Benutzer:Schlemmer Franziska
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This is me
♥ 12th grade (main courses are English LK Englisch/Thelenberg 2009 11 and Maths)
♥ love music and dancing, writing and reading, my tomcat, jamming with others and playing my piano, singing
♥ interested in stuff like cooking, baking, languages (eventhough I hate the vocabulary and grammar part, speaking them is so much more fun), travelling
♥ my favourite animals are cats because they are self-dependent and free
♥ things I really would like to do are: visiting Moni in Columbia, travelling to Australia and Cuba
LK English
Novel
Changing Places
Two main Characters: Personality, Family, Career
Morris Zapp
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Philipp Swallow
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University Life and Academical System
Euphoric State University
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Rummidge
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Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain
USA |
Britain |
Britain
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Morris Zapp
- 40 years old
- smoker
- he never left america so far
- long gorilla-like arms
- professor of English
- cannot swim
- light-headed
- veteran of long distance flying
- he exaggerates
- he's got a wife
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Philipp Swallow
- afraid of flying
- 40 years old
- unaccustomed to traveling
- unconfident
- infinitely suggestable
- observes other people
- conservative/traditional
- married too
- good imagination
- professor of English
- excited about flying/travelling
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Characterization
picture 6:
The picture shows a young man with short blonde hair. With his disarming smile he is smiling friendly into the spectator's direction. In the background you can see the ocean which means that he is standing on a beach. He wears sunglasses, a white shirt and a brown jacket.
This guy is extremely successful at work. He normally works at the bank and on the weekends he works as a life-guard at the coasts. Right now he is in his break and is getting something to drink. He is walking to the bar at the beach where a pretty young woman is working. He likes to help other people but is also very selfconfident and knows how to get what he wants. He makes jokes a lot and makes other people laugh. He lives in a wonderful loft and has everything he wants. Every night he goes out to party and dance, but he never drinks too much to not be able to work on the next day. He is an consultant.
Drama
Romeo & Juliet
Translation
Scholars have started to consider Shakespeare as a 'man of the theatre', writing plays for performances rather than for university studies. Consequently, they have begun to deal with productions rather than written plays, analysing the movements of the plays from page to stage.
Of course there have been remarkable screen adaptations as well, with Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) being the first film widely considered an adequate adaptation both in Shakespearean and filmic terms. Forty-five years later Kenneth Branagh presented an equally successful yet altogether different film version of this play.
Why Shakespeare at all? His continuous attraction as a playwright "not for an age but for all time" , as Ben Jonson put it, probably derives from the fact that he presents a minute and balanced view of many variations of human existence. Consequently the ever changing interpretations in productions and scholarly articles reflect neither Shakespeare's intentions nor the single correct reading, but rather mirror the worldviews of directors, critics, and scholars and the conditions of their time.
Experten haben angefangen Shakespeare immer mehr als "Mann des Theaters" zu sehen, weil er die Stücke mehr für Auftritte als für Universitätsstudien schrieb. Deshalb haben sie begonnen sich mehr mit den Produktionen als mit den geschriebenen Stücken auseinander zu setzen. Sie analysierten die Übertragung der Stücke vom Blatt auf die Bühne.
Natürlich gab es bemerkenswerte Versionen für die Leinwand, mit Laurence Oliviers Henry V. (1944), als den ersten Film, der im Großen und Ganzen eine ausreichende Darstellung schaffte. Dies erreichte er in einem Stil der sowohl Shakespeare als auch den filmischen Mitteln gerecht wurde. 45 Jahre später brachte Kenneth Branagh eine ähnlich erfolgreiche und trotzdem komplett verschiedene Filmversion dieses Stückes heraus.
Warum überhaupt Shakespeare? Seine stets bleibende Besonderheit als Dramenautor "nicht für eine Zeit, sondern für alle Zeiten", wie es Ben Jonson ausdrückte, kommt daher, dass er eine Minute und einen ausgeglichenen Blick für viele verschiedene Variationen der menschlichen Existenz aufzeigt. Deshalb reflektieren weder die sich immer verändernden Interpretationen von Filmproduktionen und Expertenartikeln Shakespeares Absichten, noch das alleinige richtige lesen, sondern sie zeigen eher die Weltansichten von Produzenten, Kritikern und Experten und die Bedingungen ihrer Zeit.
1. What is the function of this prologue in "Romeo and Juliet"??
It is to introduce the plot and to give the audience an idea of what is going to happen. In addition to that it also describes the surrounding and what is the main problem: the conflict between the families.
2. Write a recipe for a brilliant play about love! - What does it take ...?
- a strong and loving guy
- a wonderful intelligent girl
- a conflict or something that devides them for a longer time
- someone who plays tricks on them so that they can't get together... in the end this one is going to die or s.th.
- a good climax of the plot
- a breath-taking ending!
Part 3:
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
a) Spot: one character is stressed
b) Fresnel: soft overall light
c) Flood: clear wide-angled light; Colour filters can be used for the last three ones.
d) Strobe: flashing lights used for special effects.
Incident
- How do the two women's attitudes to the situation and their relation to each other change?
Is there a turning point?
| Ms Jones | Ms Smith |
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| * defends Ms Smith and gets in trouble with Mrs Brown (p.51 l.11) | * wants to leave the hotel (p.50 l.12-15) |
| * wants Ms Smith to stay and find a compromise(p.53 l.12) | * is against the compromise (p.53 l.24) |
| * accepts seperation of Ms Smith and wants to convince her to stay in the annexe (p.54 l.26) | * feels seperated and is against division(p.54 l.7-8) |
| * wants to go with Ms Smith to show that they are friends (p.54 l.9) | * eventhough she likes Ms Jones she doesn't want to be second-best (p.54 l.13) |
| * blames Ms Smith for being ruthless "All alike those Smiths" - supports the prejudice (p.55 l. 7-9) | * respects Ms Jones for her help but thinks it's not enough and wants to keep her self-respect (p.55 l.10/25) |
| * gets angry (p.55 l.25) | * is disappointed of her friend because Ms Jones accepts the difference in treatment but is quite calm (p.55 l.27) |
| * begs her to stay (p.56 l.1) | * asks one last time whether she can stay among the normal guests (p.56 l.9) |
| * loses her temper and even curses at her because she thinks that she looks like a clown because she didn't accomplish anything (p.56 l.13) | * wants to stay Ms Jones friend (p.56 l.14) |
| * first doesn't want to be Ms Smith's friend anymore (p.56 l.15) then calls after her (p.56 l.22)<- | * leaves (p.56 l.16) |
- What are Mrs Blake's and Shirley's views of all Smiths on p. 46 l.23 - p. 51, l. 12? (Use a two-column-table and give page/lines to support your points).
| Mrs Blake's | Shirley's |
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| * Smiths outnumber every other person (e.g.telephone directory)(p.48, l.1-3) | * Smiths are another sort (p.48, l.9) |
| * are like an unmentionable disease (p.48, l.13) | * one can never trust a Smith (p.48, l.20) |
| * Smiths are a menace to the English way of life (p.48, l.25) | * Smiths never use a handkerchief (p.48, l.24) |
| * do corrupt the government (p.49, l.14-15) | * |
| * earn money by doing illegal things (p.50, l.28 - p.51, l.1-2) | * |
| * Smith is a Smith, you can't get away from it. (p.47, l.20) | * |
| * are arrogant (p.47, l.23) | * |
| * Are a powerful group - the Smiths (p.48, l.6) | * |
| * may be a sweet girl,[...] but a line must be drawn somewhere (p. 46, l.27) | * |
| * source of Mrs Blake`s personal negative situation (p.49, l.17 - p.50, l.4) | * |
| * infiltrate everything. e.g.: navy, church, BBC, politics (p.48 l.16) | * |
| * have a lot of money (p.50, l.28) | * |
| * sit back while others fight for them (p.52, l.1) | * |
| * are weak (p.49, l.9;11) | * |
| * smell (p.50, l.8) | * |
| * are responsible for everything (p.52, l.25) | * |
| * are avaricious (p.54, l.25) | * |
| * are ruthless (p.55, l.16) | * |
Advertisment
Against Prostitution
| question | answer |
|---|---|
| what product? | There is no real product. They want to call public attention to prostitution and that this supports human trading |
| aim and target group? | Everybody, especially the ones that pay prostitutes. |
| elements (description, relation between them? | The main element is the picture. The written part only takes about 20% of the whole advert. |
| how is "customers'" attention attracted? | It is attracted by a naked woman who is captured in a box that is covered by a clingfilm. She looks quite powerless and also a bit sad. The whole picture appears to be a picture of a packed box for meat that everybody can buy in the supermarket. Furthermore this box is placed on a table made of metal, where usually meat is cut into smaller pieces. The shocking fact is that instead of meat there is a woman inside of the box and even if she would not be cut into pieces she's going to suffocate sooner or later. Her hands are pressed against the clingfilm as if she was trying to get out but she can't. In the right corner there also is a bar code which seems to take her personality; as if she was only a number. |
| message (of text and image)? | The message is that prostitution should not be supported and be forbidden! |
| how does the advert work, how are people influenced/conviced? |
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Prairie Vodka
1. What product is advertised/for sale?
2. Describe the elements (picture(s), title, slogans, texts, emblems ...) of the advert.
3. What group(s) of people is this advert directed at?
4. What is the message/question/promise of the advert? How is this (implicitly/explicitly) expressed?
5. How is the target group made to want this product? Through which channels/by what rhetorical or visual tricks/effects does the advert appeal to the viewer/reader?
The product that is advertised is Prairie vodka and in this picture there is just one slogan which says: “Let the Prairie in.” In the foreground of the advertisement you can see a rather beautiful woman wearing a long white dress and black high heels. In her right hand she’s got a glass full of the advertised vodka which is quite difficult to spot. She has got long curly hair which makes her combined with the two wolves standing next to her look very wild, free and strong. The wolf in the middle ground of the advertisement even howles, which even underlines this statement. They seem to be standing on a balcony somewhere in the center of a city because in the background there are a lot of sculptures made of stone and a skyline by night with lots of skyscrapers. The whole picture is drawn in quite dark colors or rather just black and white except the woman’s skin and the skyline. The emblem of Prairie Vodka above the scene, which more or less reminds the viewer of a full moon, is another eye-catcher because it is bright orange.
The advert is addressed to young adults. It is especially directed at women because this woman on the advert is very attractive and women might want to be as wild and good looking and as self confident and independent as this woman seems to be. That’s why they would possibly buy the product. Men are also addressed but a little differently because they may think that drinking Prairie vodka would make them worth a woman like the one in the advert.
The rhetorical trick which is used is that the name of the product is used in a different context. It is taken literally and on this base the photo was created. “Let the Prairie in”, also is an order which underlines that you can also be wild even if you are living in a city and that all you need for this is this specific vodka.
Poetry
- you are like a cat
= so strong so slim and so fast - you are like a rainbow that appears on a sky full of clouds
= gives hope - your eyes are just as deep and as blue as the sea
= intelligence - your heart is as big as the heart of an elephant
= you are very open-hearted - your love to me is like a bright and shining sun that breaks out of a black and stormy night
= your love helps me to get out of my bad mood/gets me to overlook my own mistakes - your arms are the only ones strong enough to catch me if I fall
= you are a good comforter - you are my heart
= without you I can't live - you are as cunning as a fox
= intelligence - you are like a diamond that I find in the innermost of a mountain
= precious, rare, expensive, very difficult to reach/find, beautiful - you are like the smile of a stranger when nobody is thinking of you
= gives hope, makes me feel better
I shall forget you presently, my dear
Images
little day - short day/minimization => irony
Ordinary People - John Legend
John Stephens or better known as John Legend was born on the 28th of December 1978 in Springfield, Ohio. At the age of four he started playing the piano and joined the choir at the age of seven. He is an American recording artist, musician and actor. Among others he worked together with Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Fort Minor. Moreover he took part in the song “Yes we can” to support Barack Obama`s presidential candidature. He chose his stage name “John Legend from a nickname that was given to him by a friend because of his old school sound.
The song is about a male speaker who is talking to his girlfriend about the ups and downs of their relationship. He is wondering whether their relationship can endure these difficult times but he really hopes that they stay together. This is shown in the contrast in line 23-24 „Sometimes it's heaven sent/Then we head back to hell again“ 27 „ We rise and we fall“. The lyrical speaker loves his girlfriend (“Girl, I’m in love with you”), but is quite unsure about their relationship (often repetitions of “maybe”). Furthermore he and his girlfriend have been together for a long time („This ain't the honeymoon“). In addition the speaker is a realistic person („no fairy tale conclusion“; no „movie“), because he don’t believe in a happy ending. And in the song “way” appears in many ways, like “we don’t know which way to go”, “and we feel just like walking away” etc. That’s why “way” can be the leitmotif, because it shows up again and again, but always in a different way.
- Verse 1
- Girl I'm in love with you
- But this ain't the honeymoon
- Past the infatuation phase
- Right in the thick of love
- At times we get sick of love
- It seems like we argue everyday
As aforementioned the male speaker loves the girl he is talking to, because he is singing “Girl, I’m in love with you”. So it’s quite obvious that he loves her. Besides there is a Metaphor in the next line (“honeymoon”). The second and third lines want to express that they aren’t newly in love anymore. In addition the phrase “right in the thick of love” means that love can sometimes be confusing. And sometimes they don’t want to see each other and want to give up everything, because the speaker says that “it seems like we argue everyday”.
- Bridge
- I know I misbehaved
- And you made your mistakes
- And we both still got room left to grow
- And though love sometimes hurts
- I still put you first
- And we'll make this thing work
- But I think we should take it slow
In the bridge there is another metaphor, “still got room left to grow”, which means that the speaker and his girlfriend don’t limit each others freedom and there is also a personification (“love sometimes hurts”), which stresses the bad sides of love. The girl the speaker is talking to is still the most important person in his life, because she still comes first. And with the word “thing” he means their relationship.
- Verse 2
- This ain't a movie no
- No fairy tale conclusion ya'll
- It gets more confusing everyday
- Sometimes it's heaven sent
- Then we head back to hell again
- We kiss then we make up on the way
“No fairy tale conclusion ya`ll” means that their relationship is something real and nothing that somebody invented. And he realizes that there will be no happy ending like in a movie (first line), because life always goes on and there will be always problems to solve. In the second verse you may find a contrast “hell” and “heaven” which stresses the ups and downs in a relationship even if you don’t expect them.
- Bridge
- I hang up you call
- We rise and we fall
- And we feel like just walking away
- As our love advances
- We take second chances
- Though it's not a fantasy
- I still want you to stay
In the next bridge there is again a contrast between “we rise and we fall”. This emphasizes the up and downs, like mentioned before. Furthermore the male speaker talks about a distance between the two of them (“And we feel like just walking away“), which also can be the leitmotif. In the second bridge there is another personification “love advances”. Further they want to start again from the beginning, because he is singing: “We take second chances”. And though not everything works out well, he still wants them to stay together, which you can see in the last two line of the bridge.
- Verse 3
- Take it slow
- Maybe we'll live and learn
- Maybe we'll crash and burn,
- Maybe you'll stay, maybe you'll leave,
- maybe you'll return
- Maybe another fight
- Maybe we won't survive
- But maybe we'll grow
- We never know baby you and I
The repetitions of maybe are quite eye-catching, because the appear five times and four times at the beginning of the sentences, so the speaker wants to emphasis that he is not quite sure about their relationship and how its going to continue. In addition there is a metaphor “crash” and “burn”. This metaphor is dramatic, because when you imagine a crash or something burning you associated something very negative with it. And in this verse you can find some contrast, like “stay” and “leave” or “fight” and “survive”. This also shows that the male speaker doesn’t know how their relationship will go on. But he accepts her decisions and supports her, whatever she wants to do (“Maybe you'll stay, maybe you'll leave, maybe you'll return”). Another noticeable stylistic device is that he uses a lot of negative words like “crash”, “burn”, “fight” or “leave”. In the third verse there is also the turning point marked by the BUT. At the turning point the attitude of the speaker changes and he still got hopes for their relationship and he hopes that they will be stronger, so can leave behind their past and their mistakes (last two lines). But he is not sure about that.
- Chorus
- We're just ordinary people
- We don't know which way to go
- 'Cause we're ordinary people
- Maybe we should take it slow
- This time we'll take it slow
- This time we'll take it slow
The phrase “We're just ordinary people” means that they aren’t something special and that they are like everybody else. So they also have problems and it is normal to have some. (next line) Moreover he repeats often the sentence “This time we'll take it slow”. You may conclude that they rushed at the beginning of their relationship, but this time they will try to change it and make it even better, because now they are going to take time. Furthermore he always talks of them as “we” which means that he includes the two of them in what he is saying and not only himself.The rhyme pattern only changes in the chorus and in verse 3. Before it was aabccb, but in the chorus it is ababbbbb.
Correspondence between statement and style: The rhyme pattern changes at the turning point, even though there is no real rhyme that also expresses his attitude towards love and relationships: that they are unsteady and can often change. At the turning point there is also a change of accords in the music. The statements he made and the style of language which are used in this song totally support each other.
Questions on the text
Oi! Just mind your language!
There are certain factors that influence and change British English. Firstly the media play an important role. They especially influence the pronunciation of children with various TV shows and advertising. That leads us to the change under the influence of language by youth language. Certain words change e.g. "cool" instead of "whizzer". Another important influence is the American slang. For instance "barf" for "vomit" or neologisms like "pre-enjoyed" are now used in British English, too. A new development is the adoption of slang words in credible dictionaries. The most peculiar change is the spreading of Estuary English from London to the rest of the country. This spreading of the cognifying London English is probably the most recognisable factor for the change of language becoming less important.
Homework
Received Pronunciation
1. definition
2. sample
Questions on the text "Lobbying and PACs" 19th of October 2009
1. a) direct lobbying
- face-to-face meetings
- different lobbyists join together to present their point of view (coalition approach)
b) indirect lobbying
- massive letter-writing
=> information about the concerns they represent
=> educate public officials about a specific point of view
Summary of a poll
Elections
in the USA
- Poll finds great expectations for Obama
- Barack Obama fulfils the dream
- Great expectations: Barack Obama and the world - a Canadian opinion
in Germany
- The CDU/CSU won the elections with 33.8 percent. They will form the government with
- the FDP. The FDP had one of their best election result ever (14.6 %)
- the opposition will be led by the SPD that had one of their worst votings (23.0 %)(compared with the last election they had a loss of 11.2 %) and now they even try to make friends with
- the Linke. They won in 15 electoral districts. That's 11 districts more than last time. They got 11.9 percent. That's even more than
- the Bündnis '90/ die Grünen because they only got 10.7 percent.
- All other parties together got 6.0 percent
