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Version vom 17. März 2010, 12:02 Uhr

Presentations

• The NEW list with the presentation topics and dates
• Handout presentations: the dos and don'ts...

If you...

• have give a presentaion about a king or queen
  • only give essential information about his biography
  • "embed" his/her reign in history (what was before/after?)
  • explain the main aims of his/her reign
  • say how he/she changed England, explain important decisions, problems they ad to face etc
  • include important influences (historical events like wars, treaties, inventions; influential people etc)

• have to give a presentation about an age/epoch
  • explain its main ideas/values
  • describe the living conditions of the different classes
  • portray important people living at that time
  • outline influences and how they were integrated

• have to give a presentation about a literary period
  • "embed" it in literary history (what was before/after?)
  • explain its main ideas/values
  • describe the living conditions of the different classes
  • portray important authors and their works
  • outline literary influences and how they were integrated

Useful links

• Lingoes: Übersetzungsprogramm für den PC, das fast jedes Wort auf dem Bildschirm in jedem Programm sofort übersetzen kann (Freewarealternative zu Babylon Translator)

Homework

17 Sept 2009

While I'm away, please prepare (read and understand, look up words) the following text and answer the questions on the text until Monday, September 28 (written and in full sentences!):

Text - "True believers in the American dream wake up to a nightmare"

1. What was the original purpose of the “poem”?
2. What is the “nightmare“ O`Toole refers to?
3. Explain in detail why “The dream, to an increasing extent, has fueled the nightmare” (l. 35)!
4. When and why did the American dream come alive again? In which way has it changed?

13 January 2010

Marina Walla/Thomas Kraus

II.2.
Introduction: example for boring holidays/doesn't exist as often as for 10 years/ the high-risk holidays are booming/ how can this trend be explained?

Arguments:

1. people need adventure because their life is too montonous/every day the same boring life/ e.g. people sitting in an office
2. more information about such high-risk activities by the media/ because people see this they want to do this/ e.g. you can see free climbers on TV

Conclusion: the booming can be exlained by the montonous life of many people or the information the media gives us/ the whole community is more prepared to take a risk

Extras

• Grammar Test for you to check on your knowledge... Solution