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= General ressources

Vocabulary =

* + All vocab tasks Link/URL
	+ One word a day Link/URL
	+ Free rice (learn vocab and feed the world at the same time) Link/URL

# US

* + Real Clear Poltics (excellent coverage of US electione etc.) Link/URL
	+ Slate (my favorite online mag on politics, arts, entertainment etc.) Link/URL
	+ Salon (left leaning commentary on politics and current affairs) Link/URL
	+ CNN (reliable news channel) Link/URL

# United Kindom

* + BBC News (excellent source of British and world news) Link/URL

# Mini Saga Competition

Write a mini saga with exactly 50 words (+title) on the topic summer day.

Use layout  and different types
to enhance your story!

* + Link to the mini saga competition Link/URL

# Short story presentations

* + Lamb to the Slaughter Datei
	+ The Tell-Tale Heart Datei
	+ Eveline Datei
	+ The Only Man on Liberty Street Datei
	+ A Message from the Pig Man Datei
	+ Charles Datei
	+ Tasks for all groups Datei

# Additional stories read in class

Chopin THE STORY OF AN HOUR
Bierce AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Hemmingway HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS
Kincaid GIRL

* + Video Hills like White Elephants (homework) Link/URL
	+ Short story presentations Link/URL
	+ A Message from the Pig Man Datei
	+ Eveline Datei
	+ Lamp to the Slaughter Datei
	+ The Only Man on Liberty Street Datei
	+ The Tell-Tale Heart Datei
	+ Exam practice: Hemmingway Datei

# Texts and tasks in class

Talking about charts (handout)
Charts and numbers about blacks in the US (handout)
T.C. Boyle Lifeblood of a Nation (NC 174/175)
Jesse Jackson at Wattstax (video&handout)
Jesse Jackson An American Quilt (NC 173)
Liam Fox Immigration (GreenlineNew 108/109)
Film Boys of Baraka
Film A Dream Preferred

* + Film A Dream Preferred on vimeo Link/URL

# US politics

* + Presidential elections wiki Link/URL
	+ Campaign slogans (homework) Link/URL
	+ Down with the American Dream (text) Link/URL
	+ TED talk on separation and balance of power in the US Link/URL
	+ TED talk on the Bill of Rights Link/URL
	+ Presenation Mr Hünemörder US Elections (March 2016) Datei

# Poetry

* + Poetry presentations Link/URL
	+ Grass Datei
	+ http://www.favoritepoem.org/ Link/URL
	+ Strange Fruit Datei
	+ When you are old and grey Datei

# Composition writing

* + Presentation on composition writing Datei
	+ Write a introduction: A gap year after graduation or straight off to university? Aufgabe
	+ Write one well-developed argument on the topic above till Mo 14th March Aufgabe
	+ RMIT University: Paragraph writing (video and interactive tutorial) Link/URL

# Regional identities: California

* + California wiki Link/URL
	+ Songs on California

Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hotel California The Eagles
Why you´d want to live here Death Cab For Cutie
California 2Pac
California Gurls Katy Perry

* + Handouts on California (Context 21 108-111)

Film *Gone West* (Alistair Cooke) http://www.myvideo.ge/v/2768001

### The UK: Politics and Europe

* + Greenline New 42-45

Greenline New 51-52

* + The FT on BREXIT Link/URL
	+ Guardian video on the BREXIT Link/URL

### Northern Ireland and EUREKA STREET

* + Wiki on Eureka Street Link/URL
	+ Short video on The Troubles Link/URL
	+ Mini series EUREKA STREET (BBC) on youtube Link/URL