English is my favourite subject. This is why I attend the EAA-class. Our last English afternoon was the best. We spent one hour down by the riverside and we were allowed to gather all sorts of natural things. Then we got some sticky tape and ten straws. Our task was to make some protection for an egg. The teacher said, “The egg must not break when you drop it from the first floor!” We had half an hour, then we had to do a presentation. My group “The unicorns” did the best presentation and our egg didn’t break. We were the winners!

by Chiara Zurk, 1aw

This year we did so many cool things. I’ll tell you about them now. First to the beginning of the year –  we talked about the “Present Simple”. That’s the only time where you put an “-s” to the 3^rd person. In October, we had our “Halloween-English afternoon”. That was a lot of fun. We played “Bingo” and we got wrapped with toilet paper. Then we ran down the floor to the wall and back. That was funny and cool. Our second English afternoon was in December. There we heard a funny story about the gingerbread man. We ate so many cookies. We did lots of grammar and stories. I love “The Story of the Stones”. That’s an English story in the Students Book, but there is also a movie. We learned four tenses. The Present Simple, the Present Continuous, the going-to-Future and the Past Simple. Listening- and Reading Comprehensions are very important to Mr Duncan. Because of that, we did many of them. Emily wanted to turn on the projector every time, so she ran from the last row to the first, jumped on the desk and turned it on. It was like a race. That is and was always funny. I love the games we played too. That’s cool every time. I love English.

by Nora Man, 1h

This year’s English afternoons in 3a have covered the following topics: After learning more about Diwali and the Gingerbread Man, we made our own Christmas sparklers. Next, we focused on the United States of America: its regions, states and well-known cities and sights such as Mount Rushmore. When Donald Trump became president, we took this chance to find out more about other important presidents such as G. Washington, A. Lincoln, J.F. Kennedy and B. Obama. Another afternoon focused on the Gold Rush in California and Native American tribes. We even designed our own class totem pole! Also, we’ve done lots and lots of new experiments in Physics (we can even explain the Greenhouse Effect in English!) and have learnt lots of new English vocabulary in all the other subjects. And it’s still fun!

Maths project: What is the height of our school?

The 3aw has the answer to this question and they didn’t have to actually climb to the roof of the school to measure the height! Check out the following BBC report about their project and learn about the intercept theorem and how to use it in real life.

3aw and 3hk were the first EAA classes at our school. We really like it here because we have always loved English and so it is not really difficult for us. We speak English in almost every subject except in German, of course. We think the EAA class has two advantages: On the one hand it is very useful in later life because nowadays you need English really often in various jobs, and on the other hand we know so much vocabulary because we learn everything in English, too.

Now in 3^rd form it is normal for us to speak English and it is very funny because we always say e. g. “Was ist heute homework?” or “Heute haben wir English afternoon”. There are many good things about the EAA class, like our trips and native speakers. Sometimes we have English afternoons. There we work on projects, play games, do funny things and so on. Once a year we have a parents’ evening where we sing songs, play sketches, and make experiments and quizzes with the audience.

We like our class very much because we are very crazy and all the lessons are great fun!

Johanna Grailer & Angelina Tuchscherer, 3hk

Art – Keep the Golden Heart

A few months ago the 3hK started a big film-project in art education. We tried to produce our own stop-motion-film in two different languages with the title: “Keep the golden heart”.
First, it was important to find a story, so every student wrote one and later the class chose one story. Then the class was split into groups: one group had to draw and colour the background, one group designed the moving parts of the film, and one group recorded different sounds and created dialogues. Lukas, the technical specialist had to photograph each motive, helpers moved the objects a little further (about 140 pictures). Then Lukas cut and edited the film. All groups had to communicate and exchange ideas. Teamwork was the basis of the whole project. After a few lessons the progress was visible and everyone was happy about every step towards success.
The main part of the story was taken from an already existing story – we just transformed the meaning into modern times. The main message is included in this excerpt: “If someone hurts or disappoints us, we should write it in the sand, so the wind is able to blow it away. If someone helps or saves us, we should engrave it in a stone, so that it is saved forever and the wind isn´t able to delete it.”

Youtube: „Keep the golden heart“