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Vocabulary

  • to attribute a certain adjective to ...
  • a good sense of humor
  • a humorous person
  • to be in a bad mood
  • illtempered
  • to be reliable / to rely on someone
  • obidient / obidience

    Task: Discuss the suitability of adjectives concerning certain characters (page 271/No.5)

    Claudia:

  • dominant ( wears the pants, rules the household )
  • good-humoured ( when she plays with the two men / she puts them up for an auction )
  • warm-hearted ( in the end : decides not to leave her rather weak husband )
  • confident ( auction / she´s said to belong to herself)
  • wise ( “ I give myself to the weaker of the two “ [ l. 78 ])
  • loyal
  • dependable / reliable ( Morell in spite of being the weaker part in their partnership can rely on her)

    The four "W" - questions on "Ponyboy" by S. E. Hinton

    The story is an excerpt from the novel "The Outsiders". It's about US teenage gangs, made into a popular film in 1983

    When ?

    During the late 1960´s.

    Where ?

    The story takes place on the streets in a rather poor East Side suburb somewhere in the United States.

    Who ?

    A bunch of gang kids who grow up together in a bad area. They are all between the age of fourteen and twenty.

    What ?

    The youngest member of this gang, Ponyboy, describes his life and the special relationships he has to all of his friends and his two brothers, Darry and Soda. He seems to be a lot different to the others and one day he gets beaten up by a rival gang after coming out of the cinema and walking home on his own, but his friends are able to reach the scene where it happens in time to save him.

    Hendrik

    Source: Invitation to Literature, Cornelsen 1990