this movie is a unit in our English book (I'm a German learning English for 5 years).
it fits because the whole unit is about unemployment and pits and so on...
doesn't seem to be a very famous movie but the weighting is very good!
I'd really like to watch it!
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heeehee... in our English book there's a chapter about "my beautiful laundrette"!
woo-hooo slashy goodness! hehe
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laundrette? what is that?
normally the units in our English book are so boring that even the teachers sometimes complain!
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Hey,
you know what, we both use the same English-G 2000 A5-Books at school. Isn't it so? (I'm German, too) I think the Unit is about Yorkshire, coal mining, the industrial revolution and unemployment. I think it's better than the other units...
Finally we persuaded our English Teacher to watch the movie "Brassed Off" in the next English lesson. :-)
Anyway, I think Ewan McGregor is really great...!
Yes it seems so.
Though it was in my English book of last year, so I assume you're in 9th grade.
I have the English G 2000 A6 book this year.
We never watched "Brassed Off" at school, I watched it when it was on TV some time ago - dubbed .
So, where are you from? Or do we have the same English books everywhere in Germany?
I'm screaming at the top of my lungs pretending the echoes belong to someone.
When I hear things like this I'm appalled at how bad language learning is in England. I learnt German at school for 5 years (from the age of 11-16) and there was no attempt to relate it to wider cultural education. The nearest we got to that was a unit about the 'school environment' in which I learnt that you should not take screwdrivers to school as they are dangerous objects - for weeks afterwards we made jokes about the dangers of going to school in Germany ;-)!
I would have loved it if we'd been able to watch German films or even just got to learn about contemporary german culture. I still managed to get an A* which was the highest grade, but of course not having spoken German for 5 years I've forgotten everything! When I've spoken to people from other countries it's the same kind of situation - if the rest of the world can learn English, we really should make more of an effort and I wish England would put more resources in to language learning in schools. You guys are so lucky to have this kind of quality of education. Although when you're forced to learn things at school you don't usually appreciate the opportunities.
How do you mean that with the dangers of going to school in Germany? You think the only problem with violence we have is that someone could bring a screwdriver to school?
It's true though that we don't have much violence at schools, at least where I live.
So we are allowed to bring screwdrivers to school at least it's not forbidden.
You guys are so lucky to have this kind of quality of education. Although when you're forced to learn things at school you don't usually appreciate the opportunities.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. The screwdriver example was just a joke - I meant to show what a simple view our textbook presented of Germany. It made it look as if a screwdriver was the most dangerous thing that you might find in a German school, although I know that there are worse dangers in some schools and there are also safer schools like yours where you don't have those problems. Our textbook generalised everything and didn't relate to real life at all.
And of course I'm generalising when I say that we don't appreciate language learning in England, because some people, including me, do. But it does seem as if other countries lay more emphasis on it, and students achieve a much higher level - for 5 years learning, your English is at a very high level compared to my German, or in fact compared to the level of the majority of students who are taking their foreign language GCSE exams (I can't rememeber the equivalent of these in Germany, but we take them at age 16, when we leave school).
Just out of curiosity, how many hours of english lessons do you have per week? I had 2 hours maximum of German and also 2 hours of French (although at my school most people only did one language). We didn't have many learning resources at our school, although I think a couple of hours per week is average for the country.
We have 3 English lessons every week though it always used to be 4. (I'm in a more scientific course now)
We have Frensh 4 times a week, I don't know why we have more Frensh than English lessons.
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Crazy, isn't it? When you see these people typing in unvelievably perfect english... and you realise how crap our languages are (even though I got A* French- just to point that put XD) and I am jealous of how good they all are!
No no no!! Stop slashing things!!
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