Zotero - Part 1: Installing Zotero
What is Zotero
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tools
Anki - Part 3: Number of cards to study per day
Anki lets you chose the number of cards you want to learn every day. Here is how you do that on the desktop/laptop:
Anki - Part 2: Importing and browsing
Importing notes
Anki - Part 1: The basics
Anki is a powerful flash cards app. While it may seem intimidating at first, you will learn to love it if you give it a chance.
The Google Books Ngram Viewer
The Ngram Viewer (https://books.google.com/ngrams/) can show you the frequency of certain (combinations of) words (over time). I often use the Ngram viewer w...
vocabulary
Holding a discussion
In class or in exams you will often be asked to discuss an issue. One of your goals in this context is to keep the discussion going and to respond to what ot...
Giving your opinion
Common phrases for presenting your opinion
Useful phrases for film reviews
Basic facts and summary
Extreme adjectives
What are extreme adjectives
cultural studies
Preparation Fachabitur 2024
In this post, I will collect some articles related to the topics of the Fachabitur. This post is a work in progress, so come back for updates.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are the two most important civil rights activist of their time. They are very visible in popular culture because their ideas...
The Second Amendment
What is the Second Amendment
African American Voices
If textbooks and curricula about US cultural studies did not explicitly require learners to read texts by and listen to an ethnically diverse cast of voices,...
grammar
Singular “they”
When to use the singular “they”
Conditional type III
Verb forms
‘Then’ vs.’Than’
What is the difference?
punctuation
Quotation marks
Quotations
literature
Narrative perspective
Any story is told through a narrative perspective. The author of a story chooses a narrative perspective to produce a certain effect.
text production
Material-based writing FAQ (for the Fachabitur in Bavaria)
Disclaimer: Different schools may have slightly different requirements. Check with your teacher if they agree with the answers below.