Abiturthemen Englisch 2016 Deutschlandweit

Englisch Abi 2016 - Bundesweite Themen

Baden-Württemberg & Hessen

• Themen sind
• Challenges and Choices in an Insecure World (Fokus
• USA)
• Half-Broke Horses von Jeanette Walls (Armutsüberwindung, Leben auf dem Land,...)
• Crash (Film, 2004) (Drama, Rassismus & soziale Differenzen in L.A.)
• 

Berlin/Brandenburg

• Personal relations in their social context: Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen in englischsprachigen Ländern
• Ethnic diversity: Situation unterschiedlicher ethnischer Gruppen & Kulturen in englischsprachigen Ländern
• Challenges and chances of science and technology: wissenschaftlichen & technologischen Entwicklungen sowie deren Auswirkungen auf Mensch & Gesellschaft
• The impact of the media on society: Rolle & Wirkungsweise der Massenmedien in der Gesellschaft
• 

Niedersachsen

• Themen sind
• Short Story: Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic"
• Drama: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (für
• Berufliche Gymnasien) Arthur Miller, The Crucible (für allgemein
• bildende Schulen)
• Film: Billy Elliot
• Vertiefung: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby &
• Auszüge aus William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice o. Romeo &
• Juliet
• 

NRW

• British and American traditions and visions
• Britain’s past and present: from Empire to Commonwealth, monarchy and modern democracy
• The American Dream: then and now
• Globalization – global challenges (GK: Cultural issues: values,
• lifestyles, communication; LK: Economic, ecological and cultural issues
• & political consequences)
• Post-colonialism and migration:
• The post-colonial experience in India
• Ethnic communities in 21st-century Britain
• The interest of young audiences in Shakespeare (GK: Study of
• passages from a play & corresponding film; LK: Shakespeare &
• Elizabethan World, Study of a play & corresponding scenes from
• theatre play or film)
• Visions of the future – exploring alternative worlds (GK: Science
• fiction, utopia and dystopia; LK zusätzlich: Science and ethics:
• genetic engineering)
• Shakespeare and the Elizabethan World
• Globalization

Slide 6

• Themen sind:
• Canada - A Land of Many Nations
• sozialen-politischen Gegebenheiten (issues of ethnic diversity, impact of immigration waves)
• regionale & wirtschaftliche Gegebenheiten (environmental issues, global role in primary economic sectors)
• kulturelle Gegebenheiten (‘First Nations’, European & modern Asian influences on contemporary art & literature)
• Ireland - A Country Between Tradition and Modernity
• historisch-politische Entwicklungen (invasions, struggle for independence,partition, recent attempts to overcome the conflicts)
• sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungen (social clashes, religious & economic struggles, demographic shifts)
• kulturelle Entwicklungen (cultural roots, tradition & modernity in the arts)
• 

Hessen

• Grundkurs:
• USA: American Dream, living together (gender, ethnic groups)
• Science and technology: Electronic media & biotechnology
• United Kingdom: social structures, social change (ethnic minorities, multiculturalism), GB and the world (British Empire, the Commonwealth)
• Work and industrialization: business, industry and environment; trade and competition
• Promised Lands: Dreams & realities: political issues, social issues (South Africa)
• Order, Vision, Change: models of the future (dystopias, ‘progress’ in the natural sciences), revolt and revolution
• Leistungskurs:
• USA: American Dream, living together (gender, ethnic groups)
• Them and us: the one track mind (prejudice, intolerance, ideologies)
• United Kingdom: social structures, social change (ethnic minorities,
• multiculturalism), GB and the world (British Empire, the Commonwealth)
• Extreme situations: love and happiness, initiation, troubled mind
• Promised Lands: Dreams & realities: political issues, social issues (South Africa)
• Ideals and R eality: structural problems (violence,(in)equality)