Meeting

Hi!
Today we, Birgit, Sirpa and me, met at my home and we discussed our plan forward. I think we have very nice ideas!
On the 12th December we will visit the concert of Joel Hallikainen at Sääksmäki church.Then on the 17th December we meet at my home and discuss  this concert, in English of course. We will even tell to each other how we want or how we have spent our Christmas.
Next time we will meet on the 5th Februar. Birgit comes from Lapland, she is a real Sami! Next day we celebrate the Sami-day, so we will speak about Samipeople and their cultur. Next time we will discus  other indigenous population f.ex the Aborginales in Australia or Africa or Greenland. Even I have videos about Masami land and Wedding in Greenland in English.
Then we have already Mars and we will visit Turkey. Unfortunally Sirpa is not able to come with us. But hopefully she comes to Norway!

Learning plan

Today we discussed our plan with Birgit. We will ask Sirpa if we could meet on the 13th November in the morning in my home. Untill that we will study the Newspage.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26333122
Maybe we can meet once a month for lunch and once in the Skype or Drive.
If we find something interesting  we like to share it on our blog and also comment it.

Delicacies and Questions!

Hi  Everybody!
It was very nice to read the blogs of our groups. At least I had to find there are so many gourmetpeople among us.
So I decided to tell  you about my experiences with two of my grandsons.
On the 19th  October I had invited Daniel and Tuomas to Tampere. It was my birthday present to Daniel 11 years. At first we saw the musical Adams Family. It was really funny, just good for all of  us three.

After that we had dinner. Daniel had to choose the place. It was clear we did not want to go to any Hamburger. So his decision was Restaurant Astor.

In the practised manner they studied the menucard. Both of them found they have never eated escargots. So we ordered them as starter.

The boys liked them so much I was happy to get two pieces!
                                                                              Then the main course. Daniel wanted to taste pigeon

                                                                              and Tuomas reindeer fillet.

For the dessert one boy did choose banana baked in                  And the other mangosorbet.
the oven.
We had our water to drink in wineglasses, so it was nice for me to show how to make a toast.
 Even for me it was a lovely afternoon with two young gentlemen!

Unfortunally our group has been very busy last weeks, so we haven`t had any time to meet or discuss.
Sirpa has enough to do with her english groups, Birgit has to work hard as CEO of the hotell and I am busy with several organisations, grandchildren and many hobbies! But every Monday I have my english lessons.
For next meeting I have following questions:
1.How can we use Skype for group meeting?
2.How can we use Drive for group meeting?

Hopefully we can make some plans now on the Wednesday.
Nice to meet again!
Marianne

Yesterday was the Global Dignity Day!

Hi Marianne and Sirpa,

I like to share this Global Dignity Day material with you: 

http://www.globaldignity.org/view/Global-Dignity-Day-2013

What is Global Dignity Day?
The Sixth Annual Global Dignity Day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013, and will be celebrated in over 50 countries around the world. The aim is been to instill a new, positive, inclusive and interconnected sense of value in young people that will guide them as they grow.

Postcard: Global Dignity

I was visiting the at our head office in Oslo and I found this Global Dignity Day postcard.
As you can see...I'm impressed, Birgit

Links

                                                                                                               

                                                                                                      
       Today we try  to make links to good exercises:

 http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/phrases/?lang=fi   
What do You think?
Marianne

Pronunciation

If you want to practice minimal pairs, this is a good place to start.

Hi all!

Finally in! It´s sometimes small things, like an old email address..

What a worderful way to learn

What a wonderful way to learn a new vocabulary by exercise and play.
Hopefully we have fun and time to update this blog.
This is our opportunity to improve our skills of English,
let us use it for us and we are not everybody, somebody, anybody or nobody...
we are mabisi and  we are proud of it ;)

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody

This is a story about four people named Everbody, Somebody, Anybody
and Nobody.  There was an important job to be done and Everybody was
sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but
Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry about that, because it was
Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody
realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everbody
blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Dear  Birgit!

How wonderful You did it.Here we are in Poland meeting interesting people and enjoying the life.

We are standing in front of a Café
 where marshall Mannerheim used
 to eat omelett with lobster. So did we too!

We will see next week. I am looking  forward to see You and Sirpa and our nice group.

Love Marianne

Homework!

Hi Birgit!

Please go to the mainblog of the group peoplevalkeakoski.blogspot.fi and click the link to the exercises. We dicided  to devide the exercises for checking. Sirpa  looks  pronouncing, I. vocabulary and You can look what You want. We will have connection through blog. Marianne and Sirpa

Mushroomforest

                              Greetigs from mushroomforest