Column: 1st week of school

English column assignment

Criteria for a column:

Ø A column is an opinion, you try to convince others of your own ideas

Ø A column can have various subjects, there are no rules

Ø Columns often appear in newspapers or magines, they often have one- or more columnists who write about the news.

Ø Try to come up with a surprising end

Ø Don’t use exclamation marks, you need to be clear, so no! are needed

Ø Try to look at your opinion from different views/persons

Examples of columns:

Probably the most well known columnist in the Netherland is Martin Bril (1959-2009) Who wrote in ‘The Volkskrant’. Some other very well known columnists are: Jos Brink, Remco Campert, Jan Mulder and Youp van ‘t Hek.

Write your own column:

Exhausted

This first week of school was, expressed in one word: exhausting. On Monday we started with the introduction of the pilot ‘learning and ICT’, which took (in my opinion) very long, as well actually no crucial information was given. Back home, I thought of how long the holiday had been, and of how much time I had wasted on sleeping, but I can’t complain, it was, and this is probably the biggest mistake I ever made, my own fault. I comforted myself with the idea I have had so much rest, I probably didn’t even need any sleep this whole first week (okay, maybe a bit exaggerated, but still). On Tuesday morning, we started with a lesson of English, which was, in the last 3 years, one of the most ‘relaxed’ lessons in our timetable, but it was immediately clear it wasn’t going to be that relax this year anymore.. On Thursday evening I was in bed at about 21:00, and while I was lying there I was thinking of how many weeks it still took till the autumn break, way too many: 6 long, exhausting weeks. How was I supposed to get through this whole school year, with only a break once in a blue moon? Just don’t think about it, I thought.