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• Please choose one of the books below and let me know which one you have chosen by filling in this online form. The deadline is set for Friday, 28 January 2011.
  
• Please keep in mind that you cannot choose a book you have already read (in class or at home) and that I won't allow more than three students to read the same book (books from Home Reading 3 included) - once again first come, first served!
• Find out more about the books in this PDF file.

The following students have already submitted their choice:
Mirco, Marcel, Alena, Daniela, Martina, Florian B., Philipp, Sara, Nadia, Fitim, Simone, Caterina, Meryem, Jakob, Ali-Daniel, Sabrina, Elia, Tamara, Tobias, Kilian, Noah, Thomas.

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Angelou, Maya: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
Coetzee, J.M.: Disgrace
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies cannot be chosen anymore
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
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy cannot be chosen anymore
Hornby, Nick: Slam
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
Kleinbaum, N. H.: Dead Poets Society
Kosinski, Jerzy: Being There
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
Prejean, Helen: Dead Man Walking
Priestley, J. B.: An Inspector Calls
Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat
Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee: The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire

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 214-232
Conjunctions EG 233-240
Indefinite Quantifiers EG 241-253
Word Order EG 254-260
Tenses EG 15-76
The Passive EG 77-85
Reported Speech EG 86-94
Modal Verbs EG 95-117
Gerund & Infinitive EG 117-128

Verbs: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
Conditionals: http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html
Gerunds: http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm
Modals: http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html
Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs: http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html
Reported Speech: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.htm http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html
Passive: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html

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You can go ahead now and buy the book and start reading and taking notes. There is going to be an oral exam around Christmas.

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird [Mirco, Fitim, Alena, Daniela]
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country [Noah]
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four [Thomas, Nadia]
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart [Elia]
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye [Sara, Meryem, Tobias]
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Marcel, Simone, Florian B., Ali-Daniel]
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre [Jakob, Tamara, Sabrina]
T.C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain [Caterina, Florian H., Kilian]
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day [Martina]
Nick Hornby: Slam [Philipp]

Download Teachmaster from the teachmaster.de website. You can find an online manual for Teachmaster here.

To learn words on the iPhone, you can use SmartVoc: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartvoc/id412722522?mt=8&uo=4" target="itunes_store"><img src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/web/linkmaker/badge_appstore-sm.gif" alt="SmartVoc" style="border: 0;"/></a>

Current vocabulary file: 13-47.vok2

• The average of all the vocabulary tests will count as a full mark towards your final English mark at the end of the school year.

OALD Online Dictionary: http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com

Other Online Dictionaries

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