Kisalföld, 1993. március (48. évfolyam, 50-75. szám)
1993-03-12 / 60. szám
1993. március 12., péntek ANGOL NYELV MINDENKINEK KISALFÖLD 15 Learning Words Is there a recipe??? We asked some learners of English the question, "How do you learn words?” and ended up with the following bunch of ideas. Everybody has their own way though once you have read this you might want to experiment with one of the tips below. So, have you got a recipe for learning words? ”1 don't learn English words at all. I used to learn texts and managed to learn a lot of words in context like this.” Bernadett Szabó ”1 try to use words as much as I can. I talk to my sister (she has studied English for 4 years) a lot. I listen to pop songs and I learn the words very quickly. It's good fun." Judit Soltész Baross Gábor Secondary School Class 2/B ”1 never learn words. But I've got an idea. I heard it from one of my classmates. What she does is she writes words on slips of paper and puts them up on the wall in her flat. So everywhere goes she can't help seeing and learning them.” Alvin and the chipmunks Kazinczy Secondary School, Class 4/E ”1 always read words twice - in the morning and in the afternoon too. When I hear new words on TV, I always look them up in a dictionary.” Roland Bene Révai Secondary School, Class 1/C ”1 don't like sitting down and learning words. I prefer to learn them in sentences and expressions. I watch TV (e.g. CNN, Eurosport) and I learn the new words I hear." Ernő Famady Jedlik Secondary School, Class 3/B "When I began to study English I studied words from my vocabulary book. If I can't remember difficult words I try to put them into interesting or funny sentences. This usually helps me. I studied a lot while talking to some Americans on a summer camp. I think this is the best way.” Éva Günther Kazinczy Secondary School, Class 3/A Tve got a vocabulaiy book with three columns Hungarian, English and German. I learn most of the words during the English lesson. I try to practise them in real life afterwards. For example, when I'm walking in the street and see something I say it in English or in German to myself - whichever I remember first!” Krisztina Farkas Technical College student ”1 don't learn English words very often, only when I have to. But I try to concentrate hard on my words. I put my vocabulary book under my pillow and I hope words sinply go into my head during the night. Unfortunately, this has never worked so far!” Eszter Kocsis Kazinczy Secondary School And... this is how Ardrew Knill, an English businessman working at Győri Keksz is "struggling” with Hungarian words: ”1 have a vocabulary book one side of the page Hungarian and one English. Then I read the page and try to memorize the meanings. Then I cover up one side and see if I can remenber without looking. I try to start with Hungarian when I speak to people at work and when I cannot say what I want to say in Hungarian I ask.” Thank you for sharing all this with us and good luck with your words! Márta Horváth 2 Jokes Teacher: ”1 wish you'd pay a little attention!” Student: "I'm paying as little as I can.” Teacher: "You should have been here at 9.00.” Small boy: "Why, what happened?” Competition... Do you know someone (a friend/relative) who has done something to develop and improve our community (for example, by helping people in some way or helping our enviroment etc...)? If so, write about that person in less than 300 words and send it to: - "Development '93” BBC World Service Bush House London, England” You can win BBC books, pens, T.shirts. This is not a test of your English - the BBC just want to hear about interesting people here in this area. Write as soon as possible. What animal is this? Fill in the boxes and find out •qoujso '8 ‘sndnpo 'L ‘JiqqBH '9 Tuy g ‘3JJB.no ■f ‘1S3N '8 ‘sp?uiiuv Z ‘U3JJTM I :sj3msuv Definitions (Across) 1. Little cat. 2. Cats, dogs, tigers are... 3. Abird’shome. 4. It has got a very long neck. 5. A very small industrious insect. 6. It likes carrot and cabbage. 7. It lives in oceans, it has got 8 arms. 8. A very big African running bird. (Made by Eszter Veilandics 4/B and Roland Hofbauer 3/A Gárdonyi Géza Primary School) The pump I am a pair of Reebok pumps and I live at Champs Sport's Shop. The people that work at Champs are always touching me, trying to find the right shoe size. This annoys me. One day, one of the people that works there was looking for the right size and picked me up. It was very uncomfortable. Some person put something into me - it really stank. After that, this person said ’’I'll take them. ” When he took me up to the cash desk, I saw something that said $152. This nearly made the person's eyes drop out! After that, he threw me into a bag and I could not see anything. The next morning, I heard him say Tve got to go to basketball practice” and he stuck that smelly thing in me again. This time it smelled even worse! Then he tied me up and then... then came something that no one had ever done to me before. He pumped me up and down! The whole day I was pushed around, I was pumped up and down and had that smelly thing stuck inside me. When I got sick of this I made a plan. I decided to bite this guy's smelly thing -which I did. When I did this, he threw me away. I got taken to the city dump. One day, a new pair of pumps dropped in at the dump. We fell in love and we lived happily ever after. Doris Balázsi Radnóti Milós Primary School Dear, Teacher, Help! No one can help me. I don't know the difference between no one and none. Yours Puzzled Dear Puzzled, Don't worry - here's the amswer to your question: a) no one means the same as nobody. e. g. I have been waiting for two hours but no one turned up NB It cannot be followed by of. b) none is used to express the meaning of not a single one (of). e. g. None of my friends wished me a happy birthday. I was really upset about it. I have read none of Orwell's books. So, any more problems? I hope none to do with no one and none. Yours Teacher Studying English in the UK There are nearly 1000 private language schools in the UK. If you want to study English at one of these, how can you know which are the good and which are the bad ones? CHECKING THE QUALITY You can check the quality of language schools by asking if they belong to one of these organisations. 1) AURELS - to be recognised by this organisation (1), the school has to meet very high standards (2). 2) The British Council - the school has to meet lower standards than for AURELS. 3) FIRST - another organisation of school recognised by the British Council. The schools have to meet lower standards than for Aurels. BEWARE: SOME "COWBOY” SCHOOLS* MAY SAY THINGS LIKE "Recognised by the Home Office /Cambridge University " OR ” A member of 1ATEFL/ TESOL.” THESE WORDS MEANS NOTHING!! HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? The fees vary a lot but basically you pay for what you get - for example, if you are doing a special English course (Business English/Legal English) or there are only a few students in a class (the maximum should be 16) then you will pay more. Also the accomodation can cost as much as the language course. Courses and accomodation are generally cheaper in the north of England and Scotland than in the tourist areas such as London or on the south coast and it is sometimes cheaper from October to April. HOW CAN I CHOOSE? - SOME ADVICE a) Before you start choosing schools, be certain of what you want - how many hours you want to study a day (maximum 5), do you want to take an exam /study Special or General English/ go to a school that organises a social programme? etc... b) It is often cheaper in the north of England and Scotland. c) It is arguably better to study from October to April because the teachers at the schools will be the permanent (3) teachers and may be (not always true) better qualified and more experienced than the temporary (4) summer teachers. Also there may be fewer students in classes, it may be cheaper. d) Apply to an AURELS /British Council/ FIRST recognised school. The addresses of these organisations are written below. e) After you have chosen some schools, find out as much as you can about them - talk to people who have studied in the UK, write letters to the schools asking for detailed information about the course books they use, what support (5)(educational and personal) do they give to the students, what testing/exam system is there etc.....Keep the school’s reply and take it with you to the UK. If you write to us at the language page, we can send you alistand the prices of AURELS recognised schools. The address is: Kisalföld Kiadó BT. Angol nyelvi oldal. Write to the British Council in Budapest or go to the British Council library, for information on British Council recognised schools. The address is: 1051, Budapest, Harmincad u. 6. For a list of FIRST recognised schools, write to: First Eurocentre Victoria 56 Ecclestone Square, London SWI8QF IN TWO WEEKS, WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT STUDYING ENGLISH AT STATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE UK.. .SO... DONT FORGET TO READ THE LANGUAGE PAGE ON MARCH 26. 1. ahhoz, hogy ez a szervezet elismeij'en egy iskolát 2. magas követelményeknek kell megfelelnie 3. állandó 4. alkalmi 5. segítség * Cowboy School= a bad school STUDENT HEADMASTER ELECTION AT BAROSS GÁBOR SCHOOL The annual student headmaster election has become a tradition at our school. On the first schoolday of the year some kind of a campaign takes place where the students of the third form act out short performances. This year our class (3.a) made preparations for this "battle”, too. It took us a long time to find out how to gain our schoolmates votes. First we had tó find out what would be the ideal thing to act out. Finally we made plans for the play and we managed to find some sponsors as well. Before the day of the election we had to rehearse a lot and complete our play. All the rehearsals were very pleasant and had a special atmosphere. We did our best. Each class in the third form selects a candidate for the post of the student headmaster. Our candidate was Gabó. During the winter holidays we prepared our costumes, posters, badges and a newspaper. On the day of the election we met early in the morning in the school in order to get everything ready by the time the other students arrived. The "big show” was held in the gym. While marching in we sang a song about Gabó. Our programme consisted of a parody and two dances. It was a very good feeling as well as encouraging when the audience applauded to the rhythm of the music. We thought that our programme went well. Afterwards we saw the show of the other three classes (3/b, 3/c, 3/d) too. Then it was election time!... Although we didn't win we didn't feel we were losers because we'd organized a very pleasant and cheerful day for our fellowstudents and for our teachers as well. Gabriella Balogh and Fatime Sipos Baross Gábor Secondary School, Class 3/a