Bildungsstandards für die fortgeführte Fremdsprache (Englisch

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Bildungsstandards für die fortgeführte Fremdsprache (Englisch / Französisch) für die Allgemeine Hochschulreife
Beverly chatted with Charlotte in a dutiful fashion. Nothing she had to say bore
even a hint of the excitement of a girl heading out with another girl, her new roommate,
from another part of the country, on a four-year adventure at a great university.
She spoke to Charlotte from an amicable distance. She spoke with the inflections
of someone who was showing an interest. When Charlotte mentioned how fascinating
the French courses listed in the Dupont catalog sounded, Beverly‟s comment
was that the French are so resentful of Americans these days you can like feel it in
the air when you‟re around them. They were majorly boring, the French.
Beverly had only halfway squeezed her clothes into the closet and the bureau
when it was time to go downstairs for the house meeting. The two hundred or so
boys and girls in Edgerton House convened in what was known in Dupont (and Brit-
ish) parlance as the Common Room. […] As soon as she and Charlotte entered the
room, Beverly drifted away to the side, where she stood with two girls she obviously
already knew. Well, so what … Charlotte already felt entirely separate from her
roommate, and trotting along after her at this meeting wouldn‟t change that. Actually,
standing in the center amid so many other girls and boys made her feel almost …
whole again. They certainly did not look intimidating. In fact, with all their shorts, flipflops,
and T-shirts, they looked like large children. Surely this room must be filled
with people just like herself, bright young people anxious because they knew so little
of what was to come and exhilarated by the very fact that they had come this far.
They were Dupont men and women – starting with this moment.
source:
Wolfe, Tom: I am Charlotte Simmons. Vintage, 2005. pp. 76 – 79.
1 Charlotte experiences various emotions during her first day at college. Explain
them in detail.
Consider aspects such as
- the different settings and characters
- body language
- use of language
2 Imagine that Beverly has a friend named Samantha with whom she regularly corresponds.
After meeting her new roommate, Beverly feels a strong urge to share
her experiences and her personal impressions of Charlotte with Samantha.
Write Beverly’s e-mail to Samantha in English.
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