| 11.1 04/05 | name list of the course |
| Date |
Topic |
| 9/6-10/8 | Insiders
Outsiders |
| Sept 6 |
general introduction
into the course, handing out of books
(Langenscheidt: Previews) |
| Sept 9 |
discussion
of topics and vote: insiders outsiders.
Discussion: What is an outsider? etc. |
| Sept 20 |
text comprehension
(background information)
and analysis: connotation (example: home);
stereotype (here: dirty
old men); metaphor (here:
boat, whirlwind) |
| Sept 23 |
reading of
Danièle's diary (homework); Text
2, The Ragged School: description and
discussion of the picture |
| Sept 27 |
Background information;
analysis of the text, function of
the stage directions, etc. Cockney Rhyming Slang: text (listen to the text) |
| Sept 30 |
comparing some
"life stories"; Previews p. 36: Awareness: writing
and acting a scene |
| October 4 |
discussion of
the song "Another Day in Paradise" by
Phil Collins (text and
background information); interpretation
of some charts; text: Street Life (facts and figures
about homelessness) |
| October 7 |
Computer work:
designing an Excel chart
(one possible example) |
| October 11 |
Klausur 1: City
targets beggars and their benefactors
(The Guardian, Oct 5, 2004) |
| October 14 |
Working with Excel,
continued |
| Nov 4 |
Can You Spot the Mistakes?
- Rückgabe der Klausur |
| Nov 8 |
Drama: An English
Tea Party (TNT Theatre) |
| 11/15-12/20 |
short stories |
| Nov 15 |
O. Henry, The Cop and the Anthem:
Listening comprehension, imagining the ending |
| Nov 22 |
Analysis of the short
story: rhetorical
devices |
| Nov 25 |
Listening comprehension:
Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby |
| Nov 29 |
Desiree's Baby, continued:
plot, structure (flashback, dramatic irony), characters,
what book to read (my suggestions) |
| Dec2 |
"Whitney's Cotton Gin"
(Previews, p.26-27): text comprehension |
| Dec 6 |
Mock debate: abolition
of slavery, pros and cons - Ernest Hemingway,
Cat in the Rain |
| Dec 9 |
written exercise: two aspects
of the story (1. What is the function of the
first paragraph for the story? - 2. Describe the American
wife's state of mind at the end of the story) |
| Dec 13 |
Alun Lewis, The Lapse: comprehension; trying
to tell the story from a different point of view |
| Dec 16 |
The Lapse, discussion of some
interesting sentences |
| Dec 20 |
Klausur Nr. 2: Hemingway,
At two o'clock
in the morning |
| 2005 |
|
| Jan 10 |
Can You Spot the Mistakes? Rückgabe
der Klausur |
| from Jan 12 |
reading
a novel: Agatha Christie, The Murder
of Roger Ackroyd |
| Jan 12 |
The Murder ...,
ch 1, Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table: reading
comprehension |
| Jan 17 |
The Murder ..., ch. 1 (comprehension
test),
ch. 2 (list of characters), ch. 3 (reading comprehension) |
| Jan 20 |
The Murder ... ch 3 cont. (Ralph
Paton as the main suspect); ch 4 (Miss Russell
and the stranger as suspects) |
| Jan 24 |
The Murder ... ch 5 (the clues as
to the time and method of Ackroyd's murder); ch 6 (Parker
is suspect) |
| Jan 27 |
The Murder ... ch 6-8 |
| Jan 29 |
The Murder ... ch 9 |
| Jan 31 |
The Murder ... ch 10 (reading exercises,
different rôles) |
| Feb 3 |
The Murder ... up to chapter 12 |
| homework |
read
the rest of the book |
| 11.2 04/05 | |
| Date |
Topic |
| Agatha
Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (continued) |
|
| Feb 17 |
some aspects
of the novel: the real role of some suspected characters,
etc. |
| Feb 21 |
finding clues (ambiguous passages) in the novel; Bayard, Who
Killed Roger Ackroyd: The Van
Dine Principle |
| Feb 24 |
discussing the Improbabilities as pointed out
by Pierre Bayard, speculating on an alternative solution (Caroline
Sheppard?) |
| Feb 28 |
discussion of the text: The Truth by Pierre
Bayard; (a critical opinion about Bayard's
book) |
| March 2005 |
The Media |
| March 3 |
Comparing two articles (Previews p. 91-92),
content: differences
and contradictions |
| March 7 |
stylistic and other differences between
"popular" and "quality" newspaper; TV news of March 6 (Sky TV) |
| March 10 |
information
about the different national newspapers
in Britain, comparison of some texts from "The Guardian", "The Times", the
"Sun" and
the "Daily Mirror" |
| March 14 |
different newspaper texts about the same
event: The Times
12 March 2005, text comprehension (information
about Parliament) |
| March 17 |
Stilanalyse: cartoon (symbol,
exaggeration); comment (interpretation,
evaluation: "attitudinal adverb", metaphor, etc.); report
(as objective as possible) |
| April
4 |
Klausur:
Very Clever, Harry
(article from The Times 3 July 2003) |
| April 7 |
text comprehension: The Times Issue 66,666 |
| April 2005 |
Poetry |
| April
11 |
Preface to Lyrical
Ballads - William Wordsworth, The Daffodils (I wandered
lonely as a cloud) content and meaning, "romanticism" |
| April
14 |
the romantic concept of God and religion:
(cf. Romantics: nature-worship and pantheism
(by Paul Harrison) - Romanticism (by Paul Brians) - comparison
of Wordsworth's poem and the entry in Dorothy
Wordsworth's diary |
| April 18 |
poem: Sometime During Eternity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(mp3)
(the Dead Sea Scrolls see here) |
| April 21 |
Can You Spot the Mistakes?
- Rückgabe der Klausuren |
| April 25 |
comparing original
and translation (Ich wandert einsam ...), translating
"Sometime ..." |
| April 28 |
William Blake,
The Tyger: first impressions,
the meaning - (Blakes's illustration) |
| May 9 |
Dylan Thomas, do not go gentle into that good night,
comprehension and interpretation (paradox - oxymoron - allegory - metaphor - simile) |
| May 12 |
Cradle Song (not by Blake), reconstruction
of a garbled version (original see here) |
| May
2005 |
Advertising |
| May 23 |
Cornelsen, Level Crossing:
pages 8-9, Homework written tasks: 1.1, 2.1-2, oral tasks: 1.2, 3.1-3 analysing advertisements: Flying Tigers |
| May 30 |
1. homework: Doomed (text version) 2. talking about advertisements - working with a picture of a dandelion: (lores - hires) |
| June 2 |
Presentation of some self-created
advertisements; rap song "C U When U Get There" (Coolio) (for the background music try here) |
| June 6 |
Klausur 2: Advertising and
poetry |
| June 13 |
Rückgabe der Klausur - Can You Spot the Mistakes? |
| June 20 |
Level Crossing pp. 15 to 18; Camp America,
Information and Jobs Ad; Letter of Application |
| June 22 |
Besuch im Stratmann
Theater Essen: True West (von Sam Shepard) |
| June 23 |
Level Crossing p. 19: Telephoning, answering
a job ad (listening comprehension) |
| June 27 |
practising a phone call; Level Crossing pp. 21-22; 24 (listening comprehension): English as a lingua franca in the EU |
| July 4 |
discussion about English as the only official language
in the EU (or Esperanto?) |