way2go! 5, Band für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer

50 transcripts Coursebook (audio + video) the uniform thing. … Ah, and then you don’t pledge allegiance to your flag, like we do. Lizzie: Sorry? Adam: Well, every morning before we start lessons we pledge allegiance to our flag, you don’t have anything like that. Lizzie: O-kay? Adam: And I used to think that it was kind of, you know, old-fashioned, but now I miss it. It’s a reminder of some of our basic values, you know, liberty and justice for all, which is nice. Lizzie: And everybody does that? Adam: I think you can opt out and choose not to say it, and there’ll be no consequences, but yes, almost everybody does it, even the small kids, although they have no idea what ‘allegiance’ means. You stand, and you face the flag, and you put your right hand over your heart and you just mumble along. Lizzie: Wow. I suppose it’s a bit like singing the national anthem. Adam: Only we do it every day. Lizzie: At my friend Emily’s school they say the Lord’s Prayer every day, but then the school is run by Catholic nuns. Adam: But then a lot of things are quite similar to our schools. You also change classrooms for different lessons, for example. We had a student from Austria last year who found this very confusing because, apparently, in Austria it’s the other way round: the students stay in one room and the teachers walk to different classrooms for their lessons. She was always late for the first few weeks because she wasn’t used to walking so much and she always got lost. Also, my school in America is much bigger. Lizzie: Really? Whitehall is quite big, I think, especially when you have to walk from the art room to chemistry lessons. That takes almost 10 minutes. I always have to plan in extra time when I have chemistry. Adam: Hm, well we’ve got this huge sports hall which is at least twice the size of yours, for competitions, you know, and shows that the cheerleaders put on, and for pep rallies when the whole school gathers to send off one of the teams, football, for example, or basketball, when they have an important game coming up. That’s great. You have the marching band playing loud enough to blow the roof off the buildings and the cheerleaders doing their thing, and then the team will walk in and the noise everybody makes just lifts you off your feet … Lizzie: Sounds like fun …We do have a soccer team, but when they play, only some of us come to watch – and the parents, of course, but it’s never as big as that. … Are you coming over to the canteen? Adam: Yes, I am – that’s one thing I really like here, the food you get is SO much better. Unit 04, exercises 2a and 2b ( À 08) Announcer: Listen to Lizzie and Irina talking about food at a café. Lizzie: So, this is the famous Mocca Café. We come here quite often because it’s close to school and it’s quite cheap. They’ve got the most fantastic bacon sandwiches I’ve ever tasted, and their smoothies are also really good. How do you like it? Anna: No way. It’s like really barbaric, but then in my perfect school there wouldn’t be any really bad kids. Interviewer: It sounds too good to be true. Anna: That’s because there wouldn’t be any bad teachers. Interviewer: Ah! Anna: All teachers would have to do exams every year, just like we have to and if they didn’t pass because they didn’t know enough about their subject, then they’d get kicked out of school. Interviewer: Wow, that’s tough. Anna: Well, it’s their job. They should know what they’re teaching. And also they’d have class inspections every year too, to make sure they can keep control of their groups and also to see if they’re teaching in an interesting way. I think too many teachers think they’ve got their job for life so they don’t have to make an effort to get the kids interested in their subjects. Interviewer: OK, one final change. What’s it going to be? Anna: The subjects they offer in schools. I know that it’s important to do things like English and maths and science and all that stuff, but they could offer some more interesting subjects too. I mean it’s all right for the boys because there’s lots of subjects they like – you know metal work and woodwork and computer studies and stuff like that. I know girls can do them too but there’s not really many girls that are interested in stuff like that. The only girl’s subject is food technology. Interviewer: What’s that? Anna: Food technology? It’s just cooking really. Food technology and home economics. It’s so sexist. Interviewer: So what subjects would you like to see introduced? Anna: Well, I want to be a fashion designer when I finish school, so I’d like to have fashion as a subject. Interviewer: Which is why you want to redesign your school uniform. I understand now. Anna: Exactly. Coursebook, Unit 03, exercise 13a ( À 07) Announcer: Listen to Adam and Lizzie talking about the differences between going to school in the US and the UK. Lizzie: Hi, Adam, how are you? Adam: Hi there! I’m fine, thanks. Lizzie: So how does it feel to be going to school in Britain? Are there many differences to your school in the US? Adam: Hm, now that you ask, yes, there are … I keep noticing new things every day, and sometimes I’m quite confused. Lizzie: Like what? Adam: Well, uniforms, for one, we don’t have them, so this is really new for me – and sometimes they’re not very comfortable. The shoes, for example, I’m used to wearing my sneakers all the time, but here I can’t. Lizzie: Must be nice to be able to choose what you wear to school. Adam: I don’t know. I suppose I don’t really have a problem either way, but my sister, for example, she goes to this really stuck-up school where there are a lot of little cliques among the girls because of what they wear, and she’s not really interested in clothes at all, so she sometimes has a hard time – I’m sure she’d like Nur zu P üfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv