Mach's Gut!
Mach's Gut! is a German-language BBC schools TV series from the 1980s and 1990s, covering German Language for secondary school pupils.
Everyday life of teenagers in Austria is shown through a series of short documentary film sequences - billed as "mini-programmes" by the BBC - in each episode. In between, an English-speaking presenter talks about what the teenagers are doing and what vocabulary they use.
The series followed a similar formula to the earlier Alles Klar, which it replaced for the same audience, just without the studio-based sketches of its predecessor.
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Out Shopping | 7 Nov 1986 |
| 2. | Eating and Drinking | 14 Nov 1986 |
| 3. | Making Arrangements | 21 Nov 1986 |
| 4. | Socialising | 28 Nov 1986 |
| 5. | People, Places and Things | 5 Dec 1986 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-87 | Autumn 1986 | Friday, 9:35am | BBC2 | |||||
| Spring 1987 | Thursday, 9:35am | BBC2 | ||||||
| 1987-88 | Summer 1988 | Friday, 1:05pm | BBC2 | |||||
| 1988-89 | Summer 1989 | Monday, 12:00pm | Tuesday, 11:18am | BBC2 | ||||
| 1989-90 | Summer 1990 | Monday, 9:25am | Friday, 11:25am | BBC2 |
Credits
| Introduced by | Paul McDowell |
| With | Robert Rauch |
| Producer | Caroline Godley |
Resources
Teacher's Notes
Teacher's notes were available from the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) rather than the BBC.
Book
A Mach's Gut! book was published by Longman around 1990, originally intended to accompany both this series and its contemporary Treffpunkt: Österreich. Buy from Amazon
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