, Cheddar, Taunton, Wellington.
13/11/06:
During the lesson: We have written a text about the climate in Somerset.
Homework: Everybody writes a text about his settlement.
16/11/06:
During the lesson: We have written the text about climate in Somerset again.
Homework: Everyone should bring a picture of his settlement in for next lesson.
16/11/06:
Please give each of your entries a date. Thank you.
27/11/06:
During the lesson on Thursday, 23/11: We wrote a text about economy and industry.
Homework: Finish the text.
During this lesson: We wrote a text about culture in Somerset.
Homework: Everybody finishs the text. And Valerie prints it one time.
30/11/o6:
During the lesson: Made a diagramm about Economy and Industry, printed the text out.
Pembrokeshire
by Julia Strzelczyk, Marissa Gieling
During the lesson: -search for information about history and geography of Pembrokeshire.
For homework: -everybody writes a text about a subtopic
16/11/06
During the lesson: search information about economy and events or activities in Pembrokeshire
Homework:write texts about economy and events
16/11/06:
Thank you for your entries but please give your texts on the platform a minimum of layout. That makes them easier to read for everybody. Thank you.
27/11/06
During the last lesson we searched for some information about famous people and tourist attractions
For homework we searched for pictures about our county and wrote down some vocabulary.
In this lesson we correct our texts about geography and history. Besides we start writing a text about special sights.
For homework we write down our new vocabularies and finish the texts we started writing in the lesson.
During the lesson we start writind a text abouzt the tourist attractions of Pembrokeshire.
For homework we will finish the text.
07/12/06
During the lesson we write our texts about tourist attractions and give the texts a structure.
For homework we will finish all our texts.
11/12/06
In the lesson we write a new text about history and correct all the other texts. Besides we start the table of contence and we searched for pictures we can use in our texts. at the end of the lesson we print out the texts.
For homework we will finally finish the folder.
14/12/06:
During the lesson we've make the table of contentce and the corrections of our texts.
For homework finish everything.
geography/Towns, Villages
History
Economy/Agriculture
Famous persons