Version vom 21. Juni 2012, 07:49 Uhr

Oral Exam

Topics for the oral exams in July

• obesity in the US see Talk on Obesity, here, Wikipedia and here, too!
• plastic surgery See further down this page and here, as well as here, here and here, too!
• Religion: The religious right in the USA + TV-evangelism
• deforestation
• globalisation

New Homework

Click HERE to listen to L3 on development and globalization! To download the mp3-file, right-click an choose "Ziel speichern unter"!

The questions are:

1. How is "feeling happy" linked to developing countries in this passage?
2. What was the second world?
3. How did the World Bank and other organizations try to help the poor countries?
4. Complete the sentences: During the same period the economies of the rich countries have been changing. A lot of industries have closed down or been ____________________________________________. There has been a big increase in the employment of people who provide services – complicated services like investments _________________________________________and simple ones like sandwiches. It’s clearly not true that that these countries have ____________________________, ________________ in fact they are changing faster and faster with every new technology and fashion.
5. What countries can't be saved by free trade?
6. How – according to the text – do the poor countries even help the rich ones to become richer?

Recent Homework

Questions for the interview on deforestation!

Write an interview on deforestation. At least 6 questions and a short introduction, in which the reporter introduces the interviewee!

• Read the two articles on the worksheet and answer the question: "How much do looks count today?"
• A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts can be found here: Reading and Marking techniques - SQ3R Method

1. Take notes on this feature on plastic surgery performed on teens in the USA! (Motives, views and attitudes, effects and problems covered by this video clip ...!)
2. Prepare a short talk based on these notes. As a conclusion, it should include your personal opinion.

• Before you answer the questions:

• LK Englisch/Thelenberg 2009 11/Answering a question
• LK Englisch/Thelenberg 2009 11/Starting an Essay/Comment

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Working with Cartoons
• Answering questions on the text:
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Writing an interview
• Mediation
• Characterization
• Building an Argument

Reasons for Plastic Surgery

Men:

• want to have more success in jobs
• want to attract younger women
• want to have an image of vitality
• makes them feel better
• to look more attractive
• to get attention from other people
• to look young, fit, with good reactions and professional
• to bring out their character
• to prevent prejudice

Women:

• to look like the women in the media
• everybody does it
• prices go down
• feels good to get told that they look good
• to improve their self-confidence
• to remind themselves of the good times
• people don´t like themselves because they are brainwashed by the media
• to be more attractive to men
• to get better job chances
• youth shows fertility
• to wear the newest dresses ( fashion ) ????????

Obesity

• Obesity: presentation of talk on slideshare

Talks on "The cults of youth and body in the USA"

• The other side: Obesity in the USA (2 pupils)

• statistical facts, dangers, problems
• causes of obesity and possible solutions, programmes fighting obesity

Start here!

• Body Cult: Going to the gym (1 pupil)

• statistical facts causes and problems

Start here!

Religion in the US and the UK

TV Evangelism

• Joel Osteen - The Power of "I AM!"

Religion and Politics and the Christian Right

• Look at your two worksheets on TV Evangelism and "The ways of the Christian Right".
• Create a mindmap from these two worksheets and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right#Views. It should cover these aspects:

• Who are the Christian conservative voters according to these tetxs?
• How many people can TV evangelists and the Christian right mobilize?
• How do TV evangelists an dthe Chritian Right influence US politics?
• What aims do the Christian conservatives have? What do you think will happen in the USA and in US politics if they prevail?

• Link to Mindmap on the Religious Right and politics

The Amish in the USA

• Look at text1 and text2.
• Write an interview with an Amish, supposedly done when you visited the USA as a tourist!
• It should cover the topics of electricity and cars, of the strange clothes they wear and of their attitude to being photographed!

Talks on Religion

1. Creationism and intelligent design vs. science - Burger/Müller(2)
2. Religious landscape in the US – Main Churches … Importance of religion in families, at work, in education - Kuhn/Albert (2)
3. TV Evangelism in the USA (2)
4. The Amish - L. Hein (1)
5. Muslims in the UK today. Numbers, self-perception, difficulties for Muslims and Christians - A. Rossmanith/L. Schineller(2)
6. Religion in Britain – Christian Denominations, Religious Values in Education/Society (2)