The Unbelievable

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quOdF1CAPXs

 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-10vg90ZIy8

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Imagine the following situation: Students´Meeting at University

Individual Long Turn 4-5 min

You study at the Technical University in Graz and you are a students´ representative (Österreichische Hochschülerschaft). There you meet fellow students from all around the world. To get to know each other a little bit better, you organise weekly meetings to discuss several topics. Today you want to talk about paranormal phenomena and superstition. First you introduce the topic giving a short talk:

· Present some superstitious behaviour and famous theories about several phenomena

· Analyse why people tend to believe the unbelievable

· Give your personal opinion concerning the topic

Paired Activity 8-10 min.

With a colleague you discuss the topic. Consider the aspects below:

· discuss several weird theories and movies

· the function of new media and the internet, concerning the spreading of new unbelievable stories

· explain why there is often no 13th floor in hotels

· the credibility of the different kinds of media in general

· evaluate if some of the theories could be true and think if you are superstitious

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1.       Aliens

2.       Pyramids

3.       Voodoo

4.       Flight 19/ Bermuda Triangle

5.       Slenderman

6.       UFO Austria

7.       Ufo Sightings Belgium

8.       Rosswell

9.       Yeti

10.   Ancient Aliens

11.   Zombies

12.   Vampires

13.   Cannibalism

14.   Dracula

15.   Corn circles

16.   Hauted Places

17.   Reincarnation

18.   Fortune telling

19.   Ouija board

20.   Earth holes (Erdlöcher) Austria

21.   Stone circles Austria

22.   Stonehenge

23.   Tumulus St. Michel

24.   Water witching

25.   Machu Picchu

26.   Nazca Lines

27.   Sailing stones

28.   Dragons

29.   Angels

30.   Magic

31.   Terrestrial  radiation

32.   Goblins

33.   Ball lightning

34.   The men who stare at goats 

35. Time travel

36. Sea monsters

37. Number 13

38. Superstition 

39 Superstitious traditions in Austria

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Samuel Backett: Waiting for Godot

https://youtu.be/FqpjddXaw4E

 

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Context:

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He befriended the famous Irish novelist James Joyce, and his first published work was an essay on Joyce. In 1951 and 1953, Beckett wrote his most famous novels, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies,and The Unnameable.
Waiting for Godot, Beckett's first play, was written originally in French in 1948 (Beckett subsequently translated the play into English himself). It premiered at a tiny theater in Paris in 1953. This play began Beckett's association with theTheatre of the Absurd, which influenced later playwrights like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
The most famous of Beckett's subsequent plays include Endgame (1958) andKrapp's Last Tape (1959). He also wrote several even more experimental plays, like Breath (1969), a thirty-second play. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969 and died in 1989 in Paris.
Summary:
Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet near a tree. They converse on various topics and reveal that they are waiting there for a man named Godot. While they wait, two other men enter. Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave, Lucky. He pauses for a while to converse with Vladimir and Estragon. Lucky entertains them by dancing and thinking, and Pozzo and Lucky leave.
The next night, Vladimir and Estragon again meet near the tree to wait for Godot. Lucky and Pozzo enter again, but this time Pozzo is blind and Lucky is dumb. Pozzo does not remember meeting the two men the night before. They leave and Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait.
Shortly after, the boy enters and once again tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming. He insists that he did not speak to Vladimir yesterday. After he leaves, Estragon and Vladimir decide to leave, but again they do not move as the curtain falls, ending the play.

etc.

WRITING TASK! (will be posted on TEAMS)

Absätze (Paragraphs) machen - eine Zeile freilassen!
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ORAL TASK: 

Imagine the following situation: Movie Night at University

Monologue                                                                                           4-5 min

You study at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna (BOKU) and you organise a movie night because you want to get to know other students. For your international colleagues you introduce the play (film) before you show it. (Due to the fact, the play is so deadly boring you just show some important scenes.)

  • Make a short introduction to lead in the play
  • Give reasons why it is worth watching/ discussing it
  • Try to give a short interpretation of this famous play



Dialogue                                                                                                      8-10 min.

After the film you take some drinks with your colleagues. There you converse about:

  • several aspects of the movie, like conformism vs. individualism; etc.
  • analysing the time, the play was written, why is there no happy ending
  • the concept of Carpe Diem/ to seize the day
  • stress and pressure for young people nowadays
  • stress management strategies and concepts of happiness

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