Halloween October 31st
Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallows' Eve.
Halloween means holy.
Eve is the day before a holy day.
Halloween was an ancient British Celtic festival.
At Halloween the souls of the dead returned.
People lit bonfires to frighten evil spirits.
Now bonfires are only burnt on November the 5th. Bonfire night.
Masks costumes ghosts
Witches on broomsticks with black cats...
skeletons, bats an spiders...
and Halloween lanterns
have all become part of Halloween.
Children play trick-or-treat.
They ask for a treat
hoping to get sweets.
Of course I searched my own halloween video. I chose this because I think the teacher had a funny idea to make an interesing halloween lesson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKviYiZhtZY
Freitag, 29. Oktober 2010
Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2010
Farrah
Last lesson a student from the USA was with us. Her name is Farrah, she is 22 years old and comes from Maryland, near Washington DC. She studied German at university for about 3 years and now she wanted to see something new, that's why she came to Austria. She will stay until the end of May.
We asked Farrah which are the biggest differences between the USA and Austria. Her answer was that everything in the USA is much bigger! For example our 3rd biggest city Linz would be only the 122nd in the USA. But she says she really loves Austria. She loves the cities with the old buildings, the mountains, the snow and much more.
She also told us something about other places she had visited, for example the big and busy city New York or the smaller Washington DC. She also likes Germany and Greece, where she had been when she was young.
Of course we mentioned many other things, like the age of driving or drinking alcohol, and that the Americans love football and not soccer or skiing.
I think this was a very interesting lesson and I'm looking forward to have the chance to see Farrah again.
We asked Farrah which are the biggest differences between the USA and Austria. Her answer was that everything in the USA is much bigger! For example our 3rd biggest city Linz would be only the 122nd in the USA. But she says she really loves Austria. She loves the cities with the old buildings, the mountains, the snow and much more.
She also told us something about other places she had visited, for example the big and busy city New York or the smaller Washington DC. She also likes Germany and Greece, where she had been when she was young.
Of course we mentioned many other things, like the age of driving or drinking alcohol, and that the Americans love football and not soccer or skiing.
I think this was a very interesting lesson and I'm looking forward to have the chance to see Farrah again.
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