Reports in English

 

Year published/aired: 1992-

Year produced/filmed: ~1991- ?

# of episodes: ?

Grade: 7/8

Genres: Geography

Sub-subject: Teen lives

Broadcaster: WDR

Production company:

Story: Stuart Marlow,

Producer, camera, design: David Fermer

Editor: Lothar Humburg

Director:

Media: VHS/DVD

Media publisher: Solfilm (Sweden)

Additional media:

Working material:

Material publisher: Thienemann

Novel available:

Other literature: 

Plot (short): Reports/documentaries. Could also be 2 or more different series. First mainly documentaries/geography (1992- at least 2004, 8th grade). Later (~2010) lives of teens in different countries (7th grade). "Reports in English - Great Britain & Ireland" (Teens in ...). A 2nd series is "Reports in English - Canada, USA, South Africa" (8th grade). First there were 4 episodes only. Pic from Teens in London: Chris (taken from the official sheets).

Episodes: ~15 minutes each

1. Music City (Newcastle) 1992

2. Save the Mountains (Lake District) 1992 enviromental case study

3. News From the Arran Banner (Insel Arran)

4. UK Today (1992)

-Norfolk Today (2 ep): Problems for the Country Parson (North Norfolk); Deserted Villages (1592-1992) 1991

-BTCV 1 (Conservation volunteers) 1991

-All my Sons (Arthur Miller's play) 1992

-Emmerdale (Soap) SFB, 1992/1993

-Consett: Twelve Years After the Steelworks (SFB, 1993)

-Liverpool: Evolution of a port since 1945 (1993)

-Changing Ireland (3 ep): Ireland's Women - The Church Under Attack, Postcards from Connemara, A Journey Through the Gaeltacht (1993)

-Penrhys in the Rhondda: An estate in South Wales (1993)

-Todmorden, Where Cotton Was King (1993)

-Metrowatch - Vandalism on the Newcastle Metro (1993)

-A Small Town in Wensleydale (1993) - Rettet die Käsefabrik!

-Docklands: Geisterstadt der Zukunft (1994)

-The North Sea - No Cause for Alarm? (1994)

-Multicultural Brent (1995)

-North Wales - A Holiday paradise? (1995)

-Steam on the Moors (Yorkshire Moors by train) 1995

-Channel Islands (4 ep) Sark, Jersey

-The 400 year old Taxi (1996) report about a taxi driver in London

-Images of Dublin

-Nottingham Hill Carnival (1996)

-Cornwall and Devon Today (4 ep): Windows on the West (1997)

-Changing Ireland 2 (4 ep): Dublin for Outsiders, Fighting to Save County Clare, Tralee Beyond the Roses, Border Crossing (Fermanagh-Donegal) 1999

-Young Active and Green (1999) BCTV 2

-Voices from the Isle of Man (1999)

-Snowdonia's Park Life

-Gibraltar in the Firing Line (1999)

-London's Underground Secrets (2001)

-The Mystery of Loch Ness (2001) 10th grade

-The Joy of Commuting (2001)

-Wicken Fen (2002) - Regenerating the Wetlands

-Life in a Boarding School (Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, German girl Cara) 2007

-The Mini - More than just a car (2004)

-The Tower of London - Behind the scenes (2004)

-The Great British Pantomime (2004)

-Tea - A British Obsession (2004)

...

Reports in English - Great Britain & Ireland (~2008) also used in Sweden

1. Teens in Cornwall: Sam Loves Waves (boy surfing)

2. Teens in Cornwall: Katy loves Animals (riding)

(3. Teens in Cornwall: Katy Loves People (18 yo girl shop))

3b. Teens in London: Alice & her Music (15 yo in Greenwich) singing

4. Teens in London: Chris & his Big Exam (16yo boy), pictured above and in here

5. Teens in London: Lucy & her Egyptian Family (13 yo)

6. The Boat Race: Oxford - Cambridge (rowing on Thames)

7. Bicycle Polo in Dublin (18 yo James)

8. Behind the Scenes - Film Productin in Ireland (16 yo Jessica, The Tudors)

Reports in English - Canada, USA and South Africa, 8-9th grade ~2005

-Canada: Montreal - Fashion and Music

-Canada: Aboriginal TV

-USA: Irvine

-USA: Broken Heroes (US Soldiers)

-USA: My New York - Home to the Whole World

-Middle West USA: Homecoming at Glenwood High

-Middle West USA: Greeks and Tigers in Columbia

-Middle West USA: Law Enforcement in Salina

-Middle West USA: Kentuckian's News Channel

-South Africa: The Cape Flats

-Teens in South Africa: Nandipha - Between Dancefloor and Township

-Teens in South Africa: Michael - Life is Football

-Teens in South Africa: Axel - Between Sea and School

(Reports in English) : Me and my future (2014), 9th Grade

-Rob and volunteering (Social worker in Llanrumney)

-Tom and Dancing (20 yo)

-Jade and Cooking (Cornwall)

There is also a series Teens in the USA. Not sure if this belongs to Reports in English (probably not).

There's a series American Teens in Germany which probably does belong to this series. 

Another series is Teens in Canada (2013), WDR 2 episodes, probably not belong to this series

Some episodes might be missing.