Arbeitsblatt: Präpositionen & Popmusik
Goals
for Today:
- To give you
a sense of what kinds of songs are at the top of the charts in Germany. You
can't click on the chart to listen to the songs, so we just want you to take
a look at the titles and discuss with your partner what you think of the songs
on the chart that you know.
- To give you
a chance to listen to sound clips from some German songs, and to look at some
of the lyrics. We want you to talk to your partner a bit about what you think
of the songs you listen to. This worksheet and the associated links will remain
online, so you can come back to it/them anytime you want to look for some
German music for fun :)
- To give you
a chance to work on a couple of the online preposition exercises in class
with your instructor present, so you can ask him/her questions as they come
up.
Popmusik (35
Minuten)
Chartsteam (5-7
Minuten)
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The purpose
of this activity is just to give you an idea of what kinds of songs are
in the charts in Germany. A lot of them will be familiar to you from
the US charts ==> just answer the questions with reference to the songs
you are familiar with, and ignore the others for now (none of the icons
on the chart allow you to listen to excerpts from the songs). The
activities following this one will give you a chance to actually listen
to some music online.
Gehen Sie jetzt zur
101-326 homepage, klicken Sie auf
"German on the Web" und von
da auf "Musik (modern und klassisch)"
[OK, Sie können hier direkt auf den Musik-Link klicken, aber wir wollten,
dass Sie sehen, wie man dahin kommt...]
Klicken Sie in der Kategorie "Online Music Magazines/Sites"
auf Chartsteam. Klicken
Sie links auf "Charts" und darunter auf "Deutschland" und dann auf "Single."
Diskutieren Sie die Lieder mit Ihrem Partner.
Welche Lieder
finden Sie beide gut? [Sie können die Lieder hier nicht hören ==>
diskutieren Sie die Lieder, die Sie aus Amerika kennen!]
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Welche Lieder finden Sie beide schlecht?
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Über welche
Lieder können Sie sich nicht einigen [=can't agree about]?
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Welches Lied würden Sie gern kaufen oder downloaden?
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Lieder hören/Liedtexte
lesen (15 Minuten)
We want you to
listen to excerpts from two or more songs, and to look at the lyrics afterwards
or at the same time. Some questions asking you to write about at least two
songs you listened to are below. We want you to proceed as follows:
- Step 1: Choose
which songs you want to listen to by finding what interests you in the annotated
list of suggested song lyrics links below, or choose (German-speaking) artists
or songs you already know you like.
- Step 2: If there
are instructions next to the song lyrics you chose for finding an audio excerpt,
follow those. Otherwise, go to http://www.amazon.de/
and click on the "Musik" tab. Under "Suche," select "Pop"
if you want to search by artist name or album title; otherwise select "Song-Titel."
Look for the first song you picked, and click on the/an album on which the
song is included. Scroll down to "Hörbeispiele," and then you
can click on any hyperlinked title to hear a 30-second excerpt. Note that
for some CDs there are no "Hörbeispiele": for these, the song
titles are listed under the heading "Titelverzeichnis," and if this
happens, you should either look for a different album that includes the song
you want, or look for a different song.
- Step 3: Before
or after you listen to the excerpt, look at the song lyrics, and see what
you can understand. If you chose a song from the list below, just click on
the link and it will open in a new window. If you chose a different song,
click here to
find a list of sites where you can find song lyrics (this list will open in
a third window). If you can't find the lyrics for the song you chose, you
need to pick a different song!
- Step 4: Repeat
steps 2 & 3 for the other song(s) you chose.
- Step 5: Answer
the questions below!
Ideen und Links
zu Liedtexten [Your instructor should be able to get a hold of recordings of
many or most of these, so if you find something you really want him/her to play
in class tomorrow, let him/her know!]
- Freundeskreis:
A-n-n-a: Click here
or here
to see the lyrics of this slow hip hop song reminiscing about a brief encounter
[sich begegnen = to meet; kann mich nicht ablenken = can't take my mind off
it; nass = wet (denn es regnete, als sie sich trafen: "Vom Himmel goss
[=poured] ein Bach [=stream, brook]"). Click here
and then on song number 6 to hear an excerpt, or check amazon.de if that fails.
- Die fantastischen
Vier: Mfg: A fun hip hop song about acronyms. Click here
or here
to see the lyrics. [ARD & ZDF are the two main public TV networks, C&A
is analogous to Target or TJ Maxx, BSE is the acronym for mad cow disease,
GmbH is like "Ltd." in English (limited liability company); "ihr
könnt mich mal" is an obscenity because it's short for "ihr
könnt mich mal am ... lecken," a phrase introduced into German by
Goethe (very, very roughly the German equivalent of Shakespeare). "MfG"
= "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" is the German counterpart
to "Yours sincerely"]. Click here
to hear an excerpt, or check amazon.de if that fails.
- Die fantastischen
Vier: Die da: Click here
[great site that actually writes the lyrics out as a dialogue, and includes
annotations] to see the lyrics. Thomas and Smudo each fell in love with
over the weekend with a woman who has no time for either of them on Fridays.
She shows up at the end of the song ("es ist die da" = "that's
her over there"), and they discover they've both fallen for the same
woman. Can you figure out why she's never free on Fridays? Click here
to hear an excerpt, or check amazon.de if that fails.
- Herbert Grönemeyer:
Mensch: Big hit in late 2002/early 2003 by the star of "Das Boot,"
who has had a successful career as a singer of comparatively sophisitcated
songs since the mid-80s. Click here
or here
for the lyrics.
- Other interesting
songs by him that you may want to look up are "Männer"
(click here
to see the lyrics, which ask "Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann?")
and the sad break-up song "Flugzeuge in meinem Bauch" (click
here
to see the lyrics) ["Bauch" = belly; "Gib mir mein Herz
zurück, du brauchst meine Liebe nicht" is the theme of the song].
- Fünf
Sterne Deluxe: Deine Mudder: "Mudder" is a regional pronunciation
of "Mutter." Click here
or here
for the lyrics. Click here
and then on song number 5 to hear an excerpt, or check amazon.de if that fails.
- Fettes Brot:
Jein: Jein = Ja + Nein. Click here
or here
for the lyrics. Click here
and then on song number 2 to hear an excerpt, or check amazon.de if that fails.
- Die Toten
Hosen: Bayern: Perhaps Germany's most successful punk band, die Toten
Hosen, in their 40s/50s by now, are also diehard soccer fans (of a rather
unsuccessful team) and soccer players. In this song, they humorously (but
also somewhat controversially, since soccer inspires so much violence) vent
their anger against Bayern München, the German equivalent of the Dallas
Cowboys in the sense that they essentially have enough money to "buy"
championships, and are generally hated for their arrogance by everyone but
their fans. Click here
or here
for the lyrics. [versauen = to defile; Verein = club; Vertrag = contract]
- Die Ärzte:
Männer sind Schweine: Die Ärzte, known to their fans as "die
beste Band der Welt," are/were [they retired, but are back] a very successful
punk band, very few of whose songs could be played on the air due to their
"daring" lyrics (one of their records was titled "Ab 18").
Click here
for the lyrics [with annotations].
- Nena: 99
Luftballons: Click here
[great site with a parallel translation] or here
to see the lyrics. Click here
to listen to a recent live performance of the version you know, or here
to listen to an entirely new version from the "20 Jahre Nena" album.
- Nena:
Nur geträumt: This simple song started Nena's career. Click here
to see the original lyrics, and here
to listen to an excerpt from a new version of it (or check amazon.de to
find an excerpt from the original version).
- Nena:
Leuchtturm: Another of her big hits. Leuchtturm = lighthouse. Click
here
to see the original lyrics, and here
to listen to an excerpt from a new version of it (or check amazon.de to
find an excerpt from the original version).
- Markus: Ich
will Spaß: Goofy song about a guy who just wants to speed around
in his Maserati, considered to be a quintessential song of the "Neue
deutsche Welle" of the early 80s. Click here
or here
for the lyrics.
- Trio: Da,
da, da: This childishly simplistic but surprisingly mean-spirited song
["Da, da, da, ich lieb dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht"] is another
quintessential song of the "Neue deutsche Welle" of the early 80s.
You may know it from a 1997 VW ad campaign. Click here
or here
for the lyrics.
- Jürgen
Drews: Ein Bett im Kornfeld: One of the classics of the "Schlager"
genre: squeaky clean songs you would imagine only parents would listen to
[literally, "Schlager" means "hits"]. This one is actually
a German version of the Bellamy Brothers' 70s hit "Let your love flow,"
but with entirely different lyrics about sleeping out in the open. A popular
parody goes "Ein Korn [a type of liquor] im Feldbett...." Click
here
for the lyrics.
- Udo Jürgens:
Aber bitte mit Sahne: Another song in the "Schlager" genre.
Click here
for the lyrics.[Sahne = whipped cream; the song is about a group of overweight
ladies who want to have everything with whipped cream, and concludes with
the priest's sermon at the funeral of the last of them, in which he expresses
the hope "Daß der Herrgott den Weg in den Himmel ihr bahne
[=that the Lord may open the way to heaven to her]/Aber bitte mit Sahne."].
- Wencke
Myrrhe: Er hat ein knallrotes Gummiboot: Very silly song in the "Schlager"
genre. Click here
for the lyrics.
- Howard
Carpendale: Deine Spuren im Sand: Tear-jerking "Schlager,"
by an Australian singer who knows little German, but had a big career
in the "Schlager" scene: "Deine Spuren [=traces] im Sand,
die ich gestern noch fand, hat die Flut mitgenommen..." Click here
for the lyrics.
- Marianne
Rosenberg: Er gehört zu mir: Tacky "Schlager" that
experienced a huge camp revival; Marianne Rosenberg has become a gay icon
in Germany, somewhat analogous to Bette Midler or Cher, but much campier.
Click here
for the lyrics.
- Meine Oma
fährt im Hühnerstall [=chicken coop] Motorrad: This is a silly
folk song you might find funny (it's ever been in the charts). Click here
for the lyrics [which, incidentally, are referred to in the Fünf Sterne
Deluxe song Deine Mudder included on this list]. Click here
to hear the melody (there's a long intro, then it comes in played by something
sounding like a trumpet).
- Lola rennt
soundtrack: We don't want you to choose this to work on today, since the
lyrics are almost all in English (except for most of the song "Wish"),
but we've included the link here since we assume it will interest many of
you, so you can come back to this page when you feel like it and check it
out :) Click
here to see the complete lyrics.
Fragen:
Welche Lieder von
welchen Bands haben Sie gehört?
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von _____________________________________
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von _____________________________________
Welches Lied gefällt
Ihnen am besten? Wenn Sie sich nicht einig sind [=if you do not agree], schreiben
Sie, wer welches Lied mag.
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Welche Zeile(n)
in den Liedtexten fanden Sie gut?
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Freie Zeit (13-15
Minuten)
Spend this time
finding more excerpts from German-language songs to listen to, and/or finding
more song lyrics of German-language songs to read, and/or browsing some of the
band homepages on the
link list (some of which will lead you to longer or even complete audio files
of songs, etc.), and/or browsing some of the online
music magazines/sites on the link list, and afterwards write down what you
found.
Was haben Sie gefunden?
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Präpositionen
(15 Minuten)
Machen Sie die
folgende Übung
über den Film Nach fünf im Urwald. Wenn Sie mehr Informationen
über Präpositionen brauchen, klicken
Sie hier. Füllen Sie dann die Tabelle aus:
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Wenn Sie mehr Zeit
haben, versuchen Sie andere Übungen
auf der Präpositionenwebseite!