English, Aug 30

After my introduction, choose the novels you want to read during the course. You can choose more than one. Based on your choices, I will decide which novels I will use.



Public schools

Lesson goal: gaining a basic knowledge about Public schools in England!

Introduction



Presentation

Compare your answers to the questions with your desk mate!
Ask me for clarification!

This is a link to the lyrics for the Eton Gangnam Style video
This is a link to the Glossary page of Eton College's homepage

Task

- Choose three words from the Glossary page above
- Copy the word and the explanation to your own "Glossary"
- Write a short reflection about why you chose the word and what you feel it says about life at Eton College

Example:

Trials

End-of-term examinations

Trials means "test" or "examination" in Swedish too. But it also means "vedermödor, svårigheter" and even "rättegångar", so when they choose to use this word about their final tests, I think it says something about the importance of them. What happens to boys who don't pass their tests you wonder, when the expectations of what you're going to do with your life is so very high. It also makes me think that the tests are very difficult.

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