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- POLITICS: FIRST-PAST-THE-POST SYSTEM I
general election results in the UK 2005
a simplified table based on Wikipedia information plus a diagram into
which students may enter the different figures for % of votes and % of
seats, thus realizing (among other things) the unfairness of the system
towards smaller parties (Zentralabitur NRW)
- POLITICS: FIRST-PAST-THE-POST SYSTEM II
a (slightly satirical) diagram on the basis of which the UK majority vote system (plus the discrepancy between the % of votes and the % of
seats) can easily be explained (Zentralabitur NRW)
- POLITICS: FIRST-PAST-THE-POST SYSTEM III
an extreme example of the majority vote system from the 2001 elections (from The
Times/constituency: Taunton) on the basis of which the whole system
can clearly be explained - plus solutions
(Zentralabitur NRW)
- AMERICAN DREAM: group work: searching the internet -
possible topics
& links (Zentralabitur NRW)
- AMERICAN DREAM: useful diagram referring to
a. Declaration of Independence
b. Statue of Liberty & Lazarus poem
c. JFK text: Why They Came
with solutions
- AMERICAN DREAM & the Amish: worksheet focussing on the fact that the
Amish are an outstanding example of the American Dream come true - with
solutions (based mainly on the fabulous Peter Weir film WITNESS starring
Harrison Ford)
- PRESS/TERRORISM: 2 leading articles (Hamas killing) - LK
Klausur/test
- PRESS: HOW TO WRITE A GOOD LETTER TO THE EDITOR
with solutions (Zentralabitur NRW)
- USA QUIZ: STATE ABBREVIATIONS - students are supposed to guess what
the 50 abbreviations stands for (table, with solutions)
- MALCOLM X (extract from a speech): Klausur/test
- MALCOLM X (extract from article about his life and death): Klausur/test
- NEBRASKA QUIZ (Partnerarbeit - passt z.B. zu English G 2000, A4 Unit
5, "Nebraska - the middle of nowhere?") - with solutions
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: ENOCH POWELL'S "RIVER FOAMING WITH MUCH BLOOD"
SPEECH
diagram: train of thought & rhetorical devices
(Zentralabitur NRW)
- ENOCH POWELL'S SPEECH: detour: tricky pronunciation: words like
blood and food ending in -ood
table with solutions
- MONARCHY DEMOCRACY PARTICIPATION
worksheet with useful words & phrases concerning the field politics;
to be filled in by the students - with solutions
(Zentralabitur NRW)
- ANALYSING ADVERTS
Sir Ernest Shackleton's amazing ad for his 1914 Trans-Antarctic
Expedition ("Men wanted for hazardous journey...") - possible assignments and
solutions
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: SEGREGATION IN RESTROOMS IN THE 50s:
The symbolic meaning of a photo torn into 2 pieces - plus solutions
- ANALYZING SPEECHES: a useful general diagram referring to the
purpose of a speech and the possible (rhetorical) means used to achieve
that purpose -
can be used as an introduction before analyzing a specific speech
- ADVERTISING: an interesting (homework) assignment concerning the
fact that at amazon.de or amazon.com you can now look inside
several pages of many books, which will certainly not please your local
bookshop - with solutions
- AMERICAN DREAM: "Rosa Parks sat - so that MLK could march - so that
Obama could run - so that our children can fly"
analysis of this fascinating little poem encapsulating the American
Dream - with notes
- ADVERTISING:
"We are sinking!" - Berlitz ad
Analysing this very funny ad on youtube - with instructions
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: This is a song I wrote and recorded
myself a couple of years ago, dedicating it to all those people who
suffered in coal mines during the Industrial Revolution.
You can also get its mp3 file. Here is the first part:
I ain't gonna work in this coalmine no more
I said, I ain't gonna work in this-here coalmine no more
I'm working all my fingers simply down to the bone
Here at this dark coal-face, always alone
There's coal dust in my lungs
And coal dust in my brain
"Why, that's all part of a revolution
Called Industrial", they claim.
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GRAMMAR & VOCAB
Diese Abteilung ist
vermutlich nicht nur für Lehrer, sondern auch für Anglistik-Studenten und
Schüler der Sekundarstufe II geeignet, da man hier im Selbststudium (oft
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* HINWEIS:
Bei den mit * gekennzeichneten worksheets handelt es
sich um Übungen, bei denen es darum geht, Interferenzen in bezug auf
spelling,
pronunciation, grammar
und/oder meaning bewusst zu machen.
Taucht z.B. ein so
fehleranfälliges Wort wie womb im Unterricht auf, lässt sich als detour
das worksheet Nr. 3 einsetzen, um auf die Interferenz mit comb
explizit zu verweisen und gleichzeitig bei allen Wörtern, die auf -mb
enden, auf die Regel hinzuweisen: Drop the "b" in words with
-mb at the end!
- Lieblingsfehler in Klausuren (e.g. example FOR, in l.5 STANDS,
one stylistic MEAN) - table with
solutions
Dies worksheet wird zu Beginn der Oberstufe vor der ersten Klausur
verteilt und intensiv besprochen, damit diese erfahrungsgemäss extrem
beliebten Fehler vermieden werden
- * know-how
: word ending -ow, different pronunciation: [ou] vs. [au] -
(table + solutions)
- * words ending -mb (drop the b!) (e.g.
dumb) - (table
+ solutions)
- * words ending -ough (tricky pronunc) (e.g.
rough) - (table)
- * words ending -an (tricky pronunc) (can,
fan, etc vs wan and swan!)
-
table + solutions
- * plane or plain? (words ending
-ane vs -ain) - (table
+ solutions)
- * snail: rhyme words - (table +
solutions)
- tierisch: every day metaphorical expressions - (table + solutions)
- emphatic DO
- * word ending -ead: [-i:d] or [-ed] ?? (e.g.
lead)
- (table + solutions)
- * word ending -ood: 3 diff. pronunciations (e.g.
hood vs blood vs food) -
(table + solutions)
- * word ending -ove: 3 diff. pronunciations (e.g.
dove vs drove vs move) -
(table + solutions)
- How up do high knee! (spielerische Übung zu Wörtern, die in E und
in D zufällig gleich ausgesprochen werden (Hau ab, du Heini!!)
PS: macht viel Spass + schult die Fähigkeit, auf die Aussprache zu
achten
- Indirect speech: backshift - (table)
- Indirect speech: 2 funny/interesting dialogues - "a bank robbery"
/ "homework problems")
- * Rhyme words: what rhymes with air + bare + bear?
(+ mayor!)
table plus solutions
- shelf -> shelves: words with irregular plural: f -> ves
table + solutions
- bag rhyming quiz: List up all the words you know which rhyme with
bag
table + solutions
- a-e-i-o-u quiz: table with words like bag-beg-big-bog-bug
+ solutions
- look + preposition: spielerische Übungen zu look for/after/down
on, etc
+ solutions
- * vocabulary + pronunciation exercise:
* swamp vs lamp, damp, etc etc - table + solutions
- Revision of tenses based on the description of 2 interesting
cartoons referring to Native Americans
- boo rhyming quiz: which words do you know? (there are 32!)
table & solutions
- * -our tricky
pronunciation - e.g. flour pour tour
complete list with solutions
- * -oot tricky
pronunciation: [u:] or [u]?! (e.g. boot vs foot)
table with solutions
- * -all tricky
pronunciation: all words ending in -all rhyme with all -
except one! (shall) - table with solutions
- * Monk: worksheet
focussing on typical mistakes concerning the pronunciation of tricky TV/movie
words like Monk (pronounced like honk in the German
version!), spongebob, onion, tomb raider, etc
- vocab quiz: words rhyming with pie (with solutions)
Note: there are at least 30!
- vocab quiz: words rhyming with fun, nun (and none!)
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table with solutions (there are at least 16)
- double negative/violation of grammar: "We don't need none" - a very
hilarious ANDY CAPP comic strip with assignments, also including a
question concerning Andy's use of the double negative
- * tear (n.) vs. tear
(v.): tricky pronunciation - words ending in -ear
either rhyme with clear or with wear (or both!) -
table with solutions
- * break vs. freak: tricky pronunciation - words ending in -eak - table with solutions
- * Die Giraffe oder der
Giraffe?! Wie Sprache das Denken beeinflusst
Eine interessante und lustige Übung, basierend auf der (absurden)
Tatsache, dass viele Tiere im Deutschen weiblich sind - kontrastiv
zum Englischen sehr gut einsetzbar (Interferenz: the cat -> she)
- * -ew tricky pronunciation:
a list of words ending in -ew, all rhyming with new
- except one (sew!!)
- with solutions
- * rhyming quiz: which words do you know
that rhyme with law and more (and awe!!) - table
with solutions (there are at least 28!)
- * -one tricky
pronunciation: a list of words ending in -one
They all rhyme - or do they?! with solutions
- * -aim vs. -ame : which
words do you know? (e.g. maim & lame )
- a kind of quiz - with solutions
- * rhyming quiz: which words do you know
that rhyme with see (and quay and knee!!) -
table
with solutions (there are at least 24!)
- * rhyming quiz: [ -eit ] - which words do you know
that rhyme with late and wait (and freight !) -
table
with solutions (there are at least 21!)
- * THINK THANK THUNK?! A somewhat
dangerous exercise for advanced learners concerning verbs like
sing-sang-sung, etc, plus others which do not work that way (quite a
challenge, really...)
- * "Me equal!" ("Mir egal!") - A playful
exercise concerning colloquial idiomatic expressions ("From me out."
(!), etc)
Advanced learners are asked to correct the literal/absurd translations (with
solutions)
- * -ook: a list of words
rhyming with look - except gook (!)
table with solutions
- * rhyming quiz: which words do you know
that rhyme with bed (and said and lead!!) -
table
with solutions (there are about 22)
- Spiegelei = mirror egg?? apple moose =
Apfelmus??
A playful exercise/quiz focussing on false friends and on dead
metaphors - after all, the German word Spiegelei is
surely a dead metaphor (though for those who learn German it may well
be a very vivid metaphor) - with solutions
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- THE SIMPSONS
How dumb can you get? - an almost
incomprehensible German "translation" of a short text about this
animated sitcom by a translation programme.
Students are supposed to guess what the text means (very funny, also
revealing that translation programmes still have a lot to learn) - with
original text (you can, if you wish, also discuss reasons why these
programmes fail in so many cases - e.g. because they cannot differentiate
between homonyms)
- QUIZ: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
an interesting and often funny quiz concerning aspects of the English
language
Beispiele:
- Heißt "Der hat eine Schraube locker" auf Englisch
tatsächlich genauso?: "He has got a screw loose" (RIGHT)
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Hängt die Aussprache von "the" davon ab, ob der erste Buchstabe im
folgenden Wort ein Vokal ist? (WRONG!)
- Dies ist falsch aber logisch: think thank thunk (RIGHT)
- FUN: CRAZY QUIZ: guessing the names of famous actors -
e.g. "K. Speck?? -> Kevin Bacon", "Paule Navajohütte??
-> Paul Hogan" - plus solutions
- HOW SILLY CAN YOU GET?!: a funny quiz
with distorted names of famous singers and bands, e.g. Pa Blitz ->
Madonna, Dieb Popel -> Deep Purple - with solutions
- THE MAN WHO SAVED A MILLION BLADDERS
A very funny parody of "The Man Who Saved a Million Lives" (Edward
Jenner), a text in ye olde Learning English A2 Klett textbook,
written by an English assistant teacher. Here is the beginning:
The year is 1840, the place somewhere in Wandsworth.
Through a long, dark, suburban back garden, a man called Thomas Twott is
moving quickly. From time to time he glances fearfully up to the sky. He
has good reason to be afraid. Suffering terribly from incontinence, his
bladder may explode before he reaches the little house at the bottom of
the garden. Even worse, he may be struck by lightning on the way, a
common happening in 19th century Wandsworth. ...
- INSIDE FLUSH TOILETS IN WANDSWORTH
TODAY
A very funny parody of old-fashioned Learning English (Klett) textbook
exercises written by an English assistant teacher in the late seventies
- can be used as a translation exercise, revision of tenses, and/or just
for fun.
Here is the beginning:
Although it is theoretically possible for inside flush toilets to be
located in any room of a house or flat, custom in Wandsworth usually
decrees that the toilet be situated in or adjacent to the bathroom. In
Wandsworth 83% of dwellings have toilets in the bathroom, 12% have
toilets adjacent to the bathroom, 3% have the toilet in some other room,
and 2% have no toilet at all.
The overwhelming majority of inside flush toilets in Wandsworth are
white in colour with black seats. However, with the increase in fashion
consciousness among all levels of society, pastel colours are becoming
popular. A recent trend...
- THE BEARS AND THE MOLES: my own feeble attempt at writing a fable in
the style of James Thurber, also paying homage to the great humorist
Here is the beginning:
One night two bears arrived at the
Pear Tree Pub, which is a cute little pub in a tiny village in Cornwall.
All day they had been stealing honey and buns from nearby cottages, and
so they decided to have a few beers.
Two moles named McCarthy and
MacCormac saw the honey jars and the buns on the cart which the bears
had parked behind the pub. Being very interested in these items but
unable to steal them because the bears had secured them with chains, the
moles decided on a different approach. ...
- Animal Quiz
-
"We are sinking!" - Berlitz ad
Taking a closer look at this very funny ad on youtube - with
instructions
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ACHMED THE DEAD TERRORIST
taking a closer look at this terribly funny ventriloquist on youtube -
comprehension questions
- DETOUR: Achmed is a suicide bomber -> worksheet focussing on
words ending in -mb (drop the "b" in bomb, dumb, etc)
- FUNNY QUIZ: A Farewell to Legs ?? Distorted titles of
famous novels, films, and plays - with solutions
(you may have guessed it: Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms )
- MONTY PYTHON SKETCH : I'D LIKE TO HAVE AN ARGUMENT
Not really an entire worksheet but mostly an introduction to watching
this incredibly hilarious sketch (also found on youtube), focussing on
the grammatical aspect, i.e. short answers (Yes, you did. - No, I
didn't.)
- Draw your own GRAFFITI: instructions on how to draw serious,
humorous, satirical, or political graffiti, including 2 examples. Can
be used just for fun or within a certain context that was dealt with
in class.
- Das Ei vom London Eye: I took a funny photo on the Thames
when I was in London recently. It shows one ovoidal (egg-shaped)
capsule of the London Eye being taking somewhere in a boat.
What can you do with it?
You can show your students this extraordinary photo and talk about it
in connection with the London Eye and other famous London sights.
You can ask them to invent and write down a story about the
"egg". It could be funny and/or thrilling, but it should be
interesting and original.
- Spiegelei = mirror egg?? apple moose =
Apfelmus??
A playful exercise/quiz focussing on false friends and on dead
metaphors - after all, the German word Spiegelei is
surely a dead metaphor (though for those who learn German it may well
be a very vivid metaphor) - with solutions
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A German Limerick for free
Here's a submarine Limerick I wrote a couple of years
ago:
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Es war mal ein ganz kecker
Thunfisch
Der wollte 'nen Haifisch zum Nachtisch.
Da sagte ein Rochen
"Det kannste net mochen
Det kannste uff keenen Fall tun, Fisch."
*
Feel free to use this piece of art in more or less
advanced language courses ...
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UNIQUE STUFF
In this department you will find things written/created by myself -
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Suchen Sie noch ein originelles (Buch-)Geschenk
für Ihre Lieben oder für sich selbst?
Wie wäre es mit dem folgenden, von
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mit dem jeweiligen fiktiven Titelbild in Farbe
123 Seiten
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NÄHERES:
NICHT ZU FASSEN
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"The
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Song:
"MAGGIE
T'ATCHER WE ARE GOING HOME"
(1 Euro)
A song
about immigration
problems
written by myself a couple of years ago, but quite possibly
still valid today.
(you can also get the song as an mp3 file or listen to it at
youtube)
Here is the beginning:
we
come to dis country
to dis promised land
living life in poverty
we can no longer stand
man say go to England
take
your family
we don’t get tru de customs
very easily
REFRAIN:
Maggie T'atcher we are going home
cos among your people we're alone
in Jamaica sun will shine all day
in UK cold people, not okay
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"INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION"
(1 Euro)
This is a satirical song I wrote. It was inspired by
a text called "Children in the Industrial Revolution" in the
old Learning
English Modern Course Gym 5 (Klett).
You might enjoy it or use it in the classroom (you can also get the
song as an mp3 file or listen to it at
youtube); here is the first verse:
I
ain't gonna work in this coalmine no more
I said, I ain't gonna work in this-here coalmine no more
I'm working all my fingers simply down to the bone
Here at this dark coal-face, always alone
There's coal dust in my lungs
And coal dust in my brain
"Why, that's all part of a Revolution
Called Industrial", they claim.
My
wife ain't gonna work...
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GOETHE:
"THE DEATH DANCE"
(50 cents)
This is my attempt at a translation of Goethe's
famous poem "Der Totentanz", trying to capture both the
imagery and the atmosphere of the original (it has the form of a song
because I also wrote the music to it which you can listen to at
youtube - you can also get the song as an mp3 file.)
You might possibly enjoy it - here is the beginning:
Hark! It is midnight
The sexton looks down
From the church tower
At all those dark graves.
'Tis now the moon
Discovers herself
And the churchyard
It's almost as bright as by day.
Behold! Here's a grave
There's another, they stir
A woman, a man
They do slowly appear
They're followed by others
So quaint and so queer
They're clad in pale shrouds -
The sexton he peers.
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Satire:
"KEEP ON RUNNING:
HAYFEVER AS A TOPIC IN 60s and
70s POP SONGS"
(1 Euro)
A humorous satire written by myself (790 words), including the amazing
though little known song
Hay
Fever Blues.
Here is an excerpt:
... There
was a song released by another group in that very same year which
became much more famous, catapulting them to the top of the hit parade:
"Keep on Running" by the Spencer Davies Group.
It is remarkable how the group tried to provoke some kind of shock and
dismay by means of personification: in a kind of dialogue with his own
nose the lyrical I is eventually convinced of the inevitability of his
fate and, asking the nose to "keep on running", finally
accepts it. Two years before the Kinks had gone one step
further by personifying the pollen itself in "You Really Got
Me". This stylistic means was picked up some months later by
the Dave Clark Five in "Catch Us if You Can".
With the title already suggesting the sarcasm and cynicism which
prevails throughout the song, it is hardly surprising that most radio
stations in the United States refused to play it.
...
NOTE: This satirical text can also be found (and enjoyed) at
youtube
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Science Fiction Short Short Story:
"Failure"
( 1 Euro )
- a science fiction short short story written by myself.
It has only got 106 words - what can you do with it?
a. you can read it just for fun
b. you can analyse it as an example of a punch line / surprise
ending
c. you can analyse it as an example of the importance of point of
view
d. you can use it in a test or a Klausur because it is a complete
short story and because there is a lot in it, in spite of its
shortness
Here is the beginning:
The
spaceship had orbited the planet for two days. Dozing lazily in his
seat, the captain was suddenly awakened by the exo-biologist.
"Well, what have you found out?", he said with a look of
expectancy.
The exo-biologist hesitated slightly. ...
- Creative writing: An
incredibly inadequate translation of this short short story into German
by a translation programme is supposed to induce students to
a. chuckle and
b. write a better one.
Here is the amazingly ridiculous first sentence:
Das Raumschiff hatte den Planeten für zwei Tage in Umlauf gebracht.
NOTE:
This worksheet comes as a bonus with the story itself
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Wahlbrinck/Probst:
"Die Geschichte vom Stuhl und der
Lampe"
(2 Euro)
Diese märchenhafte Geschichte (800 Wörter, 3 exzellente Bilder) wurde von mir geschrieben und von Maxim Probst, einem
ehemaligen Schüler, in genialer Weise bebildert. Hier ist der Anfang
der Geschichte:
Auf dem Dachboden eines alten Hauses stand einmal ein alter Stuhl. Er
war schon ganz kaputt und stand ganz wacklig auf 3 Beinen. Neben ihm
stand eine alte Lampe, die auch schon bessere Tage gesehen hatte.
"Hör mal," sagte die Lampe, "ich bin
total traurig, weil ich so alt bin und gar nicht mehr leuchten kann,
denn meine Birne ist schon lange kaputt."
"Du
bist gut," sagte der Stuhl. "Ich bin alt und schwach und
morsch und habe nur noch drei Beine. Wenn sich einer auf mich
draufsetzt, krache ich bestimmt zusammen."
Und sie fingen beide ein bisschen zu weinen an, weil sie
so traurig waren.
Da sagte der Stuhl: "Mensch, ich hab ne Idee. Statt
hier oben auf dem Dachboden rumzustehen und zu weinen, sollten wir
lieber in die weite Welt hinausziehen. Vielleicht finden wir sogar
jemanden, der uns repariert."
"Gute Idee," sagte die Lampe. "Los
geht's."
Sie schlichen
sich die steile Dachbodentreppe herunter, zwängten sich durch die
Haustür und machten sich auf den Weg ins Abenteuer.
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"MUTTERTAG"
Ein von mir geschriebenes lustiges Gedicht, das auf der
Doppelbedeutung von "Mutter" basiert. (1 Euro)
Hier die ersten Zeilen:
Sagt die Mutter zu der Schraube:
"Heut ist Muttertag, ich glaube,
Dass ich ein Geschenk verdiene.
Doch warum die böse Miene?"
Sagt die Schraube ...
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LÜNEBURGER HEIDE
Ein von mir gemalter Cartoon (Aquarell), der auf der
Doppelbedeutung von "Heide" basiert und gut als Grundlage für das Thema
"Wortspiele" genutzt werden kann (1 Euro)
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Satire:
"GENETIC EFFECTS ON CHILD BEHAVIOUR"
(50 Cents)
A satirical text (286 words) written by myself which ironically deals
with the theme of modern genetics and its alleged findings concerning
the behaviour of children. Extract:
Two
scientists at the University of Berkeley, California, have now
discovered a gene that induces children to balance on low walls,
especially stone walls. When asked how long it had taken them to find
the curious gene, Dr. Carl Luce replied, "Er... to tell you the
truth, we hadn't been looking for this gene at all. Actually, since
1951 Gene and I - " (he is referring to Dr. Eugene Axe here)
"had been looking for this other gene that is supposedly
responsible for the fact that most of the time toddlers put the left
boot on the right foot, and vice versa. And we were just fiddling
around there when all of a sudden we bumped into this wall gene."
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How do I get these fascinating things? |
| Satire:
"WER WAR EIGENTLICH AL DENTE ?"
(50 Cents)
Here is the introduction of this satirical
text:
Alfonso Gabriel della Dente (1904-1962?),
besser bekannt unter dem Namen Al Dente, war der Lieblingsneffe von
Al Capone (1899-1947). Er wuchs in Neapel bei seinem Vater, einem
Zahnarzt, auf und wurde 1921 von seinem Onkel nach Chicago in die USA
geholt, wo gerade die Prohibitionszeit begonnen hatte. Dort machte sich
Al Dente in einschlägigen Kreisen schnell einen Namen dadurch, dass er
in so genannten Speakeasies illegale alkoholhaltige Nudelgerichte
verkaufte; berüchtigt waren seine garantiert bissfesten Noodles and Pins.
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| THE BEARS AND THE
MOLES
My own feeble attempt at writing a fable in
the style of James Thurber, also paying homage to the great humorist
(50 Cents)
Here is the beginning:
One night two bears arrived at the Pear
Tree Pub, which is a cute little pub in a tiny village in Cornwall. All day
they had been stealing honey and buns from nearby cottages, and so they
decided to have a few beers.
Two moles named McCarthy and
MacCormac saw the honey jars and the buns on the cart which the bears had
parked behind the pub. Being very interested in these items but unable to
steal them because the bears had secured them with chains, the moles decided
on a different approach. ... |
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Walter de la Mare/Bernd Wahlbrinck:
"THE LISTENERS"
My attempt at using de la Mare's fantastic ballad as the
lyrics of a folk rock song. I tried hard to capture the eerie atmosphere of
the poem - it is up to you to decide whether I succeeded...
(mp3 - 1 Euro)
Oh, by the way - you can also enjoy it at
youtube
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| Für Fans von Mark Twain (a.k.a.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens):
Examensarbeit (1. Staatsexamen):
MARK TWAINS
AUSEINANDERSETZUNG
MIT DEM
AMERIKANISCHEN IMPERIALISMUS
12 Euros
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| NOTE:
Special reductions if you order several unique things (and/or
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RECOMMENDED STUFF
Not necessarily for teaching it -
but certainly just for enjoying it ...
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| FICTION |
NON-FICTION |
FILMS |
- DAN
RHODES: GOLD
Folks, this novel is a rare treat indeed. It was really
"unputdownable" (quotation from the back cover), except
after the first 160 pages I had to call it a day and finish it off the
next day.
It's very funny, it's very human, it's full of little surprises,
including the language which Rhodes can play with incredibly well.
Also, it's very Welsh, even though the author is in fact from Devon. In
fact, it reminded me strongly of THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT
CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN (the novel and the movie), and WAKING NED
(DEVINE).
I wouldn't be surprised if they made this novel into a terrific movie,
too ...
In any case, do go out of your way and beg, steal, or borrow this book!
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- Frank
Worsley: Shackleton's Boat Journey
For anyone fascinated with stuff connected with Shackleton's famous
Antarctic explorations, this book is a must. It focusses on the boat
journey, i.e. the last part of the whole incredible journey, and it is
written by Worsley himself, which means by the man because of whose
amazing expertise 6 men were able to cross an area which must be one
of the oceans' worst in a tiny 7 metre boat. I saw that boat at
Dulwich College in August 2010. Truly amazing.
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- LIMBO
(aka Wenn der Nebel sich lichtet)
Limbo is a fascinating movie - no Hollywood stuff, but independent
film-making of a very high quality. Most of all I like the two main
characters played by David Strathairn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
The way they get to know each other is very tender, very convincing,
and also funny at times. I particularly like the scene in the bar when
she comes to his table after singing a song, and they start revealing
little bits about themselves to each other - that's fascinating
acting, and fascinating dialogue too.
As for the much-disputed ending - oh well, I don't want to give away
too much, but director/writer/editor John Sayles says in his DVD
commentary (highly recommended) that it was the only ending that
seemed appropriate to him, and maybe he's right...
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