Speak

1.Book review

Laurie Halse Anderson won one of four award-winning novels with “Speak”, which was published by penguin group in 1999. She lives together with her famliy in New York. Speak is a book about a 14 years old girl called Melinda who was raped at a summer ending party and the author wrote about this because Melinda came to her in a nightmare.

Melinda become an outcast at her high-school and she’s very lonely because she called the police at this party since she was raped. Everybody exept for Melinda was in a group of friends or a clan. They are only mad at her because they don’t know what happened. Nobody talks to her until she meets Heather, who is new at school. Mr. Freeman is her art teacher who believes in Melinda.

She really needs help but doesn’t get it becauseshe doesn’t speak about her problems. She falls in a lot of trouble when she starts to skip school. Rachel is a ex-friend of her, doesn’t believe her because her boyfriend was the one who raped her. But finally she asks her boyfriend and he doesn’t give an answer so she ends their relationship at thr prom. Andy, the ex-boyfriend, force Melinda into a closet where he wants torape her again.

I didn’t really like the because I am not interested in such lame books, but the whole class wanted to read. Whatever here is my book review.

© Markus Lampert

Globalization

1. Globalization affects employment of Austria:

A few people say, that the globalization reduces the Inflation, because the Inflation got smaller. But for Austria the textile industry is nearly dead. Almost all concerns closed because other counties are able to produce cheaper than Austria.

2. Austrian multinationals

• Doppelmayr: The Group has production facilities and sales and service locations in over 33 countries of the world and to date has built more than 13.700 installations in over 78 countries.
• Liebherr: The company exist since 1949 and was founded by Hans Liebherr. The turnover of the group in the year 2006 was 6.473 million €. The investment was 410 € and it has about 26.000 emlpoyees.
• Rauch: Rauch is an international company, which delivers juices to all parts of the world.

3. Groups against globalization

Anti-globalization is a social movement that understands economic development as the expansion of markets for the interests of ruling elites. Activists in this subject have various concerns with the growing power and influence of this global marketplace.

Anti-globalization is a grassroots movement to counter the trend of globalization and its harmful effects, and to reform unbridled capitalism.

4. How can we support Fair Trade?

We can support it when we buy things with the Fair Trade sign, even though they’re very expensive. If we support Fair Trade we help 3^rd world countries against child labour.

5. Opinion about globalization

I think globalization is good because the whole world gets connected through the internet, which means that the countries don’t have these problems with connecting between them. It’s also good because of the internet so you don’t have to drive to a library to search in a book.

© Markus Lampert

Correction of the 2nd exam

Part 3: Writing

Welcome to our virtual tour through Cambridge. We will start at the Bus Station in Drummer Street. Across the street there is a very small nice restaurant, which sells the best burgers in town. Now we are walking down the Hobson Street and the big yellow building you see in front of us is the Post-Office. It was destroyed during the second World War, which meant that they could not send letters to our troops in France. Do you see the huge white building? This is the Whipple Museum, our history of science museum. It is open from Monday to Friday from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. Everybody should go and see it, because it’s fantastic. We will Continue our tour at Corpus Christi College, which is the oldest building, because all other old buildings were bombed, but luckily for us no bomb hit the college. It has a nice court in the middle, which most students use to learn. We will make the next stop at the market. There you can buy vegetables, although the tomatoes are not as good as they might look. Now do you see the white building with the many windows? It’s another college, called Trinity College, which was founded in 1546, It’s really famous and students from all over the world study here. Now we got to the newest building in the city: the Methodist university. It has the best and latest equipment in town. The next attraction I will show you the Grafton Shopping Centre, which has every thing you need. Now we will walk back the bus station and I hope you have enjoyed this tour.

© Markus Lampert

English Homework

Let me take you on a virtual tour through Laterns.

We’ll start at the municipal office, in this building is a post office, a bank and the mayor. Let’s go in the bus and I will tell you about everything what you see. When you look at your right you see the church, which is always worth a visit. It was built in the 17^th century. At your right you see the first tavern in Laterns, the name is “Gasthof Löwen”. Do you see the side road at your left, there is a forge? If you go along the street there you’ll see the elementary school. I went in this school and I can only say that it is a very good school. Now we are moving on to the old fire station of Laterns, it was in operation until 1978. Our way is leading us to a company which generates windows for houses and doors. Now we move on to the Bonacker, which is the next part of Laterns. Now at your left you see the next tavern, it’s called “Die Krone”. Across the street you see many trucks of the “Nesensohn Transporte” company. Do you see the small chapel? Every Saturday evening there is a church service, but at Sunday there is the service only in the church, where we star our travel. We continue our tour with the building yard of Laterns, there is also the new fire station. Our way leads us to the most interesting thing of Laterns, the Ski-lift. There is everything you need, such as taverns, bars, hotels and a ski shop. In winter you can skiing or snowboard, you can do some tricks in the fun park or have fun at the taverns. In summer you can enjoy the bobsledge or you can jump on the trampolines. Anyway that’s the finish, I hope you enjoyed it.

© Markus Lampert

Correction

Dear Alice,

it is important that you know that drugs might not be dangerous if you just started to take them, but after some time you can see how they destroy your body. When you take drugs like heroin you feel very good for a short moment, but after this moment it will be horrible. I think you want to know why I know this. Last month I saw a documentary about drugs.

If he offers you to try it, refuse it, because he only wants you to stay with the crowd. If you still want to try it be aware too the consequences. One injection could be enough to make you an addict. As I said before, there will be a brief moment of good and a long bad time.

You might didn’t see that he destroying his body. Just wait some months and you will see how the drugs have ruined him. His future may be like living in the streets and he won’t have any money so he will steal money to buy himself drugs.

I think taking drugs is stupid because the only thing that you get is a ruined life. I hope that you will never try drugs.

Yours, Markus

The Mosquito Coast task 2

Why did your dad want to leave the USA?

He wanted to, because he thought that he was unfairly treated and no one respected his inventions.

He was also against the religion.

What do you mean with no one respected his inventions?

You know he built a lot of things. For example the little boy, this machine could make ice out of water with no electricity, but his boss found that useless because the whole USA has enough electricity.

Did you like to leave the USA?

No I did not, but my whole family leaved so what else could I do.

How did you feel when you got to your new place?

I felt really uncomfortable. This jungle, you know, everywhere was wood and green, and I didn’t like it.

But after some days I accustomed to the jungle.

Do you know why and who shot your father?

I think he got shot because he inflamed the church, but I don’t know who shot him because it was night and I didn’t see many things.

The Mosquito Coast task 1

Hello Tom,

How are you? I hope that you are fine, because I am not. In this letter you will find out where I was the past few months. I left because my dad hated the USA and wanted to leave, because he was not happy there.

After his decision we went on a ship and drove to the jungle in middle Central America. As soon as we arrived there, we met Mr. Haddy who took us with his boat to jeronimo. We met there the Maywits, but that was not their real name. We built their small village and my father built a huge ice machine, which was called fat boy.

One day some soldiers came to our place and dad told them to go away, but they didn’t listen to him and so he locked them in the fat boy to freeze them to death. As soon as the soldiers realized what was going on they started to shoot and the chemicals of the fat boy inflamed and destroyed the village. After that we had to move on and we built a new village again. One day Mr. Haddy brought us some gas for our houseboat and we moved on. After some time we saw a real village with electricity, real houses and a church. My dad jumped out of the boat and disappeared into nowhere. Suddenly the church exploded and my dad appeared, but then someone shot my dad from behind and he died shortly after that.

I miss my dad because I loved him. Sometimes I think that he deserves the death because he did a lot of bad things. But he was also a good inventor and a good leader. Anyway I will see you when we get back to the USA.

Yours Charlie