Hi Marco,
Thank you very much for keeping me posted and up to date. How are you getting along with your birkenbiel program? How often do you listen to it and what lesson are you at now?
Best regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC short conversations: Two coffee shop customers discuss how to plug in laptop computer.[YSaerTTEW443543]
hi Torsten,
i haven’t enough time for the birkenbihl methode at the moment.
i do listening every day the birkenbihl lessons in my car.
i have arrived the second part at the advanced book.
i try to repead the lessons of the english-course in NDH at the evening.
i have many problems with grammar.
the communication with brian is working good in english.
i think, understanding will be better from day by day.
it is difficult, to build sentens with my own words.
kind regards, Marco (NDH).
(corrected welcome)
Minutes, reported by Manuel (09-02-2010)
Into questions groups put and these answer.
Practice the correct pronunciation.
Independent learning on the Homepage english-test.net
Forming verbs in sentences.
The Group makes questions for the answer and writes an e-mail.
Minutes (10-02-2010)
Page 50
A1. Listenings and Introducing
A2. Work in pairs
B vocabulary
Page 51
c1.Reading and fill the gaps
C2. organization chart
C3. drawing charts of the companies, where the members of this group work
Page 52
D1 Vocabulary - matching
D2 other departments
D3 1 - finance department
2 - research & development department
3 - sales & marketing department
4 - Legal department
5 - public relations department or communicationd dept.
6 - human resources dept.
E1 Listening and fill the gaps - recruitment, large, open-plan office
E2 Listening and complete sentencers
F Speaking: my preferred position
Hi Wolfgang, Brian and all Nordhausen group! Thank you so much for keeping me in the loop – I always read your reports even if I sometimes don’t respond immediately. Please keep up the great work and maybe you should also start posting some voice recordings? Do you know how and why you should do them?
Best regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC short conversations: A customer orders a meal at a fast food counter[YSaerTTEW443543]
Journal, Thursday 11-02-2010
Page 55 / B1+2
Vocabulary
design / manufacture a new product
open / reorganize a factory or office
introduce / improve a system or service
recruit / lay off staff
look for / enter a new market
English-test.net
Test 121 “Simple Present, Simple Past, Simple Future
Listening
Page 56 / C1+2
Reading
Page 56 / D1
We read the text “Repsol: A growing presence in Latin America” and completed the gaps.
own – expand – sponsor – specialized – research – help – have – produce – grow – sell - be
Pronunciation
Page 57 / E1
Vocabulary “Company developments”
to rise – to go up – to increase
to fall – to go down – do decrease
to remain stable
by –from – to
Reading
Page 59 / B1
We wrote: 1984, 2.59, 12 %, 725,800 on the blackboard.
Page 59 / B3
We completed the sentences with preposition and verbs.
by, from, to
english-group NDH 12.02.2010 MarDor (Marco)
S 59 4
presentation
Germany
-the number of marriages/divorces
-the brth rate
-the number of people living in towns and cities
-the number of foreign tourists
-the cost of living
-the price of computers
work in groups and with brian
S 60 and 152
-describe your sales figures for last year
reading
S 60 D
listening an fill the gaps
S 61 E
pronunciation
-stress in difficult words
Intermediate #77/79
S 62 listening two conversations in a lift
S 63 speaking
-possible questions and answers
english-group NDH 15.02.2010
Listening 41
positive or negative experience
-boring - exciting
-noisy - quiet
-small - big
-clean - dirty
-convient - inconvient
-exciting - boring
-friendly - unfriendly
-useful - useless
Vocabulary
Adjectives Opposites
E Speaking
returned from business trip ( positiv / negative )
english test
Easy
Test 125 / 126 / 127
using Adjectives
conversation - Sales by region
6.1 Dates and schedules
Listening 42
Listening 43
Listening 44 ( 16 th / 60 th , 18 th / 80 th , ………)
Listening 44 b ( 1 st / first , ………)
Listening 45
Test
Intermediate
681
Nordhausen, 16.02.2010
We change the room - no normaly internet - no normaly work at first
Listening to tape 46
Problems:
HK 04543 4631
Sales-Department
tomorrow
Friday
663 4562
4-1-2-4-1-4-3-1-2-3-4-3
2-g, 3-i, 4-c, 5-a, 6-e, 7-d, 8-b, 9-h
Speaking
Pause
more Speaking
english-test.net - teaching buisiness english - elementary - #8
important, famous dates
03.10.1990 - UNITY of Gemany, (Reunion)
11.12.1982 - ABBA’s last performance
1452 -1453 - Gutenberg printed the Bible
13.02.2010 - Olympics start in Vacouver
18.06.1815 - Waterloo
1594 -1603 - Battle of Tyrone
31.05.1941 - Bombs on Dublin
english-test.net – TOEIC – 1150 listening exercises
– TOEIC listening 1
– TOEIC listening 2
– TOEIC listening 3
What are the secrets of success? Lesen und verstehenen
International news translate from german to English and present by yourself
Mullah arrested, Guido makes a foul, medial in figure scating, rail accident in Belgium
Mullah again, greek no saving necessary
Words are unknown (for me)
wrong extension - falsche Abteilung
apologize - entschuldigen
receiver - Höhrer
hung up - auflegen
overhear - mithöhren
rectangular in shape - rechteckige Form
decision - Entscheidung
career chances - Karrierechancen
vast - gewaltig
saving - sparen
Best regards Michael
Wednesday February 17th 2010
Minutes
page 72
End of the lessons at 10 am, because the heating doesn’t work
Thursday, February 18th 2010
page 74
Time expressions
Complete the table
page 75
Tape script 49
English-test Intermediate # 103
speaking English for 20 seconds a day (listening at forum)
short essays about interesting news
Reading “Why are you learning English?”
Debate: Which is more dangerous to other road users?
Continueing the TOEIC-exercises
Journal, Friday 19-02-2010
English-test.net
Intermediate Test 138 “Phrasal Verbs (C)”
Listening
Page 76 / tapescript 50 / D1+D2
Language note
Changing appointments
We can change an appointment in three ways.
We can bring it forward to an earlier date.
We can postpone it to a later date.
We can cancel it completely.
Page 76 / D3
Reading
Page 77 / E
We read the e-mails and put them in the correct order.
TOEIC Listening
We read the text “Reasons for improving your English”.
Short essays about interesting news
Michael / Alexandra – Emilio Lavazza is dead
Marco – Weather news
Wolfgang – Joanne K. Rowling
Henry – Afghanistan
Crossword puzzle
“Try to find all 15 words in this board”
“Galgenraten” – “hang man”
postpone
smiles
christmas
New words
overbearing – When a person believes his opinion is the best.
manner – The way someone behaves.
precipitaion
probability
heirs
unsubstantiated
Journal,Monday 22-02-2010
2.Short report on the last weekend
fast – Car,plane,cockroach
easy – games, access, life
cheap – TV, headphones,dress,carrier,safe,fuel
relaxing- chair, course, vacation, weekend
interesting- book, TV show, hobby,
good four your health-sports, apple, jogging, sleep, beer
7.1 Reading : Richard-Virginia
B Vokabulary
Bus, ship,scooter,horses,hearses,cabel car, submarine,hoover craft, sledge , three-wheeler,
Helicopter,hot air balloon, camel,monorail , snow mobil ,
C Speaking
1.Travelling by car…
all the adjectives in 1. are in the comparative form
write sentences,using the adjectives below
D Pronunciation
E Listening
Michael- Porsche
Marco- Gas pipeline
Wolfgang- Traffic exident in Austria
Alexandra- Filmfestival-Berlinale
Alfred- Pilots on Strike
Henry- Caught cold
New words
impends - when something has yet to happen
menace – a person that causes trouble
fulfilled- to complete something
Disappointed- when someone is not happy
Poetically- to write like a poet
Depict - to describe a picture
Reason- the background for my doing
Flee – to run away
accident – an bad event that was not intended to happen
announcement – an official message
English for winners
Toeic Listening exercises
Hi Brian,
How have you been getting along with the course? Can you please do the following:
make sure everyone in the group takes at least 3 tests on our site every single day (as far as I can see only a few group members complete tests every day, the rest seem to have stopped)
record your first voice message (you as the trainer should lead the group and show them how the system works)
show the group how they can use forum once the course is over (please keep in mind that our success is measured by how many group members continue learning English AFTER the actual course)
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC short conversations: Customer calls to place an order for dog food.[YSaerTTEW443543]
Hi Torsten,
The course is going well. Communication in the class is good which is very important and the students seem to be happy with the pace of the course.
Yes we will start doing more tests online everyday.
As for the voice messages we still have problems with the laptops and java. I will try to solve this today and hopefully have my first voice recording posted today.
I will also show the group how to use the forum.
Thanks for the advice. If you have anymore advice im all ears!
Kind Regards,
Brian
Hi Brian,
Thanks a lot for your swift response. How is the Excel sheet developing? (How do you spell this/words spelled/what does this word mean/words explained). Also, you might want to read the following forum post with the group and have them write a short response: english-test.net/forum/ftopic45611-15.html
Regards,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC short conversations: Personal assistant reminds her boss that memo needs reviewing and signing.[YSaerTTEW443543]
Hi Torsten,
The excel sheet is a very good idea. It started off slow but now that everyone understands how it works it’s developing fast.
I will look at the forum post with the class after lunch.
Regards,
Brian
Nordhausen, 23.02.2010
English Grammer/Intermediate/#102 as … as
book, Pg. 81
1
englisch-hilfen.de/grammar/a … _steig.htm
good better best
bad worse worst
much more most viel - bei unzählbaren Substantiven
many more most viele - bei zählbaren Substantiven
little less least wenig
little smaller smallest klein
.
.
.
3
Listen tapescript 53
discuss about agreement or disagreement
Business English /Intermediate/#22 Retirement plans
News from all over the world
Marco Fr. Käsmann fährt betrunken
Michael Wettervorhersage
Wolfgang Marian Kalahal in Vancouver
Alexandra Ramstein in Weißrußland
Henry Fr. Käsmann fährt betrunken
Alfred Akkupunktur gegen Depressionen
TOEIC listening: In the desert
Out for a walk
In the country bis 3
7.2 Describing products and services
Example for good or bad services
Speaking
Reading
NEW – Power planning
erratic heartbeart - unregelmäßiger Herzschlag, Arrhythmie?
pollution - Verschmutzung
tiring - ermüdend
scrumptiously - fabelhaft
meticulous - akribisch
extinguisher - Feuerlöscher
releasing - Befreiung
acquired - erworben
pregnancy - Schwangerschaft
Regards,
Michael
Hi Michael, please note the correct spelling of the word ‘grammar’. Many thanks, Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]
TOEIC short conversations: Talking about expense reports[YSaerTTEW443543]
Hi Torsten,
grammar is right, it was a little test, the group means. Michael
minutes 24.02.2010 Marco (mardor)
english-test.net
business english test
intermediate
#1
applying for that job
S 84 writing
use present passive
S 84 listening
another new automated system called “veggie Vision”
54a/54b
anser the questions
sentens with present passiv:
-the product is scanned by the cashier
-the correct item is selected by the system
…
S 85 E/speaking
build sentens and speak
english-test.net
elementary
grammar tests
#63 past participle
we have decided that grammar rules will explained in german before the engl. declaration followed
reading loud
…getting to know yourself…
news
Michael: google plant start with (street view)
Wolfgang: giant george, biggest dog
Alexa: 1 billion dollar for superman
Henry: käßmann drunken (new word: unanimous)
Alfred: cuba
Marco: german robots for deep-water oil production
english-test.net
listening exercises
new words
-unanimous - einstimmig
-taunt - sticheln
-persuade - überzeugen
-obstacles - hindernisse
-sacrifices - opfer
-tremendous - enorm
S 86 A 1
fill the gaps
S86 2
describe the following:
Michael: desk
Marco: golf ball
Wolfgang: computer mouse
Alexa: plastic bottle (LIDL)
Henry: usb stick
Alfred: glasses case