Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Dear Students,

Let us be on the move and gain knowledge and skills via the blog. This time I believe the material will be essential for English and Estonian exams.

As you may see, I have now added the week's material on the blog. This time, the focus of both your listening (live broadcast on Canadian writer Margaret Atwood) as well as writing tasks will be on writing and reading books. The questions for the response paper are available below. You are able to make statements after watching the interview with the wonderful novelist, essayist, poet Margaret Atwood.

According to Margaret Atwood, anyone can write at least one book. What is her reasoning behind? How do you feel about creativity and writing books? Next, what is the writer's primary task? What is essential to get the reader's attention? I would like to know whether the books will end up very soon and printing will disappear and everything will be digital in the future. At last, what kind of cunning future project are Margaret and Ilmar talking about?

Spread the word in the class. If you leave your preparation until the last minute, you will reduce your chances of passing. Remember, after generating three postings, you will be assessed. This time you have a week and a half to reply.

Good luck

Regards,
Ülle Lepp

Sunday, 1 November 2015


Dear everybody,

Thank you for becoming a member of the blog .

Let us this time focus on holidays. There are an enormous amount of holidays in November in the English speaking world. A holiday is an occasion recognized by the state or government and marked on calendars, like Thanksgiving in the United States or Guy Fawkes Day in Britain. Some holidays are even celebrated in Estonia like Halloween. First, I wish you to make a discovery in this field. I have added the links and I expect you to gain information fom studying the web pages below. You may google your favourite holiday to find out what the Internet reveals. Everything is up to you.

Secondly, I suggest that you should comment on the idea that some people say that each country should only celebrate their own holidays. Do you agree or disagree?

Thirdly, I wish you to find the holiday that most applies to you and prepare one-minute monologue about it. Guide the rest of you classmates into details on this topic. Deadline is November 9.


Wishing you all the very best.

Faithfully,
Ülle Lepp