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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:

 

Read:

 

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



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?

Typical Americans are .... / Typically, in America you find ... / In America "they" believe in ...
  • celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving (huge turkey) in a big way
  • boys play basketball or football; girls are cheerleaders
  • eat tons of fast food ⇒ obese OR they are very sporty
  • love beauty contests ⇒ plastic surgery
  • all own a gun
  • streets are straight for miles
  • are either conservative and patriotic or crazy
  • lots of casinos and gambling
  • huge shopping malls and outlets
  • king size beds
  • big houses with big front-lawns
  • basketball-basket in every front-yard
  • newspaper boys throw papers in the garden
  • drive broken/huge cars
  • waste a lot of energy (big cars, air conditioning)
  • don`t protect nature/environment, e.g. use one-way plates and cuttlery
  • American Dream: from dishwasher to millionaire, you can do it if you really want
  • lots of poor/homeless people
  • many people are not properly insured/ no social security
  • often have to work two or more jobs to survive
  • love the Oktoberfest in Munich
  • always drink alcohol out of big mugs
  • go to church regularly
  • are not allowed to have sex before marriage
  • all wanna be famous
  • wear funny costumes at highschool graduation
  • live in big cities/skyscrapers
  • listen to hiphop or country music
  • feel like/would like to be/behave like cowboys in saloons/on prairie
  • gangs + much crime in big cities
  • Americans are only interested in America


Cartoons on US Cultural Hgemony / Americanization



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:

USA-EU.pdf

Vocabulary

Voc-foreign-pol.pdf


Text: Brand Aid

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

Brand-aid.pdf

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

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

USA-wars.pdf

Vocabulary

USA-wars-vocab.pdf


The Home Front: Exorcising an old Demon

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

Vietnam-gulf.pdf



Science and Technology

Listening Test


Using Robots

Using-robots.pdf

Text: Programmed for Love

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

Programmed-answers1-2.pdf



Drama, Baby, Drama

From Poetry to Drama

Watch the difference between poetry and drama:


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.


  • 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

Irony See esp. Dramatic Irony




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

BBC GCSE Revision on Drama - Medium I



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