Widen = concrete things that can expand (roads, waistlines)
broaden = more metaphorical things (horizons)
irreparable damage can be done to something (like the brain) after a stroke, but the word must always be used in conjunction with "damage"
Friday, January 18, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Kulturraumstudien USA, Information on Film Club and Book Club
The first meeting of the film club will be Feb. 5th at noon in Room 410 to watch "The Rider", a film I saw this summer in Madrid that took my breath away. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_rider/
Info about the book club will be posted on Monday, Jan 21st after the exam.
Info about the book club will be posted on Monday, Jan 21st after the exam.
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for January 16th
For homework, please complete the gap fill on the gold coin heist and then check your answers here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/10/four-men-to-go-on-trial-for-giant-gold-coin-heist-from-berlin-Museum
In the textbook, please do exercises E, G, I, M, N, O and pp. 132-135 and A and B on pg. 136.
Review the rules for forming the passive here: https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice/
Bring in any final questions for the exam as well.
In the textbook, please do exercises E, G, I, M, N, O and pp. 132-135 and A and B on pg. 136.
Review the rules for forming the passive here: https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice/
Bring in any final questions for the exam as well.
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for January 15th
For homework, please complete the gap fill on the gold coin heist and then check your answers here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/10/four-men-to-go-on-trial-for-giant-gold-coin-heist-from-berlin-Museum
In the textbook, please do exercises E, G, I, M, N, O and pp. 132-135 and A and B on pg. 136.
Bring in any final questions for the exam as well.
In the textbook, please do exercises E, G, I, M, N, O and pp. 132-135 and A and B on pg. 136.
Bring in any final questions for the exam as well.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Kompetenzerweiterung III, Wednesday Group, Homework for January 16th
Please be present in the last session with your partner to do your prepared debate for another partner pair.
Review your notes and the blog posts, and come in with any questions for exam.
Review your notes and the blog posts, and come in with any questions for exam.
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for January 14th
Please complete exercises I, J, K on pg. 207 and M, O, P on pg. 166 from the textbook.
If you haven't completed the exercises from the winter study pack (see my post from December shortly before the break).
And review for the exam!!
If you haven't completed the exercises from the winter study pack (see my post from December shortly before the break).
And review for the exam!!
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Kompetenzerweiterung III, Tuesday Group, Homework for January 15th
Please be present in the last session with your partner to do your prepared debate for another partner pair.
Review your notes and the blog posts, and come in with any questions for exam.
Review your notes and the blog posts, and come in with any questions for exam.
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for January 10th
Please complete exercises I, J, K on pg. 207 and M, O, P on pg. 166 from the textbook.
If you haven't completed the exercises from the winter study pack (see my post from December shortly before the break).
And review for the exam!!
If you haven't completed the exercises from the winter study pack (see my post from December shortly before the break).
And review for the exam!!
Monday, January 7, 2019
Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for January 14th
Please do an analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a dream" (if you weren't present in class, the full text is available here: https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf ) and answer the following questions: How do you know that "I have a dream" is a US speech? How do you know it is a product of its time?
Read the speech along with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms and take audiovisual aspects of the speech into account in your analysis (i.e. tone of voice, vocal delivery, clothing, mise-en-scène, etc.). Look up all of the words and references you don't know.
The reason why we're looking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in January is because Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday is a federal holiday in the States. Have a look at what other holidays are federal holidays in the States. How are they products of US culture and where do they fall on Hall's triad?
Registration for the excursion to exhibition "Es war einmal in Amerika" https://www.wallraf.museum/ausstellungen/aktuell/2018-11-13-amerika/exponate/ at the Wallraf Richartz Museum has begun (as of January 7th at 5:32 pm, there are eight spaces left). Please make sure to register in our last session or with me via email if you are interested in one of the eight remaining spots for the English tour from 10:30-11:45 am on January 17th. Those registered for the exam should be present in the lobby of the museum on the 17th at 10:20 am at the latest as the tour will promptly begin at 10:30 am.
In the break (i.e. after the exam period), I'd like to offer an anglophone film club twice a week in which we watch a film in the afternoon and discuss it in English to keep our English levels up. Let me know in person or via email if you have special requests so that I can procure the film in time.
Finally, in our last session I'm going to announce an anglophone novel (I do have a preference in our context for North American titles, but I'm open to anything anglophone) that I'd like to discuss "book club-style" in the spring semester (this is optional and not required for the course). I have some ideas of my own, but if you have special requests, let me know in person or via email before this Sunday at noon.
Read the speech along with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms and take audiovisual aspects of the speech into account in your analysis (i.e. tone of voice, vocal delivery, clothing, mise-en-scène, etc.). Look up all of the words and references you don't know.
The reason why we're looking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in January is because Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday is a federal holiday in the States. Have a look at what other holidays are federal holidays in the States. How are they products of US culture and where do they fall on Hall's triad?
Registration for the excursion to exhibition "Es war einmal in Amerika" https://www.wallraf.museum/ausstellungen/aktuell/2018-11-13-amerika/exponate/ at the Wallraf Richartz Museum has begun (as of January 7th at 5:32 pm, there are eight spaces left). Please make sure to register in our last session or with me via email if you are interested in one of the eight remaining spots for the English tour from 10:30-11:45 am on January 17th. Those registered for the exam should be present in the lobby of the museum on the 17th at 10:20 am at the latest as the tour will promptly begin at 10:30 am.
In the break (i.e. after the exam period), I'd like to offer an anglophone film club twice a week in which we watch a film in the afternoon and discuss it in English to keep our English levels up. Let me know in person or via email if you have special requests so that I can procure the film in time.
Finally, in our last session I'm going to announce an anglophone novel (I do have a preference in our context for North American titles, but I'm open to anything anglophone) that I'd like to discuss "book club-style" in the spring semester (this is optional and not required for the course). I have some ideas of my own, but if you have special requests, let me know in person or via email before this Sunday at noon.
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for January 9th
Please complete exercises F, G, I, J, K, M, and N on pp. 196-199 of the textbook.
Read the article distributed in class on the Economist's country of the year (on the back of the NASA article) and look up all of the words you don't know PLUS select ten words for word transformation and list at least one word you've transformed from another (ex. "yearly" from "year").
Complete the NASA gap fill for tense and have a look at one video from NASA's YouTube channel and write down ten vocab words from the video https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision/playlists
Your optional essay prompts include "How important is information?" "Does space exploration still matter in 2019?" or "What is your nomination for country of the year and why?" I will collect journals for the last time this semester on Wednesday and return them in our last session.
Read the article distributed in class on the Economist's country of the year (on the back of the NASA article) and look up all of the words you don't know PLUS select ten words for word transformation and list at least one word you've transformed from another (ex. "yearly" from "year").
Complete the NASA gap fill for tense and have a look at one video from NASA's YouTube channel and write down ten vocab words from the video https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision/playlists
Your optional essay prompts include "How important is information?" "Does space exploration still matter in 2019?" or "What is your nomination for country of the year and why?" I will collect journals for the last time this semester on Wednesday and return them in our last session.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Kompetenzerweiterung I, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for January 8th
Please complete exercises I, J, K, M, and N on pp. 196-199 of the textbook.
Read the article distributed in class on the Economist's country of the year and look up all of the words you don't know PLUS select ten words for word transformation and list at least one word you've transformed from another (ex. "yearly" from "year").
Have a look at one video from NASA's YouTube channel and write down ten vocab words from the video https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision/playlists
Your optional essay prompts include "How important is information?" "Does space exploration still matter in 2019?" or "What is your nomination for country of the year and why?" I will collect journals for the last time this semester on Tuesday and return them in our last session.
Read the article distributed in class on the Economist's country of the year and look up all of the words you don't know PLUS select ten words for word transformation and list at least one word you've transformed from another (ex. "yearly" from "year").
Have a look at one video from NASA's YouTube channel and write down ten vocab words from the video https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision/playlists
Your optional essay prompts include "How important is information?" "Does space exploration still matter in 2019?" or "What is your nomination for country of the year and why?" I will collect journals for the last time this semester on Tuesday and return them in our last session.
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