Watching films not only improves your language skills but can also teach you a lot about the culture, history, society, and life in a country.

This course will give a brief overview of the development of the film industry and deal with a selection of representative films (full length or parts) such as

• The Hate U Give
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• documentary e.g. Inconvenient Truth
• and/or others - always depending on students' interests and preferences

siehe Lehrplan für Englisch

siehe Lehrplan für Englisch

siehe Reifeprüfung

• Arthouse versus Hollywood
• Selected films and their socio-cultural backgrounds
• The role of films in the 21st century in comparison to former times

• analyzing films
• comparing and contrasting film scenes
• language skills (discussions, range of vocabulary,...)

• Lehrervortrag
• Schülervortrag
• verschiedene Sozialformen
• Einzelarbeit
• Partnerarbeit
• Diskussion
• angewandte Methoden
• Analyse
• Recherche
• Brainstorming
• Mindmap

• after discussing film scenes film reviews will be written

• Mitarbeit
• Test

• interest in English and a fairly good command of the language
• interest in different film-genres and the appetite to learn something new
• watch films that students would probably not choose to watch themselves

costs for 1-2 cinema tickets may have to be covered (depends on what is on and students' interests)