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Task 1)

LISTEN AND FIND OUT

Where Ketil went to school?
- Ketil went to Rowland High School in California.

How he got to know people?
- After the teachers had him talk about himself in front of classes, the other students became curious and began to ask him questions about Norway. And as a result he ma made friends.

The subjects he studied?
- One of his subjects was “Getting Around”, where he learnt to handle bank and money matters, and even to organize a wedding. The point of this subject was to prepare the students for life.

What he did in his leisure time?
- Ketil played on the school’s soccer team, and had to practice four hours every day except Sundays.

What made Tonje’s school somewhat special?
- Tonje went to Fallbrook High School. Where there were 2400 students, including a lot of Mexicans and a few Blacks. It was an outdoor school with no corridors. The classroom doors lead straight out into the open. Even the lockers, where they kept all their books and other belongings, were outside.

How big the classes were at her school?
- In most classes there were 25-35 students, so they could only talk to the teachers if they had a problem.

What kind of food they had for lunch?
- Some brought lunch from home, others bought lunch in the school cafeteria.

How the students were informed about daily events at the school?
- Every morning at 8 they could watch school news on TV screens in every classroom. Before that they all had to face the flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Task 2)

STATMENTS:

1- false. There is no national school system in the USA.
2- True.
3- True.
4- True.
5- True.
6- False. Then they will bring their own food.
7- True.
8- False. They say the pledge of Allegiance.
9- True.
10- False. Students have to meet te precise to the classes, and show some good spirit.

In the name of The father

Today we saw a movie called "In The Name of The Father", made by Jim Sheridan in 1994. It's about a man from Belfast, called Gerry Conlon. He, and three of his friends are forced to take the blame for an IRA bombing in London. And his father and aunt are also blamed in this terrible case. And after a while we get to see how he and his father fight for justice, while they're spending time in prison. Gerry spends 15 years in prison before the case is taken up in the court again, and during those 15 years, his father dies. When Gerry finally became a free man, he said that he wouldn't stop fighting before the people who put him, his father and his friends, in jail, were arrested. He said he would fight in the name of his father, which is the title on the movie.
I've seen this movie before, but I didn't mind seeing it againg, because I think it tells a very important and a good story. Even though it sometimes wasn't always that interesting. But as I said, I think this story is very important, and I belive that everyone that sees this movie are thinkink about how it really was in the years before our time.