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HW Call Center

Ima­gi­ne you wan­ted to make a fun­ny video about Indi­ans working in a call cen­ter. What ide­as can you come up with?

HW Defining the American Dream

First ima­gi­ne you emi­gra­ted to the US. What would be YOUR Ame­ri­can Dream?

Now watch this New York Times video. As usu­al ima­gi­ne that you want to tell a fri­end / class­ma­te about it.

HW US Citizenship Quiz

Test your know­ledge about United Sta­tes histo­ry, civics and govern­ment. Do QUIZ 1.

Too easy? Then do the full-length QUIZ 2.

HW The Statue of Liberty

Watch this video adapt­a­ti­on of „The New Colos­sus“.

HW Sonnet 29

Befo­re you watch the fol­lo­wing video, think how YOU would visua­li­ze Shakespeare’s son­net 29 (cf. Con­text 21 p. 240 or here). 

HW Pink Tights and Plenty of Props

While wat­ching this hila­rious Rowan Atkin­son sketch, stop the video at least five times and spe­cu­la­te (in Eng­lish) how the sce­ne / joke might develop.

HW Similes and Metaphors

Ima­gi­ne you have to explain (with examp­les) to someone what simi­les and meta­phors are.

Now watch the fol­lo­wing video: 

HW “The Schoolboy”

Watch the fol­lo­wing video. What do you think about it? Do you like e.g. the choice of pic­tures / pho­tos? Is the (rather stran­ge) music appro­pria­te? What would you have done differently?

HW Zur Religionsfreiheit

Stu­dy this „USA Erklärt“ artic­le.

Prepa­re a  talk in which you take the AMERICAN per­spec­ti­ve and explain why the role of reli­gi­on in Ger­ma­ny (e.g. church taxes, reli­gious edu­ca­ti­on in school, etc.) is com­ple­te­ly absurd and should be chan­ged as soon as possible.

HW Connected, but alone?

Watch this speech by Sher­ry Turk­le. From time to time stop the video and sum­ma­ri­ze in your words what she has said. 

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