Sunday, 22 December 2013

Skype Lessons

Hey guys.
I am sorry it took me so long to write another post again btw.


Soo what I wanted to tell you guys about iis...

I think all of you know that I spent one month in Canada and that I went to school there. Well, some of my teachers there offer Skype classes now. Why? They want us to keep up with our good "English".
Why am I taking English classes? Since I failed on the writing part on our last PC I know that I have loads of work to do to improve my written English. Yeah that's why I applied for Skype lessons.

how does this whole thing work?

Well .. There's one teacher. His name is Alex. At the beginning it is important to discuss with him about what you need to improve on. When you agreed on that, the first Skype class can start ..
I had to write two paragraphs and also had to sent them to his Mail account.
Then he corrected them. To discuss and talk about my mistakes, Alex set up both, a Word and a Google Drive document.  :)

Summing up, I can say that I am happy that I have the chance to take Skype classes since he is a prettygood teacher and I am sure I can learn loads of things from him😀😀


Thursday, 12 December 2013

A bit of Irish History..



Both, Daniel O’Connell and O’Neill were Irish men and both tried to fight for their rights. Nevertheless, their ambitions, the fight itself and the way everything ended up was different. When we examine their goals, we can see that Daniel O’Connell believed in human rights and wanted to bring the Catholic Church into Irish politics. O’Neill’s plan, on the contrary, was to protect his family’s estate from the British. When we look at their fight we find that O’Connell caused a large conflict because one section of the Irish population – the Protestants – feared his rising. On the other hand O’Neill failed in fighting his battles, despite succeeding in the first battle – in the Battle of the Yellow Ford in cooperation with O’Donnell. After asking the Spanish for help and trying to push further, they lost the second battle. Lastly, the way everything ended up was the following. Daniel O’Connell was seen as a revolutionary from now on, while O’Neill and his family had to leave Ireland for Europe to remain safe. All in all, O’Neill and O’Connell had the same approach to fight for their rights, the results of their fighting and the way in which they were seen in the end was not similar.