Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est

Read by Christopher Eccleston.

 

 

 



Rupert Brooke: The Soldier

INTRO: What is war good for?

Summary of non-fiction text about Britain

Hello everyone,
Individually or in pairs, you have to write a summary of the non-fiction text you worked with on 22 October 2013. If you weren't present that day just pick one of the texts (they are attached on Ludus for today's lessons).

Remember all the things that a summary of a non-fiction text must include and must not include and write approximately 150 words.

When you have written the summary put it in a comment on this blog post.

Speaking English, 22 October 2013

... So everyone - today we are going to work with pronunciation and in general being better at speaking English in the English lessons -> practice for the oral exam.

John Agard

Kirstine: John Agard.

His name is John Agard. He was born 21 June 1949 in British Guyana. He is Married with Grace Nichols, and they moved to UK in 1977, where they still live. When he was  little boy, he loved to listen cricket commentary on the radio, and then he started to make his own, which make him to love the language. And it is the reason to, why he started to love to write poems and stuff like that. He had studied English, French, and Latin on A-level. He began to write, his first poems in 6 (class/grate). But it was first when he was 16, some of his poems was published, and it was in the school magazines. In 1967 he left the school, and started to Work on the local library - on the same time he was also, sub-editor and feature writer for the Guyana Sunday Chronicle. He had worked for the commonwalth institute and BBC in London. He had written a lot of books, and here is some examples: Shoot me with flowers, Go Noah Go!, Travl Light Travel Dark. He had also won some different Awards, and here is some examples: Casa de las Americas prize(Cuba) for Man to Pan, Paul Hamlyn Award for poetry, and Queens Gold Medal for Poetry. He had, of course, also written the text "Mr and Mrs Xenophobia, we have read and worked with.

John Agard "Alternative Anthem"

Enoch Powell

John Enoch Powell was born 16 June 1912 and died 8 February 1998. He was born in Birmingham where he lived the first six years of his life before moved to King’s Norton in 1918, where he lived until 1930. He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell and his wife Ellen Mary. His father was a schoolteacher and so was his mother. But she stops teaching, to learn Greek and take care of John Enoch Powell.

He was a British conservative politician. Before he went into the policy, he has an academy career as professor of Greek. In 1950 he came into The House of Commons, because the people elected him. In 1960 to 1963 he was the health secretary of England. 

- Kimmie Christensen

Anhøj: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Arthur and poet. He lived from 30 dec. 1865 to 18 jan. 1936. He was born in Bombay, but his family took him to England when he was 5 years old. Rudyard Kipling is known for his poems about British soldiers and histales for children. Best known is the jungle book. He is one of the most popular writers in England in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1907 Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature, and today he is still the youngest to receive that prize. He is also known for his defending British imperialism. The text we had read in class is “The white man’s burden”. He also has a city in Canada, which has his name. It’s called, “Town of Kipling”. He got a D Litt. on the Durham and Oxford Universities in 1907, on the Cambridge University in 1908, on Edinburgh University in 1920 and on Paris and Strasbourg University in 1921. In 1924 he also got an honor PhD on the Athen University.

History of the British Empire