Hi folks, please load up your texts on glass for the podcasts we want to produce for the website of the “Glasmuseum Rheinbach”. Discuss your texts. Check on:
- spelling (Rechtschreibung)
- grammar
- language (Sprache: Formulierungen etc.)
- correct content (korrekter Inhalt)
- complexity (Sprachkomplexität = Wortschatz & Satzbau)
- fluency (Textfluss)
Everyone has to post at least one comment to each text (member of our class).
Also comment on the comments of the others – get into discussion: Do you agree with what someone else said or not? Why? Give some reasons!
(vocabulary hint: to agree = zustimmen, reason = Grund)
All the best, Stephanie Merkenich
Here are your podcasts:
Floatglass
At first was the batch to weigh. The Glass batch consists 5% sand, 16% soda, 15% cullet, 13% dolomite, 4% lime and melt at 900°C-1200°C. The batch was put in to the furnace and was melted. Following the liquid glass running in to the float bath. In the float bath get the glass his gauge.
Now its running over the coolant duct, where it slow and a long time over running.
After the cooling the glass was from a laser controlled.
The glass was rightly cut and at companies delivered.
The production of glass
At first the chemicals of glass get mixed.
Then these chemicals come in to the furnace,
The temperature is about 24000 degrees.
The chemicals come in small charges in to the furnace.
The glass melts to a batch perfectly bubble-free.
With a special test, when you take out the batch of the
furnace, you can see that the glass is bubble-free.
Then you can work with the glass.
The raw materials of glass.
Glass is made by heating a mixture of chemicals in a furnace.
The raw materials are weighted and carefully mixed before they get into the furnace.
Glass is mostly made out of sand with other chemicals added.. Soda ash is added to lower the melting temperature of the sand and lime as a stabilizer to make the finished glass less water soluble.
The furnace holds about 1000 pounds of glass. It’s heated with methane or natural gas and forced air to about 2400 degrees Fahrenheit.
A charge of raw materials takes about 2 hours to melt and 6 more hours to stop the chemical reactions. A by-product by cooking glass is gas. The gas has to disappear, so that the glass is perfectly bubble-free.
Then the glass is now ready to be worked.
The Raw materials from the Glass
Glass is burned at a high temperature .
The Furnace is very stable and can bear high temperatures .
The Raw materials are then insterted into the furnace .
During that the raw materials , merges the mixture intodruces into liquid glass .
During the processes the glass is still liquid .
In this time is the glass very bubbling .
Now is the glass ready for the work .
to nikolai:
it is not chemicals,
it is raw material.
to elena:
this is ok for me
@elena: “into the furnace”, not “..in to..” ^^
@nikolai: try to join sentences together and make longer ones
the raw materials are chemicals oO
Hello Guys!!
Now for Elena.
Your text has very good information.
Hello Nikolai!
The text is short and crisp.
But a little too much “The “….=)
@Lioba: one text is very enough
@Lioba
Your text has a few spelling and grammar errors, so it’s a bit hard to understand
Hello Miriam !
Very informative and well, since you can not be complain! =)
hey Leoba!
look not strong in the leptop!
Jens!
i think you text is very good!
Hi Andreas,
what exactly do you mean with “you can not be complain”?
I think you simply mean: “can not complain”.
miriam you have goog informations in your text,i can understand it very well
The raw material of glass
The raw material of glass consists of: lime of soda.
The mixture melts at 1200° C.
In addition there is a computer that steers the mixture.
The evaporating gases, which want to ascent upwards, can’t escape because of the viscosity of glass.
So the glass has to heat up to approximately 1250-1400° C depending on how much flux is in it.
After a few hours you take the blowpipe.
With the blowpipe you take a piece of glass and you test, if the glass is free of bubbles.
If the glass has the right texture it is ready for the handling.
Hi Jens,
I think you text is grammatically absolutely correct and very well done. Surely you had some help? Or copied something from the Internet? That’s o.k., because you search for help where you can get it.
That is the language aspect.
Is the content about glass correct? What do the others say? Help please!!
Hello People!
This comment is for Lioba.
I like your text …. I don’t improve your text because the grammar are exactly and your vocabulary are good … your text is nice!
Compliment Lioba
Lioba, your text is fine, but have a look again at grammar.
For example: The classic demonstration is about …
Could you also check again on the “third person singular s”?
And try to match singular and plural, for example in the last sentence: tails are…
hi anndi you have write your text very quick! or???? but he is ok
Nikolai, you wrote a very coherent text. It is good!
Please write “in to” in one word: into.
Well done.
Question to the content:
Is it really so hot in the glass furnace?
24.000 degrees?
Could someone answer me, please?
nikolai you have many THE and THE…
thx Stephanie Merkenich
and yes my mother lookt over this
This is my homework
As you find it?
I think this is good:P
I think using a blog in English class is not helpful because I earn beter alone.
I know that in English class beter to learn because I can discuss with others.
I think using a blog in English class is helpful because I learn more to speek.
I think using a blog iin English class is great because I learn new words.
I think when I learn in English class then it is easy to speak.
I think using a blog in English class is beautiful because we have more fun.
Hi Jens
Your Text is very good ^^
But you need to change “lime of soda” to “lime and soda”
And don’t use just “The” at the beginning
the leoba can not read:P
hi Elena
you text have a many data percentage.
I like it
It’s just 2400 degrees in the furnace
There is a failure on the paper
i wait for the comentar
to Miriam
yes I don’t look to it ^^
@Nikolai
I think too that Lioba needs glasses
soory miriam i mean good not goog
Lioba,
I do agree, that NIkolai’s text is a short and simple one with a lot of articles like “the”, but I can understand everything. I think the sentences are overall correct.
Dennis!
Where are you? Will you post your text or comment?
finally advance the smily’s
hey
how are you
dannis have not lock
Hello Nikolai!
In your first sentences say:… is not helpful because I EARN…. you mean “I learn”, I now what you say and the other people, too!=)
But it’s not correct.
Leoba is a small schmaroza
test test
@lioba
-> One begins to make glass hot and flexible, and make a drop form.
do you mean “First, begin to make the glas hot an flexible, than make a drop form”?
That sentence confuses me a bit
@jens: Text smilies like xD are much better
ah, ok, you change while i was waiting to can post my comment
Hello Nikolai!
You have many “I” in your text … but it’s correctly =).
Nikolai,
what is a “schmaroza”???? Could you explain to me?
yes, that is exact!!
This Text is for Andreas:
What you describe about the class is correct.
Dennis
@Lio
I agree you text is simpel to read it on the top
nikolai, dont write such mindless things, you arent a child..
ok as you want Lioba!
gardenzwerg
Hello Miriam!!
Your text is very long … what can I do???
They are so many words…it’s so confusing, your english is very good … what can you say??
Andreas I agree with too you
Andreas,
I think you made a spelling mistake in your very nice text:
it is insert, not instert! What does it mean in German? Do you kno<w?
Jens, where did you get your very good English from? I think it’s the influence of Halloween…
hallo my name is Paul Panzer
i was in one glas bodle and i have not teeth
then i came to my home and sleep my live
@andreas
you can do nothing >)
and I dont hink it is that long
I like this class
it is very funny^^
@ Andreas:
Your text gives me a good impression on how glass is made.
Just have a look at the grammar again:
“raw materials” is plural, but you use the third person singular “s” in “merges the mixture intodruces into liquid glass” – that does not work!
“In this time is the glass very bubbling” I would prefer the adjective “bubbly”.
are you sure Jens?:D
Nikolai,
if you do agree, you say it the other way round:
I do agree with you, too.
o.k.?
I like it to talk
but I hate the normaly class
I like it to travel in other countries and talk with the people
Miss Merkenich
what do we do now or leter
we sit on the leptops to end?
Miriam,
your text is quite perfect! Grammatically absolutely correct.
And well written. My only comment is: you don’t cook glass, I think. An appropriate work would be perhaps: to heat it up
To Glasfachschule!
The word “insert” … in geman word it is “einfügen”… my senteces : “The Raw materials are then “insterted”-”inserted”- into the furnace”… I mean it in german:” Die Rohstoffe in den Ofen einfügen/einwerfen/r/-einlegen .
My sentences was a little bit wrong!
I have seen the error/mistakes.
Andreas, great! You improve quite quickly!
yes I’m sure Nikolai
If you are talk to other people in english, you can learn it much faster
I just talk to english speaking people on the internet
Pro:
I think using a blog in English class is…
…useful because my English will better.
…helpful for my work in the future.
Kontra:
I think using a blog in English class is…
…not helpful for the real discussing with my classmates.
…not useful for the behave from the people.
Lioba you swig on the week end?
Okay I was correctly my own text!
I have seen the mistakes in my text.
The last text is from me
Dennis Happy Halloween
I will change that little failure in my text when I can go on the scholl server next time
it doesnt work right now
hm, i dont like to write at the laptop, like standard pc’s much more
Changed the sentence to “A by-product by making glass is gas. “
Leoba
you is a small mumu
PODCAST
Raw materials of glass
About 24 000° Degrease Fahrenheit- a very high temperature, Glass gets made by heading a mixture of chemicals.
A electronic controller is turning a furnace up to that temperature.
1000 pounds of glass holds the furnace.
Methane, natural gas and forced air heat the furnace.
The batch- Have being weight and carefully mixed the raw materials.
Glass is made of chemicals and sand.
Soda ash, flux and lime acts (makes the finish glass less water soluble)
The batch cooked a few hours every charge, the charge melt and it is finished the chemical reaction is still working.
The glass is bubbly because of the gas.
The glass gets bubble free if the chemical reaction is working, the glass winds up and the degasing seizes works together.
If you look at all the points, you can work with the glass.
Michelle Bloch
Prince Ropert`s drop!
This video: ”Prince Ropert`s drop” is about a glass drop. A little hot glass drop.
A little hot glass drop fallen in to a bucket with ice water and cools very quickly. The surface is very strong and cant be broken with mechanical pressure. Because the surface tension broken the tail blows up in to many pieces.
lioba (12:22:58) :
Podcasts
The Prince Rupert` s drop
The classic demonstration is about making the Prince Rupert` s drop. First you begin to make glass hot and flexible. Then you take a little bit of glass and give it the drop form, after you take it in a bucket with ice water. the glass is annealed now.
When you thrust the drop with the hammer on the front side (the big point) then it doesn´t break , the crown of it is very strong. But when you break the tail then it blows up into billions tiny pieces, because the tail is very thin and long.
Dear Steffi,
please write 1) Rupert not Ropert, 2) has fallen instead of only fallen, 3) can’t instead of cant and last but not least 4) is broken instead of only broken. Don’t forget the auxiliary words (Hilfsverben)!
Well done!
@Steff: your text is very small but compact *thumbs up*
PODCAST
Raw materials of glass
About 24 00° Degrease Fahrenheit- a very high temperature, Glass gets made by heading a mixture of chemicals.
A electronic controller is turning a furnace up to that temperature.
1000 pounds of glass holds the furnace.
Methane, natural gas and forced air heat the furnace.
The batch- Have being weight and carefully mixed the raw materials.
Glass is made of chemicals and sand.
Soda ash, flux and lime acts (makes the finish glass less water soluble)
The batch cooked a few hours every charge, the charge melt and it is finished the chemical reaction is still working.
The glass is bubbly because of the gas.
The glass gets bubble free if the chemical reaction is working, the glass winds up and the degasing seizes works together.
If you look at all the points, you can work with the glass.
Michelle Bloch
PODCAST
Raw materials of glass
About 24 00° Degrease Fahrenheit- a very high temperature, Glass gets made by heading a mixture of chemicals.
A electronic controller is turning a furnace up to that temperature.
1000 pounds of glass holds the furnace.
Methane, natural gas and forced air heat the furnace.
The batch- Have being weight and carefully mixed the raw materials.
Glass is made of chemicals and sand.
Soda ash, flux and lime acts (makes the finish glass less water soluble)
The batch cooked a few hours every charge, the charge melt and it is finished the chemical reaction is still working.
The glass is bubbly because of the gas.
The glass gets bubble free if the chemical reaction is working, the glass winds up and the degasing seizes works together.
If you look at all of these points, you can work with the glass.
Michelle Bloch
Prince Rupert`s drop!
This video: ”Prince Rupert`s drop” is about a glass drop. A little hot glass drop.
A little hot glass drop has fallen in to a bucket with ice water and cools very quickly. The surface is very strong and can`t is broken with mechanical pressure. Because the surface tension broken the tail blows up in to many pieces.
Could we close the english lesson a few minutes earlier due to the bahn streik?
@Steffi
The text is short, but ok
My text is for the ass
@ Michelle:
Your text is very nice and overall grammatically correct!
My hints:
Please write “heating”, not “heading”.
The article before “electronic” should be “an”.
In the following sentence please put furnace at the beginning of the sentence.
The sentence with the “batch”: I can’t understand it really. Do you want to say: “The batch is being weighed and consists of carefully mixed raw materials?”
Then you should write: “The batch is cooked …”
The charge melt – there is an “s” missing in “melts”!
Now you can use your text for the podcast! Well done!
Pod Cast
The first time to make sheet glass was difficult. The glassmaker succeed after the long time, extraction the sheet glass from the molten glass. Till 1900 was window glass in hand blown glass compounded. The glassmaker blow a cylinder and than cut it. After than come it at the furnace, there was the glass flattening and brace. Afterwards cool the sheet glass and accept to window glass.
PODCAST
Raw materials of glass
About 24 00° Degrease Fahrenheit- a very high temperature, Glass gets made by heating a mixture of chemicals.
An electronic controller is turning a furnace up to that temperature.
The furnace holds about 1000 pounds of glass.
Methane, natural gas and forced air heat the furnace.
The batch cooks and mix the raw materials very carefully.
Glass is made of chemicals and sand.
Soda ash, flux and lime acts (makes the finish glass less water soluble)
The batch cooked a few hours every charge, the charge melts and it is finished the chemical reaction, is still working.
The glass is bubbly because of the gas.
The glass gets bubble free if the chemical reaction is working, the glass winds up and the degasing seizes works together.
If you look at all of these points, you can work with the glass.
Michelle Bloch
Dear Dennis,
first of all: Thank you that you finally loaded up your Pod Cast text.
My correction hints:
Use the Past Tense in the following sentence: “The glassmaker succeed” – write: “succeeded”. Then you should continue: “after a long time to extract the …”
In the next sentence you simply change the order of “was” and “window glass” to “window glass was”.
In the next sentence “The glassmaker blow a cylinder” you should use Past Tense: What’s the Past Tense of “blow”? “blew”.
Then you should change word order: “After than it come(s) at the furnace”. Don’t forget the third person singular “s”.
Then continue please: “there the glass was flattened and braced”.
Then again it is a matter of word order and the correct Past Tense form: “Afterwards the sheet glass cooled” .
Then I think you want to say “and could be used as window glass.”
It is a good text but please correct the grammar problems! Thanks, Dennis!
Hello Dennis!!
I think your text is okay because Ms. Merkenich had say your text is good!^^
This is my comment.
Dear Elena,
some feedback to your text:
Generally, I like it a lot! I can understand it well. Some hints concerning grammar, spelling and word order:
“Floatglass
At first the batch is to weigh.” Use the Present Tense instead of the Past Tense “was”.
“The Glass batch consists 5% sand, 16% soda, 15% cullet, 13% dolomite, 4% lime and melt at 900°C-1200°C.”
Have a look: “to consist” needs a preposition: of
Please write: “consists of”
Grammar hint: “glass melt” is not correct – you need the third person singular s. Write: “melts”
Now you change the Tense again into Past Tense: “The batch was put in to the furnace and was melted.” Better stay in one tense, here the Present Tense: “is put” and “is melted”.
Instead of “Following” please write “After that” or “Afterwards”.
Then you choose the verb “running”. Please put it into the correct grammatical form: “the liquid glass runs in to the float bath.”
No you write: “In the float bath get the glass his gauge.” Please change word order and grammar: “In the float bath the glass gets its gauge.” First, the noun stands before the verb. Secondly, the verb needs the third person singular s, thirdly, glass is a neutral noun, so you write “its” instead of “his”.
Then I’ve got a problem of understanding you: “Now its running over the coolant duct, where it slow and a long time over running.” What exactly do you want to tell the reader? Write it down in German and we will translate it together.
The end: “After the cooling the glass was from a laser controlled.
The glass was rightly cut and at companies delivered.” is only a matter of word order and grammar (look at the prepositions): “After the cooling the glass is controlled by a laser. The glass is rightly cut and delivered to companies.”
S.M.
I corrected my pod cast text.
The first time to make sheet glass was difficult. The glassmaker succeeded after a long time to extract the sheet glass from the molten glass. Till 1900 window glass was in hand blown glass compounded. The glassmaker blew a cylinder and than cut it. After than it comes at the furnace, there the glass was flattened and braced. Afterwards the sheet glass cooled and could be used as window glass.
Is it correct now, miss merkenich ?
ok I see it. I write …into the furnace.
@Jens : your podcast is good, but some words are spoken a bit wrong
@lioba: your podcast is good, too. ^^
both of you have the background musik to loud
@andreas : your podcast is goo. but you haven’t cut th bg musik shorter and it is a bit to loud
Hello Miriam!,
your voice on the podcast is very funny!=)
This is a positive sentences!:-)
Hi Lioba!,
I think your music is okay and your text, too.
I have nothing negative to say on your text.
Float glass
At first the batch is to weigh. The Glass batch consists of 5% sand, 16% soda, 15% cullet, 13% dolomite, 4% lime and melts at 1200°C. The batch is put in to the furnace and is melted. Afterwards the liquid glass runs in to the float bath. In the float bath get the glass gets its gauge.
The glass flows through the coolant duct, with it cooling slowly down in order to guard the glass against strains.
After the cooling the glass is controlled by a laser. The glass is rightly cut and delivered to companies.
To andi, your podcast is ok. but you mumble and Iunderstand it not so good. the music are good but the other suffrage is distracting and sorry but your file is very big, is long to downloading nice wishs
Jens!,
Your text is good and your music is a funny super mario music, i think so!
@ Andy
your beckground musik is a nice blus *thumb up*
@ Lioba,
That what you say is righ because I’m stupid.
I now … the audio file is to big!
Sry … =)
to miriam, your text are good to understand but you are mumble to
I am,too but i understand it little bit ….nice
*lol* thx but my musik is not form super mario, if I search’t after this
Andi you are not studid
super mario musik is licensed by nintendo o,o
and we shouldnt use licensed things ^^
to jens, your podcast is good your music is good but you speek little bit to low
I can’t speek fast, sorry
Dear Steffi,
first of all I would like to tell you that you used a nice music for your podcast. It is not too loud, so I can understand you well.
About your language: It’s grammatically correct now. And the way you pronounce your English is also nice. I can understand you very well.
It is a bit short for my taste – you could have made it a bit longer!
What is a bit of a problem: The music ends very abruptly – perhaps you could have faded it out, for instance you could have made it quieter towards the end.
All in all: well done!
jo Steffi your musik is the ultimate chill musik.
But you talk is choppy and you ” a little hot glasdrop” is double^^
dennis you speak very good and clear! it is littel bit quiet but is ok i understand it very well gread!!
Hello Dennis,
about your podcast: I think you trained very much for it, because the pronunciation is well done now. I can understand you very well.
Your text is coherent and interesting. The music you chose is a bit quiet in the background for my taste. And it also ends very abruptly. Perhaps you could have faded it out a bit.
Dear Lioba,
your music is quite interesting and modern. It is a nice “decoration” for your text about the Prince Rupert’s drop. I like it very much, because you have spoken it fluently. But I cannot understand you all the time – perhaps you could speak a bit slower next time. What I do like, is that you faded out the music at the end!
@ Dennis, you musik is very cool and you’r articulation is very good to understanding.
But the end is not a outlet, it is to choppy.
I like you#r potcast
@miriam: do you have in your podcast funny music
Mis Merkenich Nikolais potcast is not a correct data file !!!!!!!!!!!!
@Steffi
i agree with lioba, your music is just to loud ^^
@michelle
your music is to loud, it’s hard to listen to the text
but i think it will be great work when the music isn’t that loud
@dennis: you speak a bit to quiet, but it sounds ok
The Snowboarding is great.
By Snowboarding can a accident done by fall can the bonce on a stone hurt will.
hallo i’m here and i work with glass