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Minutes: Examples

Minutes of the first English lesson on Northern Ireland

Date:                      6^th February 1998

Time:                      3^rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)

Place:                     Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz , classroom 105

Participants:          Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Topics:                   1^st Rules for the following work presented by Mr Maas
                               2^nd Methods the class 9d is already able to use and of methods
                                     the class has to learn

1^st: The class and their English teacher decided to work according to
       the teacher's rules which he wrote on the board as follows:

• Talks to your neighbours lead to extra-work, i.e. taking minutes.
• Co-operation improves the students' marks.
• Each students delivers a file of his own with all topics at the end of the unit.
• The lessons follow a time-table. Work that is not completed during the lesson must be accomplished at home.
• Each student is responsible for having his working material at hand, for working out his or her file and for knowing all the facts about the different topics and to be able to use them.

• A project-plan (present)
• Knowledge how to write a summary (present)
• Knowledge how to make a word-set or a mind-map (present)
• Ability to work out a time-line-display into a full text (must be learnt)
• Criteria for assessing the file (is to be done)
• materials - resource books (are to be found and read)
• Be ready to revise what you've done
• Watch the time!

Date:                      13^th February 1998

Time:                      3^rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)

Place:                     Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz , classroom 105

Participants:          Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Missing:                Daniela

Topics:                  1^st Keeping minutes (repetition of the previous lesson), Example
                                    from the first lesson

                              2^nd Tasks

1^st: The class was made familiar with the structure of minutes and translated the rules
          from the 1^st lesson into English. Afterwards they copied the sample minutes and
          the vocabulary that goes with minutes:

• a schedule
• to improve
• co-operation
• marks for longer periods
• to deliver a file
• a lesson
• to follow
• to be responsible for
• to assess

2^nd: The class got the following tasks:

• Draw the borders of

• England blue
• Wales red
• Scotland orange
• Eire green
• Northern Ireland green and orange

Date:                    16^th February 1998

Time:                      2^nd and 3^rd lesson (8.40 - 9.25 and 9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)

Place:                     Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz , classroom 105

Participants:          Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Missing:                Daniela, Petra , Ben

Topics:                  1^st : Minutes of the 2^nd lesson
                              2^nd: Looking at the maps and completing them: countries, counties
                                     with their pronunciation, capitals

•                     1^st : Explaining the difference between country and county
•                     2^nd: Explaining words
•                     3^rd: Tasks: Keep the minutes, Explain the words of the 1^st lesson

1^st: In the first lesson the class was again made familiar with the structure of minutes
         and copied the minutes of the second lesson. Afterwards they advised to collect
         the vocabulary that goes with minutes so that we can discuss them in class the
         vocabulary that goes with minutes:

2^nd: In the 2^nd topic of the first lesson the class checked the borders of the 4 lands:
       England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, repeated the different names:

• GB = England + Wales + Scotland
• UK = England + Wales + Scotland + Northern Ireland
• The British Isles = GB + Northern Ireland + Eire (Republic of Ireland)
• and the capitals: London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast and Dublin

Fermenagh [f(:)'mæn],

1^st: After Stefan's question (What's the difference between country and county?) the two words were explained and a new scheme for explaining words introduced:

2^nd: In this scheme the point function was particularly stressed:

The function of a word means how a word works grammatically in a sentence: as a noun/pronoun for a person or an animal or a thing or an abstract; as a verb for an activity or a state; as an adjective or an adverb in order to describe a noun or a verb, a preposition to describe the position and a conjunction to combine or subordinate 2 sentences.
 
 

3^rd : Tasks: Keep the minutes of the second lesson
                       Explain the words of the first lesson (see the minutes) with the
                  above scheme.

Koblenz, 16^th February 1998
Klaus F. Maas

(signature of the keeper of minutes)

Date:                     20^th February 1998

Time:                      3^rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)

Place:                     Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz , classroom 105

Participants:          Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Missing:                 Daniela, Sabrina H., Sabrina E., Sezer, Maria, Helene, Katja

Topics:                   1^st : Minutes of the 3^rd and 4 ^th lesson 2^nd: Words
3 ^rd: Crossword puzzle
4^th : Tasks: Keep the minutes
       Describe Northern Ireland

1^st: When the minutes were read in the class special mistakes in reading the heading
       were corrected.

2^nd: After we had discussed various aspects of the words "schedule", "to improve" and
       "co-operation" the class could check their solutions with the help of the teacher's
       transparency.

3 ^rd: The teacher delivered a crossword puzzle containing all of the new words of the
        1^st minutes. The students had to find the words in a crossword and to correct the
        scrambled words below.

4^th : The above mentioned tasks should be done for homework.

Koblenz, 20^th February 1998
Klaus F. Maas

(signature of the keeper of minutes)

Date:             26^th February 1998

Time:                 2^nd lesson (8.40 to 9.25 a.m.)

Place:                Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz, classroom 105

Participants:     Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Missing:            Daniela, Michael, (André overslept, Sezer came late from the doctor's)

Topics:            1^st : Minutes of the 5 ^th lesson
                        2^nd: Words that go with minutes
                        3 ^rd: Describing a country: Northern Ireland, Facts and functions
                        4^th : Tasks: Keep the minutes
                                Improve your description of Northern Ireland

1^st: When the minutes were read in class several times special mistakes in reading
       the heading were corrected.

2^nd: After that the students ask for the meaning of the following words which we
       translated during the lessons:

      Words you want to know when keeping minutes:

• Tabelle list;scheme
• gegenseitig: mutual, each other;
• beinhalten: to contain;
• unterteilt sein: to be divided.

 3 ^rd: The teacher presented the text: "Welcome to Ulster in order to show in a list
         the different steps leading to a well organized description of a country. First he
         reminded the students of the list of functions "How to describe a country delivered
         to the class some time ago.
 

Koblenz, 26^th February 1998

Klaus F. Maas

(signature of the keeper of minutes)

Date:                       27^th February 1998

Time:                       3^rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)

Place:                      Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz, classroom 105

Participants:           Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas

Missing:                  Daniela, Michael, Stefan D., Daniel, Katja

Topics:                   1^st : Minutes of the 6 ^th lesson  2^nd: Functions
 3 ^rd: Brochure/Leaflet: Northern Ireland

         counties, landscape, holiday activities

 4^th : Tasks: Keep the minutes

                     Brochure/Leaflet: Northern Ireland

                     File

1^st: The minutes were read in class several times. Marius had written the words
        "Ulster" (another Protestant oriented name f for Northern Ireland) and
        "functions" (formulas in certain situations) on the Words you want to know -
          part of the board.
        The singular use of "information" - plural: "pieces of information" was added.

2^nd: After the word "functions" had been explained the list of words that may help
       you to describe a country was completed by some expressions from the text
      "Welcome to Ulster". The class will have to add those to their former list, i.e.

• "This is the land of...
• "Do you like ....ing
• "And wherever you happen to be..
• "You're sure to have heard about...

Brochure/ Leaflet of a tourist board
 
 

4^th : The above mentioned tasks should be done for homework.
        The first part of the file is to be presented on Monday, 2^nd March 1998.
        (It should include all delivered papers and done tasks - see Table of Contents)

Koblenz, 28^th February 1998

Klaus F. Maas

(signature of the keeper of minutes)

Date:                         2nd March 1998
Time:                         2nd lesson (8.40 to 9.25 a.m.), 3rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)
Place:                        Clemens Brentano Realschule Koblenz
Participants:             Class 9d and their English teacher Mr. Maas
Missing:                Daniela, Claudia, Thomas
Topics:                         1st:     minutes
                                     2nd:     List with words who help you to describe a country
                                     3rd:     Brochure / leaflet
                                     4th:     Organisation your file
                                     5th:     Problems so far
                                     6th:     lesson on our own

1st: First most of us read their minutes, but some hadn't got it.
2nd: Then Mr. Mass gave us a list with words which helped us to describe a country
3rd:  I read my brochure, but I had forgotten my functions, so I had to revise my text
      for the next lesson.
4th: Mr. Maas wanted to know how we could organize our files and some of us made some
       suggestions
5th: He asked us, if we had problems so far. We answered, that we had had problems with the
      minutes.
6th: The teacher told us, that he would be absent on 6th and 12th March and he wanted to
       know, if wer could work alone without any teacher. We agreed on working alone.

2nd March 1998
 

         ___Stefan Blechschmitt____________
        Signature of the keeper of minutes
 

Hello tourists,
when you come to Northern Ireland, you can choose between 6 counties: Antrim, Armanagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. When you like swimming, sailing or fishing  you can go to the 6 fresh water lakes, Lough Erne, Lough Strangford, Lough Belfast, Lough Swilly, Lough Foyle and Lough Neagh, which is the biggest fresh water lake of the British isles with 368 square km. When you want to go climbing or biking you can drive to the 2 mountains over 700 meters, Mount Errigal (752m) and Mourne Mountains (852m). There are 5 big rivers, the River Bann, which starts at Mount Slive Donard in the Mourne Mountain not very far from the sea, crosses the whole country, runs through Lough Neagh before it flows into the Atlantic in the north, the River Main which starts near Belfast, goes straight trough Lough Neagh and end in Bann. The Ballinder which starts at Lough Neagh and end near Creggan, the Canoween which starts near Pomeroy and end in Ormagh and the Ulster Channel which starts at Lough Neagh goes over Monaghan to Lough Erne and the Foyle which starts at the western border to Lough Foyle. There are 6 groups, the Protestants, the Catholics, the British, the Irish, the peace movement and the Ulster freedom fighters. When you want to drive to Northern Ireland from Germany, you can drive through the Euro-Channel to Dover over the M20 to London and along the M1 from there to Birmingham from there and the M6 to Carlisle and on the R75 with the ferry to Belfast, or you can fly plane from Frankfurt to Belfast. So you can come very easily to Northern Ireland.

        Minutes of the 10th English lesson on Northern Ireland

Date:                               5th March 1998
Time:                               2nd lesson (8:40 to 9:25 a.m.)
Place:                              Clemens Brentano, Koblenz     Classroom 105
Participants:                   Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas and the observer
                                        M. Burgaud (France)
Missing:                         Thomas, Sabrina H., André, Christiane, Cemile

 Koblenz, 5th March 1998
 

Marius Austermühle
(signature of the keeper of minutes)

        Minutes of the 11th & 12th English lesson on Northern Ireland

Date:                            6th March 1998
Time:                            3rd lesson (9:40 to 10:25 & 10:25 to 11:10 a.m.)
Place:                           Clemens- Brentano-Realschule, Koblenz     Classroom 105
Participants:                Class 9d and the English observer M. Burgaud (France)
Missing:                       Thomas, Cemile, Christiane, Sabrina E., Sabrina H, Daniela
Topics:                         1st      Summary of text about Maze Prison
                                                task: Keeping Minutes

 7th March 1998

   Marius Austermühle
(signature of the keeper of minutes)

Stefan Blechschmitt: Maze Prison (summary)

In the next part the reader is informed about the fact that 6 people are injured and one girl dies from a car bomb. When the police arrive, teenagers throw petrol bombs.

In the main part the reporter mentions the funeral of a corperal, who is killed by a car bomb.

In addition to that the author states that there is a meeting of the Peace Movement, who say that they want to have peace in Ireland.

At the end of the story the author tells that the Irish Prime Minister wants to have a union between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and he wants to work together with all parties

Minutes of the 21st and 22nd English lesson on Northern Ireland

1st: Gürol read his minutes of the last lesson
2nd: Next Mr. Maas corrected our homework together with us and explained the main points
        about  the "relative clauses" again.
3rd: Then we got a leaflet, on which we had to underline the relative clauses.
4th: In the next part of the lesson Mr. Maas gave us examples, how we could deal with  the
      word-set 'DEATH' in form of a tree
5th: Our homework was, to write a summary, to keep the minutes and to finish our  work  .

Koblenz, 23rd March 1998

___Stefan Blechschmitt____________
(Signature of the keeper of minutes)
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(zurück zu Einführungsstunde)

Death: a mind map

Puzzle with Death!

          Minutes of the 24th English lesson on Northern Ireland

Date:                        27th March 1998
Time:                        3rd lesson (9.40 to 10.25 a.m.)
Place:                       Clemens-Brentano-Realschule, classroom 105
Participants:            Class 9d and their English teacher Mr Maas
Topics:                    1st     Minutes
                                2nd    Crossword puzzle (word-set "DEATH")
                                3rd    Relative clauses
                                4th    Test on Monday
                                5th     Files on Northern Ireland
                                           tasks :-minutes
                                                      -practising definitions
                                                      -exercises (relative clauses)
                                                      -summary writing (List of functions)
                                                      -keeping minutes

1st:Two students read their minutes to the class.
2nd:Then we corrected the crossword puzzle on the projector.
3rd:The difficulties in combining two sentences to one were eliminated (relations, things
        or persons)
4th:Then we got the tasks for our test.
      1st     Summary writing
      2nd     Transformations with the help of relative clauses
      3rd     Finding definitions
      4th     Keeping minutes
      5th     Answer questions about Northern Ireland, different parties, the country

___Andy Guhl____________
(Signature of the keeper of minutes)

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HOMEPAGE

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