Please post you sumamries here about the environment in your book.

Remember to keep them below the word limit.

The girl with the Pearl Earring Questions to write about

1. A women´s magazine has decided to start a book review Page that focuses on novels in which shows the different roles of women in the past in the family compared with today. It is asking its readers for suggestions. Write a letter to the magazine recommending the chosen book. You should briefly describe the character(s) and circumstances of the main characters, and state how readers could see a change in their current day roles.

2. ‘Their relationship was doomed from the beginning’ Write an essay for your tutor discussing this statement, describing how the relationship of the two characters in your chosen book begins and develops. Write about the pressures they meet through their own differences in personality and circumstances, and the opposition of society and other peoples lives.

3. Your local newspaper has in readers to send in articles on books they have read entitled ‘People thought differently then’. Write an article about your chosen book, focusing on how attitudes of society affect the relationship between the main characters

4. The head of your English department at your college has asked you to comment on the appropriacy of your chosen book for students studying on your course in the future. Write a report commenting on how your book may help students learn about the history and the culture of the country in which it is set, and recommending how to keep the students interested in the book on future courses.

Excellent and cheap books are regularly produced by the British Council.  I suggest the New Writing series of books .Instead of the classics it would be better you read modern writing by different authors around the words

You can by them online for next to nothing at Amazon

Go to the article section and lick on LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER for the exercise

Hi Plus 1 students

Write an e-mail to my Mum (Megan) whi is coming to Brazil in December to spend Christmas and New Year. Write about:

some information about the weather

advice on things she should bring

details of where she can stay

what she can do there

request for her to bring you something (Marmite is good )

Shaun

Please check out Splendid Speaking to help you wiith the CPE exam Speaking paper 5

http://www.splendid-speaking.com/about.html

Don´t forget to sign up for www.flo-joe.co.uk for tips on the exam

The 2008 CPE books to read are:-

Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Tobias Hill, The Cryptographer
Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring

On 11th march 2008 some teachers from my school got together to talk about using web tools. Each have different experiences about using internet tools and we shared our knowledge.

Here are the links to the videos we used:-

Web 2 from Graham Stanley

Please note: Graham will be at Braz-TESOL 2008 in July

 Blogs in ESL/EFL

 Asa Sul, Cultura Inglesa, Wikispace

Blogging with WordPress

 The machine is us.

How to set up a podcast from Webheads  EVO course

These can be used by teachers who were not on thw workshop and the last link( the EVO course) has much more information about web 2 tools than I could ever be given in a workshop session. I did the course and it was great.

In the comments section write your introduction just like the one we did in class. Include your personality and interests and talk about your experience of learning English.

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