Soon our final English test for this semester will come up: it will again have two major parts: part A: Grammar and this section will most likely again cover the following topics: reported speech;if sentences; passive constructions and hopefully also the ability to recognize and name any given tense in i.e. a newspaper text.
Part B: Writing..here the students will be asked to write a pro and con comment or essay on a given topic using a minimum of about 250 words or so.
In class we practised our very first steps by using a Time article about the first baby steps the Obama administration may want to or should initiate to carefully lift the legal restrictions that presently govern the use of marijuana in the US and in most parts of the western world.So far we phrased the topic,listed the pro arguments,stated the arguments against the free use of pot and next we will have to develop a catching introduction and also our concluding paragraph.
While researching essay writings in pro and con style I came across this informative entry on youtube.com and I want to share it here....don't be mislead by the narrator's voice: this is NOT comedy....this is actually a genuine teaching video about how to write an great essay on the topic of outlawing fast food restaurants like McDonalds.....maybe we should have used this topic instead of the marijuana one!!?
April 25, 2009
April 19, 2009
Fighting back
While I was vacationing in beautiful Spanish Andalusia we stayed at a very popular hotel that tried so very hard to meet the expectations of its customers...every morning P. W. the Assistent Manager of the hotel would greet the guests for breakfast and sure enough P.would be there at dinner time and "work the tables" making sure the guests were satisfied and happy....
I am sure that his hard working style will eventually promote him to a higher position within this well recognized Spanish hotel chain ( just as it happened to our class text hero Mr. Horst Schulze )....and then one morning something really "bad" happened and I first informed the receptionist - she ran out to inform P.W....... he then gave his orders to undo what had happened but when evening came the damaging evidence was still there and after I had informed the Assistent Manager once again serious action was undertaken and the spook was finally taken care of!
I now wonder what would have happened to that hotel and its reputation if I had filmed what I had witnessed and had put that clip up on YouTube - just as two workers had done in North Carolina recently at a Dominos Pizza place?
There apparantly one of them put some cheese up his nose before placing it onto the sandwich that was destined for a customer...his female co-worker filmed the prank and provided the narrative...the damage must have been so intense that the top manager of that major US pizza system felt the urge to go on camera and to make the following statements......
The meaning of all of this will make great material for further discussions and maybe even writings in our class...and I wonder how I or my college or the Spanish hotel would be able to "fight back" if some of the students decided to post something similarly damaging onto the web and later retract it by claiming: "we are sooooooo very sorry"! We are living in very interesting and challenging times indeed.
Here is Dominos video based "defense":
I am sure that his hard working style will eventually promote him to a higher position within this well recognized Spanish hotel chain ( just as it happened to our class text hero Mr. Horst Schulze )....and then one morning something really "bad" happened and I first informed the receptionist - she ran out to inform P.W....... he then gave his orders to undo what had happened but when evening came the damaging evidence was still there and after I had informed the Assistent Manager once again serious action was undertaken and the spook was finally taken care of!
I now wonder what would have happened to that hotel and its reputation if I had filmed what I had witnessed and had put that clip up on YouTube - just as two workers had done in North Carolina recently at a Dominos Pizza place?
There apparantly one of them put some cheese up his nose before placing it onto the sandwich that was destined for a customer...his female co-worker filmed the prank and provided the narrative...the damage must have been so intense that the top manager of that major US pizza system felt the urge to go on camera and to make the following statements......
The meaning of all of this will make great material for further discussions and maybe even writings in our class...and I wonder how I or my college or the Spanish hotel would be able to "fight back" if some of the students decided to post something similarly damaging onto the web and later retract it by claiming: "we are sooooooo very sorry"! We are living in very interesting and challenging times indeed.
Here is Dominos video based "defense":
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