READERS 2016-2017

First term

Choose ONE of the following recommendations or any other original version. Tell the teacher when you
decide your book:

Recommended Reading List C1:

• The Woman in the Photograph. By Dana Gynther

• Girl With a Pearl Earring By Tracy Chevalier

• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. By Hilary Mantel

• In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks. By Anna Erelle

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. By Mark Haddon

• The First Casualty By Ben Elton

• The Help By Kathryn Stockett

• The Moth Catcher By Ann Cleeves

• A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories By Lucia Berlin

• After By Anna Todd

• The Girl on the Train By Paula Hawkins

• The Slap By Christos Tsiolkas

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. By John Boyne

• A Death in Valencia By Jason Webster

• The Catcher in the Rye. By J.D. Salinger

Evaluation: Oral test in December and January

Evaluation Task:

Choose TWO of the following questions. Film yourself for 3-4 minutes answering to the TWO questions.

You can do it with your mobile phone or your laptop’s webcam. You CAN’T READ from your notes!!

Write your name in the video attachment and send it to me through the platform.

DEADLINE: 9th January 2017

 Questions:

Why did you choose to read Which character did you like
this book? What kind of book the most? And the least?
is it? Why?

Describe a significant event in

What main ideas or themes
the book and say why it is
does the writer explore?
important in the story.

Is the story interesting? Were

Is the end satisfying? If not,
you surprised by the plot or
how would you change it?
did you find it predictable?

Describe a passage or two Describe the places where

that you found particularly the story happens. Would
funny, relevant, delightful... you like to visit them?

What are the strong and the

Have you learnt something
weak points of this book in
new from the book?
your opinion?

Do you think the book has Do you think this book would
any kind of moral? What is it? make a good film or TV
Did you expect it? series? Why? Why not?

Were your expectations

Did you enjoy the book?
about the book correct?
Why? Why not? Would you
Were you expecting the book
recommend it?
to be like it is?
Second term

Read the following book. You can borrow it from the school’s library.

• Crossing on the Paris. By Dana Gynther

Evaluation Task: Interactive talk and discussion with the author, Dana Gynther, in April, 2017

Exact date still to be confirmed.