English 2- Assigments.

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Assigment 3. Read chapter 167 and answer the following questions.

1. a. What reasons did Christopher's father give for having killed Wellington?
b. Explain his words "And it was like everything I'd been bottling up for 2 years just...."
2. Why did Christopher decide to run away from his father?
3. Where did he hide? What things did he pack before he left?

Deadline: July 13th

Assignment 4

Chapter 179

1. Which experience from his life enabled Chritopher to take a train to London?

2. Christopher felt sad at the thought he would never become an astronaut. He was able to overcome this feeling, though. Name the source of this relief. Name of the character, what he said and the meaning of his words.

3. Christopher avoided big crowds for fear of being touched as well as noisy places. How would he react in these circumnstances? How did he manage to change his reaction?

4.Compare Christopher with the protagonist of "Slumdog Millionaire"

Deadline: July 16th


Happy holidays!!!!!!!!!

English 2 - July and August homework

Dear students,
I hope you are all in good shape and willing to work so that we do not fall behind with our work.

Assigment 1: "The curious incident..."Please read from chapter 181 to chapter 233.

• Make a brief summary of each chapter.
• Look up vocabulary
• Fill in our chart of characterization

Deadline August 5th ( written work)

On August 5th you will be tested on the following chapters: 181, 191, 193, 197, 199.

On August 6th you will be tested on the following chapters: 211,223, 227, 229, 233.

Assignment 2. Deadline July, Wednesday 8th.

Read chapter 149 and answer the following questions.

1.Where did Christopher do some detecting to find his book?

2.What precautions did he take so that his father would not suspect he had been messing with his things?

3.Did Christopher realize his mother was alive, living in London after reading the first letter? Please develop this issue taking these statements into account. "....could easily Leap to the Wrong Conclusions....".... make sure you have all the available clues before you start deducing things."

Chapter 157

A. After reading the letter dated 23rd August, what did Christopher finally understand? How did he react to this new reality? What was his father's reaction?

B. Remember conditional lll ? If + past perfect / would + have+past participle e.g "If Christopher had not hit the policeman, he would not have gone to jail."

Using this conditional, you can write a few sentences about the plot of this novel.

What would /wouldn't have happened if Christopher's father had not killed Wellington?

Assignment 3: deadline WED 17TH

Now please go to page 199 from Laser b2 and read the example question. Follow the instructions but instead of writing about a play, write a review on Slumdog Millionaire. Read the example answer and useful phrases and vocabulary. Pay attention to paragraphing, register and expressions.

Assignment 4: deadline Wed 17th
Laser b2 pp32,33. Exercises d and e. Look up the words in Work it out! Be ready to give an oral account of this article.

Assignment 5: deadline Thursday 18 th
Laser b2 pp38,39
Now please do b and c. Look up the words in Work out! and make sentences with them. Bring information about an invention you might be interested in, from an everyday item to a more sophisticated device, and be ready to talk about it in class.

Look forward to seeing you all, safe and sound.
Best,
maria rosa
mccandlessmariarosa@gmail.com

Dear students,

As you very well know, we'll be working through this medium for a few days.

Assignment 1- deadline: June 10th

Read chapter 67 from" The curious incident......" carefully, paying attention to Christopher's visit to his neighbours. Christopher says:"Talking to strangers is not something I usually do. I do not like talking to strangers." (page 45 )

Write briefly what happens in this chapter and tell me what you think about what he says about talking to strangers and what he does in this chapter.

Assignment 2- deadline: June 11th

"The curious incident...." Chapter 67

1.Please, look up the following expressions in the dictionary. Write down the appropriate entry and a sentence with it. You will find them on page 55.

"I'm going to hit the hay."

"It's brass monkeys out there."

"Let's rustle up some tucker."

2.On page 49 Mr. Wise tells Christopher: "Bloody hell, policemen are getting younger, aren't they"

Christopher is not able to understand this statement neither the statements above in 1.

Read your notes on the Asperger's syndrome and explain why this is so.