English Olympiad's local preliminary round

On 7th December 29 students from 3 secondary schools of our county were enrolled to take part
in the county contest of the Republican Olympiad. All in all, 26 students participated. The
students were tested on their listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary skills.

The higest result (34 points) was achieved by Martin Piir from VKG, the next
results (31 points) belonged to 2 students Marek Koemets (Parksepa Secondary
School) and Kaspar Koort (VKG).

Thank you, teachers, for your daily work at teaching students. It is more than just teaching a subject, it means giving these young people a chance to communicate with the whole world.

And the best of luck to Martin Piir in the Republican Olympiad!

Form 8 Translation Competition

On 6th December 32 eighth formers gathered at Võru Kreutzwald Gümnasium to put their language and translation skills to test. This year, they had to translate a text about ˝Harry Potter“. Students had 3 hours to put the English text into nice and accurate Estonian. Like always, they had Estonian-English, English-Estonian and English-English paper dictionaries to help them.

The best transaltions belong to Hebo Rahman from Osula Basic School, Sandra Eowyn Karu  from VKG, Laura Männiste from  Varstu Secondary School, Rasmus Saar from  Parksepa Secondary School and Mari Vijard from  Antsla Gymnasium.

Many thanks to all teachers helping students to prepare.

And a huge thank you to Merle Paat and her helpers for preparing the competition materials and checking the translations.

Students' events in December

 6 December at 10.00 in Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium Conference Room the annual Form 8 Translation Competition - final round.
The students will have until 13.00

Dear Teachers,

Due to the growing numbers of participants and therefore also of the time spent on correcting the translations, the organisers of the event ask that every school holds a preliminary round and sends maximum of 4 students to the final round.

Please register the participating students by  3 December by sending an email to Merle Paat merlepaat44@gmail.com.

 

 

7 December at 12.00 in Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium's Chemistry Lab the local preliminary round of English Olympiade (for secondary school students).

Please register your students by 3 December by emailing Eve Unt eve@vkg.werro.ee .

Short Drama Festival 2012

On 24th November the basic school students of our county could participate in a drama festival. More than 140 students  from Võru Kesklinna Gymnasium, Haanja Basic School, Parksepa Secondary School, Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium, Mõniste School, Kääpa Basic School and Varstu Secondary School participated. Writing the plays, preparing the prompts, performing with friends and seeing what other peers have brought on stage was really fun for everybody who participated.

Of course, the preparation for such a festival means much work for students as well as teachers. A big thank you to every one because the result is worth it!

Thanks to the support of our county government all the students participating could enjoy pancakes and cocoa during the break.

Our special THANK YOUs go to Marju Purge and Tiia Raag for their great work at arranging the activity.

Here are some photos of the event. Enjoy!

Internet Quiz results

On 8th November at 18.00 sharp all secondary school students could find questions on the theme ˝England“ on the screens of their computers in case they could find time for it. Altogether, there were 54 students from 7 different schools of our county and  Nõo Upper-Secondary School of Sciences who took the time to participate.

The highest score of points (45) got Anett Hollas from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium, the second result (41 points) belonged to Gert Neeve from Antsla Gymnasium and the third result (39 points) was given to 2 students Kristin Moppel and Elmer Ekker from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium.

Many thanks to Maila Vilu and Eve Sõmer for compiling and correcting the quiz.

Quiz answers

Hope you enjoyed the quiz and found out something new about England and its culture.

Here are the correst answers to the quiz questions:

1.

1. David Cameron  - Prime Minister

2. Nick Clegg – deputy PM, the leader of the Liberal Democrats

3. George Osborne – Chancellor of Exchequer

4 . John Bercow  - speaker of the House of Commons

5.  Frances Claire D’Souza (Baroness D’Souza ) – speaker of the House of Lords

6. Rowan Williams – Archbishop of  Canterbury

7. Ed Miliband  - leader of the Labour Party

2. 650 and 533

3. England 53 million, London  8,174,100 , population density 3rd place in the EU

4.  England 82,8%,    London  57,7%

5.1258 Provisions of Oxford

    1362  King Edward spoke English in Parliament

    1384  Chaucer „Canterbury Tales”

6. Meryl Streep  BAFTA award for  „The Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher

7.
     *  ” Romeo and Juliet”  - In the opening scene Samson and Gregory are trash-talking about what they’ll do to Montagues if they got the chance. „I’ll be civil with the maids I’ll cut off their heads (maidenheads)” the sentence indicates that forcible rape is intended. Nowadays it is not funny especially if we know about deliberate use of rape as a tool of genocide in Africa.

     * „Othello” -  Othello is a black beast, Desdemona debases herself with him.

     * „The Taming of the Shrew” - teaching submission to a woman.

     * „The Merchant of Venice” - Shylock is a Jew – Avaricious Jew Shylock embodies many antisemitic prejudices and at the end of the play Shylock is forced to „convert” to Christianity.

8. 

• „Remains of the Day” by K. Ishiguro 1989
• „Hotel du Lac”  by Anita Brookner  1984
• „Last Orders” by G. Swift  1996
• „ Possession” by A.S. Byatt  1990

9.
   1. David Farren
   2. Chris Forsey
   3. Michael Kidd
   4. Alan Tyers

10.

    1. St Paul’s Cathedral

    2.  Downing Street 10 - the PM’s official residence and
         the headquarters of the government
    3. Statue of Richard the Lionheart
    4. Globe Theatre
    5. The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace
    6. Statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square
    7. Radcliffe Camera in Oxford  houses the Radcliffe Science
        Library

Hope to see you next year!

Quiz: ENGLAND

The time is up!

Thank you for your participation!

Dear participants in the quiz,

You now have until 20:00 to find the answers to the following questions.

The quiz is individual (do not ask or share information with others)!

We will not accept answers that have been posted later than 20:05.

Please send your answers to vkglanguagecentre@gmail.com by the required time.

Start your email with personal information:

• your full name,
• your school name,
• your form number,
• your English teacher's name

and then write your answers.

Good luck!

QUIZ: ENGLAND

1. Who are these people? (Give their name and post)
    
 1.1

                         
    
     1.2

      1.3

    1.4

    1.5

    1.6  

  
    1.7

2.  How many members are there in the House of Commons and how many of them are elected in England?

3. What was the population of England and London according to 2011 census? Which place does England take in population density in the EU?

4. What was the percentage of British Whites in London (2007) and in England (2009)?

5. What are the three first signs of English becoming an official language in England again after the Norman Conquest?

6. Who is the actress, what award for which role in which film does she have in her hand?

7. Which Shakespeare's plays are hard to stage today because of their politically incorrect material?

8. Which books, winners of  the Booker prize by English authors have been made into films? (Give the name(s) of the author(s) and the title(s))

9. Which contemporary English painters are the authors of the following pictures?

    9.1

    9.2

      9.3

    9.4

10. What can you see in the following pictures? (Name the object)

    10.1

    10.2

    10.3

     10.4

    10.5

    10.6

    10.7

This is the end of the quiz.

REMEMBER!

You have until 20:00 to find the answers to the following questions.

The quiz is individual (do not ask or share information with others)!

We will not accept answers that have been posted later than 20:05.

Please send your answers to vkglanguagecentre@gmail.com by the required time.

Start your email with personal information:

• your full name,
• your school name,
•  your form number,
•  your English teacher's name

and then write your answers.