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
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The Shark 7
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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