UKOK! - Syreetha Domen

Article to summarize for this week

2011-04-26T08:22:00.000+02:00

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

2011-04-26T08:06:00.002+02:00

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

2011-04-12T09:22:00.003+02:00

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

2011-04-11T15:19:00.008+02:00

Welcome 1A

2011-04-11T15:00:00.000+02:00

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

2010-04-27T11:22:00.001+02:00

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

2010-04-27T10:47:00.003+02:00

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

No class tomorrow

2010-04-25T22:03:00.001+02:00

Dear all,

There will be no class tomorrow morning due to my being ill. I hope and expect to be in on Tuesday and will inform you of this via e-mail.

I will try and keep the computer room an hour longer on Tuesday to catch up on anything that we haven't had time for. Of most importance are your travel plans. I would very much like to have a look at your finalized questionnaires and view your to-do list and any appointments that you have made. Please make sure these two are as final as possible.

Also, please start on your first diary entries. During the first week I showed you the requirements in a document on Sharepoint. You'll have to write a first entry in which you specify a number of learning goals.

I hope to see you Tuesday and I apologize for any inconvenience.

Kind regards,
Syreetha

Politics this Week: Summarize

2010-04-20T09:55:00.005+02:00

Please summarize the following two short articles on political parties' popularity to sketch an idea of the current political climate. Summarize them as one blog entry.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7607666/General-Election-2010-Liberal-Democrat-surge-continues.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-deal-with-cameron-after-the-election-say-lib-dem-voters-1948796.html

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Schedule + Speakers' Corners

2010-04-13T14:05:00.001+02:00

Dear all,

Your personalized schedule including speakers' corners debates can now be found on the UKOK Sharepoint site.

Summarize for today

2010-04-13T11:41:00.003+02:00

Dear students,

To get you started on your blogs, please summarize the following article in class:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7094911.ece

Syreetha

UK General Election 2010

2010-04-12T14:43:00.003+02:00

Dear students,

The UK General Election will take place on May 6. You can follow the run-up in many online newspapers. Amongst them, The Telegraph's:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/

Syreetha

Welcome 1E

2010-04-12T14:30:00.000+02:00

Fire ze missiles...

2009-06-08T15:05:00.001+02:00

On nukes: the end of the world

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end

2009-05-25T12:37:00.003+02:00

UKOK! Presentations [updated] | VT – 08/09

Week 4 – Monday 11 May 2009
1. Rowdy de Graaf
2. Debby Hidma
3. Florian Verbeek

Study Week – Monday 18 May 2009
1. Nina van Buuren

Week 5 – Monday 25 May 2009
1. Ottelien Sebus
2. Tom van den Bergh
3. Ariane Bergsma

Week 7 – Monday 8 June 2009
1. Gert van der Stelt
2. Niels Veenstra
3. Arne Wierda
4. Thomas van den Berg
5. Tania Jacobs
6. David Sportel
7. Ellis Paas

Projects presentations
1. Florian, Rowdy, (Lisanne)
2. Ottelien, Cristle, Nina
3. Arne, Thomas, Gert, Niels, Debby

Week 8 - Monday 15 June 2009
1. Lisanne Fagel
2. Cristle Raghunath
3. Simone van Dongen
4. Renate Oostra
5. Merel Boegheim
6. Manon Schrievers

Project presentations
1. Merel, Ally, Ellis, David
2. Renate, Simone, Manon, Tom

Project Presentation Schedule

2009-05-18T15:55:00.001+02:00

UKOK! Project presentations | VT – 08/09

Week 7 – Monday 8 June 2009
1. Florian, Rowdy, (Lisanne)
2. Ottelien, Cristle, Nina
3. Arne, Thomas, Geert, Niels, Debby

Week 8 – Monday 15 June 2009
1. Merel, Ally, Ellis, David
2. Renate, Simone, Manon, Tom

Header lay-out feature article

2009-05-11T13:01:00.001+02:00

Dutch "ex-Muslim" lawmaker to be investigated over alleged anti-Islamic remarks
By YOUR NAME
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (HU) _ The Dutch public prosecutor's office said Monday it will investigate complaints against a Somali-born woman newly elected to parliament who was quoted as calling the prophet Mohammed a tyrant.

Story Forms

2009-05-11T10:48:00.002+02:00

hourglass story
http://www.chspaonline.org/pdfs/lessonplans/Basic%20News%20Shapes.pdf

five boxes story
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=11486

Speaker's corner schedule

2009-04-20T15:16:00.002+02:00

UKOK! Speaker’s Corner | VT – 08/09

Week 4 – Monday 11 May 2009
1. Rowdy de Graaf
2. Debby Hidma
3. Florian Verbeek

Study Week – Monday 18 May 2009
1. Lisanne Fagel
2. Ellis Paas
3. Ariane Bergsma
4. Nina van Buuren
5. Cristle Raghunath
6. David Sportel

Week 5 – Monday 25 May 2009
1. Ottelien Sebus
2. Tom van den Bergh
3. Simone van Dongen
4. Renate Oostra
5. Merel Boegheim
6. Manon Schrievers

Week 7 – Monday 8 June 2009
1. Gert van der Stelt
2. Niels Veenstra
3. Arne Wierda
4. Thomas van den Berg
5. Tania Jacobs

Blog entry example

2009-04-20T11:29:00.002+02:00

***EXAMPLE FORMAT***

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/18/hillsborough-anniversary-sun-newspaper

Summary:
"The newspaper, which has a circulation of more than 3m nationally" (AUTHOR).
Background story - why now - tell about the memorial.

Comment:
Insightful opinion on UK culture and society

Welcome 1C

2009-04-14T15:28:00.002+02:00

Dear students,

Unfortunately, we haven't been able to meet in person yet this week. If I'm right, Kate is talking to you as we speak, explaining to you how you need to set up your own blog and get started for next week. She'll also briefly touch on the idea of the speaker's corner and most importantly your projects.

As you can see, my blog is still set to last block - with students from the minor. Throughout this week I'll slowly start adding you guys to my list, but for this I need you to create your blogs. Use this website as a portal to all your fellow students' blogs. This site will also be the source of schedules, updates and other announcements that may need to be made.

I'll explain everything to you in greater detail next week, but for now, get to those projects!

I still look forward to meeting you and hope you're being nice to Kate ;)

Cheers,
Syreetha

Speaker's Corner Schedule

2009-03-03T11:54:00.000+01:00

UKOK! Speaker’s Corner | LINT – 08/09

Week 3 – Tuesday 24 February 2009
1. Nadia Nasirkhan

Week 4 – Tuesday 3 March 2009
1. Desiree Linssen
2. Wendy Oude Nijeweme
3. America Malaver Ramírez
4. Lusine Mamedova
5. Peter Brinkman

Week 5 - Tuesday 10 March 2009
***NO CLASS***

Week 6 – Tuesday 17 March 2009
1. Leanne Elbertsen
2. Gijs Bosshardt
3. Matthijs Liebregt
4. Josta Wagenaars

Week 7 – Tuesday 24 March 2009
1. Frank van Dijk
2. Wilco Wigboldus

Project Deadline

2009-03-03T11:43:00.002+01:00

Dear students,

This is just to remind you of the deadline we set for your project outlines to be handed in.

Please e-mail me your research proposals before or on March 10 2009. Keep in mind that you need to do the following things when setting up your proposal:

• You need to choose an angle. Then formulate a research question and pinpoint what you want to find out about: e.g: What is the real attitude of school pupils to wearing school uniforms?
• You need to write 10 “wh- questions”. These should help you define what you want to find out. These need to be submitted to your teacher well in advance, so that they can be revised and refined.

You can find more information about the project here:
https://www.sharepoint.hu.nl/minor/Engelstaalencultuur/default.aspx?RootFolder=%2fminor%2fEngelstaalencultuur%2fCourse%20materials%2fUKOK!%20-%20Lint%20-%20Period%203%2008-09&FolderCTID=&View={17C6CFFA-C9BA-4580-891F-172DC3D9CD7D}

If you have any questions, send me an e-mail or ask me in class.

Best of luck,
Syreetha

New WebQuiz Deadlines

2009-02-10T15:54:00.001+01:00

Dear students,

Due to the official opening of our building on the 10th of March, there will be no UKOK class on that day. This means that the deadline for WQ for shifts to the next week. The deadlines are now as follows:

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WebQuiz 1: Week 2 – Tuesday 17 February 2009

WebQuiz 2: Week 3 – Tuesday 24 February 2009

WebQuiz 3: Week 4 – Tuesday 3 March 2009

WebQuiz 4: Week 5 – Tuesday 17 March 2009

The WebQuizzes can be downloaded from the appropriate Sharepoint folder. Please log on and go to
“English Language and Culture Minor” > “UKOK! – Lint – Period 3 08-09”.

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Regards,
Syreetha

Speaker's Corner

2009-02-10T15:46:00.001+01:00

Dear students,

Have a look at the following video to get a good idea of what Hyde Park's speaker's corner is like. It can also provide with lots of useful topics of discussion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzr_TyC2Jc&feature=related

Regards,
Syreetha

Welcome and Deadlines

2009-02-03T13:40:00.001+01:00

Dear LINT 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.

I have set the following deadlines for the Web Quizzes. Please make sure to bring a printed and filled out copy for you to hand in.

WebQuiz 1: Week 2 – Tuesday 17 February 2009

WebQuiz 2: Week 3 – Tuesday 24 February 2009

WebQuiz 3: Week 4 – Tuesday 3 March 2009

WebQuiz 4: Week 5 – Tuesday 10 March 2009

The Web Quizzes can be downloaded from the appropriate Sharepoint folder. Please log on and go to:
“English Language and Culture Minor” > “UKOK! – Lint – Period 3 08-09”.

Best of luck with everything, and I hope you enjoy the course.

Best wishes,
Syreetha