The national test and party !

On Friday, my pupils of the 7th grade had the national test of English, so Carsten told me I could continue with my carnival lesson the first period. So I did. The pupils had to continue working on their carnival activity. On Monday, it has to be ready. I'm a bit concerned because I don't think they will be finished. So maybe I will give them 20 minutes on Monday and then they have to present it.

Then they had the national test. This is a test the pupils if the 7th grade have to take. It's an online test and the aim of this test is to see their level of English.
The pupils enter the computer room and log on, on the computer. Then, they have to go the website. the teacher explains a bit and at precisely 9 o' clock the pupils have to press the 'start' button.
They get 45' to complete the test. Not every pupils gets the same questions.  If a pupilis answering the question correctly, he/she gets a more difficult one and so on. If a pupils answers a question wrong, he/she gets an easier one. The teacher can follow the results of the pupils. On his screen he can see the names of the pupils, how many time is left and the number of question the pupil is answering. He can also see a red/yellow or green line after the pupil's name. Red means that the result is unknown. Yellow means that the result is a bit more known and green means a safe result but that doesn't necessarily means that the pupil passed the test. The teacher can also choose to give a pupil 15 minutes extra, for example when there are some problems with the computer or so.

I also met the 8th grade on Friday. I was a bit nervous especially after Tuesday but everything went just fine. The pupils were very friendly and they were quite interested  in me and in Belgium. They taught that British English was our national language. After I explained that we have 3 national languages (Dutch, French, German),one of the pupils asked me if Dutch was the same as Scottish. I thought it was quite funny. Afterwards they had to do an activity about a text and I talked to some pupils or helped them.

In the evening I  went to the Fridaycafe. It's a pub for college students and I was there with a couple of the Erasmus students. We really had a good time. We had a lot of fun and laughed a lot.

On Saturday I went shopping in Flensburg. It's just across the border so it's in Germany. It's cheaper than in Denmark so I bought some new clothes:). The weather was also great so I really had a nice day. In the evening I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, with Danish subtitles until Lasse asked me if I wanted to join them to  the disco (Crazy Daisy). We could get in for free thanks to him and we even got a bottle of (I have no clue what it was, but it was quite good) for free. We danced a lot and had a lot of fun, but still I was glad when I could go to sleep. It has been an exhausting day.

Today, I just cleaned my room, fixed my computer ( which was attacked by Trojan horses :( ) and just relaxed. Just having a lazy Sunday...

Vi ses !