The exam will basically cover everything you have ever learnt about English grammar, but the main focus will be on what we looked at during the last semester (EG= „Englische Grammatik“ by Ellen Henrichs-Kleinen):

Prepositions EG 198-216
Conjunctions EG 217-224
Indefinite Quantifiers EG 225-237
Word Order EG 238-244
Tenses EG 15-76
The Passive EG 77-85
Reported Speech EG 86-94
Modal Verbs EG 95-117
Verb Patterns (Gerund & Infinitive) EG 117-128
German Verb „lassen“ EG 138-141

• Please choose one of the books below and let me know which one you chose (write an email to urs.capaul[AT]ksbg.ch - it goes without saying that I expect that email to be written in English). The deadline is set for Thursday, 7 February 2008.
  

Find out more about the books in the attached PDF file.

• When your name appears next to the book you have chosen you can go ahead and buy the book and start reading and taking notes.
• Please keep in mind that you cannot choose a book which you have already read in class or at home and that I won't allow more than four students to read the same book (books from home reading 3 included) - once again first come, first serve!

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart [Evelyn]
Angelou, Maya: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
Boyle, T. C.: The Tortilla Curtain [Tabea, Leandra, Marion, Lydia]
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 [Janosch, Tobias E., Livio, Mathias F.]
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brown, Christie: My Left Foot
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
Greene, Graham: Dr Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party
Greene, Graham: The Quiet American
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph: Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
Herr, Michael: Dispatches [Tobias G.]
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World [Mathias H., Philip]
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day
Kesey, Ken: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kleinbaum, N. H.: Dead Poets Society
Kosinski, Jerzy: Being There
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris: The Fifth Child [Celja]
Mason, Bobby Ann: In Country
McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love
Miller, Arthur: All my Sons
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Orwell, George: 1984
Palahniuk, Chuck: Fight Club [Patrick, Anika]
Prejean, Helen: Dead Man Walking
Priestley, J. B.: An Inspector Calls [Sebastian]
Rhue, Morton: The Wave
Salinger, Jerome D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Shaffer, Peter: Amadeus
Shaw, G. B.: Pygmalion
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire

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Current vocabulary file: 1-7.vok2.

• Please choose one of the books below and let me know which one you have chosen by writing an email to urs.capaul[AT]ksbg.ch as soon as possible - it goes without saying that those emails need to be in English. (Deadline: 28 September 2007)
  
• When your name appears next to the book you have chosen you can go ahead and buy the book and start reading and taking notes. There will be an oral exam either shortly before or after the Christmas break. The exact date will be announced after the autumn holidays. [UPDATE: last week before Christmas]
• Please keep in mind that no more than four students are allowed to read the same book - first come, first serve!

J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (South Africa, 1999): A professor at a South African university is fired because he seduced a student, so he withdraws to his daughter's farm in the country, where he realises that he is not able to protect her.
[ ]

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (USA, 1960): A lawyer in the American South of the 1930s defends a black man who is charged with the rape of a white girl.
[Patrick, Celja, Evelyn, Marion]

Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country (USA, 1985): This is about a teenage girl's questions about the war in Vietnam, where her father died and her uncle served. A harshly realistic look at the Vietnam War as well as the story of a young woman maturing.
[ ]

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (GrB, 1949): Life in a totalitarian future.
[Matthias F., Janosch, Tobias G., Philip]

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (NIG, 1958): Story about life in African society and the changes when the white people arrive.
[ ]

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (USA, 1951): The story of a boy who runs away from boarding school.
[Tobias E., Anika, Mathias H.]

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA, 1962): A new patient arrives in a mental hospital and tries to take over control.
[Lydia, Tabea, Livio]

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (GrB, 1847): A young woman works as governess for a man, falls in love with him and discovers his secret. (NB: this book is almost 500 pages)
[Sebastian]

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day (GrB, 1989): An ageing butler remembers his time in service.
[Leandra]

Link to the OALD Online Dictionary: http://www.oup.com/oald