Englisch C1 Oberstufe (12)

Wir werfen einen kurzen Blick auf die Entstehung des englischen Gartens und widmen uns dann der Achitektur, die dem Garten zur Vollendung verhalf. Das Zitat von Philip Johnson 'Architecture is the art of how to waste space' trifft besonders auf die Gartenkonstruktionen zu, die auch als 'Follies' bekannt sind. Viele Bilder illustrieren den Vortrag in englischer Sprache.

This course is particularly designed for students at university and other academics. It offers an introduction to academic reading in English and presents methods and strategies how to read academic texts. You will learn how to extract the main ideas of the text, how to read faster and more efficiently, how to deal with unknown words, how to better retain and reproduce what you have read.
Please bring an English academic text that is part of a reading programme.
Cost for copies: 2 EUR.

An advanced English grammar course designed for non-native speakers of English and focusing on grammar topics of the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Advanced grammar is designed to strengthen students’ usage of English grammar in spoken and written discourse.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

This engaging course is for those who have an advanced knowledge of English and who want to keep up with it. The large variety of material will provide an excellent opportunity to improve your conversational skills, enlarge your vocabulary in a wide range of topics, as well as revise grammar as needed. This course is primarily based on speaking and listening skills to help develop your ability to discuss in a group. Current events, articles and games will be used to facilitate conversation.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

In diesem Kurs können Sie sich den Lernstoff eines Standardkurses in 5 Tagen aneignen, wenn Sie regelmäßig teilnehmen und aktiv mitarbeiten. - Bitte beachten Sie die besonderen Teilnahmebedingungen für Bildungsurlaube.

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This course focuses on developing real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Challenging speaking tasks focus on learners' own experience and opinions. Lexical items are seen in context to help learners build a bigger and better active vocabulary. Apart from speaking, listening and reading, writing will be also practised.
Cost for material: 8 EUR

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

This engaging course is for those who have an advanced knowledge of English and who want to keep up with it. The large variety of material will provide an excellent opportunity to improve your conversational skills, enlarge your vocabulary in a wide range of topics, as well as revise grammar as needed. This course is primarily based on speaking and listening skills to help develop your ability to discuss in a group. Current events, articles and games will be used to facilitate conversation.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

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Literature, life-changing books, language learning, the world: maps and facts, differences and changes, types of food; comparisons.

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

The book 'When The Body Says No: Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection' by Gabor Mate shows that people do not become ill despite their lives, but rather because of their lives. Life includes not only physical factors, but also thought and unconscious emotion that influences our physiology. Much disease could be prevented and healed if we fully understood the scientific evidence verifying the mind-body unity. This course offers the possibility to express your ideas and opinion in English about this topic. Both lay and professional are welcome.
Required reading: Gabor Mate, 'When The Body Says No: Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection'.

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

This engaging course is for those who have an advanced knowledge of English and who want to keep up with it. The large variety of material will provide an excellent opportunity to improve your conversational skills, enlarge your vocabulary in a wide range of topics, as well as revise grammar as needed. This course is primarily based on speaking and listening skills to help develop your ability to discuss in a group. Current events, articles and games will be used to facilitate conversation.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

This course sets out to improve your general, business and intercultural communication in English, while encouraging participants to reflect on their own attitudes and experiences concerning intercultural differences. The aim is to introduce various ideas regarding constructive, diplomatic and intercultural English in conversation and in meetings as well as provide students and working professionals with an introduction to theory and practice of intercultural business communication. Course work will include readings and discussions on key cultural dimensions, as well as critical case studies between cultures for discussion.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

Storytelling is a basic human activity. Why we tell stories may differ from case to case. Stories exist to delight, instruct or console us. Some stories warn; others enlighten and inspire. At the root of the narrative urge is the conviction that there are some truths we can only express in stories. This course is an analysis of such stories to find and express their meanings. Participants will be required to read, analyse and express their ideas in a class discussion.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

Am Ende der Stufe C1 können Sie ein breites Spektrum anspruchsvoller, längerer Texte über konkrete und abstrakte Themen verstehen. Sie können implizite Bedeutungen erfassen und Sprachkomponenten wie Ironie, Anspielungen, Doppeldeutigkeiten und Spitzfindigkeiten erkennen. Sie können sich fließend und strukturiert zu komplexen Sachverhalten äußern, ohne deutlich erkennbar nach Worten suchen zu müssen sowie verschiedene Mittel zur Textverknüpfung angemessen verwenden.

This engaging course is for those who have an advanced knowledge of English and who want to keep up with it. The large variety of material will provide an excellent opportunity to improve your conversational skills, enlarge your vocabulary in a wide range of topics, as well as revise grammar as needed. This course is primarily based on speaking and listening skills to help develop your ability to discuss in a group. Current events, articles and games will be used to facilitate conversation.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.

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Concepts of space: spaces in cities, crime and surveillance, appearances, photos and images, fakes and forgeries; passive voice, present perfect.

Is the eurozone showing itself to be a false step towards unity? Is it threatening to drive its members apart - Brexit? Present neoliberal political and economic strategy cloaks itself in universalism while blocking any alternative body of thought. There is an alternative, of course. This course seeks to wade through the currents of the global political economy and to offer the participant a clearer understanding of the muddy waters called the global economy. It is geared towards the layperson, student and working professional at an advanced level. The aim of this course is for the participants to improve their discussion abilities and to deepen their understanding of concepts concerning the global economy. Participants will be expected to read current event articles as well as listen to interviews.
Recommended films before participation: Watch the following films on Netflix: The Big Short; Requiem for the American Dream; The Inside Job. Recommended reading: The Unconscious Civilization by Jon Ralston Saul.
Please be prepared to pay 3 € for copies.