5-paragraph-essay-outline.pdf

Don't forget to hand in your oral Matura book choice by Friday, 8 April 2016! If you need to download the form again, click here.

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 previous semester.
(EG= „Englische Grammatik“ by Ellen Henrichs-Kleinen)

Tenses EG 15-76
The Passive EG 77-85
Reported Speech EG 86-94
Modal Verbs EG 95-117
Gerund & Infinitive EG 117-128
The Participle EG 129-142
Prepositions EG 214-232
Conjunctions EG 233-240
Indefinite Quantifiers EG 241-253

N.H. Kleinbaum: Dead Poets Society (Rahel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (Kira, Leonie, Lotte)
Ian McEwan: Enduring Love (Nathalie)
Christie Brown: My Left Foot (Tabea, Christina)
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (Salome, Vera, Pablo)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Romain, Sandro, Nandor, Michael)
Jerzy Kosinski: Being There (Samuel, Daniel)
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (Jan, Florian)
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (Sebastian, Tobias)
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (Remo)
Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes (Alessandro)

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. (Alessandro)

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

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (UK, 1931): Life in a future world dominated by genetic engineering. (Samuel, Tobias, Florian)

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (USA, 1951): The story of a boy who runs away from boarding school only to find out that there is no escaping: not from school, not from life and ultimately not from growing up either. (Rahel, Lotte, Tabea)

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (UK, 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) (Vera, Nathalie)

T.C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain (USA, 1995): While an American couple enjoys a wealthy lifestyle, another couple is fighting to stay alive as illegal Mexican migrants. An accident brings their two worlds colliding together. (Michael, Leonie, Jan)

William Golding: Lord of the Flies (UK, 1954): A group of boys survives a plane crash on an island somewhere in the Pacific, no adult survives the crash, the boys are by themselves - and Golding shows what happens. (Romain, Nandor, Sandro, Kira)

Brian Moore: Lies of Silence (UK, 1990): The plot revolves around Michael Dillon, who is faced with a dilemma after being held hostage. The novel focuses on the personal effects of The Troubles, a period of ethnic, religious and political conflict in Northern Ireland. (Pablo, Remo, Salome, Daniel)

OALD online: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

Sandro + Salome: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lcPwXYvIaPtgIqPDfP_lX2IttyPpS6w2DURGpHojSHY/edit?usp=sharing
Alessandro + Daniel: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bx5DR5loGWJyNKTMcX8DemLbBEsPHqp4w-r6EYCKACQ/edit?usp=sharing
Vera + Michael: https://docs.google.com/document/d/192yMbuFJni9-4HDDIqNcJri7aMCGry8ZHwY2uuegI14/edit?usp=sharing
Pablo + Tabea: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JcmEUoY1gGyEWOJZVefaoMEbL7trk1lZaUbRHFYPatk/edit?usp=sharing
Lotte + Romain: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B6GEXC8CU1sdHkC-xfdeVKX6_-WZwZJ6A97asA2GxEA/edit?usp=sharing
Leonie + Remo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DNZE9Bv-3N0UqnmXB07m342K8CtZ_7GlWfkFcsHXIfg/edit?usp=sharing
Rahel + Nandor: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IbITZ3FbQe2KM8g12VQk0dOVkgfszACg7HuF77pj7Pw/edit?usp=sharing
Samuel + Christina: https://docs.google.com/document/d/135UFUA7XhBWSAoxrJgG59czRxUpjiBmBAeMuKo5cADA/edit?usp=sharing
Sebastian + Kira: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aWQ_Hr0HH9VbYzNC38re-mq9TgeXenWBDM4NobhBYls/edit?usp=sharing
Nathalie + Jan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oj2B-A1IbDawGW2BktaPS2XDntXArcBrW4rTS7CLMfw/edit?usp=sharing
Florian + Tobias: