highly interesting, challenging and funny lectures about the topic by Prof. Michael Sandel, Harvard University.

http://www.justiceharvard.org/2011/03/episode-01/#watch

I especially advice you to watch or read some episodes or questions.

The first one is what you would do if you had to decide whether to kill one person in order to save five!

Another question is if  you think that torture can ever be justified?

In episode 10, for example, the Professor speaks about Aristotle and how the philosopher thinks citizens get virtuous .

Learning by doing seems to be his principle! This expression sounds somehow familiar even to nowadays people, doesn’t

it? Justice is according Aristotle not about income or wealth but about offices and honor.

Another big question arises from Aristotles theory that each should do what he is most fit to do. What about

our freedom not to do what we are most fit for but what we most want to do!

I wish you a great lecture and weekend!

habe gewisse Ausdrücke auf Italienisch übersetzt.

Arbeitsblatt:Ins Krankenh2

Ich muss ins Krankenhaus, posted with vodpod

Link zu Video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xP46MbOQ0&feature=related

Stephan macht seit Ende der 60er Jahre Musik. Er wurde als Sänger der Gruppe “Trio” bekannt. Der Sänger hat zu Anfang seiner Karriere einige

englischsprachige Lieder unter dem Künstlernamen “Rex Carter” veröffentlicht. Sein Vater war amerikanischer Diplomat, weswegen er auch

perfekt Englisch spricht.

Offizielle Webseite: www.stephanremmler.de

Texte:www.stephan-remmler.de >Lieder, mp3, Texte

Am 26.10.201o, einen Tag nach Stephan Remmlers 64. Geburtstag, erschien sein erstes Hörbuch. Er erzählt über das Leben von Keith Richards,

den Gitarristen der Rollings Stones.

Ich empfehle euch ausserdem  die Webseite vom Goethe-Institut London “Step into German“, wo es viel Interessantes  über deutsche Popmusik

zu lesen zu hören  und zu lernen gibt.

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/sig/enindex.htm

I’ve read on IDG News Service

that 150 workers at the Foxconn company (Technology Group) in Wuhan, China have treatened (hanno minaciato) to jump from the building if their compensation demands were not met. I think people must really be desperate to be ready to do something like this.

http://www.cio.com/article/697781/Foxconn_Workers_Stage_Protest_in_Chinese_City?source=rss_news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cio%2Ffeed%2Fsolutions%2F1375+%28CIO.com+-+News%29

und in der taz.de (auf Deutsch) steht,

dass letzte Woche sogar (persino) bis zu 300 Arbeiterinnen (lavoratrici)  der Firma TOXCONN (taiwanische  und weltgrösste Elektronikkonzern) zum Selbstmord (suicidio) bereit gewesen seien,(sarebbero stati pronte al)  wenn der Lohnkonflikt (conflitto salariale) nicht gelöst würde.(non fosse risolto) http://taz.de/Protest-von-Foxconn-Mitarbeitern/!85418/

Zum Worschatz:Deutsch /Italienisch/English

Ich denke, dass Arbeiterinnen schon sehr verzweifelt sein müssen, bevor sie so etwas tun! (Penso che lavoratrici devono già essere molto disperate prima

di fare una cosa del genere.)

Was denkt ihr? What do you think? Cosa pensate voi?

Wer hat Lust Deutsch zu lernen und gleichzeitig zu spielen?

Who feels like learning English and at the same time play a game? For English see further down.

Avete voglia di giocare e nello stesso tempo imparare sia il tdesco che l’inglese? Potete scaricare il tavolo da gioco come anche delle frasi

in relazione a una foto o numero sia in tedesco che in inglese. Abbinate le frasi con le foto/numeri.

Die Spielvorlage zu diesem  SPIEL kann heruntergeladen werden und man kann so viele Kopien machen, wie man braucht.

Ich habe dazu auch Fragenkärtchen erstellt, die im Zusammenhang mit den Bildern und Nummern auf der Spielvorlage stehen.  Fragen-Spiel

Ihr könnt Die Kärtchen auschneiden und dann jeder Gruppe ein Set verteilen.

Hier sind mögliche komplette  Sätze. Es gibt natürlich unzählige Möglichkeiten weitere und schwierigere Sätze zu bilden. Die Sätze können

z.B auch in die Vergangenheit gesetzt und z.B. auch auf Englisch oder Italienisch übersetzt werden.

Dieses Lied von den Wise Guys (Schlaumeier) hat mich  amüsiert und mir auch zu denken gegeben, deshalb

habe ich denText teilweise auf Italienisch und Englisch übersetzt, damit sich auch meine Deutsch-und

Englischlerner damit  beschäftigen können.

Questa canzone mi ha divertito e mi ha anche dato da pensare, perciò ho parzialmente tradotto il testo sia in italiano

che in inglese, affinchè i miei studenti di tedesco e inglese possano occuparsene.

This song has entertained me and at the same time has also made me think. I’ve, therefore, translated it  partially into

German and English so that German and English learners can work on it.

Hier unten könnt ihr die Übersetzung herunterladen/Qui di sotto scaricare la traduzione./Here below you can download the translation.

 WISE GUYS-FACEBOOK-Wortschatz-1

Hört euch das Lied noch einmal an.Asoltate la canzone ancora una volta.Listen once more to the song.

Bei der folgenden Übung müsst ihr die fehlenden Wörter einsetzen./Nel seguente esercizio dovete coplettare le frasi in tedesco.

/In the following exercise you have to complete the sentences in German.

Alles ist in Butter

Vielleicht könnten wir speziell zum Jahreswechsel über den Inhalt nachdenken!

Magari potremmo, soprattutto, per il fine anno riflettere sulle parole di questa

canzone!

Maybe we could, especially towards the end of the year, think about the content

of this song!

In diesem Sinn wünsche ich allen ein GUTES NEUES JAHR./In questo senso faccio a tutti i migliori auguri di

BUON ANNO NUOVO. /In this sense I wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

http://youtu.be/wStyjJgGZCw

Ich möchte alle meinen Freunden, Lesern, Lernern ein frohes Weihnachtfest wünschen, sowie natürlich ein

erfolgreiches 2012.

Vorrei fare a tutti i miei amici, lettori, studenti i miei  migliori auguri di Buon Natale come  pure di un ottimo 2012.

I would like to wish all my friends, readers or students a merry Christmas and a happy New Year

Meine Weihnachtsbeiträge/Le mie contribuzioni natalizie/my Christmas contributions

Mein “Brownies” Rezept/la mia ricetta dei “Brownies”/my Brownies recipe

http://rivella49.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/brownies-im-advent/

Summary of “GREAT EXPECTATIONS” by Charles Dickens :http://rivella49.wordpress.com/filmsbooksed/great-expectations

About “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens:http://rivella49.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/a-christmas-carol/

Weihnachtslieder/Christmas songs/canti natalizi:

http://rivella49.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/stille-nacht-heilige-nachtmerry-christmasbuon-natale/

Weihnachtswünsche/speranze natalizie/Christmas wishes-hopes

http://rivella49.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/special-christmas-song/

Zum Jahr/sull’anno/about the year:http://rivella49.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/zum-jahrabout-the-yearsullanno/

Zum Schluss auch der Link zu meiner Webseite./Last but not least I also add the link to my website.

Vorrei aggiungere anche il link al mio sito : www.langedi49.ch

und http://www.langedi49.ch/langedi49/Blog_1A_Various/Eintrage/2011/12/8_Gedanken_zu_Weihnachten.html

In ultimo, ma non da ultimo il

PENSIERO PER L’ANNO NUOVO DA GIANNI RODARI (famoso scrittore italiano)

Indovinami, indovino,

tu che leggi nel destino:

l’anno nuovo come sarà?

Bello, brutto o metà e metà?

Trovo stampato nei miei libroni

che avrà di certo quattro stagioni,

dodici mesi, ciascuno al suo posto,

un carnevale e un ferragosto,

e il giorno dopo il lunedì

sarà sempre un mertedì.

Di più per ora scritto non trovo

nel destino dell’anno nuovo:

per il resto anche quest’anno

sarà come gli uomini lo faranno.

Zum Beispiel:

Wo sind die Leute?

-Die Leute sind im Museum.

Wo ist das Museum?

- Gehen Sie geradeaus und dann nach rechts/links (destra/sinistra-right/left)

Wohin gehen die Leute?

-Die Leute gehen ins Museum.

Zu welchen Fotos wird im Audio nichts gesagt?

Audio:WOWOHIN2

WO-WOHIN-FOTO1 Arbeitsblatt mit Audio

Zur Grammatik:GRAMMATIK-WO-WOHIN

Blatt zu den Deklinationen des Hauptwortes:

Ihr könnt die Karten auch ausschneiden und in der Klasse mit diesen gruppenweise ein kleines Dorf errichten lassen. Die TN können

dann erklären, wohin sie gehen wollen oder wo sie sind.

1-3

4-6

7-9

10-12

Wenn euch mein Blog/Webseite gefällt, informiert auch eure Freunde darüber und klickt einfach auf Facebook und Twitter!

Edmund de Waal about The Hare with amber eyes, posted with vodpod

Edmund de Waal is the writer of the fascinating book „THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES“

in which tries not only to explain of how the netsukes (very small objects made by Japanese craftsmen) came into the Ephrussi family

but he also writes about the identity of his family, about loss or about  survival of stories.

This is the link to a Hot Potatoes drag & drop exercise which you can correct online.http://www.langedi49.ch/EPHRUSSI.htm

In this video he starts speaking about the netsukes and their story. The object he is holding in his hand is quite heavy, made of ivory,

it’s a well fed or fat hare with self-satisfied amber eyes. It’s from the 1^9th century Japan or Kyoto. This little carving used to be hanging

from a belt.

The writer thinks of going back to when he was 17 years old and when he was being apprenticed as a potter and to the first time he

went off to Japan, to pottery villages and  finally turning up at his great uncle Iggie’s, an elderly Jewish gentleman in Tokyo. There

were books everywhere and there was also a vitrine which lit up and which was full up of  264 ridiculous little netsukes. In the

course of many years Iggie tells Edmund the story  of these tiny things and how they brought him to Tokyo. By the years Edmund

gets more and more involved with Japan.

Iggie tells Edmund that he visited his sister Elisabeth in London after having faught in the 2nd world war for the Americans.

He knew that his father had died and his mother had committed suicide in Austria. Iggie and Elisabeth, E. de Waal’s grandmother,

spoke about the fact that nothing remained of their family, nothing with what they had grown up with was left, except the netsukes.

http://www.edmunddewaal.com/index.html

Iggie doesn’t want to go back to America and does not want to stay in Europe and therefore decides to take the netsukes back home

to Japan. There, these objects have an extraordinary life with him, his partner and their friends.

Foto of the Palais in the Ringstrasse,Vienna:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Palais_Ephrussi_Vienna_June_2006_119.jpg

Iggie tells Edmund about how they grew up in Vienna, about the ridiculous Palais in the Ringstrasse, opposite the University. The

family was then so rich they had servants for everything and horses. For the children, however, there was only one moment in the day

when they could see their mother when she was getting dressed to go out for dinner. She loved to go out and she loved her lovers and

Edmund de Waal has now realized that he has cousins all over the world. In the dressing room there was a vitrine and while the maid

Anna was dressing Emmy, the key was turned and the children were allowed to play with the netsukes. Only in these magic moments

could the children speak to their mother!

But the story starts, in fact, in Paris with Iggie’s uncle Charles who was a famous art collector, art historian and editor and an early

mentor of impressionists. It was him who bought the whole vitrine of netsukes and later fell slightly out of love with them and gave

them to Emmy and Victor as a wedding gift. The young couple, however, did not know either what to do with these objects because

the Palais was already full up of things due to Jewish shopping on an Europena scale. So they put them into the dressing room where

nobody could see them. In Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party 

we can see Charles at the back and he had Proust as his secretary!  Charles became one of the models for Charles Swann in “À la

recherche du temps perdu”. Charles loved everything that had to do with contemporary art.

He lived in Rue Monceau and had a wonderful head of Donatello and on his walls  paintings by Renoir, Degas or Manet.

Edmund de Waal says that he had to make a choice of whether to go back to the very beginning of this Jewish family, to the pact they

made that they would survive in Europe by making themselves invisible.

The writer goes to Odessa and to the shtetl, the family’s very origin.  There he sees the name of maker of these objects and thinks about

going back to Kyoto .

The video ends here, but you should, of course read the book and also start to make inquiries about your family story!

By the way, which character do you like best?

die Tabellen zum herunterladen seht ihr weiter unten.

Das ist der Link zur Hot Potatoes-Übung zum Passiv, die ihr online korrigieren könnt. Welcher der Sätze, die rechts erscheinen wenn ihr auf den Pfeil

klickt passt zum ersten im Aktiv?http://www.langedi49.ch/PASSIVDEUTSCH.htm

Hier sind die Grammatiktabellen zum Passiv.

DAS PASSIV

Bei Schubert habe ich auch eine Übung gefunden, wo ihr die verschiedenen Zeitformen bestimmen könnt.

http://www.schubert-verlag.de/aufgaben/xg/xg09_10.htm