Churchill, Hudson Bay

Read the text "Polar Bear Town" (Matura ext., May 2024, task 5) and answer nswer the following questions:

1. If you were to go there, how would you spend your time?

2. How is it possible that a person with a terrible fear of something ends up getting involved in the very thing (the way the guide did)?

3. What is needed to start something meaningful?

Matters that Matter

Choose a topic that's important for you. Then write a letter to someone who could help you share your ideas, create something meaningful (an event, a product, etc.). Or, write to someone that blocks or restricts you in some way.

Przykładowe zadanie (matura poz. podst.), limit słów: 80-120

Napisz list do nauczyciela j. angielskiego, w ktorym:

• wyrazisz swoją opinię na temat zajęć

• zasugerujesz zmiany

• odniesiesz się do swojego pozaszkolnego kontaktu z j. angielskim

• wypowiesz się na temat tego, co jest dla Ciebie ważne w nauce języka i w jakim celu się go uczysz (np. wykorzystanie języka w praktyce, przygotowanie do matury, itp.)

Tłumaczenie z polskiego na... polski

Przeczytaj jedną z fraszek Jana Kochanowskiego. Następnie przetłumacz tekst na współczesną polszczyznę.

Recycling

What do you recycle?

Today's task is suspiciously simple if not utterly boring and unworthy of your precious time and attention.  

But give it a go, anyway. What do you recycle? Start with the obvious, then reach for the less obvious. 

What is recycling? 

Put it into a simple definition. Or use a metaphor if you feel like it.

What do you find in the word linguistically?

What word family does it belong in? What are its kins, the nearest and dearest as well as the distant ones? 

What if all that you've read sounds like trash?

Go for the gold in it or replace the text with something more worthwile.

The third season

Welcome to the third year of Wild Geese Creative Writing.

We'll continue good practices and find new ones, I believe, as we go.

Nestle in your notebook, virtual or made of paper, sharpen your senses, relax into the flow.

Grasping the movement

Look around and catch some movement with your eyes - it can be a living thing or an object. Then describe the movement. It can be rapid, uneven, delicate, slow to the point of being almost undetectable, or too fast to really witness.

 You can experiment with the layout of the text to add to what you're writing about. 

Here's my example (taken from our school environment):

Squirrel

It was the middle of a class - or was it at the very start - a squirrel! said someone

A squirrel! came from the back row, a-

squirrel ricochetted down

the hall and off it went  -  off

through an open door, and back 

up, up the limbs

of the larch tree where one of us

had spotted her

in the first place -  it was

the end 

of term; we wanted more

of what she had out there

and so

we left the subject to unplot itself,

our hair tangled

with the soft needles

we laughed, and fell down 

as rain

And then

spring

came

It is... like what?

As a way of celebrating Earth Day, choose some part of nature and describe it by saying that it's like something else. Or that it is something else. 

I've chosen a shell.

A Shell

is a shape. It is a shade. A seal, broken. An equivalent of a bone. A home of someone who has left. A spiral. A staircase. One half of a two-part whole. It is a hole and a corridor. A cradle. A microbowl. A pink nail left in the sand. A white shard buried in a dune. A raven's beak's crescent moon. A stamp on the surface of a stone. A necessary stage. A story, lost and found.