Lisa starts with a speech about "The negative aspects of Globalization".

Comment:

She tries to speak free, but unfortunately she talks too fast. Her language is generally easy to understand and if appropriate, she uses specific words, too. Futhermore Lisa stuctured the speech and the arguments in the way we learn in school.

Then followed a (too long) discussion about Lisa's grade and the worth of her work compaired with others work.

Comment:

more or less useless...

After that Dennis showed us his One-Act-Play "Globalization at the Backyard".

Comment:

It was quite short and some rehearsals would have been good, but I liked the open end and the stylistic devices.

After the break Esra hold her speach about "Americanization or Globalization".

Comment:

She talks slower and therefor more understandable than Lisa. She even talks very free and the speach contains a lot of information. Esra's pronounciation could be a little bit improved, because she didn't try to emphasize important words with linguistic devices.

In the end of the lesson Ruiqi holds a press conference. She is playing a representative of GE and talks about renewable energies.

Comment:

She was well informed and chose a good topic to talk about. Fothermore she tried to answer questions in an understandable language level.

11.12.2009:

Percy held a press conference about "The exploitation of the workers in the third world".

Comment:

I liked it very much, because the issue was quite critically and easy to talk about. He prepaired the informations for the discussion members very well.

David held a press conference about "Americans role in the Globalization".

Comment:

It was good to understand, because David was very detailed in his description.

18.12.2009:

Christopher holds a press conference on Global-Climate-Summit.

Members:

Christopher - Speaker of the Climate Conference (Kopenhagen)

Benjamin - Member of ATTAC

Comment:

The members of the press conference were well-informed. They could answer every question like experts, but sometimes they spoke to fast. The pronunciation could be inproved, as always. But after all I enjoyed it.

Natalie reads out the beginning of her story.

Comment:

Good start! Sometimes she red a bit to fast.

The first presentations

Today Chris A. and Matthias present thier projects.

Matthias project was a discussion panel about "The Iraq War". The members of the discussion were:

• Barack Obama (Esra)
• Mohammed Al Sahad - An Iraqi citizen (Christopher)
• Sergeant Major Gerald Wolford - A soldier in Iraq (Percy) 
• George W. Bush (Andi)

Later Chris A. held a speech about "The decline of the West and the rise of he East". At first he said, that Asia was a great power in the Middle Ages, but lost this status to America. Now this effect is in the process of being reversed, because of Globalization and especially due to outsourcing. China produces cheaper and faster than any other country. Later he criticized the western economy and the politicians.

Chris A. put the main emphasis on the ecomonic aspects and talked very slow, but understandable. Furthermore he tries to verify his arguments with many statistics. His pronunciation and vocabularies were sometimes very "german".

The fourth day

Today the dates for the project presentation will be settled.
They will be between the 6th and the 18th December 2009.

Now almost all the students have found their project themes (also the "list of projects, leaders and their ideas" was refreshed again).


Here is a short interview about the project:

Reporter:
"Do you like or dislike this project?"

Anonymous:
"I like it! It's better than normal classes, because you can choose a project you like."

Reporter:
"But isn't that a waste of time?"

Anonymous:
"No, it's definitely not a waste of time, because I belief that you learn more in a project, than in regular lessons in school."

The third day

My work for today is to refresh the "list of projects, leader and their idears".

I've got the idea to devide the project progress into three phases. You yan see the current status on the left side.

The second day

During this lesson all members have to talk to their project leaders and prepare the projects.

This a the list of projects, leaders and their ideas:

Deliver a speech

• The "decline" of the West and the "rise" of the East (Chris A.)
• Americanization or Globalization (Esra)
• Negative aspects of Globalization (Lisa)
  

The Newspaper Editor

• To persuade others to write articles (Alex)
• Negative aspects of Globalization (Bernhard)
  

Organice a discussion panel

• Exploitation of the workers in the third world (Percy)
• Americans role in the Globalization (Dave)
• Iraq war (Matthias)
  

Stage a One-Act-Play or a Radio Play

• Globalization at the Backyard (Dennis)
• [coming soon] (Nikolas)
  

Hold a press conference on a topic

• Global-Climate-Summit (Christopher)
• Representative of attac (Benjamin)
• Representative of GE talks about renewable energies (Ruiqi)
  

Write a Short story

• [coming soon] (Elena)
• [coming soon] (Nathalie)
• An American employee is assigned to India (Patricia)
  

Make a movie

• Frontiers of Globalization (Kobi)
  

In the meantime Mr. Schultze talks with everbody about their topics and visions.




Funny quotations:


Patricia: "Ich überlegs mir, okay?"


Mr. Schultze: "No. No. No."




Nathalie: "Des ist alles besch****n!"


Mr. Schulze: "After the project you will say: Yes this was fun and yes this inproved my English."

The beginning

Everybody is discussing...

Some of them about their topics, others about what to do.

It's quite noisy in our classroom and a little bit creative. At the moment all off them are speaking german.

For example Ellena says:
"Ich hab Angst, dass ich mir end viel Arbeit mache und es dann der Abkacker wird."

Our assignment is to work on projects about globalization during the next 3 weeks.

My job is to write this blog and keep the world outside up to date about what happens here in the classroom.