Język angielski –doskonalenie językowe D2

Lake Wobegon Revisited

A Prairie Home Companion: News from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor:

Language and Culture

This 20 hour course will focus on developing English language skills and cultural awareness through a wide spectrum of interactive activities which will include text analysis, vocabulary development, as well as speaking and writing activities. The input will be provided by a selection of podcasts by Garrison Keillor

A Prairie Home Companion: News from Lake Wobegon available on Podbean. The final credit will be based on attendance, active participation and a Project Work prepared by students.

For those students who have participated in the Module before, Lake Wobegon Revisited will provide an extension and a novel perspective.

F. Boyd, D.Quinn, Stories from Lake Wobegon. Advanced Listening and Conversation Skills, Longman, 1990.

I. Brodie, A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy, University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

R. Stebbins, The Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990.

R. Zoglin, Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America, Bloomsbury USA, 2008.

Project Guidelines:

Each student is assigned one podcast and prepares a series of activities which will be presented to the group on a given class date (the podcasts and dates will be assigned during the first meeting so be sure to be present!). A selection of the activities will be conducted with the group on the assigned date. The final (full version of the project, including full script of the assigned podcast) is to be uploaded to group's Google file.

The project should consist of:

1. Front page containing the name of the student and information on the podcast (full link, date).

2. Activities to the assigned podcast. The language level of the activities should be adjusted to the level of the students in the group.

a. Warm-up/introductory activity.

b. Listening activity

c. Vocabulary activity

d. Speaking activity

e. Writing activity

f. Cultural context activity.

3. Script of minimum 10 minutes excerpt of the assigned podcast.

4. Key to the activities.

Grade for the Project will be based on the quality and inventiveness of the activities, accuracy of the script and the quality of the presentation of the project and activities to the group.