Article to summarize for this week

Please use the following article for one of your blog entries due this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/apr/25/stress-drives-teachers-out-of-schools

Feature article analysis

Analyse the following feature article for structure. Pay attention to the five Ws when making your analysis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/26/bbc-films-cancer-patient-death/print

Compare its structure to this shorter news story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/25/human-cannonball-stuntman-dies-kent/print

First blog entry

Dear students, Please look at the following article for today. Summarize this text in a hundred words and comment on it in another hundred. When you are finished, comment on your reading group's posts. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/uk-netherlands-power-cable-britned/print

English Dailies

Welcome 1A

Dear students,

Welcome to my UKOK! blog. You'll be able to find a link to all your fellow students' blogs in the right-hand column. This should make it easier for you all to follow and comment on each other's posts.

This site will also be the source of schedules, updates and other announcements that may need to be made.

Best of luck,

Syreetha

Political article for this week

Please summarize the following article from The Guardian as one of your blog entries for this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/26/election-2010-hung-parliament/print

Politics this week

Dear students,

To get a better idea of the three major political parties in England you may want to read the following analysis by the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8515961.stm#subject=foreign&col1=conservative&col2=labour&col3=libdem

And has it come to your attention yet that Nick Clegg, leader of the LibDems, is half Dutch. Listen to an interview given by him on the MPs scandal at the NOS website:

http://nos.nl/artikel/147830-nick-clegg-brits-politicus-met-nederlands-bloed.html