Today we will see the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, where Lemuel Gulliver comes to the Lilliputians. Next class we will continue the story.

Assignment
Focus on ONE of the weird people’s of Gulliver’s Travels and take as many notes as possible. For the test in April/May you should be expert on one of the peoples.

Post a description of the people below. Use an appropriate heading

Inventory

Please read the following excerpt from the learning objectives of this course:

“Eleven skall kunna inventera, beskriva och analysera sitt behov av kunskaper i engelska ur ett långsiktigt studie- och yrkesperspektiv.”

Assignment
In pairs, help each other to write about your strengths and weaknesses in English and then write a plan describing how you want to develop your English proficiency over a few years time.

Post as a comment. Notice, this is mandatory.

Essay writing

General advice
The following are some basic guidelines to good writing:

• Plan your essay in advance
• Use proper paragraphs with either indentation or a blank line.
• Use proper punctuation and commas.
• Jot down briefly the main ideas, supporting paragraphs and points. Write clear and simple sentences to express your meaning in simple words. Stay focused on the main idea of your essay. Re-read your essay in the end.
• While writing your essay, it is probable that you will make a few spelling or grammar mistakes. Hence it is a good idea to try to read through your essay once more and correct them.
• Use the language to its fullest potential. Use your vocabulary and use any fitting expressions and idioms that you know.

Grammar
1. Check all instances of I. They should be with capital I and nothing else.
2. Check all national words. They should have capital letters: English, Englishman.
3. Check all instances of a and an. A is used before a consonant sound, an is used before a vowel sound. (A European agreement, an honest proposal).
4. Check all verbs in the text.
• Present tense: He/she/it speaks
• Agreement: John jumps, Ted and Bill jump; John was late. Bill and Ted were late; John has diabetes. Wolves and dogs have fur; Samuel is sick. John and Bill are funny.
5. Check all Where and were. Where is used for placement: Where is the car? The city where I grew up. Were is used as a verb. We were late for class.
6. Genitive. When somebody owns something an apostrophe and an s is added to indicate ownership, as in: This is Daniel’s car. It is John’s wife.

NOTICE 1: Charles’ car.
NOTICE 2: It is = It’s. It’s a plane, not superman: The car is blue, but it has lost one
of its wheels.

7. Then and than. Then is used in all comparisons when they deal with time. Than is
used in all other cases. I first came to Newark and then I went to New York. I am
taller than you.
8. Who’s and whose. Who’s the new teacher? That’s the guy whose bike I stole.
9. Who or Whom. Who wrote the letter? He wrote the letter. Therefore, who is correct.
For whom should I vote? Should I vote for him? Therefore, whom is correct.

Correcting an essay
The following document is from the Swedish National Agency for Education and it contains some examples of how essays are corrected and graded in Engelska B (EN1202). There are some differences between Engelska B and Engelska C since the latter is a more advanced course, but the general way an essay is corrected is the same.

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Work in pairs. Choose ONE of the accused celebrities shown above. Choose to be either the Defense or the State.

The Defense

You are the lawyer of the defendant. Write your closing argument. Use the incictment and all evidence.

The Prosecution

You are the District Attorney arguing for a conviction. Write your closing argument. Use the incictment and all evidence.

Please notice that this is meant as a humorous oral exercise, designed to make you dare to talk in front of a group.

Also: Everyone should present their case next Thursday in front of the class or in a small group.

Lägg upp en egenhändigt skriven dikt. Helst på rumänska men svenska och engelska går också bra. =)

Deadline: midnatt

Vi kommer nu att fördjupa oss i Upplysningen och senare Romantiken. Ni som strävar mot ett högre betyg kan ta chansen att göra en fördjupningsuppgift.

Fördjupningsuppgiften består i att genomföra en muntlig presentation av en roman. Redovisningen  ska knytas till den epok den tillhör.

Ni kan använda romaner som:

Candide (Upplysningen)

Robinson Crusoe (Upplysningen)

Den unge Werters lidanden (Romantiken)

Singoalla (Romantiken)

Romanen ska skildras på rikast möjliga sätt! Bilder, citat och kritiska synpunkter.

Nästa epok är Upplysningen.

Voltaire och Rousseau

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Rousseau

1. Lista nya ord och deras översättning.

2. Skriv en insändare/reaktion på Rousseaus text om kvinnan. Postas nedan.

Voltaire

1. Lista nya ord och deras översättning.

2. KOmmentera Voltaires synpunkter. Postas nedan.

När ni blir klara med bearbetning av era uppsatser kan ni läsa de dikter som är länkade nedan.

1. Välj ut några stycken (två eller tre räcker).
2. Studera sedan dem noggrant och hitta exempel på de lyrikbegrepp (stilmedel) som beskrevs i Lyrik I.
3. Skriv lite om din reaktion eller vad dikten fick dig att tänka på.

Pär Lagerkvist
Edith Södergran
Tomas Tranströmer
Karin Boye
Gunnar Ekelöf

I urge everybody to post a comment to this post, which I really liked. Post a comment here when you have done so. I would love if you posted a video comment to EyesWithoutAyers’s YouTube video.

/Daniel