Engelska C (steg 7) för gymnasiets studieförberedande program och komvux
Engelskan står i centrum, inte bara som ett världsspråk utan även som ett globalt kulturellt fenomen. Blueprint C Version 2.0 lyfter språkinlärningen till att också spegla hur språket påverkar oss och framtiden, och ger eleven verktyg att ta del av detta. Christina McKay, Micke Brodin, Jeanette Clayton och Christopher Webster har tillsammans många år som lärare bakom sig, i kombination med lång erfarenhet som författare. Övriga komponenter: • Lärarhandledning 47-90493-8 • Facit 47-09197-3 • Lärar-CD 47-90494-5
M C Kay • Brodin • clayton • webster
Blueprint C Version 2.0 är sista steget innan fortsatta studier eller arbete. Här faller allt på plats och språkets olika verktyg används tillsammans; att jämföra och analysera går hand i hand med att tala och skriva – summan blir större än de enskilda delarna.
BLUEPRINT C
BLUEPRINT C – VERSION 2.0
BLUEPRINT C steg 7
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TEXTS
English – The International Shark? 8 “There is No Word For Goodbye” (Mary TallMountain) 12 The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisernos) 15 English: A Drop in the Bucket? 17 So English Is Taking Over the Globe. So What. (Noam Cohen, New York Times) 20 FOCUS ON LISTENING: 1984 (George Orwell) 27 Globalization – A Hot Potato 31 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “Californication” (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 38 FOCUS ON LISTENING: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) 41
CONTENTS
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WORDSHOP
Synonyms and near synonyms Loan words In-text citation Style and syntax Imagery and idioms
Things That Go Bump In the Night 45 TEXTS
Why Do People Like Being Scared? (Queendom.com) 46 Gothic 51 FOCUS ON LISTENING: CBC’s The Current: Vampire Culture 57 Victorian Sexual Morality 59 Dracula (Bram Stoker) 64 The Gothic Subculture 72 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (Bauhaus) 73 FOCUS ON LISTENING: Twilight (Stephanie Meyer) 75 “The Raven” (Edgar Allan Poe) 78 WORDSHOP
Use of commas Subject-verb agreement Homophones, homographs and homonyms
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Wherever You Go, There You Are 85 TEXTS
A Fish Out of Water 86 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “An Englishman in New York” (Sting) 93 Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) 96 FOCUS ON LISTENING: My Cleaner (Maggie Gee) 103 FOCUS ON LISTENING: Touch the Dragon (Karen Connelly) 105 I’m A Stranger Here Myself (Bill Bryson) 108 WORDSHOP
Neologisms -ships Metaphor and simile
Mind Your Manners 115 TEXTS
Generation Me (Jean Twenge) 116 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “Help Save the Youth of America” (Billy Bragg) 122 To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) 129 Bad Manners 134 “This be the Verse” (Philip Larkin) 136 Writing the University Application Letter (Hugh Gallagher) 141 WORDSHOP
Poetic effects Puns Euphemisms, colloquialisms, slang
Literary Criticism 145 TEXTS
Why Be So Critical? 146 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “Closer To Fine” (Indigo Girls) 151 WORDSHOP
Dictionary definitions
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Modernism 156 TEXTS
Modernism 156 Ulysses (James Joyce) 162 “The Second Coming” (W.B. Yeats) 166 WORDSHOP
American/British English
Postmodernism 171 TEXTS
Postmodernism 171 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard) 177 “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock” (Stevie Smith) 183 WORDSHOP
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Postcolonialism 189 TEXTS
Postcolonialism 189 FOCUS ON LISTENING: On Seeing England for the First Time (Jamaica Kincaid) 196 FOCUS ON MUSIC: “Somalia” (K’naan) 201 WORDSHOP
Irony
Feminist Criticism 207 TEXTS
Feminst Criticism 207 Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) 213 Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) 217 WORDSHOP
Inclusive language, pronoun problems, gender-neutral titles
Blue Pages 225 Wordlist 255 5
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Foreword Blueprint C 2.0 will help you develop all the skills required by your pre-university English course curriculum, such as understanding and producing theoretical, scientific and literary English, critical reading and thinking in English, and understanding social issues and cultural differences in the English-speaking world. Blueprint C 2.0 is an up-grade of Blueprint C. Layout and instructions have been simplified and homogenized. Some texts and a whole chapter have been replaced by completely new material, and Focus on Music pieces have been added. Compared to Blueprint A and B, the new Compare & Analyze level of exercises takes comprehension and critical thinking a step further. Blueprint C also has Wordshops, which take up various linguistic topics ranging from grammar details to irony. These are followed by Wordshop Work exercises to help consolidate your understanding. The Word Work exercises have been moved, and are provided in the Teacher’s Book. The Blueprint C Blue Pages introduce Reader’s Roadmap, a companion to the well-known Writer’s Workshop and Speaker’s Corner. In Reader’s Roadmap you’ll find advice to improve your reading efficiency - useful in later university or working life. The Teacher’s Book for Blueprint C 2.0 has a number of valuable complements to the main book, providing a wide range of extension materials to suit a variety of needs and interests. These include suggested class activities, expanded and additional Wordshops with accompanying exercises, and extensions to the Writing, Speaking and Reading materials in the Blue Pages. These include illustrative writing samples, laboratory report guidance, and help with critical reading of statistics. The linguistic and literary glossary from the original Blueprint C can be found in the Teacher’s Book. Words underlined with red dots in this book are the ones explained there. In this new version of Blueprint C we have for the sake of clarity and consistency used American standards of spelling and vocabulary in all the book’s own texts. Literary extracts have, however, been reproduced in the English used by the original author. Congratulations – you are stepping onto the launch pad, and the count-down has started for your lift-off through the orbit of Blueprint C 2.0 to the English-speaking universe beyond. Enjoy the trip, and make use of the supplies we have packed for you. 6
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So English Is Taking Over the Globe. So What. New York Times – Ideas & Trends, August 6, 2006 By Noam Cohen
vid the world, the linguist Da sed last WHEN its president propo that ing say Graddol cites figures rds like month to ban English wo ple 500 million to a billion peo izza,” “helicopter,” “chat” and “p either as ], 06 speak English now [20 ntry to Iran became the latest cou language. 5 a first or second ead of English 5 try to fight the spr Under a plan he calls the ge. But as a de facto global langua ntries World English Project, cou und with interest in English aro age of ant adv would recognize the , not the world growing stronger introEnglish as a global tool and cul can eri Am by ked sto weaker – truction earlier in 10 duce English ins and advertising, the 10 tural influences ites, there schools. As a result, he wr ple peo ng you of ers mb nu increasing speakers could be “two billion new the in developing countries and .” of English within a decade ong other spread of the Internet, am per pro t tha But the danger is guists factors – there are some lin overwhelmed by the 15 English will be it? ht fig y wh : say o wh 15 and others akers, he English of non-native spe s, English, Instead, the argument goe t English acknowledged. “This is no the of m for r ple sim the ly particular have as we have known it, and n-native language used by most no foreign taught it in the past as a . ced bra em be uld sho speakers, ote. “It is a new 20 language,” he wr fight “It’s a lost cause to try to 20 resents phenomenon, and if it rep y, Lév es qu Jac d sai e,” tid against the probably any kind of triumph it is the Swiss who studies globalism at by native not a cause of celebration in gy olo hn Tec of te titu Federal Ins speakers.” FrenchLausanne and is a native nce – Leave it to a native of Fra 25 t jus is ed, add he h, glis En 25 speaker. 1990’s a country that itself in the tongues. the latest in a line of global English briefly required that 3,000 lan r the ano n bee e hav “It could nch ones – words be replaced by Fre Latin, guage; it was Greek, then r English to suggest that this simple h.” glis En is it w no French, n-Paul Nerrière, 30 be codified. Jea In a report for the British 30 I.B.M., a retired vice president of t tha dy bo nt me ern gov a Council, It uses a calls his proposal Globish. around promotes English culture
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job native speaker, but get the n and nya Ke a done between, say, te a busia Korean trying to naviga p at ness deal or asking for hel ck-in. For nephew, 5 the airport che r/sister”; there is “son of my brothe you cook kitchen is “room in which casually your food”; chat is “speak za, howto each other.” Pizza is piz bish considers it to 10 ever, since Glo like taxi be an international term, or police.
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00 words, limited vocabulary of 1,5 erica, taken from the Voice of Am ich can among other sources, wh to express be put together clumsily ed thoughts. Little 5 more complicat plexities concern is given to the com ses that of grammar, and he propo same speakers of Globish say the make up thing in different ways to s in pronunciation. 10 for difficultie in The typical conversation to a Globish could be grating
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R E A D & R E A CT
1. What factors are stoking interest in English around the world,
according to the article? 2. Describe Jean-Paul Nerrière’s invention and explain why he
invented it. 3. List two pros and two cons of Globish as described in the
article.
R E F L E CT & S H A R E
1. The article mentions that Iran tried to ban certain English
words. Do you think that nations should try to put a stop to English influences? Why, or why not? 2. What differences can you find between the Globish text of the
Gettysburg address and the original text? Which one do you prefer? Why? 3. What effects will Globish have on the creative use of English in
the future? What could happen to poetry, literature, song lyrics, drama, or film? 4. Do you think Globish will catch on? Why or why not?
C O M PA R E & A N A LY Z E
Choose another text in Blueprint C (some suggestions include Globalization – A Hot Potato on p. 31, or Victorian Sexual Morality on p. 59 or Postcolonialism on p. 189) and try translating a paragraph into Globish. The list of 1,500 words can be found online. How difficult was this to do? What was lost? What was gained?
FURTHER STUDIES
Esperanto is an example of an earlier effort to create an international language. You aren’t speaking it now, are you? So, what happened? Do some research on Esperanto. Find out about who created it, what it was intended to be used for, who uses it, and why it did not catch on as an international language.
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WORDSHOP
In-text citation
In the text, Cohen often refers to what somebody else has expressed. Sometimes this is done by using that person’s exact words – called verbatim citation, and sometimes the person’s words or thoughts have been rephrased in Cohen’s own words – called paraphrase citation. When you write your own essays, reports or articles, you will inevitably be citing other writers/speakers to give your work greater authority and academic credibility. You can mix your use of verbatim and paraphrase citation, but whichever you use, you will need to find ways of varying the reporting words s/he says/said. (Note that for paraphrase citations you will always write the word that after your reporting word.) Here are some of the reporting words used in Cohen’s text, plus a few more. he said, he acknowledged, he wrote, he writes, he proposes that, (which) he calls, he considers, he added, he cites (figures), they say, the argument goes, they suggest, they assume, they argue, s/he admits, s/he agrees, s/he appears to believe, s/he believes, s/he claims, s/he comments, s/he concedes, s/he counters, s/he deliberates, s/he expresses it, s/he holds that, s/he indicates, s/he muses, s/he notes that, s/he observes, s/he postulates, s/he professes that, s/he wishes us to believe that,
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s/he would have us believe that, which s/he names/dubs
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FOCUS ON MUSIC:
Californication By Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Psychic spies from China Try to steal your mind’s elation Little girls from Sweden Dream of silver screen quotations And if you want these kind of dreams It’s Californication
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It’s the edge of the world And all of western civilization The sun may rise in the East At least it settles in the final location It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Celebrity skin is this your chin Or is that war you’re waging [Chorus] First born unicorn Hard core soft porn Dream of Californication Dream of Californication
who praise ised by those ere Born and ra ody’s been th yb er ev n o ti la opu Control of p and tion mean on vaca 10 I don’t [Chorus] ry rough road leads to a ve n io ct u tr es D n reeds creatio But it also b guitar are to a girl’s es ak u q h rt And ea bration other good vi an st ju e ’r 15 They e world ldn’t save th u co es av w And tidal rnication From Califo
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Marry me girl be my fairy to the world Be my very own constellation A teenage bride with a baby inside Getting high on information And buy me a star on the boulevard It’s Californication
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Space – the final frontier famous quote from the TV series Startrek Cobain lead singer in Nirvana (died 1994) the spheres (poetic) the sky Alderon Princess Leia's planet in the fictional universe of Star Wars
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R E A D & R E A CT
1. Which two words are combined to create Californication?
What does each word mean by itself? What meaning do they create together when combined in Californication? 2. What is the connection between Hollywood and
Californication? 3. Surgeons are mentioned in verses 3 and 9. Why are surgeons so
important here? What do they do?
R E F L E CT & S H A R E
1. Why do “Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen
quotations”? What are they talking about here? Is it true? 2. What do you think is meant by: “It’s the edge of the world and
all of western civilization”? 3. Why can’t tidal waves save the world from Californication? 4. What do they mean when they sing “everybody’s been there
and I don’t mean on vacation”? 5. There are several references to space in the song. Find them
and discuss what they mean and what they have to do with Californication.
C O M PA R E & A N A LY Z E
1. Look at the wordshop on neologisms (p. 91) and find which
type of neologism the word Californication belongs to. 2. What’s the link between Californication and globalization?
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FOCUS ON LISTENING:
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams
Listen to the first programme of this well-known radio series, which has also been turned into novels and other forms of entertainment. You’ll meet Arthur Dent in a difficult situation in his everyday life in England, unaware that he is about to begin a colossal space adventure. You may find that even the global environment can seem parochial, if we expand our horizons far enough! To aid your comprehension of the programme, be sure to turn to the vocabulary list on p. 256.
parochial small-mindedly provincial
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Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert
At 34, Elizabeth Gilbert’s life was a smoldering mess. A painful divorce, a catastrophic rebound romance and a bout of depression left her in search of some answers to life’s biggest questions. She decided to embark on a year of solitary travel to Italy, India and Indonesia. She tells us that “I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.” In this excerpt, we find her in Rome, experiencing the art of pleasure and wondering just how she compares with the slick, well-dressed Romans she sees around her.
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step off the train a few days later to a Rome full of hot, sunny, eternal disorder, where – immediately upon walking out into the street – I can hear the soccer-stadium-like cheers of a nearby manifestazione, another labor demonstration. What they are striking about this time, my taxi driver cannot tell me, mainly because, it seems, he doesn’t care. “Sti cazzi,” he says about the strikers. (Literal translation: “These balls,” or, as we might say: “I don’t give a shit.”) It’s nice to be back. After the staid sobriety of Venice, it’s nice to be back where I can see a man in a leopard-skin jacket walking past a pair of teenagers making out right in the middle of the street. The city is so awake and alive, so dolled-up and sexy in the sunshine. I remember something that my friend Maria’s husband, Giulio, said to me once. We were sitting in an outdoor cafe, having our conversation practice, and he asked me what I thought of Rome. I told him I really loved the place, of course, but somehow knew it was not my city, not where I’d end up living for the rest of my life. There was something about Rome that didn’t belong to me, and I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Just as we were talking, a helpful visual aid walked by. It was the quintessential Roman woman: a fantastically maintained, jewelry-sodden fortysomething dame wearing four-inch heels, a tight skirt with a slit as long as your arm, and those sunglasses that look like race cars (and
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probably cost as much). She was walking her little fancy dog on a gem-studded leash, and the fur collar on her tight jacket looked as if it had been made out of the pelt of her former little fancy dog. She was exuding an unbelievably glamorous air of “You will look at me, but I will refuse to look at you.” It was hard to imagine she had ever, even for ten minutes of her life, not worn mascara. This woman was in every way the opposite of me, who dresses in a style my sister refers to as “Stevie Nicks Goes to Yoga Class in Her Pajamas.” I pointed that woman out to Giulio, and I said, “See, Giulio, that is a Roman woman. Rome cannot be her city and my city, too. Only one of us really belongs here. And I think we both know which one.”
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WORDSHOP
–ships
1. Elizabeth Gilbert writes: “the sexual self-confidence disaster of
my last relationship”. Note the use of the suffix –ship. What change in meaning does it bring to the root word, e.g. as in partner/ship? 2. Write a sentence in which you use both friend and friendship. 3. Now write three more sentences, similarly using some of these
words. champion, censor, dealer, dictator, leader, member, musician, premier, sponsor, owner 4. Relation/ship is different from the other –ships above.
Relation = 1) a person you are genetically related to, and 2) a connection between two or more people or things, organizations, countries etc., e.g. international relations, customer relations, the relation between input and output. Now, choose relation or relationship to fill in the following gaps. a) All my friends and … are coming to the party. b) Ann and John have a very loving … c) Did he and his boss have sexual …? d) I was hoping for a more intimate … e) I’ve had enough of … – I’m perfectly happy living a single life. f) In … to your inquiry, we can make the following offer. g) Labour … were under strain during the economic recession. h) Let us focus on the role of the USA in global trade … i) The … between obesity and diabetes has been well researched. j) There is a mathematical … k) This weather bears no … to anything we experienced in Africa. l) We have excellent working business … with this company. m) What exactly is your … with Gerry? n) You need to demonstrate the clear … between cause and effect.
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FOCUS ON LISTENING:
My Cleaner By Maggie Gee
Mary Tendo was once the housekeeper and caregiver for the Henman family, but left her job to go back to her native Uganda. Now, Vanessa Henman, a middle-aged, middle-class London professor, has a problem. Her 22-year-old son, Justin, is too depressed to get out of bed. Justin says the only person who can cheer him up is Mary. The book explores the clash of cultures and classes that occurs when Mary comes to work for the Henmans again. In this excerpt, Mary tells us what she thinks of her life as a cleaner in England, and compares it to
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Generation Me By Jean Twenge
American author Jean Twenge says that today’s youth are “more confident, assertive, entitled – and more miserable than ever before”. Generation Me, she says, includes anyone born in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. Twenge tells us that today’s young people “take it for granted that the self comes first”, and uses her book to examine the ramifications of this widespread narcissism. In this excerpt, she takes up the question of manners and etiquette, and wonders just how “kids today” stack up when it comes to minding their Ps and Qs.
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Labor Day a public holiday first Monday in September
ot caring what others think may also explain the decline in manners and politeness. Because we no longer believe that there is one right way of doing things, most of us were never taught the rules of etiquette. Although it’s fine to wear white shoes after Labor Day and use whatever fork you want, most etiquette was developed to provide something often lacking in modern life: respect for other people’s comfort. “Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we’re fed up with [the results],” says Corinne Gregory, founder of a class called the PoliteChild. Diane Diehl, who runs a similar class, agrees. “Kids are being encouraged by pop culture to be disrespectful and self-destructive, and their parents are frightened and looking for help.” A high school teacher told me that she noticed her students don’t “clean up nice” – they find it difficult to not swear and to speak more formally when necessary. They talk to older people and authority figures the same way they talk to their friends. A business book relates the story of a company founder who visited one of his shops and asked a young employee how she was doing. “Well, a little hungover this morning, but okay,” she replied. Basic consideration for others seems to be on the wane as well. I am continually amazed at how many people drive down the street blasting music from their car stereos, often with their windows
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Engelska C (steg 7) för gymnasiets studieförberedande program och komvux
Engelskan står i centrum, inte bara som ett världsspråk utan även som ett globalt kulturellt fenomen. Blueprint C Version 2.0 lyfter språkinlärningen till att också spegla hur språket påverkar oss och framtiden, och ger eleven verktyg att ta del av detta. Christina McKay, Micke Brodin, Jeanette Clayton och Christopher Webster har tillsammans många år som lärare bakom sig, i kombination med lång erfarenhet som författare. Övriga komponenter: • Lärarhandledning 47-90493-8 • Facit 47-09197-3 • Lärar-CD 47-90494-5
M C Kay • Brodin • clayton • webster
Blueprint C Version 2.0 är sista steget innan fortsatta studier eller arbete. Här faller allt på plats och språkets olika verktyg används tillsammans; att jämföra och analysera går hand i hand med att tala och skriva – summan blir större än de enskilda delarna.
BLUEPRINT C
BLUEPRINT C – VERSION 2.0
BLUEPRINT C steg 7
VERSION 2.0
Christina M C Kay Best.nr 47-09196-6 Tryck.nr 47-09196-6
Micke Brodin jeanette clayton christopher webster
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