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Before I fall

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by laurichi78 in Laura's recommendations, Reviews, Young Adult

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before i fall, lauren oliver

I was actually planning on not posting new entries for a while… given that the summer holidays are here and I won’t be able to tell my students to do homework online any longer… But I recently finished reading the wonderful YA novel Before I fall, by Lauren Oliver, and I just knew I had to give it to Elise, a bilingual student from Holland who is in 3rd year ESO  B. And she just handed me her review today, and I just had to post it!!!

So here it goes, all in Elise’s own words… Highly recommended from Elise and from me… I just love Lauren Oliver, she is one of the most gifted writers in youth literature today.

This book is about a girl named Sam, a popular girl enrolled in a typical American high school. It’s a Friday, Cupid’s Day. A guy that she was once friends with, Kent, throws a party and invites the whole school. Naturally, Sam and her friends, Lindsay, Elody and Ally, show up. The party passes by like any other would, except for that it ends in a rather unfortunate way: the girls end up in a car crash, in which Sam dies.

However, Sam wakes up the next morning. It’s Friday, again, another Cupid’s Day. The days passes, Sam blames the feeling of familiarity, of having done all of it before, on deja-vus. They visit the party again, she dies in the car crash a second time.

She spends the next days, all Fridays, trying to avoid dying in the car crash, finding out that her friends aren’t exactly who she thought they were, falling out of love with her airhead boyfriend and getting closer and closer to her childhood friend Kent.

She also finds out that Juliet “Psycho” Syke, a girl they used to make fun of at school, commits suicide every single Friday that she is stuck reliving over and over again. Sam and her friends might very well be the cause of it. Now she isn’t only keen on on getting herself out of the cycle of endless Fridays, but she is also trying to talk Juliet out of taking her own life. She ends up sacrificing herself for the girl, and is finally able to free herself.

I loved this book. It took me a few tries to get into it… Sam’s popularity and shallow ways of doing everything are terribly annoying when you first begin reading… but when you finally get past the first part, t’s hard to put the book down. I like how the story itself is kind of a sad one, but it isn’t written that way. Instead it’s funny, and incredibly moving towards the end.

This novel is highly recommended!

So hurry up and read it!

And if you are still not convinced you can watch the book trailer for this novel on Vimeo!

Summer holidays

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by laurichi78 in General

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Summer’s here and this is our last post before the holidays start!

Today in class I want my students to answer some questions for me, as a sort of final evaluation… this is personal so please take your time an d do it on your own!

1. Did you enjoy working on the blog this year?

2. Do you think working on the blog improved your English?

3. Would you like to continue working on it next year?

4. Are you going to read any of the books we reviewed this summer?

Enjoy your holidays and don’t forget, reading on the beach is a really relaxing activity!

Reported Speech homework & sweet treats!

11 Monday Jun 2012

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literary quotes, reported speech

Happy Monday! The weather is unusually hot for this time of year and my students are exhausted, so here is a treat for them!

No, I’m not talking about cupcakes!

And it’s not ice cream either!

It’s some reported speech homework!

Most of the sentences are quotes from the novels that we have reviewed this year, and some are from books we will hopefully review in the future!

I promise I’ll post the answers soon… Just a tip: if there is more than one sentence, use “and”!

  1. Edward said: ”I’m trying. If it gets to be… too much, I’m fairly sure I’ll be able to leave” from Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer.
  2. My mother said to me: “Remember. I love you. They cannot take it”, from Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
  3. He said to me : “Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it”  from Divergent, by Veronica Roth
  4. She said to me : “This is the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from our little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet” from Before I fall, by Lauren Oliver
  5. Tatiana said to him: “You will fall away from me in just a while, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does”, from The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons.
  6. Jamie said to Claire: “Don’t take life too seriously, no one gets out alive.” , from Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
  7. I said to my mother: “Why do you have to use me to show off?” from The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan.
  8. I wondered:“What must it be like, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?”, from The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
  9. Anne asked: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” from Anne of Green Gables, by L.M Montgomery
  10. She asked Jace: ‘Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?’ …. He replied: “Unfortunately, my one true love remains myself” from City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare

Enjoy these quotes, and just think, soon enough, you’ll be picking seashells by the seashore! And, if you have the time and feel like having a sweet treat, you can find the recipes for the cupcakes and the ice cream at http://www.objetivocupcake.com and http://www.larecetadelafelicidad.com!

Groucho Marx this week

08 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by laurichi78 in Quotes

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Groucho Marx

Our quote this week is by the great Groucho Marx… this quote is funny but true too!

Groucho Marx was born in  New York in 1890, and died in LA in 1977. He was a famous writer, comedian and actor, best-known for his films as a member of the Marx Brothers team.

This quote is one of his most popular ones. I bet it will make you smile! And hopefully it will also make you think!

The short second life…

07 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by laurichi78 in Fiction, Reviews, Young Adult

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This week our avid reader Miriam brings us her review of a novella written by Stephenie Meyer that is also part of the Twilight Saga. The short second life of Bree Tanner is not so well-known as the rest of the saga but Miriam says it’s addicitive so we’ll have to take her word for it…

The short second life of Bree Tanner is a Twilight saga novella centred on the newborn vampire Bree, who was introduced in Eclipse. The novella tells the story of Bree Tanner’s life as a newborn vampire and her experiences as a member of the Seattle newborn vampire army.

Bree goes out hunting and she meets Diego (another newborn) and they fall in love. Together they learn that it is possible for them to go out in the sunlight (contrary to what Riley, another vampire created by evil Victoria, has told them).

Diego confronts Riley about this and doesn’t return leaving Bree very frightened and confused. She asks Riley about Diego and he tells her that he is “running an errand” for him and that they will be reunited….

When you read this book you understand the other books better. You get a new insight into Edward’s character… you see that he isn’t the kind of person that he seems. This book isn’t a romantic book, it is more a vampire book with action scenes… but there is also a love story… for all of these things it is my favorite book in the saga. I recommend this book for everyone who loves love storyies and magical scenes.

 Some questions for you:
1. What do you think about Riley?
2. Do you remember the names of the Volturi members?
3. Are you interested in this book?
4. Do you think Bree will live in the end?

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