Look Closer
Ein pädagogisches Material, das Ihren Englischunterricht lebendiger macht.
Über die Serie
Look closer and see what others miss! One-minute real-photo documentaries: one calm narrator explains a place, a picture or a person, and ends with a question for the class.
Die Episoden (23)
1Kenya from the equator to Mount Kenya: snow and shrinking ice on the mountain, the Great Rift Valley, the savannah and the Indian Ocean coast.
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2Nairobi National Park, 7 km from the centre of Kenya's capital: giraffes in front of skyscrapers, lions and rhinos, a fence on three sides and an open south.
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3POV: you are a baby wildebeest
The Great Migration seen by a newborn wildebeest: more than a million animals walk from Tanzania to Kenya and cross the Mara River.
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4How rangers in Kenya recognise and protect rhinos: ear marks, daily watching, numbers rising from 1,603 in 2020 to 2,100 in 2024, keepers feeding orphan calves.
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5The Maasai Mara and its people: what mara means in Maa, Maasai families who share their land with wildlife, visitors whose money helps pay for school, guides who read every track.
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6Where and what the Highlands of Scotland are: in the north and west of Scotland, mountains, glens and lochs cut by ice (a river makes a V, ice makes a U), Ben Nevis at 1,345 metres, a region the size of Brittany with about 235,000 people, and road signs in Gaelic and English.
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7The Highland Games, a summer sports day in Scottish towns and villages: the caber toss (a five-metre piece of wood that must turn over and land straight), the tug of war, pipe bands and kilts in tartan.
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8How to look at the famous 1934 photo of the Loch Ness monster: Loch Ness, a long, deep, dark loch in the Highlands; a long neck and a small head, but nothing to compare it with and small ripples; in 1994 the newspapers told the secret: it was a toy submarine with a small head.
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9The Highland cow and its hills: long, thick hair against cold, wet, windy weather, even more hair on the islands, rough grass, calves born outside, long horns and colours that are not always red.
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1A narrator looks at a portrait of Queen Elizabeth the First and finds its secret messages: eyes and ears on her cloak, a snake and a rainbow.
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2A narrator looks at Hans Holbein's painting The Ambassadors: two friends from France, a lute with a broken string, and a strange shape on the floor that becomes a skull from the side.
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3A narrator looks closely at William Hogarth's 1745 self-portrait: his face in an oval painting, his pug, three books, the palette and the line of beauty.
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4A narrator follows Frederick Douglass, from his escape from slavery in 1838 to his work as a writer and speaker, and looks at why he almost never smiles in his portraits.
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5The woman who led people to freedom
A narrator tells the story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1849 and went back to Maryland about thirteen times to lead about seventy people to freedom.
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6In 1872, Susan B. Anthony voted in Rochester, New York, when American women were not allowed to vote, and she was arrested, put on trial and fined.
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7A narrator tells how Ruby Bridges, aged six, became the first Black pupil at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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8The prisoner who became president
A narrator tells the story of Nelson Mandela, from a small prison cell on Robben Island to his first vote and the presidency of South Africa in 1994.
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9Malala Yousafzai, a schoolgirl in Pakistan, writes a secret BBC diary, speaks for girls' right to go to school and becomes the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever.
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