Book Talk

Preparation
Try to look up pages with passages to quote in order to emphasize your point of view!
Read through the topics below, you are free to discuss them in whatever order you like.

At the actual talk
Present yourselves by each group member clearly saying his or her name.
Take turns talking and show interest in what the other group members are saying by asking them encouraging questions!

• Plot – what is the book about, summarize the plot of the book. What themes are there and how are they shown? Is there any event which you reacted strongly to while reading?

• Narrator – comment on the way this novel is narrated. What difference did this make compared to another narrative style?

• Message – is there a message in this novel? What is it then and how is it shown?

• Genre – what genre would you say this novel belongs to? Compare it to other books or movies of the same genre.

• Language – comment on the language and show examples.

• Comparison – compare this novel to other novels and movies.

• Conclusion – summarize your experience.

HAVE FUN!

Yummy! A recipe from the CAE class

This is the recipe I used for our baking assignment:

Spiced apple and rhubarb muffins
450 g self-raising flour
200 g firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon mixed spice
125 g butter
180 ml buttermilk
2 eggs
1/2 x 410 g can pie apples
220 g finely chopped rhubarb
2 teaspoons cinnamon sugar

Preheat oven to moderately hot. Grease 12-hole muffin pan.
Sift flour, brown sugar and spices inte large bowl; rub in butter.
Stir in combined milk and eggs, then apple and rhubarb. Spoon
mixture into prepared pan; sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake
in moderately hot oven about 20 minutes.

moderately hot means about 200 C

/Linn Johnsson TESA3

More Eng CAE

Hello!
Here comes some expressions that I found quite interesting...

"I bid you good day"
"That she had a yen for him"
"slippery as mercury on a board"
"prompt at ten"
"thick as thieves"
/Frida

Maori culture in the rugby Haka

The one hundred and first entry!

Here are my words from the book:

dire straits - stora (ekonomiska) problem
boon - välsignelse
to don the mantle of purity - att ta på sig renhetens mantel
incipient - begynnande
abhorrent - motbjudande
endearment - smekning
vial - medicinflaska/injektionsflaska
circumscribed - begränsad
nincompoop (!) - dumhuvud
tedium - tristess
abundance - överflöd
canine - hund
conundrum - gåta


/Linda :)



Från boken Tsotsi av Athol Fugard:

cotton reel- trådrulle

shebeen- olaglig krog
kraal- inhägnad för boskap
retrospect- tillbakablick
polony- rökt korv
scheme- listig plan
brood- grubbla över
morass- dy
lethargy- dvala, tung sömn
presentiment- föraning
kierie- käpp som används som vapen

/ Maria

Concerning the CAE exam

The information about the CAE exam has just been sent out to you and Jennifer Gosser-Duncan says that "All emails were successfully delivered". Anyway she wants you to check your e-mail now and check your spam box too in case the e-mail went there. Please make sure you save the document that has just been sent to you since it contains timetabling information, as well as results information. Moreover, Jennifer writes that "each candidate is given a secret code to check his/her results online". Please read your documents carefully so that you know what you are allowed to bring into the exam room with you!

New vocabulary (found in our novels):

Glaucoma - Starr
Flex - Sladd
Ford - Vada över
Tarpaulin - Presenning
Congeal - Frysa till is / stelna
Gully - Dike
Opaque - Oklar / Ogenomskinlig
Cauterize - Bränna
Totter - Vackla
Toll (verb) - klämta / ringa
Gryke - Ravin
Apparition - Spökbild / uppenbarelse

/Markus O

Wordlist for Greed written by Chris Ryan

Loo - toa
Agriculture - jordbruk
Reckon - tycka
Layabouts - latmask
Dinghy - jolle
Marksmen - skyttar
Knack - knep
Fencing - häleri
Vessel - fartyg

/Linn J

Axis of Evil - on TED

Pride and Prejudice

Watch the trailer here!

Certificate in Advanced English

Dina gymnasiekunskaper i engelska räcker förmodlingen redan rätt långt. Men om du tänker dig fortsatta studier eller arbete utomlands? Eller om du vill söka jobb hos ett företag i Sverige som ställer krav på "English for work"? Då är det bra att läsa engelska med siktet inställt på en internationell Cambridgeexamen.

Cambridgediplomet är ett internationellt respekterat bevis på kunskaper i engelska. Det utfärdas av University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, och har blivit ett av världens mest välrenommerade utbildningsbevis.

Att studera med siktet inställt på en Cambridgeexamen passar dig som vill fördjupa dina kunskaper i engelska ytterligare, som är målinriktad och beredd att lägga ned arbete på studierna.

Examinationen sker tre gånger om året, samma dag oavsett var du bor i Sverige. Du kommer att testas i hör- och läsförståelse, förmåga att skriva och tala samt "Use of English". Om du klarar provet med godkänt resultat erhåller du ditt internationellt erkända Cambridgediplom. Examen är belagd med en avgift. Ditt Cambridgediplom är ett kunskapsbevis som är giltligt under obegränsad tid.

CAE är en examen på nivå C1 på Europarådets skala. Kursen vänder sig till dig som vill arbeta internationellt eller studera utomlands. Kursen ger en djupare förståelse för språket och du får lära dig att uttrycka dig nyanserat och naturligt. CAE accepteras av de flesta universitet/högskolor i Storbritannien och USA, som bevis på tillräckliga förkunskaper i engelska.

Examensdatum för vårterminen 2011 är 11 mars, sista anmälningsdag 14 jan, samt den 15 juni, sista anmälningsdatum 21 mars. Examensavgift 1.800:-. Observera att examinationen genomförs i Umeå.

The University of Cambridge har mer information på sin hemsida, klicka här.

The real Shakespeare?

Here are the pictures, the well-known Droeschout engraving on the left and the portrait of a young William Shakespeare recently found in the Cobbe family collection. On the lower picture you can see Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust with the portrait.

Read the article on BBC here by clicking on this text, then answer the queations below.

These are the article activity related questions.

True or false?

1. Shakespeare no longer looks how we imagined.

2. In the new portrait, Shakespeare does not have a receding hairline.

3. Shakespeare’s nose and chin are rounded in the portrait.

4. The painting was found in an art gallery.

5. The Cobbe family bought the portrait from the gallery.

6. Droeshout’s engraving is the title portrait of the First Folio.

7. The First Folio was published in 1623.

8. Ben Jonson praised Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare.

9. In Shakespeare’s time, engraving was the only way to mass produce an image.

10. The lace in the newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare shows him to be a man of some social standing.