Quote of the week
Talk about enthusiasm…
The first words that a child said to me this morning was this sentence by Matthew in Year 5.
“Hey…Mr. Mitchell, we won! 4:0 to us, did you see it?”
No mention of the England game, just infectious enthusiasm about our project! What a way to start the week!
June 14th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
I’ve decided to become German now. Just call me Dieter Langley from now on. At least my country can play football.
June 14th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Revolver map is Da Bomb!
I love the German kid!
June 14th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Greetings from Darmstadt in Germany.
Great project, thanks for selecting Germany for your project in the first place and your interest in Germany.
Enjoy the World Cup.
Cheers,
Christian
June 14th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Thanks Christian! We’re loving this project!!
June 17th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Dear pupils of Year 5 Heathfield Primary School,
What a great blog, and thank you for your interest in the German footballteam. They have started the World Cup quite well, but let’s see what happens next.
I was eight years old when England won the World Cup against Germany with the (in)famous Wembley goal in1966. All boys in my neighbourhood were so thrilled by the match that we started playing football and joining our local club virtually from the very next day. It was a great time. I played number 9 which was Uwe Seeler from my hometown Hamburg. Four years later, he scored the incredible equalizer against England in Mexiko with a backheader.
Sorry, this is all so long ago!
I placed my comment in this section because I wanted to share with you two famous sayings by Germany’s first national coach Sepp Herberger:
The first one is: Der Ball ist rund, which means “The ball is round”, no real news, you would say, but what he really meant to say was this: In football, anything can happen.
The second is: Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel, meaning: “After the match is before the match”. By that he meant to say: Dont get stuck on yesterday’s success, there is a new match to come on which to focus.
Best wishes to all of you, and to England of course.
And please visit our website http://www.thinkgerman.org.uk with lots of games, competitions and information on Germany and the German language.
Cheers to all
Cord Meier-Klodt
Head of Culture and Education
German Embassy London
Think German: you already speak it.
http://www.thinkgerman.org.uk
June 17th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Great site everyone!
Hope you do well and keep the language going after the World Cup
Only 2 years to European cup!
June 17th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Hi Germany. We are following and supporting Serbia. We are feeling rather nervous about the match tomorrow afternoon, after your stunning performance in your opening game. I’m sure you know we had a player sent off and then gave away a penalty to lose our opening game 1 – 0! Not the start we were hoping for! Good Luck for tomorrow, we think it will be an exciting game.
Please visit our blog and leave us a prediction on our wallwisher of what you think the score will be. Thanks Mrs Formby
June 17th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
You know the guy behind PrimaryPaint/Scribblar @scribblar on twitter is from Germany and now lives in the UK – I think he would be happy to get involved
June 17th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
That’s just awesome !
How about your preditions for the Serbia match ?
I’d say 2:1 for us .. we will see, good luck and may the better team win.
All the best from Bremen
Your “Herbie”
June 17th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I think after your opening game you’ll be hitting at least 3 in so I’m going for 3:0!!
June 18th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks for coming on to our website and leaving comments please come on again.
June 18th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks for the comments I really liked it Cord. Today I think that Germany will win 3-1 against Serbia. Please visit us again to see what were up to.
June 18th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Thanks for coming on to our website and leaving comments please come on again.
jake harrison
June 18th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Cord Meier Klodt,
Thanks for the great comment. I love learning about Germany. I think we will win today against Serbia 3-1. I really enjoy lerarning about the German football team. Please come back and see what we are doing.
Carys
June 18th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Thank- you Cord Meier-Klodt, for Coming on to our blog i am really enjoying learning about Germany , for this is something diffrent than writing on sheets of paper. My predition for the match , looking at your opening game i should think you will win 3 – 0
June 18th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Dear,
From Murron 
Cord Meier Klodt,
I just want to say thank you for writing on our blog.I think we are going to win Serbia 3-1 to Germany.I am going to watch the match and i hope we will win ha ha we will.Please write again.:)
June 18th, 2010 at 9:20 am
To,
Cord meier-klodt thank you for your support on our blog we are really enjoying doing germany for the world cup we hope we WIN today against Serbia. I think we will win 3-1. Anyway your comment was amazing,we learnt a few things from you, we hope you will visit again and leave us some more comments. We wish you good luck
June 18th, 2010 at 9:20 am
To
The German Embassedor, Cordmeier Clot,
It was a pleasure having you giving some of your time to go on our German blog. The blog post you put up was amazing furthermore We all hope you will visit again and do some blog posts. We hope Germany wins against Serbia 2-1 Come On Germany We wish you luck
June 18th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Dear Cord Meier-Klodt,
Thank you for visiting our website. We hpoe you enjoyed it and hope to see you again next time. Thank you for your comment which we all enjoyed reading. Which team do you think will the match, GermanyVSerbia? I think Germany will win 3-1.
Please come again.
June 18th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Thank you Cord Meier Klodt for leaving us such an amazing comment furthermore for looking at our blog . It was a pleasure for having you on we hoped you enjoyed it and wish you luck against Serbia .
June 18th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Cord Meier-Klodt,
Thank you for spending your time to look at our blog, i hope you enjoyed looking at it and will visit again. I hope you can tell others to visit our blog please and Thank you once again and spred the word please.Thank you…
June 18th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Thankyou Cord Meier Klodt for visiting our blog. I am really enjoying learning about Germany than writing on sheets of paper. Best luck for Germany today. My prediction of goals is atleast 3 – 0 to Germany !!
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Hi there from Berlin,
this a a wonderful project and I hope you will support the German team again next game. Keep up the good work and interesting comments and by the way, Mr. Meier-Klodt himself is an excellent football player,
cheers
Eva
June 29th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Dear, Cord Meier Klodt,
thankyou for commenting on our German blog. Wow that is alot of writing. Think that took you along time to write and thankyou again.
June 29th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Oh, sorry. Thankyou to the other people who commented on our blog too.
July 1st, 2010 at 11:32 am
Dear pupils of Year 5 Heathfield Primary School,
Thank you so much for your kind reactions to my comments on your blog.
I thought of one other link that may be of interest to you: the Arsenal “Double Club” (www.arsenal.com/the club).
It’s a unique project where Arsenal and some other football clubs, together with the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Francais and other language institutions, offer football lessons in connection with German, French, Spanish or Portuguese to schools in the UK.
Check whether that might be something for you!
Otherwise, Germany is still going strong in the World Cup, and we are quite delighted about it. And sorry for England’s unlucky defeat. But let’s bear in mind, it’s just a game! Or, to quote former Liverpool football coach Bill Shankly: Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you it’s much more serious than that!
Best wishes
Cord Meier-Klodt
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Dear, Cord Meier klodt
thankyou for the link i think it is good. And again i think it took you along time to do the comment.
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Dear pupils, dear Maryam,
German’s biggest tabloid “BILD” is convinced that Germany is going to win against Argentina. Today’s headline said: bye bye Diego!
Well I am not so shure, but of cause I hope they are right,
it will be an exciting game again,
cheers
Eva
July 4th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Dear pupils, dear Maryam,
I hope you liked this exciting game. Everybody in Germany was partying in the streets afterwards.
Our biggest tabloid “BILD” wrote yesterday “bye, bye Diego” and they were right, and today they added “keep this issue for your grand-children”, what probably nobody will.
But indeed, what a wonderful young team and we all really enjoyed the game and Mr. Meier-Klodt’s quote is really funny. Hopefully it does not get more serious than that,
cheers
Eva
July 7th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Dear pupils of Year five,
Germany had great games in the world cup and we had to loose at one point and now we did.
Spain was better in this game and still, we are very proud of our young and enthusiastic team,
it was fun writing on your blog,
cheers and good luck with your project,
Eva from Berlin
July 7th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
So sad for you & Germany Yr.5
I’ve had great fun following your posts. You have given me an interest in the World Cup. I hope Mr. Mitchell finds another project we can share! I hope you all have a great holiday!
July 7th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Thanks, when I needed something to get our Year 5s interested in blogging before they embark on their Y6 journey this popped up!! Just perfect! The Year 5s will soon have their brand new Year 6 blog soon!
July 10th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Dear pupils of Year 5,
Germany just came third in the World cup and I hope you liked their final game. Have a great and relaxing holiday,
cheers Eva
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