Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher)
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.
(Frank Smith, British psycholinguist)
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
(Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher)
Wir alle kommen täglich ganz nebenbei mit Englisch in Kontakt, meistens durch Musik oder im Internet. Der unmittelbare Kontakt zu Leuten mit Englisch als Muttersprache ist dennoch am spannendsten.
Austausch mit Swavesey bei Cambridge: ein Kurzbericht von zwei Teilnehmerinnen 2016
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination, it is the property of the language itself.
(Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet and Nobel Laureate)
Empfehlung: Lies zuerst das Buch bevor du den Film schaust!
In der Regel geht einiges verloren bzw. wird stark verändert bei der Umwandlung in das andere Medium.
Danach den Film auf Englisch schauen ist eine wertvolle Hilfe für Aussprache und das Hörverständnis.
Außer für Oona Frawley's „Flight“ gibt es annotierte Ausgaben verschiedener Schulbuchverlage.
Sprachniveaus (nach dem Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmen GER)
A1 = Kl. 5/6 (Anfänger / Elementary)
A2 = Kl. 6/7 (mit guten Grundlagen / Lower-intermediate)
B1 = Kl. 7/8/9 (Fortgeschrittene / Intermediate)
B2 = Kl. 10/11 (weiter Fortgeschrittene / Upper-intermediate)
C1 = Kl. 11/12 (sehr gute Kenntnisse / Advanced)
C2 = Kl. 11/12 (Experte / Proficient)
Hewitt, Philip | Emma and the boy next door | England, friendship, new in town |
MacAndrew, Richard | A Little Trouble in Dublin | Ireland, detective story |
Lambert, Dave | The Creature in the Night | England, horror |
Wilde, Oscar | The Canterville Ghost | England, ghost story, friendship |
Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars | Denmark 1943, war, anti-semitism, heroism |
Aziz, Hamida | The Secret of Whispering Island | Canada, friendship, detective story |
Johnson, Margaret | The Secret of Whispering Island | first love, special needs (deafness) |
Tomlinson, Brian | Superbird | science-fiction, starship, mystery |
Smith, Bernard | The Man from Nowhere | plane crash, survival in the desert |
Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games | gender roles, responsibility, dystopian world |
Ihimaera, Witi | The Whale Rider | NZ, ethnicity, environment, gender issues |
Levoy, Myron | Alan and Naomi | friendship, after the holocaust |
Lowry, Lois | The Giver | ethics, dystopian world |
Marchetta, Melina | Looking for Alibrandi | Australia, identity, growing up, friendship |
Matas, Carol | Cloning Miranda | ethics, identity, coming-of-age |
Monk Kidd, Sue | The Secret Life of Bees | US Civil Rights Movement, coming-of-age |
Fitzgerald, F. S. | The Great Gatsby | American Dream, “Jazz Age”, relationships |
Foer, Jonathan S. | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | boy comes to terms with loss of father post-9/11 |
Frawley, Oona | Flight | Ireland, migration, multiculturalism |
Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | ethics, genetics, dystopian world |
Jhabvala, Ruth P. | Heat and Dust | British Empire, India, gender roles |
Uhry, Alfred | Driving Miss Daisy | black issues in the US (play) |
The English language surrounds us like a sea, and like the waters of the deep it is full of mysteries.
(Robert McCrum, co-author of “The Story of English”)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 (Hörtexte, podcasts)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.merriam-webster.com
https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/ (für Anfänger gedacht, z.T. mit Illustrationen; aber einsprachig)