Words for w.48

I have received many questions about the vocabulary for w. 48. The test will be based on the hand-out. The online vocabulary link only tests some of these words.

Good luck, see you Thursday

Maria

Face to face meeting in class next week

Hello everybody,

Now it is time for us to meet face to face in class next week again. On 26 November at 16-18. I'll meet you in the reception as I did last time.

For this second meeting you are expected to:

Have finished reading the novel and have commented on all the assignments on the blog

Have learnt the vocabulary belonging to the book. You will sit a vocabularytest this evening.

There will be a final discussion about the novel, where you will have the chance to analyse the novel orally. I have prepared a set of questions for us to discuss.

Last but not least, I look forward to hearing your 3- minute weeding speeches. Hand out was issued during our first physical meeting. Follow the instructions given on the hand-out.

Welcome to our meeting next week!

BR,

Maria

Week 47 Reading assignment

Thank you for all your submitted answers concerning the novel An unarranged marriage. My comments to your answers will be found as "kommentar" as well". I have noticed that only some of you have been active and are following the course. Keep up the good work and next week it is time for us to meet in class again between 16-18. I'll meet you in the reception as last time. Please prepare your assignment for week 48. We will discuss the novel in class orally, sit a vocabulary test and listen to your wedding speeches. Novel nr two will be introduced as well.

Assignment for week 47: Deadline: 20 November

1) Tell me how you have coped with the learning of the words for the novel and how you like the Quizlet link - practise words online.

2) How did you score on the Online Novel Quiz?

3) What do you think about the author's language in the novel?

4)How did Manny manage to get out of his relatives' house without being seen?

5) Which person do you think is the most interesting one? Why?

6) What appealed to you in this novel?

7) Was there something you didn't like in the story?

8) Which episode in the novel do you remember the most?

9) What is Manny's real name and why does he hate it?

9) What have you learnt during this reading journey?

10) What would you like to change in the novel?

11) Describe and characterise Uncle Jag please.

Week 46

Your reading assignment for this week was to read pages 59-164. Choose 3 quotations that made an impression on you. It could be something funny, gross, strange or elegant etc. Explain thoroughly why you have chosen these quotes (don't forget page numbers) and what is happening in the selected text extracts.

A quotation is a sentence or many phrases from a book which you repeat in a speech or piece of writing because it is interesting.

Example: "We had been skiving the afternoon lessons at school and I had seen a CD that I wanted"(p. 59)

This quotation shows that...
I have chosen this quotation because...

How to navigate on our course blog

If you want to navigate on the course blog you need to go to the right-hand down corner and click on the different months in Bloggarkiv.

Diagnostic tests

Thank you Sandra, Nicklas, Michelle, Jenny and Timmy for your diagnostic test results. I am looking forward to receiving the rest of the group's results soon.

Background research about the novel w. 45

Write some things about the author of the novel Bali Rai and the Punjabi region in India. You have also read and listened to some podcasts on forced marriages, please express your viewpoint on this matter and publish as "kommentar". Deadline: 2 November