Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Language in use You are going to read a review of “Workingman’s Death”, a film by Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Some words are missing from the text. Choose from the list (A–N) the correct word for each gap (1–11) in the text. There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 15 Writing: An opinion essay 16 Can documentaries, newspaper articles and nonfiction books on sensitive issues change the world for the better? Write an essay outlining your opinion on the issue. Make sure your essay includes: • at least one reference to the quote • at least two references to documentaries you have seen/articles or books you have read • your views on what, if anything, can change the world for the better in addition to/instead of thoughtprovoking documentaries/articles/books Write your opinion essay in about 350–400 words. By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ( eodore Bikel, actor) This ( 0 ) ..... about men and women performing brutal work tasks for next to no money is full of arresting and ( Q1 ) ..... images. It has little dialogue, and little is needed. Director Michael Glawogger ( Q2 ) ..... to five countries to focus on some of the worst jobs ( Q3 ) ..... : Ukrainian miners crawl into tiny cracks in old coal pits to ( Q4 ) ..... out a few bags of winter fuel; Indonesian workers trudge long ( Q5 ) ..... carrying baskets with hundreds of pounds of sulfur ( Q6 ) ..... extracted from a steaming mountain; Pakistanis ( Q7 ) ..... explosions and burial under tons of scrap iron as they dismantle huge carrier ships. The visuals are everything here. And ( Q8 ) ..... the hardships depicted, many sequences have a ( Q9 ) ..... beauty. In addition, the director has a bone-dry sense of irony; during the Ukraine scenes, he frequently cuts away to a statue of Stakhanov, the ‘hero’ lauded by the Soviets for his superhuman ( Q10 ) ..... habits. The film’s message, implicit but ( Q11 ) ..... , is about the laborers’ dignity and the injustice of their compensation. 0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 D A chunks B despite C distances D documentary E dreamlike F eloquent G glorious H imaginable I risk J scratch K travels L undergo M unmistakable N work 177 4 Compact unit 4: Documentaries Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv