WPG Englisch

Main goals

• Improvement of fluency
• Critical approach to various media
• Use of basic academic methods

Methods

• Discussion and debate
• Literary analysis (media texts, books, movies, TV or radio programmes….)
• Research work in the library and on the internet
• Presentations
• Pair, group and project work
• Creative writing, roleplay

Topics

Topics are chosen in accordance with the interests of the respective students and teachers.
Topics in recent courses were, for example:

• Cultural Studies
    e.g. Christmas in Britain and the US
• Countries
    e.g. Geographical and historical aspects of Canada
• History
    e.g. The History of the United States from the Colonial Period to the Civil Rights Movement
• Literature
    e.g. The Development of the American Short Story. Reading and analysis/interpretation of selected American Short Stories of the 19th and first half of the twentieth century
• Movies
    e.g. A Beautiful Mind
• Politics
    e.g. Basic principles of government in the US
• Newspaper articles
    e.g. Brexit articles, etc.