12th May 2007

We have started a new chapter "Employment". The first task was to choose the five most important factors out of a list of "Important factors for getting a job" (in a team of two). Here's how we ranked them:

- appearance
- contacts and connections
- experience
- qualifications
- references

Vocab:
- in order of importance
- how we ranked them
- rank
L---- "Captain"
L---- to order (e.g. according to importance)

After that, we took off to a meta-level and discussed the meaning of the word "meta"cognitive skills:
Maybe it can be described as: Doing something to reach something else (e.g. the way we learn vocab)

Cognitive	Metacognitive
e.g. learning vocab	e.g. how you learn new vocab e.g. in a book using colours

After we've reached the ground of mother earth again, Christian told us the use of SHOULD and Niki held a presentation about Countries, Nationalities & Languages.

General rule:
- All words for countries, nationalities and languages are written with a capital first letter

Articels:
- most country name without the
- except: the US, the UK
- or optional: (the) Lebanon, (the) Gambia

Adjectives:
- -ish: British, Danish, Irish
- -(i)an: American, Korean, Canadian, Austrian
- -ese: Chinese, Japanese
- -i: Pakistani, Iraqi
- -ic: Arabic, Islandic
Exceptions (what else ;)):
- Dutch, Greek, Swiss, Thai, Cypriot

homework (until 19.5.2007)
- p78 A, B, C