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KLAUSUR

Klausur besteht aus Listening +

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

If you had the money to buy a useful, efficient robot ...

• what kind of robot would you buy?
• what should it be able to do?
• what would be its most important feature?

Explain your decision!

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!):