Thelenberg 2009 11

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HOMEWORK: Create a short entry in your own user page in this wiki. Use the following formats/forms

  • bold and italic text
  • green or red text
  • a short numbered list of your thoughts on the election in Germany this weekend
  • at least 4 headlines

Finally find at least 2 good English articles/webpages on what the Americans expected/hoped for from Obama and if (they think) he fulfills these hopes and expectations.

Create a numbered and annotated link collection like this for these two (or more) articles you have found.

It could look like this (if the topic was "bananas"):

  1. Banana Wikipedia entry on bananas, good basic information and nice pictures
  2. http://www.bananas.org/ Everything about sorts of, growing, cooking with and selling bananas. Good forums.


US Politics



Talks

Look into your English books ... there are good texts and info boxes covering these topics.

1. The US Constitution

  • Making of the Constitution Bill of Rights
  • Branches of government / Division of Power
  • Checks and balances (examples, e.g. who can stop a president ….., how are laws made)
  • Federalism (Rights of the States)


2. Presidential Elections

  • Constitution on elections ….
  • Starting/Financing a campaign – How to be elected
  • Steps to become the candidate of the Democrats or Republicans
  • Unjust electoral System (esp. 2001 election)


3. Citizens’ Initatives, PACs, Lobbying

  • Influence of citizens/industry/ ??? on lawmakers, different approaches
  • Role in political system
  • Examples general (e.g. NRA, Suffrage, ….) and in upcoming presidential elections

Analysing texts

Other categories:

  • theme/topic
  • author's intention (what he wants to do ...)/message (what he says)
  • author vs. narrator
  • types of irony and their functions
  • verbal irony: express something by saying the opposite --> effect: reader enjoys finding irony, reader discovers real meaning, reader discovers contrast between what is said and what is meant
  • dramatic irony: the reader or the audience know more than the characters

--> effect 1: reader feels superior, only to show him he is not --> effect 2: the reader feels pity, involvement in story

  • irony of situation: sharp contrast between what the characters/readers wish and what real life is like
  • types of texts
  • line of argument/argumentative structure
  1. describe what the author does (e.g. he puts forward his main thesis)
  2. explain why he does it at this point
  3. show how he tries to do this effectively
  • means to make a text interesting / convincing
  • attitude of an author


Style

Style (formal vs. informal


Building / Refuting an argument



Immigration, Multiethnicity

What is the trend, what are the effects and problems of interracial relationships/marriages?

Art and Artists

Big City Life and "The Car Crisis"

Links covering "Big City Life"


Results of "Big City Life - Search on 01/10/07


Musterlösung Translation "Four Legs Good ....


Project: US-Solutions to "The Car Crisis"


Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Talks: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

  • Talk 1: Wikipedia: "Elizabethan Era" & "English Renaissance"
http://www.william-shakespeare.info (esp. talks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare (esp. talk 4)


Shakespeare - Sources and material ...===


"Facharbeit"

Just in case you've forgotten: There are some useful links ...

For more questions, or in order to arrange a quick meeting --> To discuss your progress or problems ==> joerg.thelenberg@gmx.de

An annotated collection of links can also be found in this wiki: Annotated Links for Learners of English



Interpreting symbols


Vocab sheet USA at war

usa-war-politics.pdf - produced by LK E2

Von „http://rmg.zum.de/index.php?title=LK_Englisch/Thelenberg_2009_11&oldid=20719“