Study Case: Links und Unterrichtsmaterialien - Heisenberg-Gymnasium Karlsruhe
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Class 11b - English

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    NEWS: TV and movie script writers in the US are on strike.
    How will this influence popular TV shows? (08/11/07)



    Some lines from the report - Were you able to understand them?

    "The action is against the alliance of motion picture and television producers over payments from DVD sales and digital downloads."

    "When I leave here, I'll be joining the writers who are right now picketing outside '30 Rockefeller Plaza', which is the last place we wanna be today, but we will be there as long as it takes."

    "I don't see anything good coming out of it, one way or the other"
    		Vocabulary

    major very big
    impact effect, influence
    Writers Guild of America (WGA) A union (Gewerkschaft) for writers
    payment Zahlung
    (to) script (to) write for television or Hollywood
    TV screen Fernseh-Bildschirm
    noticeable bemerkbar
    industry pros (infml.) industry professionals (Branchenkenner)
    script Drehbuch
    episode Folge
    rerun Wiederholungssendung
    (to) take a show off the air eine Sendung aus dem Programm nehmen
    (to) resolve a strike einen Streik beilegen
    (to) resolve to find a solution
    (to) resume wieder aufnehmen
    (to) cram sth. down sb.'s throat jdm. etwas in den Rachen stopfen
    immediate unmittelbar, direkt
    disappointing enttäuschend
    (to) picket während eines Streiks demonstrieren
    work stoppage Arbeitsniederlegung
    (to) occur auftreten, sich ereignen
    (to) recall (to) remember
    (to) seriously affect ernsthaft beeinträchtigen
    (to) interrupt unterbrechen
    season Staffel
    lose / lose (situation) Situation, in der beide Seiten verlieren
    possibly möglicherweise
    contentious umstritten, streitbeherrscht
    one way or the other so oder so

    Assignment

    Strikes always affect more people than just those they are directed against. Do you think striking is a fair means to an end? (200-300 words)*

    *send it to me via e-mail or hand it in anytime you want during the school year

    (to) affect sb. Auswirkungen auf jdn. haben
    (to) be directed against sb. gegen jdn. gerichtet sein
    means to an end Mittel zum Zweck