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ABOUT A BOY

The book are written by NICK HORNBY, who were born in 1957. He grew up in north London and he studied English at Cambridge University. He worked as a teachers and journalist, before he was starting to write fiction.


This are the story about a boy, who’s name is MARCUS. He is twelve years old and is having many problem at home and at school. He live with his mum FIONA in London, because she are divorced from his father, called CLIVE.
At school he have no friends, because he is very shy. All kids laughs at him, because he wear the wrong trousers, the wrong shoes and the wrong haircut.

The second main character is a thirty-six-years old man, called Will Freeman. He never had a job in his life, because he have enough money from his father. The whole day he read quite a lot, is watching TV, and he always change his girlfriends. He don’t like children, but he behave more like a child than a grown-up.

Summary:
Marcus and Will meets each other at a picnic and Marcus kill a duck. Will help him and tell the park-keeper, that the duck was dead before Marcus threw a big sandwich onto it.
Marcus have big problems in school and with his mum. She is depressive and one day she try to kill herself. So Marcus is very afraid, that his mother dies and he is alone. So he begin to visit Will every day, and a funny friendship start. When Will meet a woman called Rachel, he fall in love with her. She have a son and Will say her, he also have a son: Marcus. But a few weeks later he tell her the truth.
Will help Marcus to integrate in his school: he buy him new adidas-trainers. Marcus cut his hair and wear other clothes. He like Elli, a girl in his class very much. She is a fan of Kurt Cobain, a singer, who shoot himself. Then she is very sad and Marcus tries to help her overcome her sadness.
At the end Marcus have enough friends and Will want to marry Rachel.

I found these book very funny and interesting. I liked the friendship between Marcus and Will, because Will helped Marcus, and I liked how Marcus helped Will to find a point in his life.
I can recommend everybody to read this book.

homework for Tuesday (26th)

Tell your own story

Night after night we sat in front of the telly (TV) with a ham sandwich in one hand, a bar of chocolate in the other, and a bottle of lemonade between our boots, while mum was with some fancy man upstairs on the new bed she had ordered……

Keep writing the story. Write about 200 words at least.
You can have an open end.

Vocabulary Laura’s Story

to solve
to be worried (1)
rural (5)
to be upset (10)
to trust someone (28)
as much as (29)
to offer (34)
to skip lessons (35)
to get arrested for possession of sth (40)
to defend (49)
no matter what (50)
to be supposed to do sth (63)
to ruin one’s life (78)
the slightest idea (82)
to counsel (85)
sober (87)
to blame (89)
as far as I’m concerned (90)

vocabulary p.65/ 66

Vocabulary – Do you believe in yourself ? (Book p. 65f)

to be worried about
to be accepted
self-conscious
self-confidence
advantage – disadvantage
to have an impact on sth/ sb
to realize
self-esteem
to believe in
to be supposed to
failure
to deserve
root
to point out
to take a risk
unprotected
to protect
to abuse
to value oneself
peer pressure
desperately
to treat someone badly
to deserve

Vocabulary "The Pressure Cooker"

Make sure you know the vocabulary.
Learn the unknown words and phrases from the given blue boxes as well.
Chin up and keep smiling...

scene 1

to sentence - verurteilen
achievement - Leistung
to bother with
modesty
to be in a good mood
to fail
to go on the dole
to revise
to afford
to decide

scene 2

never mind
to be in a rush
to get on
revision
obviously
cheeky (brit. Engl)- frech
decent
I didn't mean to do sth
instead of
honestly
to bring up
both of you
to change your mind
in the long run

scene 3

to pretend
exaggerated
to exaggerate
patience
relationship
to overpower
to guess
on my own
to blame someone
to care
Whose fault is it?
sb else's fault

scene 4

to make up (a story)
to show off
advice
furious
row
to tease
How was I suppossed to know?
to feel guilty

scene 5

to be upset
to mention

Quotations

Quotations

(l.10) in line 10

(ll. 10/11) in lines 10 and 11

(ll.10-15) from line 10 to 15

Examples of quotations within a sentence:

In line 8 the author refers to the upper classes as “ the idle rich” and in line 17 as “selfish dinosaurs”.

In lines 18 and 19, she points out that they live a life of “privilege by an accident of birth”.

Between lines 23 and 34, she goes on to explain how ideas of class damage society as a whole.

The Pigman - vocabulary

Make sure you are familiar with the following vocabulary
of the extract in your book on page 41 ff

text 1

to decide
to be one’s turn
to cover
to pretend
to belong to
to clear one’s throat
to assure someone
cause
to be interested in
to receive
donation
to donate
to depend on
charity
suddenly
to burst into laughter
to repeat
to contribute to
marvelous
to feel sorry for
to be bothered
he is dying to do sth
ridiculous
to demand
sth is going to happen
to end up

text 2

anyway
apparently
to make an appearance
to reach
expression
to imitate
performance
to imagine
to be obvious
to intrude
to announce