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KLAUSUR

• Klausur besteht aus listening + questions on a text
• Look into the wiki!

1. BRAVE NEW WORLD ist nicht Klausurstoff!

2. Foreign Policy:

Aus diesem Bereich wird auch diie Listening Comprehension sein!

Wiki:  4 US Foreign Policy and Relations to Europe, incl. Worksheets, Buchtexten, Voc

Texts:

• American cultural hegemony and Anti-Americanism
• The USA and Europe – too different to be friends?
• What do Americans think of Europe
• Greenline p. 60/61 Brand Aid
• Greenline p. 82/83 America is  a Religion
• Worksheet on US-Wars
• The Home Front: Exorcising an old Demon

Video:

• G.W. Bush:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC2PQfx0deM&feature=fvst

Read:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/12/president-obama-disappointment_n_1511552.html

3. Robots / Science:

Wiki:    5. Science and Technology    incl. Worksheets, Listening Comprehension

Texts:

• Programmed for Love
• Nicht Text: Barney

Homework

Look at the collection of aspects of the drama on this page!

• What elements are used in films too?
• What additional/different possibilities does a film have + what does this mean for the audience?

Recent homework

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
• Working with Cartoons
• A good speech/speaker ...
• Answering questions on the text
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Writing an interview
• Mediation
• Characterization
• Building an Argument

Brave New World

Brave New World is a separate page now! Open here!

US Foreign Policy and Relations to Europe

Typically American? A collection of Stereotypes?

Cartoons on US Cultural Hgemony / Americanization

• Cartoon on Americanization
• Cartoon of President George W. Bush as Cowboy
• Working with Cartoons
• Notes on Cartoon!

Text on US Cultural Hegemony

1. What reasons for anti American feelings in Europe does the text give?

• American culture ousts European culture
• German or other European languages are being flooded with English terms and expressions
• Sense of national identity severely disturbed
• Europeans are afraid of loosing their cultural autonomy
• European culture replaced by American culture
• Vietnam-war
• Guantanamo Bay and Abu-Ghraib
• Americans ignore and don't know about European culture
• American worldview is centered on America
• Americans expect everyone to think and speak American
• Americanization as cultural imperialism

2. Why has Germany been especially quick at embracing American culture?

• America's help after WWII (→ Marshall Plan) ==> Germans felt grateful
• German culture discredited by Nazis, German from "Dichter und Denker" to "Richter und Henker"
• Germans looked for new cultural model → culture of the victoriuos, democratic and successful USA
• Germans were not allowed to have and learned to feel ashamed of patriotic feelings → easy to take over Western/US mass culture
• US culture meant luxury, affluence, freedom, individualism

The USA and Europe - increasingly difficult relations?

The results of your work on the two texts on the relations between the USA and Europe:

Vocabulary

Text: Brand Aid

• Cf. Greenline p. 60/61
• Click several times to enlarge!

The Wars of the USA in the 20th and 21st century

• Cf. worksheet on Wars
• Your summaries of the wars:

Vocabulary

The Home Front: Exorcising an old Demon

• Cf. workshhet, or partly here (p. 267/268):
• Comparison Vietnam War and Gulf War:

Science and Technology

Listening Test

• Listening Test: President Obama on USA and Technology

Using Robots

Text: Programmed for Love

• The original text can be read here!
• Answers to questions 1 and 2 (click several times!):

Drama, Baby, Drama

From Poetry to Drama

Watch the difference between poetry and drama:

• Poem: First they came ...

To turn the recital of a poem into "drama" one must ...

• put emotion in by varying the level of your voice
• vary your speed, speak in a shivering/slow/tired voice
• use gestures and facial expressions
• introduce music to support the mood e.g. slow instrumental
• several actors, representing the victims and the police. The victims are taken away one after the other. One person recites the poem.
• interaction between characters e.g. others passivly watch
• costumes e.g. for the soldiers, police
• images as background
• use a chorus, which speaks certain passages together
• don't do any of these to keep it minimalistic
• use lighting e.g. spot on one actor

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Voice and the characters' interaction change everything!

... or can at least almost completely change the effect of the same line.

• Compare these examples!

• Practice this sentence with a partner (Take turns, play at least two different versions, the silent partner uses gesture/facial expressions)!

I don't know what what she's up to. I just want to say "Good-bye".

• What is the general situation? (When, where does this happen?)
• What is the relation between the two characters (Who are they?)
• What do the characters want to express? (verbally and non-verbally)

Drama - a Definition

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: δράω, drao). The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama

Drama - Identify main aspects and elements

Look at the following webpages and try to sum up/note down the main aspects of drama. Do not use the video examples yet!

Write your answers into your groups section

• Do not just copy and paste!
• Try to shorten and condense!
• If there are no examples e.g. for the effect of a certain element - find simple ones!
• Try to clearly work out what possibilities/effects a certain element/aspect of drama has!

Elements of Drama - as a literary Genre -(Pages 1,3,4)

BBC GCSE Revision on Elements of Drama

(Do not use page 2 of this set)

Elements of Drama- as a literary Genre(Pages 5-7)

BBC GCSE Revision on Elements of Drama

characterization:

• the way they walk and move (body language)
• the way they speak (vocal qualities)
• their reaction to events in the drama
• the way you present the character

Dramatic conventions: techniques for dramatic effects:

• slow motion
• freeze-frame (the picture standing)
• audience aside
• soliloquy (monoloque)
• using one part of the stage as one location, and a different part as another location

Possible symbols (=standing for "real things") for making the drama more believable:

• props (eg a torn wedding photograph to represent a divorce)
• gestures (eg finger on lips as a symbol of silence)
• expressions (eg open mouth to represent surprise)
• costume (a white costume as a symbol of innocence, purity, death, or lack of emotion))
• lighting (eg blue lighting to represent night-time)
• setting (dry ice vapour to represent a snowy wood; a mointain top → loneliness)

Symbols

stand for 'real things'

• props
• gestures
• expressions
• costume (e.g. white robes symbolize purity, or death, or lack of emotion)
• lighting
• setting (e.g. on a mointain top ==> loneliness)

can be read as symbols

Irony

See esp. [[LK E

Aspects of Drama as medium-(Pages 1-3)

BBC GCSE Revision on Drama - Medium I 1. Costume, masks and make-up

• costumes give the characters extra features
• masks express non-human characters
• make-up "ages" actors or indicates fantasy characters

2. Sounds and music

• add atmosphere
• emphasize action happening on stage
• help set the scene
• indicate a change of time or location
• focus attention on to a character

3. Lighting

• Spot: one character is stressed
• Fresnel: soft overall light
• Flood: clear wide-angled light

colour filters can be used for the last three ones.

• Strobe: flashing lights used for special effects.

Aspects of Drama as a medium-(pages 4-6)

BBC GCSE Revision on Drama - Medium II

Space and levels:

• acting area is called „stage“
• how it is used is affected by the drama you are going to play
• levels (Ebenen): visually more interesting, more opportunity for actors, levels may represent different places, audience see parts more clearly

Movement, mime, gesture

• Movement → characterization, feelings, etc. , e.g. (jumping, hyperactive movements, hesitate), must fit character
• Mime → physical theatre (without words), which also uses mime techniques, and where actors can also mime items of set or props
• facial expression (dt.: Mimik!) → expresses feelings, can be combined with gestures/language
• Gesture → arm/ leg movements, bow one’s head → body language

Sets and Props

• stage sets (Bühnenbild): create the backgrounds; best: simple
• props (Requisiten): items which are held or used by actors (need lot of experience, because they can slow down action; effect: characterize s.o, more demonstrative, needed for the action)

Aspects of Drama as a medium - (pages 7-8)

BBC GCSE Revision on Drama - Medium III

Voice:

• tone: appropriate to person/situation (e.g. old person, aggression, you are sad …)
• volume: loudness (stress words, shout, whisper)
• pitch (high/low → feelings)
• clarity: use clear speech - or mumble, if it helps to characterize the person you play
• pace: not too fast / very slow (insecure?); vary speed°!

Spoken Language:

• Language registers: depend on the person you speak to (social status, children, foreigner etc.)
• verse: stylised speech
• Shakespearean language: to reflect Shakespearean times
• slang: to reflect down-to-earth daily life