Coincidence or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goc3f77bcXk /

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMDQSatfTU&feature=related

The Haunting

a Shakespearean Sonnet

I look at your face and I see your smile,
I look a bit better and I see tears,
To notice it really took me a while,
I see that you are scared of all your fears, 

Are you afraid of all the things you want,
Or is it you want to fulfill your dream,
Some dreams become nightmares and always haunt,
Someday you suddenly wake up and scream,

But let me save you and be your hero,
And if you do not you are out of luck,
You have no chance to escape and say no,
You are closed in my heart and you are stuck,

So let me wipe off the tears and save you,
Because you built a wall and I will break through

Fabia Malaubux

Every day I see you is a joy
Your eyes are as blue as clear tropical seas
Your voice as pleasant as a summer breeze
Your beauty matches that of Helen of Troy

Being with you I thoroughly enjoy
When you are near heath rises by degrees
Once confronted you stand taller than the trees
You are one of God’s finest toys

But sadly you’ll never be with me
Since you belong to someone with more might
And he would execute me on first sight

I cannot follow my heart and do what’s right
Love is the greatest weakness you will see
To my great sorrow all I can do is flee

Jaimie Zwarts

One look at your eyes
And you set me on fire
It’s like an electrical wire
You make me feel quite unwise

Your skin is perfectly pure
Its color absolutely amazing
It’s shining and a bit glazing
The touch has my heart endure

But I can’t help
You are unreachable for me
So I’ll must set myself free

Stop make me think about you
For I can’t make you mine
I’ll end up thinking of you as a swine

Peter Joon

Wow! She’s extremely beautiful eyes
Everything is perfect, even her nose
I most certainly’d like to give her a red rose
I’m in love with her but with me all the guys

But I am the only one who’s wise
The one with nice and expensive clothes
I hope she’ll be the one who knows
That I will stay with her until she dies

But now there’s also the powerful King
The man with a lot of money and force
She only wants  one thing: a ring!

He immediately lets it bring
Getting her all the presents she likes of course
I hope she wants real love, that’s what I’d give her

Robert-Jan Veldhoen

How do you explain to an angel
That you don’t belive in God
I know it may sound shameful
But everyone is flawed

But you seem to be the only exception
Because I see no mistakes in your creation
Your existence equals sheer perfection
Oh, how that causes me this great frustration

I’ll never match you no matter how hard I try
My soul is far less purer than thine
But I can’t seem to understand why

I won’t give up making you mine!
I guess I have confessed my love enough now
And once more for your beauty I shall bow

Sheida Doraji

The Forbidden Fruit

If he had kissed me, if he had touched me
I would be breathless, unable to walk
I would be speechless, unable to talk
I now would be his, his one and only

Love is a sickness full of woes, says he
Moreover, love is something we should mock
Unbelievable, I am in total shock
For together we are not meant to be

For he is not mine, I should let him go
However, I really do love him so
Dear, no matter what I could not forget

If only I could make him see or show
That he and I belong together, though
Not kissing him is now my only regret

Femke Hepsakker

Rotterdam

You are the one I really want to see
All day long I am studying my books
Instead I want to know about your looks
I imagine how you would have one key

And the way you are giving it to me
I understand you hold but many crooks
You do have many edges, many hooks
But in Rotterdam I would like to be

I like you are different from the rest
Your heart periodically gone
But therefore your beauty equals none

If you allow, I’ll be your guest
The Maas flows through the city all curled
Rotterdam, harbour city of the world

Willem Wapenaar

Winter Scars

Snow flowers, silver moon, warm herbal tea
Secretly you took my heart I swear
Leaving me staring and breathing no air
You left your mark on my skin like a bee

I count us like shoes, one + one makes ‘we’
My heart dances in your soul everywhere
If you ask me how much love I can bear
As much winters can be born by a tree

But this desire is not worth a try
To build dreams reality could destroy
Just like the Greeks invaded and burned Troy

And our faith even makes the angels cry
Let me be a complete stranger to you
Even though my heart will be frozen too

Shadow of the Rose

A summer night when moonlight strikes me hard
My trinkets tinkle, they say I am yours
My heart and I are swaying in the yard
I have chosen these unknown magic doors

He is in the sleepiness of my night
I am playing Juliet in this play
I need your kiss to hold my smile real tight
Come to me, my secret man, make me sway

There is this new writen song in my soul
I’m trying to write it all over again
I’ve got this image in my head, it’s whole

So I pray to paint it into words, only for this man
But darling, how come I’must pay the full price
And you pay me back with a packet full of lies?

Sarah Achahbar

 
I remember it if it was yesterday
The whole world turned around when I saw you
And I’m sure that wasn’t because of your shampoo
Oh, please, do not go away

I’d like to play with clay
Jump in a frozen fountain to have you get the flue
Seriously, I’ll do everything for you
If it’s necessary, I would even pray!

You are everywhere
Even in my sleep
Then I listen to the song ‘Rolling in the Deep’
I would give you everything, at least my hair

I know you would exchange me for a little fly
So I need to let you go, goodbye!

Delano de Wilde

Betrayal

My love
Your breasts are the perfect pair
Chocolate is dark brown just like your beautiful hair
Your outside is beautiful my love

Your inner being is soft and warm
You are so nice and kind for me
To get your love I would chop off my arm
I just want you to be  with me

To me you are the perfect woman
I never think of someone else
In my dreams I’ll become your man

There was I crying on the street, standing for your home
I saw you kissing with my best friend
I think that we ‘ll never live together in the same home 

A normal friend
My love
With the curly golden hair
We could be the perfect pair
You are the one who I’m in love (with)

I love you the most
I won’t sinner anymore if you will love me 
I would like to hold your body against me
I, the one who love you the most

You are the one soulmate that I was looking for 
I want to grow old with you 
I want to get two kids with you, because then we’re with four 

Unfortunately you’ve already got a boyfriend He is more handsome than I am 
Because of all this I never will become more to you than a normal friend

Rinaldo Valck

Feelings

My feelings for you are like tough homework
I just don’t get it, it doesn’t make sense
I’m your Afghan lover, I’m not English or a Turk
I’m only one of your many fans

When you’re around I try to act cool
But your presence makes me nervous and shy
You are the reason I act like a fool
My heart breaks in two when you say ‘goodbye’

For you I will bring the stars together
In your eyes I see dreams coming tru
Nobody is going to treat you better
I believe I’m addicted to you

I’d trade the world for a piece of your heart
But now you’ve left me I’m back at the start

Jubair Mahmoud

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About what we did before the digital age had started: http://pacelinebiz.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/what-we-did-for-fun-before-the-computer/

About how to say ‘Hello’ http://studentdesignblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/saying-hello-its-not-that-hard/

If you ever come across interesting looking blogs like these, please keep me informed!

The Black Literature Project should be handed in on:

• 13-12-2011 (H5B-en7)
• 14-12-2011 (H5C-en6)

H5B-en7 / Wednesday 14-12

• TB Read 70 + WB do ex.204
• WB do ex.188-191

H5B-en7 / Tuesday 13-12

• Hand in your examletter (written!)

H5C-en6 / Friday 9-12

• Write the ‘tentamen’ letter

H5B-en7 + H5C-en6 / Wednesday 30-11: Hand in your BOOKREPORT

H5B-en7 / Tuesday 29-11

• Write the letter on Expedition Robinson

H5C-en6 / Friday 25-11

• Write the letter on Expedition Robinson

H5B – en7 / Wednesday 23-11-2011

• WB do ex.188-191

H5C – en6 / Wednesday 23-11-2011

• TB p.99 summarize the text (in Dutch) in 10 sentences
• Read TB 70 + WB do ex. 204

H5B – en7 / Tuesday 22-11-2011

In classs we will do the second part of the Listening test. The homework for today:

• WB do ex.175+176 (be very critical!)
• TB p.99 summarize the text (in Dutch) in 10 sentences

H5C-en6 / Wednesday 16-11

• TB 59 + WB ex.171/172

H5B-en7 / Tuesday 15-11

• TB 59 + WB ex.171/172
• Complete EXAM 2008-I

H5C-en6 / Friday 11-11

EXAM 2008-I:

1. complete
2. correct
3. conclusion?
4. advise teacher

H5B-en7 + H5C-en6 / Wednesday 9-11

• Complete the EXAM 2008-I
• Read TB 59
• WB do ex. 171+172

H5B-en7 Wednesday 26-10

• Bring Unicom Finals
• Hand in your Letter + CV

H5C – Friday 9-9-2011 / H5B – Tuesday 13-9-2011

1. Find info on:

• Alice Walker
• Oprah Winfrey
• The Color Purple

H5B + H5C – Wednesday 7-9-2011

Study Idiom Ch.1 (you can download the first 3 chapters here: Idiom HAVO-5 Chapters 1-3).

H5C – Friday 2-9-2011 / H5B – Tuesday 6-9-2011

Find information on the NAACP

H5C – Friday 26-8-2011 / H5B – Tuesday 30-8-2011

Find information on the ‘Civil Rights Movement’ (history, names, etc.)

For students this site can serve as a literary encyclopedia to explore the world of English Literature. You can read about a book before actually reading it completely so that you have a better idea of what you are about to read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books 

Oral Exam 2011 Preparation

To be sure how you will be judged you can download the Oral Exam rubric beforehand:

Oral Exam – 2011 Rubric

Make sure you prepare well! And do not forget: the proof of the pudding is in the eating!

“Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Making Betty Botter’s bitter batter better”

As a preparation for the oral exams it is absolutely useful listening to ‘tonguetwisters’ and use them for your vocal training. As ‘Wikipedia puts it, “a tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-twister)

Together with you I hope we will put a lot of these tongue twisters on this blog! Have a look for yourselves at: http://www.tonguetwisters.us/

Print out this text: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jdevor/links/you-said-a-mouseful.txt and, while reading, listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu4fP4fOHE (th-th-thanks again Q-Q-Quincy!)

“Letter to my past self”-blog

Dear Mr. Wiegand,

I watch a lot of television (on my computer) and most of the series I watch are American series. But just a few days ago I discovered a news show called “10 o’clock live”, a British program in which they talk about the news. Only they do this while making jokes about it. I thought it might be a good idea to watch pieces of the show during class, while the accents from the presenters are typically British. I downloaded the series, but it airs on Channel 4. Here is a link to a piece of the first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT258GWOAXE

(thanks Quincy!)

By the way, this is the official website of 10 o’clock live: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live

The presentations take place during the English lessons. Each student chooses the book he or she wants do to a presentation about and informs the teacher at least a week before the presentation which book he or she has chosen. 

The student will be judged on these elements:

• preparation
• contents
• pronunciation
• vocabulary
• grammatical correctness
• attitude during the presentation
• length of the presentation

So, a good preparation is absolutely necessary!

I. These are the elements your presentation should contain:

• (max. 1 min.) – life and work of the author
• (max. 2 min.) – a short summary of the story
• (max. 4 min.) – the well-funded explanation of one important theme or an essential scene from the book
• (max. 1 min.) – your own well-funded opinion of the book

The total time of the presentation should not exceed 8 minutes.

II. For each presentation of your fellow students you collect information on the book that is going to be presented. Together with the assignments in class you create a file which has to be handed in at the end of all presentations.

For extra information on how to do a presentation, click on: http://hwgand.wordpress.com/presentations/