Matura Exam 2016: All the information you need!

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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)

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