Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film

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This is a two book series. The first text,German Culture Through Film (in English), covers thirty-one German films. This second text covers fourteen of the same films with emphasis on German language skills. Thus, one or both can be used for courses in German film in English, courses in German film in German, or courses which for various reasons might cater to students taking either track simultaneously in the same course.

Features

Each chapter includes:
~Portions of the screen play, generally 2 or 3 scenes each running a page or two.
~A division of the film into 5 or 6 parts. Each part has a listing of that section’s scenes and a brief summary of the scene. ~Each brief summary is followed by 4-6 questions.
~Vocabulary exercises that require students to match words and expressions in one list with those of another. (A few chapters have grammar exercises.)
~Information boxes that give background on the film as well as history and culture needed to understand the movie.
~At the end, A brief summary (120 words) which recycles vocabulary and asks students to fill in 5-7 mixing vocabulary words.

Market

For courses in German film, or German culture through film, or German conversation through the use of film, as taught at the fifth or sixth semester.  The series is designed to appeal to professors who teach courses in general education, liberal arts, cinema, or who conduct a course in German film exclusively in German, or for where students share the same class (and films) for those two different courses.

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