Welcome back II: Jan 12th-15th, 2009

Mon, Jan 12th, 2009:

• your ideas: what to concentrate on concerning Zentralabi-topics
• my ideas about grammar & more
• training 1: commas |rules|
• click-tip: “Breast cancer gene-free baby due”  >>bbc

Wed, Jan 14th: American ideals, attitudes & more

• President Bush’s second Inaugural Address [Jan 20th, 2005]
  >>text  >>listen to it
• text analysis: what are [typical] American basics?
• list of useful vocab
• vocab: presidental elections

Thurs, Jan 15th: Inaugural speeches, similarities, US basics

group 1: Bush I [January 20, 2001] >>speech

group 2: Clinton: First Inaugural Address [January 21, 1993] >>speech

group 3: Carter: Inaugural Address [January 20, 1977] >>speech

group 4: Reagan: First Inaugural Address [January 20, 1981] >>speech

group 5: Kennedy: Inaugural Adress [January 20, 1961] >>speech

 

Clicktip:

RAUS AUS DEUTSCHLAND

Einmal weltwärts und zurück

Dieses Programm macht junge Menschen zu Herumtreibern – zu hilfsbereiten: Mit “Weltwärts” arbeiten 18- bis 28-Jährige für ein halbes Jahr zum Beispiel in Mexiko, Guatemala oder Indien. 2000 Jugendliche schickte die Bundesregierung schon auf Reisen, Zehntausende sollen folgen. >>SPIEGEL Online

The final week

Mon, Dec 15th:

• Macbeth performance Bremen and Polanski film >>more

Wed, Dec 17th:

1. Boyle: re-read story (10 mins) and use dict.cc to work out vocab details
2. “identity theft” :  google details (5 mins)
3. http://123people.de   what is known about you? (5 mins)

==> after school: Weltwärts (Entwicklungshilfeministerium)

Thurs, 18th:

• panel discussion “Fortress Europe”

Dec 8th-Dec 12th: bits & pieces

Mo, Dec 8th:

• Klausuren back
• your favourtite mistakes
• solutions: in the holidays everyone completes the individual analysis of mistakes made in six Klausuren to see the individual need for grammar, vocab and style training
• starting in January: each Monday period will be devoted to grammar, vocab and style training and exercises
• if you feel like individual training:
  a) focus on grammar and various skills: “Sicher in die Oberstufe-
       Methodenheft” [Abi Workshop Englisch] Klett 978-3-12-601021
  b) focus on various skills and a bit of grammar: “Sicher ins Zentral-
       abitur-Arbeitsheft mit CD-ROM” Klett 978-3-12-547181

Wed, Dec 10th:

• SF presentations: Anke
• Andreas & Daniel
• marks LK 13,1

Thurs, Dec 11th:

• marks SF 13,1
• Macbeth
• stories by Callenbach and Boyle (extracts)
• read: Bradbury extract and Infobox “Science, Fiction and Utopia”
• Theatre-trip: 17.00 h leaving parking lot @Ulricianum, back by 23.15h; performance 19.30-21.30 (non-stop)

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Dec 1st – Dec 4th: utopia & dystopia – stories

Mon, Dec 1st:

• your texts on dystopia, point of view; your short stories

Wed, Dec 3rd:

• time for another Klausur, no lesson

Thurs, Dec 4th:

• the London frames
• your oral grading
• extract “Ecotopia” by Ernest Callenbach >>more

 

>> Callenbach talks about sustainabilty & more

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Nov 24th-Nov 27th: Finishing BRAVE

Mo, November 24th:

• feedback/experiences Klausur
• BRAVE chap 12

Wed, November 26th

• chap 12
• chap 13
• chap 14

Thurs, November 27th

• chap 15
• chap 16
• chap 18
• extracts of film >>more
• interesting: sources of names in BRAVE >>more

@home (Mo): choose one of the tasks and write:

1. Dystopian novel & author’s intention

2. Point of view in BRAVE

3.  Creative writing: When she woke up the numbers 2 0 8 0 struck her sleepy conscience.

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Nov 17th-Nov 20th: GM & more

Mon, Nov 17th:

==> have a look at the sources and read at least one article carefully

words: GM & more

January 18, 2008: Animal-human embryo research is approved >> TIMES online

May 6th, 2008: Embryo research: a source of hope or horror? >> Telegraph

May 18th, 2008: Brown says embryo research is key to life  >> Guardian

embryos and stem cells: recent articles in the Guardian (mammoth as well)

GM food >>BBC Special

cloning & genetic engineering
>>good BBC-pages for British schools with explanations and definitions

STAMMZELLFORSCHUNG: Forschern gelingt therapeutisches Klonen am Rhesusaffen (with loads of background info) >>SPIEGEL 14-11-2007

Tues, Nov 19th

• panel discussion “GM”

Thurs, Nov 20th

• Klausur: article on GM & more
  [re-read the basic production of 'human beings' in BNW; wordfield GM & Co.; what's a good article?]

Nov 10th-14th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Nov 10th

• anybody not joining the Shakespeare trip to Bremen on Dec 11th?
  19.30 h Shakespeare Company Bremen “Macbeth” >>more
  bus leaves 17.00 h parking lot; performance two hours without any break;
  back about 23.15 h; 9,00 € ticket, 9 € bus = 18 €
• Obama speech and rhetorical means – examples & function
• BRAVE chaps. 12-14
• @home: article “Genetic selection gives girl a brother and a second chance”, CNN Oct 3, 2000 >>online
  

Wed, Nov 12th

• only six of you there, no lesson
• ==>please prepare for Monday >>Mon
• basics: genetics & stem cells
• word-field
• article “Genetic selection gives girl a brother and a second chance”, CNN Oct 3, 2000 >>online
• what Marina found out: “Großbritannien will Chimärenerzeugung legalisieren” >>Focus

 

Thurs, Nov 13th

• good luck with your Klausuren, I’ll be in Moscov

next Mon:

January 18, 2008: Animal-human embryo research is approved >> TIMES online

May 6th, 2008: Embryo research: a source of hope or horror? >> Telegraph

May 18th, 2008: Brown says embryo research is key to life  >> Guardian

embryos and stem cells: recent articles in the Guardian (mammoth as well)

GM food >>BBC Special

cloning & genetic engineering
>>good BBC-pages for British schools with explanations and definitions

STAMMZELLFORSCHUNG: Forschern gelingt therapeutisches Klonen am Rhesusaffen (with loads of background info) >>SPIEGEL 14-11-2007

next Tues:

panel discussion “GM”

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Mon, Nov 3rd – Thurs, Nov 6th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Nov 3rd

• how did you work on Thurs in your groups?
• grammar training [mistakes Klausuren] ”Both, Either, Neither, Nor and So” >>online exercise
• BRAVE: chaps 11 & 12
• @home: vocab newspaper & gm

Wed, Nov 5th

• President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago >>video
• grammar training
• BRAVE chaps 13, 14, 15
• vocab GM

Thurs, Nov 6th

• GM groups present results
• wordfield GM
• debate GM pros|cons
• @home: re-read Obama’s speech |video| and find at least three “rhetorische Satzfiguren/Wortfiguren”, please – and the English terms, of course
  Nadine&Nadine: your time-line GM, please; Venja your list of words, please; and
  everybody: foetus/embryo/when does a being start to be a human being?

Interesting: di Caprio & new film version BRAVE >>more but we’ll have to wait >>more

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Oct 27th-Oct 30th: BRAVE & GM

Mon, Oct 27th, 2008:

• getting back in touch, organizational stuff, photos London, reports & more
• pairs for the chapters of BRAVE we haven’t worked on so far ==> we’ll finish BRAVE asap
• @home: finish reading BRAVE

Wed, Oct 29th, 2008: BRAVE chaps 9 & 10

• getting back in touch with the novel & the events
• details chapters 9 & 10
• your Klausuren and some remarks on grammar & mistakes
• @home: read the article of your group, work on details, language etc. (Thurs) and prepare your chapter of BRAVE (Mon/Wed)

Thurs, Oct 30th: cloning/GM:

• four groups, four articles
• 1. analyze article (contents AND style)
• 2. work out author’s position on cloning/GM
• 3. work on the scientific background: explanations needed to understand what scientists actually do there
• 4. web research: what’s the current situation, what has happened since the article was published?
• ==> results to be presented next Thurs, afterwards debate on topic

Helpful material/handouts:

- Focus on Vocab pp. 168/169: necessary words (to be learnt)

- Lernwörterbuch Textanalyse pp. 45-48: vocab, structures, words

- Companion to Texts pp. 43-45; 45/46: keywords and vocab to analyze newspaper articles und to evaluate them

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Sep 29th- Oct 2nd: production & presentation

Presentation of podcasts etc.:

“V for Vendetta”

>>youtube.com

>>podcast

>>written information

“Equilibrium”

>>youtube.com

>> podcast

>>written information

“1984″

>>youtube.com

>>podcast

>>written information

“Children of Men”

>>trailer

>>podcast

>>written information

|your feedback to the podcast & dystopian film experience|

|photos at work on podcasts|