Posted by Angelika Davey on Friday, December 30, 2011,
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German teaching
2011
A few weeks ago some friends wrote blog posts about 51 things they learned this year (I could give you the links to their posts, but if I did you would want to buy a house in Spain and use Arrow Same Day Courier Services to get you there - and then you wouldn't want German lessons, so I won't J)
Anyway, I liked the idea, so here are mine:
Having the best son and daughter living abroad is not always fun.
Skype lets me keep in contact with them but also allows me to teach students as far as...
Posted by Angelika Davey on Thursday, October 6, 2011,
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German teaching
"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address." Do you remember this quote? It's from 'You've got Mail' with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
I came across this quote again the other day and it reminded me of the time when I started Angelika's German Tuition & Translation. I had the name in place but was looking for a logo - and I couldn't think of one. People told me to use a German...
Posted by Angelika Davey on Sunday, September 25, 2011,
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German teaching
I love listening to BBC Wiltshire and I frequently send in text messages or phone in. I have also been interviewed a few times. So when I was asked whether I would like to participate in 'You do what for a living?' I immediately said yes.
Every Friday afternoon, Sue Davies and her listeners have to guess what job a guest does. Sue gets to ask as many questions as she likes and then has to guess before the listeners do. It's a bit like 'What's my line?' (or 'Was bin ich?' as the programm...
Posted by Angelika Davey on Wednesday, June 15, 2011,
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German teaching
Ich helfe meinem Papa beim Korrigieren von Hausaufgaben! I'm helping my dad mark homework!
As a child I always wanted to be a teacher - just like my dad - or an air stewardess, an actress or a dancer. Things didn't quite work out as planned, I suffer terribly from travel sickness, have two left feet and didn't even get the right qualification to train as a teacher. I did study, though, but then I moved to England to get married and start a family.
Posted by Angelika Davey on Thursday, March 31, 2011,
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German teaching
Last week I did an exercise with a student about daily routine. She asked me (in German, of course) what time my working day started and finished. I told her that I left the house at 7.55am for my first job and came home at 9.55pm from my last job. "A long day", she said!
Today, my 30 day blog challenge is to write about a day in my life, so it's a good way to explain the long day:
Luckily, my day isn't always like last week, but it is very hard to describe a typical day. I used to teach full-... Continue reading ...
Posted by Angelika Davey on Thursday, March 31, 2011,
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German teaching
As part of Nikki Pilkington's blog challenge (still free to join!) my task this time is to write something nice about somebody else. Oh dear, was my first thought, who do I write about and what do I write! It's not that I don't know anybody worth writing about. On the contrary, I could write books about all the nice people I know! There are all my evening class students, all my business clients, all the private students, young and old - and they're all nice and brilliant and lovely to work wi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Angelika Davey on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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German teaching
Although yesterday I mentioned Tokio Hotel as a German band whose music results in lots of fans wanting to learn German, The Wise Guys are a band who I like to use for teaching.
The Wise Guys are a German a cappella band and not only do I like listening to them, I also find their lyrics useful in adult education. My favourite song is "Meine Deutschlehrerin". It deliberately contains 21 grammar mistakes.
Posted by Angelika Davey on Wednesday, October 13, 2010,
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German teaching
My adult students sometimes lend each other German DVDs or books and sometimes they bring gifts. Today one of my students brought a bag of surplus goods from his allotment and he handed out carrots and flowers. For me, he said, he had a special surprise. With that he handed me this:
Nikki Pilkington's blogging ebook has been very helpful to me. Check out what other books you can buy from her by clicking on the '30 Day Blogging Challenge' book.
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