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31. Januar 2010

Cadbury - listening comprehension

http://www.listen-to-english.com/index.php?id=507

Cadbury

-John Cadbury, a Quaker, opened a shop in Birmingham in 1824, selling tea, coffee and hot chocolate

- as an alternative to alcohol

-Dairy Milk brand introduced in 1905, with Milk Tray coming 10 years later

-Merged with rival confectioner J.S. Fry & Sons in 1919

-Merged with Schweppes drinks business in 1969. Its drinks arm was spun off in 2008 -Employs about 45,000 people in 60 countries

-Cadbury brands include: Dairy Milk, Flake, Crunchie, Chocolate Buttons and Milk Tray

30. Januar 2010

Obama's State of the Union Address

29. Januar 2010

Wordle - an interesting tool

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color

schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://www.wordle.net/le.net/
Do you remember the argumentation about grades? This is the "word cloud" from this text.

Describing a cartoon using voicethread

http://voicethread.com/share/862109/

Let's try out this tool and find out whether we can use it in school.

28. Januar 2010

The Ethical Trading Inintiative

What is ethical trade?
Ethical trade means that retailers, brands and their suppliers take responsibility for improving the working conditions of the people who make the products they sell. Most of these workers are employed by supplier companies around the world, many of them based in poor countries where laws designed to protect workers' rights are inadequate or not enforced.

Companies with a commitment to ethical trade adopt a code of labour practice that they expect all their suppliers to work towards. Such codes address issues like wages, hours of work, health and safety and the right to join free trade unions.
http://www.ethicaltrade.org/about-eti