This is where our photos are |let me see them|
- news from Franziska |article|
- tell each other about last week’s Bryson-results
Four groups ["I am..."], four important US landmarks:
- Pledge of Allegiance & Star Spangled Banner |www.youtube.com|
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
@home: finish Bryson stories and work on vocab individually.
Today:
- organisational stuff
- Grammar GRIP new: pp. 132/133, HA (Mon): p. 134 no.3
- Bryson: present your results from Thurs while I was next door |seminar|
- Wed: I’ll be in Hildesheim |why?| - no lesson, sorry, you read SUMMIT pp. 117-119, please, and take notes about the most important facts
- Thurs: bring SUMMIT & BRYSON, please
Wed:
- your comments on “Foreign” (pp. 52-58)
- text-based: some quotations and insights
- beginning of “Warning” to look over Bryson’s shoulder
Thurs:
- in-depth comparison of stories “Warning”, “Drugs”, “Walks” in four groups:
WHAT? HOW? WHY?
- on one A-4-page each [--> exhibition
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- @home: TRUE? Click for some verification if you find time….
Today’s spot on
- first results “Studienfahrt”
- vocab work
- grammar: “relative clauses” GRIP pp. 128 ff.
- Bryson “Foreigners”
@home: (next Mon) GRIP p. 132 no. 1; Wed: comment on Bryson’s “Foreigners”; Thurs: Bryson up to p. 91
Wednesday:
- text in SUMMIT pp. 108/109 about a German boy’s stereotypes
- stereotypes, clichés, prejudices [ to be biased, to be prejudiced, etc.] –> word-field & dictionaries |more|
- vocab work
Thursday:
- from the NEWS: Nadine |Bild Zeitung Rules Germany |
- in pairs: what’s on the NEWS of http://news.bbc.co.uk/ [choose one, read, understand, tell us about it]
- BRYSON (in pairs): “Wasteland”, “Commercials”, “Friendly” –> the good and the strange things [leading questions: what does Bryson criticize, reflect, regard as strange and what are the positive aspects he sees?]; watch out for any kind of humour and try to specify it (irony, sarcasm, cynicism, hyperbole, etc.); use the web to find background information on things Bryson mentions and you don’t really know (Jane Wyman, Spanish colonian style & style, etc.)
@home: more stories to be read [until Thurs up to p. 91]; more words/vocab/expressions/useful language features to be written down and learned as well; Monday: bring in GRAMMAR IN PROFILE [GRIP], please
Interested in the exchange with Santee/CA? –> Tue 18th, 2nd break U 6 Frau Grote |about the exchange|
New week, new challenges
- Fehlstunden, Elternabend [Sept 24th], Studienfahrt |money| – |last year| |working holidays NATIONAL TRUST –> researcher needed
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- SUMMIT: who did what in grade 11? [mainly US-topics pp. 107-170 and Method kit pp. 277 ff.]
- Bryson: left-overs from Fri [humour, Spiegel-text]
@home: [Wed] SUMMIT pp. 108/109 + task 1;
[Thurs] Bryson stories up to p. 51
This is what we’ll do today:
- any NEWS report available?
- some more useful words & structures from the 2nd & 3rd story
- a comparison of “Follow All Rules” and “The German Certificate Fetish” |here it is|
- definitions of sarcasm, irony, hyperbole, ridicule, etc. >>more
- any story about garbage disposal systems?
- a scenic presentation of Bryson’s airport-experience
- new words from today’s two texts
@home: read the next five stories [active reading, please...]; bring in NEW SUMMIT next time, please.
Stories: “Dumb & Dumber” and “How to Have…”
- what’s interesting, what’s funny?
- what sort of fun is is? >>more
@home: read more stories [Thursday: "Follow All Rules"] and read this short article on “The German Certificate Fetish” |here it is|; refer terms like irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, etc. to one of the stories we’ve talked about today, please.
Mon, Sept 3rd:
- let’s listen to some examples of your Friesian texts following Bryson’s description of Iowa
- you get the Bryson-Reclam book, I get 4,60 €, please
- let’s work on the first story and get along with it
- interesting words & phrases wanted; comments on contents as well as some considerations concerning humour: what, precisely is it that makes us laugh?
- terms like irony, sarcasm, schadenfreude, parody, hyperbole [sic!], and many more should be defined, perhaps by help of wikipedia >>more
- my expectations: you read the Bryson stories asap with a pen in your hand and make all sorts of remarks & comments while reading; this week we’ll deal with the first six stories
- another of my expectations: at least 20 new words & structures per week [to be written down and learned individually, of course].
–> Homework (Wed) :-; re-read first story, work out 10 words worth knowing & learning and sketch out what sort of “fun” Bryson uses by clicking through wikipedia >>more
This is an author you should know more about and I suggest reading one of his books apart from the little Reclam-edition we’ll be working on
Bill Bryson’s official website |let me have a look|.
What wikipedia.com writes about him & his works >>more
I absolutely like his Australia book “Down Under” and I’m fascinated by his “Short History of Nearly Everything”, although I’ve only read parts of it up to now |a review by the GUARDIAN|.
–> this week you should make yourself familiar with Bryson and with one of his books which you should introduce to the course, please.
From his website:
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Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. A backpacking expedition in 1973 brought him to England where he met his wife and decided to settle. He wrote for the English newspapers The Times and The Independent for many years, writing travel articles to supplement his income. He lived with his family in North Yorkshire before moving back to the States in 1995, to Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and four children. In 2003 he and his family moved back to England, where they currently reside.The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson’s hilarious first travel book, chronicles a trip in his mother’s Chevy around small town America. Since then, he has written several more, including notable bestsellers, A Walk in the Woods, I’m A Stranger Here Myself (published in Britain as Notes from a Big Country), and In a Sunburned Country (published in Britain as Down Under).His other books include Bill Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Made in America, The Mother Tongue and Bill Bryson’s African Diary. His latest book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, was published in Spring 2003.
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