- August
24th, 2001
- First session: aims, tasks,
expectations
Basic idea: research of
topical issues in the English-speaking world, mainly concentrating
on http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and
http://www.cnn.com/
Task: Decide on a topic you're
interested in and research it; you will be asked to present your
first insights after about 45 mins; please make some notes as well
for your short oral presentation as for the written one which you
are asked to do at home.
Important aim: learning how to
digest information, i. e. summing up results in your own words,
working on new words & structures, etc.
Handling tip: Please use both,
the Browser and MS Word: Copy what you want to keep to a Word-page and
save it after creating a personal folder on the server. At the end
of the lesson you can email this Word-file as an attachment to your
home-address (which only works with web-addresses, not with
t-online, sorry), save it on disk or print it out.
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August 31st,
2001: "The War
Between the Classes" - internment camps
"I hesitated, not sure I
knew Adam well enough yet to share the family history, the shame
of the internment camps, and hoped he wouldn't ask me to go
on" (p. 9)
Please research the topic of
American-Japanese internment camps in the 1940s (after the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbour) and learn about this subject. Usual
procedure: After 45 minutes some oral presentations and an essay on
the topic at home, please. The following addresses might be helpful
at the beginning. To find more information, just use http://www.google.com
and suitable search words:
Museum of the City of San Francisco:
Internment
of San Francisco Japanese
WebQuest: Farewell
to Manzanar
History
of the Japanese American Internment
Manzanar Project
Manzanar - America's Concentration
Camp
School project with tasks, information and
links: Research on Japanese American
Internment (long loading time)
Executive Order No. 9066
more useful links: Santa
Rosa Junior College
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Dictionaries:
Before you
use the online dictionaries, ask your partner/neighbour for
required vocabulary. Sometimes it takes far longer to use the
online sources!
You can use the
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus. It is easy to handle and
offers simple definitions (or if you absolutely have to, a German-English
Dictionary .)
Surf to the Cambridge
International Dictionary of English that is targeted at learners
of English. The definitions are clear and simple. You can search for
words in the dictionary of idioms and for phrasal verbs, too.
Visit Merriam-Webster,
which is not only an important dictionary with a thesaurus option,
it also offers a selection of extremely difficult word games,
puzzles, and definition dilemmas.
Online
Dictionary with more than 2 million words, that's at least what they
say: linguadict
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Sept
28th, 2001 Canadian impressions of "The War..."
Just to see what others think about
the book and its topic: Here is what pupils/students from Germany
and mainly Canada wrote about the book:
http://www.egu.schule.ulm.de/projkt_e/classwar/classwar.htm
Please concentrate on page 6 and page
8. After about 20 minutes you'll be asked to comment on the views
you read.
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Oct 19th, 2001
poems about birds
To prepare the short story, just have
a look at a poem about birds in general or better: a poem about a
thrush.
Please use the search engine www.google.com
and start with the search words thrush poem. Copy the
poem you decided on, read it and try to understand it. Links to
dictionaries are to be found on top of this page.
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Nov 8th, 2001
Scotland, football & an author
Welcome back, folks. Today we should
try to get in contact with the next short story. "Away in
Airdrie" by James Kelman is situated in Scotland and deals with
football, apart from other aspects. Please use www.google.com
and find out details about
 the
author James Kelman
the
place Airdrie (if it exists) and perhaps Glasgow and its football
grounds
and
mainly the importance of football for Scottish people (men only?)
Work in pairs, please and be prepared
to sketch out your first results after about 40 mins. A written
summary of your results might help us in the next lesson.
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Nov 23rd, 2001 - V. S. Naipaul
 Time
to get in touch with V. S. Naipaul, isn't it? Just click, get the
information and take some notes by hand, just for a change ;-)
Nobel
Prize in Literature 2001: http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/2001/press.html
...and
Student Resources: V.
S. Naipaul and Fast
Facts and an informative
web-page about Naipaul
to
get along with unknown words please use this dictionary: http://iteslj.org/s/ib/wedt.html
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Nov 30th, 2001 Agriculture, a short story and HRH
This way or that way?
"Tropical Fish" by Rose
Tremain depicts a modern way of farming. Please have a look at
Prince Charles' ideas to learn about quite a different approach to
farming. You should consciously skim and browse his speeches and/or
articles to find the essentials (the gist of his attitude). Please
be prepared to sketch out his attitude after roughly 25 minutes.
Speeches
and articles by HRH The Prince of Wales on Agriculture: http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speeches/speeches_index_1.html
HRH
and organic farming: Highgrove
The
Royal Smithfield Show 2002, Earls Court (which looks like it is
the modern version of "Agripower '87" mentioned in the
story)
 Rose
Tremain: extract from the first chapter of the awarded book "Music
and Silence"
...and
TIME-Magazine
about that novel (2000)
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research
Dec 7th, 2001: topical issues & creativity
Well,
well. Today I'd like those who are rather reluctant telling &
talking in class to prepare a short presentation on a topical
issue from one of the news servers (might be about Afghanistan,
Israel or whatever is offered to you and attracts your interest).
Don't spend more than 5 minutes on deciding on a topic, read, gain
information, take notes (by hand) and after 30 mins work present
facts and add your personal opinion, please:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and
http://www.cnn.com/
Creativity
is great, definitely. You need to know details of words and meanings,
though, to work properly on the following creative exercises.
Test one: Crazy Libs: http://www.rinkworks.com/crazylibs/
Choose a story (might be a familiar one) and do what can be done.
Print out your result or save it on hard-disk, please. You are
expected to present your result as well. Use a dictionary
where necessary.
Creativity no. 2: You might get a
machine translation of the English text into German: http://www.altavista.de
(link on the left "Übersetzen")
Test two: "English
Signs from Around the World" (I didn't teach any of those
people who wrote that stuff, I hope): http://littlejason.com/funnytext/foreigns.html
Please analyze the mistakes, find the proper way of saying it - and
you might get a translation
into German from the machine above.
We expect some of your interesting
results, of course....
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Dec 14th, 2001: Business with Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
Whatever comes out of this adventure:
There are four letters which might trigger off something - it's up
to the groups to decide what.
The
letters (and more) are all here (on the Ulricianum-Server)
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research Jan 10th, 2002 Destination UK
 Well
then, please work according to the group-rules |here
they are| in 4 groups on the topic "Destination
UK" and the information supplied on the BBC Server.
Work out everything that
gives us a clear picture about facts,background, human beings and
information we have to know to understand - as well those who flee
as the countries where refugees want to live. Homework on the
week-plan |here it is|.
1st group: Countries
of origin http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2001/destination_uk/default.stm
2nd group: 'England
is our goal' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1524000/1524746.stm
3rd group: The long
road to Essex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1643000/1643430.stm
4th group: Sangatte's
angry locals: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1526000/1526592.stm
all: Statistics and
graphs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1296000/1296529.stm
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research & more Jan 18th, 2002: Spain, France, Italy...
Four
groups, please, group-rules and breakfast threat are valid
 group
one: France & immigrants et sans papiers &
group
two: Spain & immigrants & Marocco &
group
three: Italy & immigrants & Albania & an email to Italy
group
four: Germany & immigrants & border to Eastern Europe
Please: Find facts
and, if possible, human touch information about individual
experiences.
Collect the
information on a Frontpage page, please. |Info
Frontpage|
Here
are your results/web-pages
  
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