Never too old to learn!

My year 11 students are making English brochures about different countries. As an example, I researched and made a brochure about Iceland. I choose it because it’s not a place they’ve probably ever thought about, which worked out well as I found lots of interesting stuff!

* Iceland is the 4th happiest country in the world.

* The famous foods of Iceland include boiled sheep heads and rotten shark. And yes I mean rotten as in left to rot for months before being eaten!

* Most people in Iceland believe in elves.

* They still keep to the ancient tradition of using patronyms rather than family names. Someone called Magnus Peturson is Magnus, son of Peter. If Magnus has a daughter, she might be called Margret Magnusdottir. Also women don’t change their names when they get married so, as often happens, a wife, husband, son and daughter of the same family can all have different surnames!

Cool stuff!