English in Action

From March 3rd to March 7th there was a project called „English in Action“ for the 4th form of our school. Some Native Speakers from Great Britain came to Wieselburg to teach us. It was very funny because we didn’t just learn the English language, but we also played games and made little projects in groups. For the last day we had to practise projects and sketches. We got together in small groups and started to create posters and write texts for the pressentations. Then we also formed some groups to write sketches. We began practising for the presentations and sketches on Munday. On Friday we were allowed to study the sketch in the first lesson and in the fifth lesson we presented our projects to our class. At half past twelve some parents came to school and watched our sketches. It was a very funny week and it really helped us to improve our language skills.

The Beatles !

At the beginning some facts about the band: The four members are John Winston Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The band was founded in 1962 and finally dissolved in 1970. Famous songs are: Help!, Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, Let it be, Hey Jude, She’s a woman, Hello Goodbye and many other songs.

Now we’ll tell you something about the four members of the band:

The first member we want to talk about is John Winston Lennon. He was born in 1940 and killed in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. He was one of the singers in the band, he played the guitar and also the mouth-organ. Mark David Chapman killed him, because he thought the he was the real John Lennon. In 1962 John married Cynthia Powell. Their son, called Julian, was born in 1963. In 1969 John married Yoko Ono, with who he got another son, Sean.
The next member we want to describe is the richest British musicer, Paul McCartney. He was born in 1942 in Liverpool. He was a singer too, but he also played the guitar, the bass and the drums. His wifes were Jane Asher, Linda Eastman and Heather Mills. His children are Mary, Stella, James and Beatrice Milly. He even adopted Linda Eastman’s daughter Heather. Now he is the richest musicer from Britain.
The next musicer in the band is George Harrison, who was born in 1943 and died in 2001 because of cancer. In the band he sang and played the guitar. He married Patti in 1966 and Olivia Arias in 1978. With her he got one son, called Dhani.
The last one in the band is Ringo Starr. Everybody knows him as ‘Ringo Starr’, but just a few people know his real name, which is Richard Starkey. Richard was born in 1940 in Liverpool. He married Maureen Cox, with her he got the children Zacharias, or also called Zak, Jason and Lee. Once, Zak was a member of the band ‘The Who’ for a while. In 1981 Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach from the USA.

Now just Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are alive. Since 2006 Paul McCartney has been at TV more often, because he left his wife Heather Mills.

Michael Jackson – The King of Pop

Michael Jospeh Jackson was born on August 29th 1958 in Gary, Indiana. He’s an American Entertainer. The whole world got him to know for the first time when he sang with his brothers and sisters, the Jackson Five. So he startet his career.

There are many statements about Michael, but nobody knows if they are right or wrong: Many people say that he raped a young boy, but there are too less evidences to say this statements is right. There’s also the problem with his skin’s coulour. It’s original colour is brown, but now he has a pale skin. But MJ himself says, this is becuase of an illness, called Vitiligo. So his skin gets more pale everytime. One more statement about Michael is that he operated his nose very often. He says, it’s true that he operated his nose twice. When he was doing a advertising for „Pepsi“ a firework touched his face and so he had to operate his nose. Later he had to do this for a second time.

MJ’s most famous songs:

*Thriller

*Bad

*Billie Jean

*The Girl is mine (with Paul McCartney)

*PYT (Pretty Young Thing)

*We Are the World (USA for Africa)

*Dirty Diana

*Man in the Mirror

*Smooth Criminal

*Heal the World

…and much more

Michael Jackson owns a ranch in the USA, the Neverland-ranch. This is a park, especially for children.

Some time ago he sang three of his songs with other famous stars, like Will i am or Akon.

He got many prices for these records:

* most number-one-hits in one album (Bad)

* most expensice video-clips (Scream, you rock my world, Black or White,…)

* most visited tournaments

* most bought album (Thriller)

* youngest singer on the first place in the charts (elven years old)

* most popular music-video

…and many other records