THE DISCUSSION OF THIS THEME IS DUE IN MARCH-APRIL 2009.
Do you like reading? What kind of books do you prefer? Why is it? What is/are your favourite book(s)? What do you like most about it?
Please tell us about: if we haven’t read that yet, we do and let you know about!
You are kindly asked to contribute free comments on this page and do the activities related to this topic that your teacher will tell you to carry out.
Enjoy your discussions!
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Power point presentation: FAMOUS SWEDISH AUTHORS
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Dear all,
My name is Mikael. I work at Komvux Norrköping. One of the best Swedish books that I know is “The Emigrants” from 1951 by Vilhelm Moberg. It is about a Swedish family migrating to America during the 19 th century. Although it is from -51 its theme is still very much relevant to our modern society. Try to find it at your own library. Reading it is worth while and it will teach you so many things about being a human!
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 15, 2009 @ 8:04 pm
Hello!
I am Robert from Sweden. A book that you must read is ” Men that Hate Women” by the Swedish author Stieg Larsson. It is a thriller and
and a book that made me read for hours!! Try it you will like it!
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 16, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
Iam Ionel from Romania, Energetical Technical Highschool and I am glad to be here with you.My favorite novel is On the wings of wind , a novel by Margaret Mitchel.The novel was published in 1933 and it is at the same time a novel about war and a love story, the main characters beeing Scarlet and Rhett. Scarlet is an ambitious woman who wants to have all. The readers love Scarlet because she is very sincere, she has a truelly vigurous way of living and she is young and beautiful. It is also interesting to read about a national historical problem – the secession war.
Comment by energeticromania — March 20, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
Hello, my name is Mariana. I learn at Energetic , Constanta. My favorite book is Otilia’ s Mistery and it is abook writen by a Romanian author- G. Calinescu. It is about a girl, Otilia, who has a step father and it has to marry an old man, although she loves Felix, a young student at Medicine.
Comment by energeticromania — March 20, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
Mz name is Cristina and I reccomand zyou to read Tess Durbeville, a novel by Charles Dickens, a story of an innocent young girl who is very unlucky and lose her freedom . The book will really impress you, you can also see the film.
Comment by energeticromania — March 20, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
Hi, my name is Georgeta. I am from Romania and i learn at Energetic College, Constanta. One of the best books that i read is “Shogun” by James Clavell. It is about a japonese commander: his life, hard rools for becoming a leader, a unique way of living. The film doesn’t follow the book script, but the book deserves to be read.
Comment by energeticromania — March 20, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Hi, I am from Energetical School, Constanta, Romania. My favorite book is The Hatchet, by Mihail Sadoveanu, an interbelic Romanian writer. The novel is the story of revange of awoman- Vitoria- and her son-Gheroghita. They have to find the murderers of Nechifor, the husband of Vitoria. They are brave . The story has a lot of Romanian traditions and belives.
Comment by energeticromania — March 20, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
my name is rebecca
i live in sweden
i like shakespeare
i play theatre
i have played romeo and juliette
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 24, 2009 @ 8:40 am
ma name is maria. I like Hans Christan ANDERSEN. He is danish author I read many books of him:
The Emperor’s New Clothes, The ugly duckling
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 24, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Dear participants in the Grundtvig project,
This is just a quick note, to tell you all that we are enjoying participating in the project, though we have experienced a reduction in the technical staff at our school and cannot use extensively the laboratories during the lessons of English (we only have 1000 minutes English classes a week).
However, as you can see, we have been catching up with the programme, developing the contents into oral, rather than internet based lessons, and have produced some materials related to the monthly themes.
There will be a guy at our school, called Gianluca, who will be the spokesperson on behalf all the students, to keep in touch via the blog (post/comments). Also teacher Chiara Pasquini will act as a spokesperson together with Gianluca.
We are looking forward to preparing new materials for you to improve our English, enjoy ourselves and gain a better understanding of our countries.
We are presently working on our favourite novel, but we are really looking forward to focusing on the theme “My country/region/town”.
So, keep enjoying participating in the project and hope to meet some of you here.
The Italian students from Rovereto.
Comment by itimarconiitaly — March 25, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
Dear Italian students,
it was really nice to see you powerpoints about The daVinci code and about The house of spirits. I read I. Allendes book some years ago, and I really enjoyed it. As I remember it was about Chile. A wonderful tale full of spirits, and of feelings!!! I, too, can recommend that book.
Carina from Sweden
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 31, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
Hello
My name is Magnus from Sweden
If you want to laugh you have to read something from the finish author Arto Paasilinna
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — March 31, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
I like very much read book. I began to read from the basic school, but important books such as novels and other items when I was 14 years old. One of my favourite pastimes is read book.
I had read in English before, but the first time I read an entire novel. I haven’t a favourite author, I had many. Men I can mention some: Garcia Marquez, Dostoyevsky, Leon Tolstoy, Isaac Asimov, etc.
Today I finished reading “The Phantom of the Opera”. It was not easy, but an entertaining story, with suspense, terror and love. I like a lot the suspense, that will happen after and I want to continue reading.
The plot is a constant mystery, where terrible things happen. It is difficult to understand the story. The writing is something mysterious. Somewhat complicated, and the characters are complicated, they drift by terror and this forces them to obey the ghost.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 23, 2009 @ 6:45 pm
Hej!! My name is Joseline and my favorites author are Isabel Allende ( She is from Chile), Kajsa Ingemarsson and Marie Hermansson ( They are from Swedish).Butrightnow I read in swedish ” Mitt Iran”. Shirin Ebadi write the book. But my firt book in english is ” The Phantom of the Opera”. Jennifer Bassett is author.The book ia about The Opera House in Paris has a ghost, a man in black clothes.He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eye..
The Phantom loves Christine. She works in the Opera house.But She loves another man…The book is very exciting so you must read the book…
Nice weekend!
Jo
Hej Anne och mina söta engelska klasskamrater :
Jag kunde inte gå till skolan, men jag skriv nyss det.
trevlig helg!
Kram
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 6:39 am
Hello my name is Alma and I am a student at Komvux in Sweden.
I had read my first book in English and I´m very happy because of that.If I can call that a book,that is a short story actually but I`m proud.This short story is named “Cinderella Man” written for Penguin Readers.That is a story about a famous boxer in the 1920s.One interesting story about life on the top and on the bottom and I can recommend for everyone who learns English because the language is not so difficult.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 6:42 am
My name is Dini Sundström, i like to read much books. My favourite book is Daniel Steel i think his book was great.
Lately i read in my school work ” Onskan Leende ” (in swedish) by Marianne Fredriksson. It was very intressting. I like to found out and learn about psykologi.
The plot of this book was ” Stina and Per got married without the parents permission. After a while they found out that Per was a psykopat because he maltreated his wife when she was pregnant and he raped his own child. Not only that: he had sex with a little boy too. If you like to learn something about psykology so i recomend this book.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 6:48 am
Hello
My name is Mustafa.Im from Iraq and I live in Sweden.My favorite book is THE BEACH .I read the book three times .I saw the film too many times and I like this type of films because I like the nature so much.SO I want to tip you off for see this film and THE BEACH is also a popular film staring Leonardo DiCaprio.Since I live in Sweden I read many books in Swedish and I like these books too. Some are about the nature.I think that I was lucky when I came to Sweden because there are a lot of woods here.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:03 am
Hello!
My name is Jacqueline and I came from Chile, but before I come to Sweden I lived in Dominican Republic. In this country there was an interesting poet from 1850. She was a secret poet. People didn´t know who wrote the poems. She was a teenager and lived during political crisis in the country. Her name is Salome Ureña. Julia Alvarez wrote about her life. (“In the name of Salome”). This book maybe will be difficult to find, but if you have the possibility I recommend this book.
Yesterday i wrote a comment, but I forgot to introduce me. The number of this comment is 13.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Dear all,My name is Nawar and I am a student in komvux Norrkoping. I had homework and read one book in English, so I had to read one small book called Cinderella Man.The book is about one boxer. His name is Jim Braddock who was poor and by winning in matches he became a rich, but he became poor again when he started to lose in the matchs so he started to work in one factory. Jim got a new offer to challenge the champion Griffin, in hard fight he beat Griffin and he couldn’t belive it was true. He got at new offer to begin to fight again, and he took the offer. Jims best friend Mike died, and it took Jim hard, but Jim wanted still to fight. He began to win the fights and the newspapers called him the Cinderella Man. In a new fight with the champion Max Bear Jim won the fight and become the heavyweight champion of the world in 1935.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:20 am
HELLO
My name is Ximena. I love reading and my favorite writers are the Chilean writer Isabel Allende and Paulo Cohelo from Brazil. Isabel Allendes novel i like “the house of the spirits and Cohelos “the alchemista”. I study English in adult school komvux. I read my first book in English “The Phantom of the Opera”. I found it very interesting, romantic, sad and with lots of action. The book tells the story of a man who hides in the Opera House. He is ungly, has a yellow face with eye holes, in black dresses and is in love with a woman. Chistina is an opera singer but she is in love with another man named Raul. Sad story for a very unhappy man. I recommend reading it.
I also recommend reading books by my favorite authors, they are very interesting.
Good luck with your reading!
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:24 am
Hello, my name is Farida Mohammad and I study in Komvux in Sweden.I like to read books. My favourite books are Harry Potter series. I think the books are super.I start reading my first English book and it is called “The Phantom of the Opera”. This is a very beautiful story about love, but little difficult for me because
I don’t know so much English.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:27 am
My name is Pabla, I like to read books and I did read many books.Now I read The Phantom of the Opera. The story happened in the Opera house in Paris in 1880. The phantom is a very ugly man so he hid himself, his name is Eric and he is in love with Christine. She is a singer from Norway and she sings in the Opera house in Paris.
I think this book is exciting to read.
By
Pabla
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:27 am
My favourite book is “Bible”
becouse this is Gods Word,because it answers my questions about God,becaus it`s the most important book ever.It contains answers to all the world`S problems and it shows us how to be a Cristian.The Bible shows us Gods love to the people:”If you feel excited about God the world he is created and he is the people`salvation.”For GOD loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,so that everyone who belives in him may not die but have eternal life”.(John 3:16)Jesus answered him “I am the way the truth and the life;no one goes to the Father except by me”.”I am the resurrection and the life.”He loves us and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins.Look he is coming on the clouds!Everyone vill see him. “Listen!” says Jesus.”I am coming soon! Happy are those who obey the prophetic words in this book.Come Lord Jesus!
We have already seen that the Bible includes some general universal laws, which are central to both the Old Testament and the New Testament.The Ten Commandaments are the best example.Thesecommands are always relevant,and provide clear guidance for us even today. They are practical rules for living.
The Lord Jesus says “Do not think that.I have come to do away with the Law and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:28 am
Comment number 23 was written by me, Lenuta Oprea.
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 7:30 am
Hello.My name is Olga.I like to read the klassisk books.My faforiters: Turgenev, Leskov, Chehov, Kuprin.I like poesi too.
My favotits poters: Esenin, Fedorov, Zabolotskii.
I stady English in Komvux.My 1st English book “Cinderella man” about the famous boxer i Amerika 1930.Of you have interesse to boxning can you read book too.
It is nice famaly who Jim have.
Children och parens love one another and want to helpe achother.
Jim have much friends and he wants to help his freinds too.It is nice when people are kinds. Good luck with your reading. Olga
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Hi!
It`s very nice for me to read what my English class writes. Have a good weekend Ximena, Joselin, Olga, Farida, Nawar, Alma and Anne
Pabla
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 24, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
Dear all, my name is Nawar and I am a student in komvux Norrkoping. I had homework and read one book in English, Cinderella Man. The book is about one boxer. His name is Jim Braddock who was poor and by winning in matches he became rich, butnhe became poor again when he started to lose, so he started to work in a factory. Jim got a new offer to challenge the champion Griffin. In a hard fight he beat Griffin and he couldn´t belive it was true. He got a new offer to begin to fight again and he took the offer. Jim´s best friend died and it took Jim hard but Jim wanted still to fight. He began to win the fights and the newspapers called him the Cinderella Man. In a new fight with the champion Max Bear Jim won and become the heavyweight champion of the world in 1935.
Nawar
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 28, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
If you have been enchanted with Raskolnikokow, you have to read Doktor Glas written by Hjalmar Söderberg. This is an interesting book written only for you.
Mirna Komvux Norrköping
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 28, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
“Mice and Men”, written by the Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, is a deep-touching novel thar shows What it means to be human. It has it all: the nature of dreams, dignity,lonliness, sacrifice. Composed in a clear beautiful language, suitable even for a non-advanced reader
Komvux Norrköping Anni-Ruffina
Comment by kvnnorrkoping — April 29, 2009 @ 10:44 am