Work in pairs (or individually, if you prefer) and find 10 sentences on p 156 – 210 that you think are important to know the meaning of. Make sure you know how to translate/explain the sentences. Write your sentences + the page reference down. Tomorrow someone in the class will receive your sentences to explain and translate.
You can choose to post your sentences in the comments section below this post or use a handout that I will provide in class today.
1. Thing is, he was so flabby that I wasn't supprised that he felt bad. (156)
ReplyDelete2. Moths as big as sparrows flapped the light bulb and a soft, cooling breeze blew in cross the flat fields. (157)
3. Their need to go to Delhi and confirm the seats. Dodgy travel agents. Lies. (166)
4. So you're a follow-monkey then? (169)
5. I lit one with a flimsy match that had more sulphur on its head than wood on the stick and settled back into the hammock. (172)
6. I made a mental note to try and find out where before I re-lit my cigarette and thought about Lisa for the first time in weeks. (172)
7. My brain was playing a second period of extra time trying to work out who he was when I saw Mohan approaching. (173)
8. The midmorning sun was sweltering again and I had a line of sweat heading its way across my forehead just below my hairline. (175)
9. The more that I thought about positive things, the more the negatives outweighed them. (179)
10. Later on I dozed off until the sound of Mohan clanking around in the yard made me sit up. (193)
/Jeppe och Bea
1."Thing is, he was flabby that I wasn't suprised that he felt bad." (p.156)
ReplyDelete2."I felt like some old blokesitting in a nursing home..." (p.158)
3."The van smelt musty too, just like a damp old mattress that my parents had in a garage back at home" (p.159)
Jacky, Deniz
4."As I stepped out onto a rock plateau, in front of me loomed a huge white marble temple..." (p.161)
5."I was knackered" (p.163)
6."I was back in the Punjab that I was used to with it's flat fields and shanty-style villages and all the potholes in the road." (p.163)
7."Yes, only the comany was too interested in ruining and polluting the land, I left and went to China for a year." (p.188)
8."...his eyes clouded over with cataracts like smudged grey chalk on a blackboard." (p.194)
9."Mohan thought for a moment, his forehead creasing" (p.202)
10."...my stomach lurched with nerves..." (p.161)
1.page:158
ReplyDeleteThe gurudwaras are carved out off the hillsides and some of them have been made out of marble.
2.page:161
It was astonishing to think that someone, hundreds of years ago, had scaled these hills and carved a space out of the rocks, before building a monument that was every bit as wonderful as the Taj Mahal.
3.page: 202
Uncle-ji, if anyone was born to have tails it is my family. Not you and yours.
4.page:200
I sat in the HAVELI the following afternoon.....
5.page:166.
... and my stomach felt like it had been washed out with Domestos
6. page:169
He´d pick up a CAST-IRON PLOUGH like it was....
7.page:172
I lit one with a flimsy match that had more sulphur on it´s head than wood on the stick and settled back into the hammoch.
8.page:174
He intrigued me, partly because he was the black sheep of the family....
9.page:192
....unwittingly.....
10.page:188
That´s so wicked
By: Mollen och Majan
"I had stopped thinking of them as the enemy, let my guard down, and missed all the clues that in Leicester, I would have seen clearly."
ReplyDeletePage 166
"He intrigued me, partly because he was the black sheep of the family - the one who was hardly ever mentioned - and partly because he looked to me like a normal bloke, like the people back at home."
Page 174
"There is too much rubbish going on in his head. My daddy-ji told me that he has all these fancy ideas about things and is not proud to be a Jat like we are."
Page 174-175
"He told me that in every family there was always one who wanted chol (rice) when everyone else had to eat roti: something that he would accuse me of later in life."
Page 175
"I ended up lying on the hammock staring up at the sky, convinced that, despite the sunshine that beamed down, a personal grey cloud was following me around."
Page 179
"Piara and Gurvinder are chips off the old block or whatever the correct term is."
Page 185
/Julia och Marcus
(lägger upp resten av meningarna senare, hann inte klart)
1. Strung between them was a hammock, like something out of Robinson Crusoe.
ReplyDelete2. He'd pick up a cast-iron plough like it was nothing and regularly carried several bundles of wood across his shoulders whilst I only just managed to lift one bundle to waist height.
3. I lit one with a flimsy match that had more sulphur on its head than wood on the stick and settled back into the hammock.
4. The poof', for which he got a smack in the mouth from Ranjit.
5. He spoke with an air of resignation.
6. I felt like I was suffocating, my head throbbing.
7. Harry's contribution was predictable.
8. 'My dad and your dad away in Jullundur and Uncle Gurvinder busy with a new tube well.'
9. Moths as big as sparrows flapped around the light bulb.
10. he said dismissing my curiosity.
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