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• bitte schriftliche Aufgabe "Meine Zukunft" sofort einreichen
• bitte Ihre Niederschrift von dem Torriani-Interview - wie seine Karriere begann (1:55 "das Wichtigste…" - 2:34 "…Hotel Viktoria") - sofort einreichen, Sie bekommen dann den genauen; Übersetzung von diesem Auszug (NICHT vom ganzen Interview!), wie auch Ihre engl. Zusammenfassung (diesmal vom ganzen Interview) ist dann in nächster Zukunft fällig
• fällig am 17.10. (Montag): zweisprachige Beschreibung Ihres Deutsch-Studiums: Wann, wie, wo usw. Sie Ihre Deutschkenntenisse erworben haben (etwa je 1 Seite, in deutscher UND englischer Sprache). Geben Sie Tatsachen ("I took three years of Spanish in high school), aber beschreiben Sie auch die Umstände und Lernmethoden ("We sat in the language lab twice a week and repeated meaningless phrases"), und bewerten Sie Ihre Erfahrung und Kompetenzen ("I was bored most of the time, but I think I actually learned survival skills, and then improved a lot when I spent a month in Austria").
• Third writing assignment (due Monday 31 October): Your personality, other people's personalities and behaviors, and how that relates to your feelings about the workplace and your career. Read the questionnaire "Die 'Big Five' Persönlichkeitstest" and write a one-page description of your personality, with particular attention to how that relates to job and career preparation and activity. Specific things to address: How your personality has helped (or not) in your studies, how you interact with other people, how your strengths can make you a more employable and even happier person. Try to discuss 5 or more distinct features. For THREE of those features, give a concrete example of your thoughts and actions. ONE of those examples must be from the past, rather than from your present situation and work/study activity. It may help you to choose a personality descriptor (zurückhalltend, vielseitig) and do an internet search on that feature in combination with "ich über mich", to find a web page of someone perhaps like yourself, whose language you can then plunder. To steer away from dating sites you might add some "filter" words, like "Lebenslauf" (résumé) and references to job titles or specific interests. Here are two examples: thumbnail self-descriptions from a youth group; the detailed biostatement of a woman who writes children's books. We may use part of her text as a translation assignment.
• Third listening assignment (due Wednesday, 2 November): As usual, transcribe and translate. This (0047) is a commercial for a company that started in the US but was then bought by the German Federal Postal System. In keeping with Sitzung 8 and our description of personal traits, the commercial shows two contrasting personalities.
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