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About me

My name is Domink Müller and I live in Eltmann. I would like it best to go to school 12 hours a day, 7 days a week;) My favourite teacher: Of course the funny Mr.Thelenberg ( Wurzelimperium and so on)

Obama

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122411/americans-expect-income-tax-hike-obama.aspx ( what people think what will happen at the end of obama's period as president))

http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2009/01/obama-crisis-president ( what the world expect from obama)

Elections in Germany

I think it was a good choice to vote for the Union in coalition with the FDP

Here you can see some information about the Bundestagswahl 2009 http://www.bundestag.de/btg_wahl/index.html

See You

Homework 26th november

Estuary English

Definition:

Standard English spoken with the accent of the southeast of England. The name comes from the area around the Thames Estuary. Especially young people speak it. Many people consider it as the working class accent.

Features

Estuary English is characterised by the following features:

• Non-rhoticity
• Use of intrusive R.
• A broad A (ɑː) in words such as bath, grass, laugh, etc.

Listening Example estuary English

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnN2hoIATiI

How has the attitude to using and broadcasting non RP-varities of English developed?

A few years ago, when they introduce a new word, those words were seen as dumb or as ugly. For example they spoke in an upper-class accent but now they use new words, which seemed to be fantastic creations.No theres no more problem if a radio speaker or a Tv moderator speaks a accent.