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Look at this cartoon about "Robotics: The dangers of driverless Cars" and write notes for an oral analysis!





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Brave New World

Brave New World has 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


Cartoon: Driverless Cars

Driverless Cars





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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)

Plot, action and content

  • The plot of the drama is shown in the 'through-line' of the drama - its beginning, middle and end, the arrangement of the scenes - although it doesn't have to be presented in a linear structure. The characters in a play are also part of the plot.
  • The action of the drama consists in the events that the characters take part in as they act the play.
  • The content of the drama lies in the themes it deals with, eg bullying, the responsibilities of power, the bravery of ordinary people etc.

Climax/anti-climax

  • Climax / anti-climax → expectation in the audience → intent → relieved when things turn out well

Contrast

  • Contrasts are used in dramas to focus the audience’s attention. They bring the drama to life and make it interesting.
  • Example: In a courtroom drama: At first there's the hectical actionof bringing in the prisoner, with everyone scurrying around trying to see and hear the judge's pronouncement. Then there's the sound of the gavel banging on the judge's desk - and the resulting quiet before he pronounces the sentence. The audience can't fail to be interested!

Elements of drama- as a literary genre(pages 5-7)

BBC GCSE Revision on Elements of Drama

Characterization:

  • the way they walk and move (body language)
  • the way they speak (vocal qualities)
  • their reaction to events in the drama
  • the way you present the character


Dramatic conventions: techniques for dramatic effects:

  • slow motion
  • freeze-frame (the picture standing)
  • audience aside
  • soliloquy (monoloque)
  • using one part of the stage as one location, and a different part as another location

Possible symbols (=standing for "real things") for making the drama more believable:

  • props (eg a torn wedding photograph to represent a divorce)
  • gestures (eg finger on lips as a symbol of silence)
  • expressions (eg open mouth to represent surprise)
  • costume (a white costume as a symbol of innocence, purity, death, or lack of emotion))
  • lighting (eg blue lighting to represent night-time)
  • setting (dry ice vapour to represent a snowy wood; a mountain top → loneliness)


Irony

See esp. Dramatic Irony

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

BBC GCSE Revision on Drama - Medium I 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

  • Spot: one character is stressed
  • Fresnel: soft overall light
  • Flood: clear wide-angled light
colour filters can be used for the last three ones.
  • Strobe: flashing lights used for special effects.

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



Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

The Prologue



Prologue to the most lamentable story of Romeo and Juliet

Two households both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


  1. What is the function of this prologue?
  2. What can you say aubout the language and structure of these lines?
  3. Learn lines 1 - 8 by heart + practice reciting them .....!


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Characterization

Romeo

Look at


  1. What does Romeo say about love and the women he loves .... and how (language, images, rhyme, ... write out some quotes!) does he express it. (Make a table with 2 columns.)
  2. How does Benvolio react to Romeo's problem with being in love? (Notes)
  3. How convincing/realistic is Romeo's absolute and unshakeable love? (Notes/reasons)


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Romeo meets Juliet

1. Watch the video Romeo meets Juliet (Act I, scene V):
2. Read Act I, scene V, ll. 98-116 + listen to Video parallely!
  • Does the film use the original language?Is the language problematic in the film?
3. Read ll. 98-116 again! * What special language/form is used? Why is this form used/shared by R and J?



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Romeo - Tragedy strikes!

Tragedy: Drama of a serious and high-standing character that usually describes the development of a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (such as destiny, circumstance, or society, the laws, in which the character often must choose between two alternatives, which both lead to his destruction. In a tragedy there is typically a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/tragedy#ixzz2NRtzACW5


Apply this concept of tragedy to Romeo and his involvement in the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt!

Romeo and Mercutio are Montagues, Juliet and Tybalt (her cousin) are Capulets.

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The End!

Read the followingg passages from Act V, Scene III.

  • Romeo, who was banished from Verona, heard that Juliet is dead, buys a poison and hurries to her grave. He finds her lying in the vault:
ll. 101 - 120
  • Juliet, who just seemed dead (a death-like sleep caused by a potion that she took to escape from the arranged marriage with count Paris) has woken up. She finds Romeo lying there lifeless:
ll. 166 - 176
  • The night watch, the Prince and the families have been alarmed and have hastened to the grave. The Prince tries to find out why Romeo, Juliet and Count Paris are all dead and lying in the vault:
ll. 297-322


  1. What is your impression of the ending? (How) Do you like it?
  2. What is the "message" that the audience take home with them?



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The Globe




Shakespeare's Theatre and Plays



Shakespeare's Audiences


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Grammar

If-Clauses


Related Tenses that you need do know:

  • Simple Present: infinitive (+s) ⇒ I go, he runs
  • Will-Future: will + infinitive ⇒ we will meet
  • Simple Past: infinitive + ed or irregular past ⇒ they talked / you came
  • Past Perfect: had + past participle (3rd form of verb) ⇒ he had seen, you had asked
  • Conditional I: would/could/should/might + infinitive ⇒ I would help you, we could travel
  • Conditional II: would/could/should/might + have + past participle (3rd form of verb) ⇒ we would have visited, she might have told you


Look at these pages and always do the exercises and test at the bottom of the page!


Further explanations and exercises: