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• Beispiellösung (Schülerinnenoriginal)

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Weeks 19-21

• exam prep
• Here you’ll find further videos and articles on some of our topics.

Week 18

• Understanding comm exam tasks (Padlet)

• Equality / homosexuality / reproduction technology: “How to make a baby“
• “Racism: a history” (video)

Week 16

• Gender equality: What if women were stronger than men?

Week 14&15

• Prüfungsvorbereitung mit concept maps

Week 13

• Listening comprehension

Week 12

• “Maps that explain the world” (part 1, part 2) – choose the 5 maps you find most interesting and comment on them.

Week 11

• America’s global reputation (article)
• Three cartoons on how Trump has changed world politics (1, 2, 3)

• Tim Cook, Donald Trump and the MacPro (podcast – 24:04′ – 46:34′)

Weeks 8-10

• media bias – analyzing the role of major UK news outlets in the upcoming general election (Padlet)

Week 7

• BREXIT:
• The geographical and political map of Britain (video)
• Brexit explained at least till March 2019 (video)
• The Irish problem (video)
• Explaining and predicting Boris (video)
• Why did England’s North vote to leave the EU? (video)
• How Boris Johnson’s deal would work (video)
• vocab (Quizlet)

Week 6

• “Who do we let in?” What people in the UK think about immigration

• vocab (Quizlet)

Weeks 5

• The British Empire

• vocab (Quizlet)
• Migrant children in ICE detention (Padlet / vocab)

Weeks 3&4

• Hispanics in the US:
• “Illegal” – short documentary about the Dream Generation
• “Generation 1.5“
• “Life in Spanglish“
• “Hispanics and the American Dream“
• vocab (Quizlet)
• Exam preparation:

• Mock exam: Dream act

• Writing a text-based composition:

“Her struggle isn’t over“ (l. 29). Explain the quotation in relation to the text. (A life risking journey)

Then give further examples of the struggles and challenges immigrants face in their new country.

Week 2

• How to present a TED-talk (pdf)
• Immigration stories:
• Documentaries: (Link 1, link 2, link 3)
• Listening comprehension: A life risking journey

Week 1

• Immigration: “Belongings“
• Answer key relative clauses (pdf)

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2018/19

Weeks 37

• Creativity is working with constraints (Padlet)

Week 34

• LGBTQ – Kaleb and Kordale: America’s new model family

Week 31

• The American Dream sketchnote template to organize your thoughts
• Defining the American Dream (video)
• Oprah and the American Dream (text)
• Whose dream is it anyway? (video)
• Race and the American Dream (text in German)
• The new American Dream (TED talk)
• Is the American Dream dead? (text)
• “The American Dream is back” (text)

Week 30

• Monday: personal syllabus lesson
• Check out news about the American constitutional crisis (in English / in German)

Week 29

• Race and terror in Charlottesville (video)
• Trump’s voters (video)
• A constitutional crisis (video)

Week 28

• USA – political system TASK
• USA – political system 1 (student Padlet)
• USA – political system 2 (student Padlet)
• USA – political system 3 (student Padlet)

Week 27

• Globalisation in theory: “The five gas stations of the world“
• Globalisation in practise: “Conflict minerals, rebels, and child soldiers in Congo“
• Personal learning sets from the class test (Padlet)

Week 26

• Globalisation explained
• Class test: text-based composition

Week 25

• First World Problems (video)
• Text-based composition:

“If two people cut their meat in half it helps as much as one person going completely vegetarian.”
Explain the quotation in relation to the text and give further examples of how changing our consumption patterns could make a positive impact in our world.

Week 24

• Learn about the food of tomorrow (Padlet)

Week 23

• Listen to our new podcast “WE KNOW WHAT WE DID LAST LESSON” on Spotify, or via RSS on any other podcasting app.
• Deepen your knowledge about ethical shopping on these learning paths.
• You are what you eat, aren’t you?
• Download the Keynote template “social media profile“

Weeks 21&22

• Learn about a zero-waste lifestyle here.
• Read this interview with a local woman who lives a zero-waste lifestyle. Turn the interview into a 200-word newspaper article IN ENGLISH. Upload your article here (Padlet) for feedback.
• Find the important lesson vocab on Quizlet.

Weeks 19&20

• How to make a podcast
• Can fashion ever be sustainable?
• Reading comprehension / Leserverstehen im Abi:

– Du musst 10 englische Aussagen über den Text auf ihre Richtigkeit überprüfen.
– Die Reihenfolge der Aussagen entspricht der Chronologie des Textes.
– Die jeweilige Entscheidung, ob die Aussagen richtig oder falsch sind, ist mit einem Textzitat zu belegen (Anführungszeichen!).
– Das Zitat muss sich auf inhaltlich relevante Teile der Textstelle beschränken.
– Es dürfen keine ganzen Abschnitte zitiert werden!
– Genaue Zeilenangabe machen!
– Auslassungen nicht relevanter Textstellen mit drei Punkten in eckiger Klammer kenntlich machen!
– Klaren Bezug zur Aussage herstellen!
– Es gibt nur ganze Verrechnungspunkte!

• Upload your tasks sets and answer keys here.

Week 18

• Task:
  1. Use this NPR web-app to learn about how t-shirts are made.
  2. Have a conversation with a partner about what you’ve learned.
  3. Make an audio recording of your conversation and upload it to this Padlet.

Week 17

• Black Mirror

Week 16

• The 2018 News Quiz
• News Quiz vocab follow-up

Week 15

• class test: video composition

Week 14

• Activism: Greta Thunberg

Week 13

• N/A
• Monday: personal syllabus lesson (add. online exercises)

Week 12

• GMOs (text and video)
• “Issues with Insta” (task)
• results and feedback

Week 11

• The internet of things (worksheet)
• “Humans need not apply” (template for your visual notes)

Week 10

• Skype Translator (activities)
• Useful language
• Experimenting with online translation apps (Padlet)

Week 9

• class test: pro/con composition

Week 8

• Learn about the greenhouse effect in this funny video.
• Explain the greenhouse effect in your own words using the cause-and-effect language patterns in the worksheet. Write about 80 words.
• Partner work: Explain it again (this time without memory aids) while drawing up a sketchnote to support your explanation.
• Stuff to help you: a vocab list on Quizlet, a short video called „climate change 101“.

Autumn break

Week 7

• Biofuels (PDF)
• “Climate change threatens beer production” – the effects of climate change (Padlet)

Week 6

• N/A

Week 5

• Energy sources – an overview
• Friday: personal syllabus lesson

Week 4

• wind energy – pros and cons
• Not in my backyard – cartoon
• calculate your environmental footprint here.
• Revise the most important topical vocab.

Week 3

• Nuclear energy – how it works
• The pros and cons of nuclear energy – an exercise in composition writing
• Still have time? Revise the important vocab on Quizlet.
• Your video compositions about nuclear energy

Week 2

• Mars One I – activities, text, links
• Mars One II – more activities and links
• Leistung, Noten, Gewichtung
• Mündliche Noten – Selbsteinschätzung

Week 1

• N/N

2017/18

TOPIC 1: “My Generation”

Week 1

• Here you’ll find your Quizlet vocab sets.

Week 2

• BlakeS about minimalism
• A trailer for “Minimalism – a Documentary” –  you can watch the whole film on Netflix!
• My recommendation for an online-dictionary: https://de.pons.com/

Week 3

• Creating a podcast recommending a TV-show
• Your podcasts

Week 4

• How to scan documents in iOS11

Weeks 5&6

• Influences on my life (Padlet)

Week 7

• Writing tools (Padlet)

Week 8

• The Marshmallow Test (Padlet)

Week 9

• N/A

Week 10

• How to write a paragraph: exercises

 Week 11

• Procrastination is…
• Composition exercise procrastination worksheet
• Tips for avoiding procrastination
• How to write a pro/con-composition:

Week 12

• Writing an introduction and a conclusion: worksheet

Week 13

• Class test: writing a composition

Choose ONE of the following tasks.

1. Discuss benefits and downsides of being allowed to have digital devices at school.

2. With apps like The Simple Club and YouTube channels like Kahn Academy, do we really still need to go to school?

Week 14

• Having fun with poetry (Padlet)

Week 15

• Composition writing – assessment

TOPIC 2: “The Media”

Week 16

• What the Internet is doing to your brain
• Your summaries (Padlet)

Week 17

• A personal syllabus (Padlet)

Week 18

• Face it, don’t facebook it
• How to write a text-based composition:

Week 19

• Working on your personal syllabus

Weeks 20&21

• Who is to blame? Discussing the role of games and guns in school shootings (Padlet)
• Read up on the topic for your personal syllabus here

Week 22

• Mass surveillance(Padlet)

Week 23

• FOMO – a text-based composition(text)

“A growing number are waking up in the middle of the night” – Explain the quotation in relation to the text and give further examples of the challenges teenagers are facing today because of social media.”

• Example text – possible solution

TOPIC 3: “Regions and Cities”

Weeks 24-31

• School trip project

Week 32

• “Boost your Brain Power”

1. Turn the information in the text into an infographic.

2. Add an audio commentary to explain your graphic in your own words.

3. Upload both to our share-server.

Week 34

• Introducing TED talks (Padlet)