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EARRY SHOWS WHY ROYALS ARE DOOMED
VE HAF vaysund meansof makingyou a Republic.I nevertruly believedthat the
royal family were on theirway out until lastweek.
f never,in my heartof hearts,thoughtthat theBritishwould finallywork up the nerve
to dumpthe Windsorsonceandfor all.
But afterPrinceHooraywaspicturedin hisjolly-japeNazi armband,I do now.
It maytake a generation.
whenthe endcomes.
King William maybe a droolingslaphead
But the endis coming.
Becausethey do not carewhatyou think.Theygenuinelydo not give a toss.And
sooneror later,the Britishpeoplewill be sickof it.
at anykind of censure,no
Sick of their arrogancgtheir stupidity,their resentment
matterhow offensivetheir behaviour.
Insultingsix million murderedJews?
That getsa sulky,mealy-mouthed,
apology.
two-sentence
Parliamentpassesan anti-huntingbill?
riding to hounds.
CharlesandWilliam makesuretheyarephotographed
The Queen,for all herfaults,is thelastof the royalswho caresaboutpublicopinion.
Liz is the last of the line with a senseof history.And if historyteacheskingsand
queensanything,it is that whentheylosethe public,theylosethe throne- if not their
heads.
PrinceHooray doesn'tseemto understand
that heis not just anotherbrayingupperclasstwit free to do ashe pleases.
Thereareconsequences
of wearinga Nazi armbandwhenyou arethird in line to the
throne.
couldbe that Londonlosesits
We now learnthat - just for starters- oneconsequence
bid for the2012 Olympics.
In somewaysI feel sorryfor the thick little sod.He is hardlythe first Brit to seeNazi
Germanyas a sourceof mirth.
CharlieChaplinin The GreatDictator,JohnCleesein full Nazi regaliain Monty
Pythonand frighteningGermantouristsin FawltyTowers,FreddieStar in his baggy
Nazi shorts- thesewereall genuinelyhilarious.Apart from FreddieStarr,of course.
But Harry forgot to be funny.By dressingasa soldierin the Afrika Korps - who
didn'tactuallywearswastikas
but who did manageto kill 35,000British soldiersin
North Africa PrinceHoorayrevealedhow fundamentally
thick the Windsorsare,
how removedfrom the realworld, how spoilt,pamperedandprivilegedbeyond
belief.
He posedthe question- why do we put up with them?
What'sin it for us?
Harry.
Seeyou at the Cenotaph,
But for how muchlonger?
Quelle:$ug-.mirrol@Jk, 17.l.2005
Cenotaph:
Streich,slaphead:Glatzkopf,mealy-mouthedbeschönigend,
Erläuterungen'.jape:
memorial
in
London.
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1. GebenSie einephonetischeUmschrift der Sätze,,Theygenuinelydo not give ... how offensive
their behaviour."(inZ.10-13); gebenSie dabeiauchdie Varietät(RP, GeneralAmerican)und das
verwendeteUmschriftsysteman.
2. AnalysierenSie die Wortbildungvon stupidity(2. l2), anti-huntingbill (2.16), Liz (2.I9),
upper -cIass twit (2. 22/ 23),fund amentaIly (2. 35).
3. ErläuternSie die Struktur der Nominalphrasen(nounphrases)und Verbalphrasen(verbphrases)in folgendenSätzen:
King William may be a drooling slapheadwhen the end comes.(2.8\
Parliamentpassesan anti-huntingbill? (2.16)
4. AnalysierenSie die folgendenSätzeslmtaktisch(ClauseslGliedsätze,
clauseelementslSatzglieder,phrases & word classes/ Satzgliedstruktur& Wortarten):
I never truly believed that the royal family were on their way out until last week.(2. 2-3).
Btrt after Prince Hooray was pictured in hisjolly-jape Nazi armband, I do now. (2. 6).
King William may be a drooling slapheadwhen the end comes.(2.8)
But the end is coming.(2.9)
5. Finden Siejeweils ein Synonym oder ein Antonym zu folgendenAusdrücken:
arrogance (2. 12),stupidity (2. 12),resentment(2. I2),faults (2. 18),thick (2.28),
do not give a toss(2. l0), pampered(2.36)
6. Erklären Sie anhanddes Ausdrucksdo not give u toss,was man unter einem Idiom versteht.
7. ErläuternSie anhandvon Beispielenim Text den Unterschiedzwischendefinierenden(defining)
und nicht-definierenden(non-defining) r eIative cIauses.
8. Erklären Sie anhanddes SatzesinZ.2 (Ve...Republic)typischeAussprachefehlerdeutscherSprecher im Hinblick auf das unterschiedliche
PhonemsystemdesDeutschenund Englischen.
9. Halliday & Hasanunterscheidenzwischenninf fyp"n kohäsiverMittel (in Cohesionin English).
ErläuternSie,welche Mittel Sie dem Typ Lexical Cohesionzuordnenund gebenSie möglichst
viele Beispieleausdem Text.