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Travelogue 🇩🇪Germany #3: Visit to a primary school
▶️ My beautiful friend Käthe showed me around her not that beautiful primary school in Berlin:
1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ The buildings with front and back yard
4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ The classroom where she teaches her 6th-graders
7️⃣ 8️⃣ 9️⃣ The entrance area with project displays (=things to show)
🔟 The teachers' lounge (=comfortable public room)
What's interesting? The school is named, not numbered. It's not a fancy (=beautiful and rich) place but you can feel that pupils are most important people here. They do lots of projects, have extracurricular (=in addition to classes) activities (8) and can campaign (=convince the public) for things they want the school should buy for them (9).
📍Berlin, Germany
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▶️ My beautiful friend Käthe showed me around her not that beautiful primary school in Berlin:
1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ The buildings with front and back yard
4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ The classroom where she teaches her 6th-graders
7️⃣ 8️⃣ 9️⃣ The entrance area with project displays (=things to show)
🔟 The teachers' lounge (=comfortable public room)
What's interesting? The school is named, not numbered. It's not a fancy (=beautiful and rich) place but you can feel that pupils are most important people here. They do lots of projects, have extracurricular (=in addition to classes) activities (8) and can campaign (=convince the public) for things they want the school should buy for them (9).
📍Berlin, Germany
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Travelogue 🇬🇧UK #5: Advertising
▶️ Advertising is a mirror of society. What are people's needs? What are some big issues? What makes good money? Let's take a look:
🔹London's helicopter ambulance doesn't get enough funding (=money), so they turn to (=ask) the public for help.
🔸Islamic Relief is a Muslim charity (=doing good) organisation. There seem to be a lot of Muslims around.
🔹People have a soft spot for (=like) dogs, so much so that they are willing to donate (=give money to help) money for dogs.
🔸Why urge (=tell sb to act) people to vote? What could be the reasons for not voting? Are people just lazy or dissatisfied?
🔹Suicide seems to be a problem. How come? Isn't life really great in Great Britain?
🔸Brits are a humorous bunch (=group of people), you can tell by the puns (=playing with words), although this "muffin" one is a bit low-key (=low level).
📍London, Bristol / UK
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▶️ Advertising is a mirror of society. What are people's needs? What are some big issues? What makes good money? Let's take a look:
🔹London's helicopter ambulance doesn't get enough funding (=money), so they turn to (=ask) the public for help.
🔸Islamic Relief is a Muslim charity (=doing good) organisation. There seem to be a lot of Muslims around.
🔹People have a soft spot for (=like) dogs, so much so that they are willing to donate (=give money to help) money for dogs.
🔸Why urge (=tell sb to act) people to vote? What could be the reasons for not voting? Are people just lazy or dissatisfied?
🔹Suicide seems to be a problem. How come? Isn't life really great in Great Britain?
🔸Brits are a humorous bunch (=group of people), you can tell by the puns (=playing with words), although this "muffin" one is a bit low-key (=low level).
📍London, Bristol / UK
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Travelogue 🇷🇸Serbia #2: Fragile peace
▶️ In Western Europe, Serbia is seen as the bad guy in the 1990s war and to this day (=until now), the country has terrible relations with most of its neighbours. Traditionally close ties (=connections, relations) with Russia and nowadays also China make European integration (=process of uniting Europe) difficult.
In 2006 🇲🇪Montenegro broke away (=became independent) from Serbia and in 2008, Muslim Albanian 🇽🇰Kosovo did the same. Serbs are forever angry about losing Kosovo and they say it's because of NATO and the EU.
📍 Belgrade, Serbia
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▶️ In Western Europe, Serbia is seen as the bad guy in the 1990s war and to this day (=until now), the country has terrible relations with most of its neighbours. Traditionally close ties (=connections, relations) with Russia and nowadays also China make European integration (=process of uniting Europe) difficult.
In 2006 🇲🇪Montenegro broke away (=became independent) from Serbia and in 2008, Muslim Albanian 🇽🇰Kosovo did the same. Serbs are forever angry about losing Kosovo and they say it's because of NATO and the EU.
📍 Belgrade, Serbia
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