Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Talk about the topic Imagine that you could step into a novel, either as yourself or as one of the characters; you can try to change what happens if you want to, but of course you have to deal with the other people in the book. Which novel would you choose? Make notes about your ideas for this; prepare to tell the rest of the class: Read through the list of writing tasks below. Choose one and complete it with reference to a novel in English that you have read. Guess what happened Work in pairs. Make up a short story using the information set out below, and prepare to tell your story to the rest of the class. 8 9 10 Now listen to David Lodge’s “Guess What Happened?” Find out what happened in the original story. 11 1/01 • why you have chosen this book • briefly what it is about • at what point in the book you would enter • what character you would be and why • what you would hope to do • how this would affect the other characters • how this would affect the outcome of the book • what would happen to you in the end • You are given the choice of living the life of one of the characters. Who would you choose? Why? Consider, for example, interests, abilities, goals, successes, personality, etc. • Write a dialogue between you and a character in the novel. • Write a letter to a character in the novel. Characters  •  Dorothy and her husband Adrian  •  Jonathan , Rosemary and Susan , their children  •  Ollie , the family cat Clues – sentences from the story “If anybody has forgotten anything,’’ said Dorothy, “say so now, or for ever hold your peace.” The year they went camping, they left a dozen tins of cat food behind for Ollie, but took the tin- opener away with them. “No wonder this holiday was cursed,” said Dorothy, as they sat on the grass verge waiting for the breakdown truck. Holiday departures were always occasions of stress and error. “But this year,” said Dorothy, “we seem to have got away without a hitch.” “What on earth were you doing half an hour ago? I looked out of the front bedroom window and saw you tearing off up the road in the car, and then about ten minutes later I looked out of the back bedroom window and you were in the garden, digging.” Nobody could guess, but Adrian refused to tell them the answer, and after a while they grew bored with that game and forgot all about it. Not until they were driving back towards home three weeks later did he remind them. 11 1 Unit 1: The craft of fiction Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv