Today’s work:
- those who haven’t produced/uploaded their test-mp3 on “Climatic Change”: do so, please (explanations see last week)
- two (who?): from the inaugural addresses last Thurs: list of examples of rhetorical means from all addresses covered –> word.doc (schule/server/donath/en72)
- two (who?): from the inaugural addresses last Thurs: list of examples of ‘US basics” from all addresses covered –> word.doc (schule/server/donath/en72)
- Obama-group USA: NYT “A New Day” –> hopes & expectations –> word.doc (schule/server/donath/en72)
- Obama-group Germany: ZEIT –> hopes & expectations –> word.doc (schule/server/donath/en72)
- everybody: work on last week’s tasks (in Obama-groups ==> hopes & expectations GB, France, Spain, Italy, etc. and/or individually to prepare an Obama/Climatic Change podcast)
@18.00 h –> watch CNN for Obama’s inaugural address live, text of address will be analyzed tomorrow
Das Erste: 17:03 – 18.50h: Ein Fest für Obama
Die Amtseinführung des neuen US-Präsidenten
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Here are your podcasts: http://donaths-armee.podspot.de/
This is the plan for our final SF-term: 
Topic 1: “Climatic Changes” (in pairs)
Topic 2: “Obama: hopes, changes, reality” (4 groups)
- group 1: American perspective (CNN & others)
- group 2: British perspective (BBC & others)
- group 3: German perspective (SPIEGEL & others)
- group 4: European perspective (various websites)
To be learnt: discussion techniques (panel, debate, etc.)
–> wanted: experts on debates >> more >>world debate
Vocab: Reclam “Discussing in English” >>more 4,00 € –> who orders?
Media:
- mp3-files/individual podcasts on either of the topics above rather sooner than later, let’s start asap
- http://www.podhost.de/ ==> same password for all
- Name: Donaths-Armee; Passwort: semifach
- audacity training >>tutorial
- start today as a test: “My/our attitude(s) towards climatic changes”
- http://donaths-armee.podspot.de/
Time: 9 Tuesdays
Grading:
- vocab learning & usage
- participation in group activities, discussions and debates
- podcast
- comments to other podcasts
- posts in your blogs: at the end of each lesson: this is what I’m working on/this is what I did/this is what I’ll do next time/at home; problems with the new design of wordpress? >>all the explanations
Possible start for the Obama-topic:
GERMANY OFFERS OBAMA DEEPER PARTNERSHIP
‘The US and Europe Standing Shoulder to Shoulder’
By Frank-Walter Steinmeier >>SPIEGEL Online January 12th, 2009
