English
Here you find:
- The staff of the English Department Neufeld
- General information on Grundlagenfach and Schwerpunktfach
- Information on the CPE courses
- Interesting products from our lessons
- Examples of successful Matura Papers
- Favorite books of our staff (to come soon … )
Staff
- Berger, Matthias
- Berger Meister, Katharina
- Bezzola, Sara
- Bleuler, Corinne
- Dick, Stefan
- Egger, Eva
- Eyer, Monica
- Gammeter, Lobsang
- Guglielmo, Melissa
- Hofer, Sarah
- Levinsen, Oystein
- Lüthi, Sibylle
- Märki, Marc
- Münstermann, Dieter
- Neff-Bryner, Evelyne
- Rodriguez, Eva Maria
- Roth, Gabriel (on leave)
- Schuling, Jurre
- Straub, Barbara (Head of department)
- Zimmermann, Urs
To send an email, write: [firstname].[lastname]@gymneufeld.ch
General Information on Grundlagenfach
If you choose English as your third language
- You will be speaking English with both your teacher and your colleagues so as to have the best opportunity to practise your language and become spontaneous and fluent in it.
- You will familiarise yourself with and learn to master the particularities of English grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
- You will be listening to the news and to podcasts and you will be watching movies. English has boundless opportunities for interesting input.
- You will be focusing on literature, starting with young adult fiction and moving on to classics.
- You will learn to express your ideas and opinions both in spoken and written English and will thus advance to be a confident and articulate user of English in both your studies and any other area of your life after matura.
If you choose English as a SF you will want more:
You want to explore English …
- in its subtleties and particularities as a native language (beside its function and functionality as a vehicle for international communication)
- in its different tones, accents and features in the different countries and cultures where it is spoken as a mother tongue or first language
- in its similarities with and differences from related languages (French and Latin in particular)
- in how it has grown and changed over time, how it reflects its historical context and reveals itself in the literature of different periods
- in how different cultures use it to express themselves in literature and other forms of communication like songs, political speeches, captions a.o.
…and you want to apply this knowledge and use English to express yourself in different projects (poems, dramatisations, essays, movie trailers, acting, interviews, Vlogs, podcasts, discussion-rounds, and much – much more!
A week in London with Schwerpunktfach (2024)
We were lucky enough to spend a beautiful, carefree week in London. The weather was gorgeous and the sights as good as ever.
The visit of The Globe Theater, the walking-tour, and the musical „Wicked“ were the obvious highlights.
Cambridge Courses at Neufeld
For the last twenty years, Gymnasium Neufeld has been preparing groups of students for the Cambridge Exam in Proficiency in English (CPE).
It has been running two preparatory elective courses with roughly 12 students each. The classes take place in the second semester Gym 3 and go on through the first semester Gym 4.
Since this elective is both very popular and in high demand, students who want to enrol need to sit an entrance test in order to qualify.
With regards to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), the CPE is a level C2 exam, which means it is the highest exam anyone can take.
For further information on the Cambridge Exam in Proficiency in English, please visit the following website: https://cambridgeenglish-basel.ch/termine
For further information on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), please visit the following website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/level-descriptions
Should you have any further questions, please contact Ms K. Berger or Mr U. Zimmermann who teach the respective classes.
Interesting products from our lessons
Literature project ( … soon to follow)
Poster Project (based on a National Geographic article)
In this project, the students create a poster based on a National Geographic article of their choice.
They are asked to research their topic in depth and to present it in a way that everybody can understand its core concepts.
Here are two examples from recent years.