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Gefragt wurde nach persönlichen Vorlieben, Orten, Eindrücken und Überzeugungen, die Englisch zu etwas Besonderem gemacht haben. Außerdem wurde Gelegenheit gegeben, Empfehlungen auszuspechen, die helfen können, die Freude an der Sprache und den Ländern zu vergrößern und so Englisch zu einem intensiven Erlebnis werden zu lassen.

Die Fragen gehen an:
Nanette Schmidt-Bender (Englisch, Deutsch)

Your favourite book, movie, play . . .
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (novel and film)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (novel)
Shakespeare in Love (film)

Your favourite place in the English speaking countries to spend your holidays in:
Orkney Islands
Bristol & Bath
Lake District
Wales
Greenwich

Your favourite quotation / motto / joke:
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Which grammar books / exercise books / vocabulary books / language holidays . . . would you recommend to your students to improve their English?
Alt, aber bewährt: Advanced Modern Practice (Learning English / Klett-Vlg.) für Oberstufe
Keep Fit In Grammar (Klett) für Mittelstufe

Which other books would you recommend?
Paul Auster, Moon Palace
Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault
Liam O'Flaherty, Famine
Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

Your favourite links on the internet:
www.usembassy.de/usa





Die Fragen gehen an:
Andreas Weil (Englisch, Geschichte)

Your favourite book, movie, play . . .
1984
Blade Runner
Macbeth

Your favourite place in the English speaking countries to spend your holidays in:
Ireland

Your favourite quotation / motto / joke:
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." (A. Einstein)

Which grammar books / exercise books / vocabulary books / language holidays . . . would you recommend to your students to improve their English?
grammar:
Raymond Murphy, Essential Grammar in Use

Martin Hewings, Advanced Grammar in Use

Which other books would you recommend?
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Your favourite links on the internet:
www.wagner-juergen.de/englisch/





Die Fragen gehen an:
Mark Klein (Deutsch, Englisch)

Your favourite book, movie, play . . .
Richard Wright: Waiting Son (book)
Night on Earth (movie)
A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

Your favourite place in the English speaking countries to spend your holidays in:
South Africa

Which grammar books / exercise books / vocabulary books / language holidays . . . would you recommend to your students to improve their English?
Englisch-Basiswissen Schule (Duden-Verlag) für Mittelstufe
Englisch-Basiswissen Schule Abitur (Duden-Verlag) für MSS

Which other books would you recommend?
John J. Graves: The Swordsman (7-8)
Norman Silver: No Tigers In Africa (9-10)
Charles Webb: The Graduate (11-12)

Your favourite links on the internet:
spiegel.de/international  (news)
IMDB.com  (movie database)





Die Fragen gehen an:
Marina Strüver (Englisch, Philosophie)

Your favourite book, movie, play . . .
Iris Murdoch, "The Unicorn"
Reality Bites (film)

Your favourite place in the English speaking countries to spend your holidays in:
Great Britain, preferably Manchester & London
Australia (Gibb River Road, Kimberleys)

Your favourite quotation / motto / joke:
Two roads diverged in the wood
I took the one less travelled by
That has made all the difference (Frost)