Topics/Themen
- Welcome to the United States of America
- New York – Big Apple
- Colonial History- European Settlement
- Native Americans
- The American Mid-West
- Dreamland California
- The USA and its Multi-ethnic society – German Immigration
- The American Civil Rights Movement
Grammar
Adverbial clauses,
Past Tenses (Simple Past, Past Progressive, Past Perfect
Brtish English versus American English
The Gerund
The to-Infinitive, why/need with to-infinitive, etc.
Revision: Conditionals, Reported Speech, the Passive, the Gerund,
Participal Clauses replacing relative clauses
Genres/Textsorten
Youth books and magazines; reports, fictional and non-fictional texts, drama and film scripts
Activities
Language awareness (sprachliche Phänomene entdecken und erforschen)
Pros and con discussions – the technique of negotiating
Story-telling in the Past Tenses
Open-ended stories
Writing summaries, compositions, letters and Interviews
Erlernen von Arbeitstechniken in der Bearbeitung von Texten
The use of dictionaries /Umgang mit Wörterbüchern
