Rehearse and perform a scene from a movie/TV-series

Suggestions:

Pulp Fiction

Yes Man

Lord of the Rings

Titanic

Friends

Transcribe, rehearse and perform. Simple as.

English literature history, pt2

I've sent a bunch (5) of book extracts to your SP09 conference on FC. Your tasks are:

1. Read and understand the texts. Use a dictionary if necessary.

2. Pick one of the texts where you find out more about the author and the book itself. The question that you must try to answer is 'Why is this book considered a classic?' As before, take notes and SAVE them.

Good luck!

/Daniel

Learn-it-yourself

Learn-it-yourself

Instructions:

This is an assignment that will occupy the next two lessons of this course. It’s really quite simple – the idea is that you, individually, take a few minutes to think about something regarding the English language that you want or need to learn more about. Then, all you need to do is to figure out how you’re going to approach the learning itself. You can use any means available to you, including me and your friends. If you want to team up with someone, that’s OK, but I want you to decide on the aim (what you want to achieve) for this assignment as individuals. It is not a group assignment, at least not initially.

The things you need to hand in (in writing) are:

1. Your aim, as described above

2. An evaluation form, that will be handed out at the end of next lesson

GLHF!

Reading Sherlock Holmes

Go to http://www.mysterynet.com/holmes/more.shtml and choose a text to read (more than one is OK if you want to/have enough time). Read the text of your choice. Next, team up with a couple of friends (form groups of 3-4 people), and discuss differences and similarities between the text you've read and the Sherlock Holmes movie we've just watched. Think about things like:

• How the characters are portrayed
• How the story is told; tempo, language etc.
• How the settings are described
• The relationship between the main characters (Holmes & Watson)
• What kind of audience it's directed towards
• ...and anything else you can think of.

Make sure that someone in your groups takes notes on what you come up with, since we'll be discussing this in class later.

Friday 21/1 - poetry

1. You've read a lot of poetry now (hopefully), but what can poetry actually be used for? Brainstorm 'How to use poetry' in groups of 3-4 people.

2. Choose a favouite poem from the ones you have read. In your blogs, write down why you chose that particular poem. Please go beyond 'because I think it's good'.

3. Go back to your brainstorming session (or hold another one, in private...), and think about how you would use this, your favourite poem, to its greatest effect. Write this down in your blogs as well.

4. If there's time, find a friend to share first your poem, then your reasons for choosing it and, last but not least, how you would use it.

The End

How to read out loud

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Short story writing

The idea here is to use the notes you have on one of the characters from the movie, and put that character into a short story. You can write about anything, but make sure that I can recognize the character you use. For example, if you've chosen someone who is mean & strong in the movie, he should be mean & strong in your story as well. Lenght of story should be 1-5 pages, maybe more.