Sumários

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Introduction

18 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The story in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a story told through an unusual convention: the novel is literally a fictitious government file consisting of diary entries, emails, newspaper articles, official government interviews/interrogations, personal letters, a script for a tv show, etc.  All of the documents included in the 'file' tell the story of how a Yemeni sheikh wants to introduce salmon fishing into the Yemen and how Alfred Jones, a British civil servant and scientist, and Harriet Chetwode Talbot, a British solicitor do their best to help him to make this dream a reality.  As the experiment fails in tragedy, the government opens up an investigation into the event.

The class identified themes in the novel:
  • media;
  • public image:
    • politics - the desperation to maintain a positive image in the media;
  • international politics/affairs;
  • war/peace/faith;
    • an impossible project in the middle East:
      • is peace possible in the Middle East?
  • love.
We then looked at/analyzed the characters in the novel:
  • Fred
  • Mary
  • Harriet
  • the Sheikh
  • Jay Vent
  • Peter Maxwell
  • David Sugden

Lesson 15

18 Abril 2018, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Sounds peculiar" - speaking + vocabulary: sounds (extra worksheets)

- Oxford Union style debate: "This House believes the Internet should be censored"

Vocabulary from the lesson - sounds:

- (to) sizzle
- (to) buzz
- (to) stutter
- (to) rumble
- (to) chime
- (to) pop
- (to) plop
- (to) clink
- (to) snap
- (to) beep
- (to) bleep
- (to) clatter
- (to) screech
- (to) croak
- (to) crack
- (to) rustle
- (to) rattle
- (to) mutter
- (to) bang
- (to) click
- (to) hum
- (to) jingle
- (to) creak
- (to) shriek
- (to) whistle


Test

18 Abril 2018, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott

Second sitting of comprehension test in class

test

17 Abril 2018, 14:00 • John Richard Walker

written test 1

Okri Writing Feedback.

17 Abril 2018, 10:00 • David Michael Greer

Okri Writing Feedback. 10 commandments. Setting up Ted Talk.