Podcast

• Chapter 3. Faille
• What is Walter Cunningham like? What does his behaviour during lunch suggest about his home life? What do you think of the way Atticus treats Walter? How is the sociocultural context reflected here?

Podcast: 

http://www.mediafire.com/?0cepv4sdhbacf6u

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbired: Opening pages

1)Who is the narrator and what, if anything, do you find out about him or her? Is the narrative written in the third or the first person?

Scout,  It is written in first person, as the quote "I said if he wanted to take a broad view...."

2)Apart from the narrator, what other characters are introduced? What do you learn about them?

Scout, Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia(Family)

Simon Finch, Alexandra Finch, Jack Finch

Mr. Radley, Boo Radley, Nathan Radley

Dill, Miss Rachel, Simon, Tack, Mrs.Rachel

Cecil, Mrs. Henry Lefayette Dubose, Miss Stephanie Crawford, The Cunninghams, Mr. Conner

We learn that they all live in Maycomb

3)What is the setting? How is it described? What is the atmosphere like?

Maycomb, a typical southern town in 1930, this setting is described slowly as this was a boring town.

4)Does the story begin at the beginning? The middle? Or near the end?

At the middle, but is a short flasback that scout describes.

5)Is the writting simple, complex, staightforward or mysterious? Look at imagery, diction and sintax.

Mysterious and simple

6)Do you have any idea what the novel is going to be about? Are there any hints as to what the theme will be?

About,  prejudgment and racism 

7)Do you want to read further? If so, how does the author arouse your curiosity?

Yes, as the book is very interesting!!!

Characters

1)Is there information about appearances, behaviour or about character's iner thoughts and feelings?

As scout is an omniscient narrator she cant know iner thoughts or feelings but she can know behaviour. 

2)Look at the language, syntax, structure and imagery to indicate how characters are presented.

They are presented  as a list of characters related in blood. 

3)Is it posible to detect what the author's attitude is to the character? Sometimes names are clues.

Its detachment.

Speaking activity

Our speaking activity was about Jargon and Argot 

Argot: a specialized language or set of idioms used by a particular group. And they use the very example we mentioned--thieves' argot. But in the next definition we have 'slang or jargon used by a particular group.'

Jargon: Whoa! Yes, it is a specialized or technical language of a trade, profession or similar group. But it can also mean nonsensical, meaningless, incoherent talk. Or a hybrid language, like pidgen. Or having a pretentious vocabulary, convoluted phrasing, and vague meaning. 

In this activity we explained how Jargon and argot was in the society and how it was being used, analyzing a text where we saw how the youth people would write and talk. Also a video where there was present specific language.

Concept Map

English Interview

Teacher: Fergus McAteer

Group composed by: 

·         Matthew Faille

·         Mati Valenzuela

Questions:

1.      What happens when one language comes into contact with another on?

Depends of the context, for example English, has become a main language of power so when it gets into contact with another one this language dominates the other one. For example when English went into contact with the Indian language, English stayed predominating.

2.    Why is bilingualism so important in these days?

The expansion of the world, as result of the world today that everything is so near reefer to distances, as in my case I took only 1 day to come here and in other ages I would of taken 3 months. And people that are bilingualism can take this opportunity that are in every corner of the world, because someone that knows English can only go to Europe, New Zealand, Australia, EEUU and Canada, but of you know Spanish you can go to south America and other pleases. And also, the more you know the more power you have.

3.    Do you agree with “English language is nobody’s property”?

When you learn a language the language comes with its specific mind set, there was a Kenai   writer called Nungonio, he wrote strongly and that it is that the language makes you think a certain way, and after writing that he stopped learning and talking the language. As far of any body’s property, it’s not for me to diced, it’s better for someone that lives in another colonies that talks Spanish or a dialect of English, but also that the person has to diced for himself and create an opinion of who they are.

4.    If Chile accept Mapuches more, would people know Mapuches native language or it would be like now that nobody knows Mapuches language?

These days there is a possibility, but as there is so much people who talk Spanish people are learning it because its much more important, but for example there is a company of Mapuches that only talk Mapudungun, people would be interested to get to the power, language follows economic power and extent.

5.    Do you think that Chilean people need to learn English in school?

Yes, because they really need English to be able to now live in life as they need it for their future work, to communicate with other countries, and also because every day, as I said before the distances are shorter and every time we work with other parts of the world, so we follow the economic line, but I will say that it would help but not obligatory.

6.    As Chilean Spanish borrows more words from English and new half words, will it become its own new language? For example: Cachai

There is a possibility, al thought Chilean language is very special, and also that its one of the worst class of Spanish, because it has lots of slang.

7.    Referring to the last question will this affect this culture?

Probably, it’s hard to predict, in 200 years you will see that the south of Chile would be a shifting of language, Spanish with Germanic. And in every part of Chile, would be different, the type of Spanish.

Nation and Language, Analitical Questions

1.- It creates language content, as Creole, pidgin, patois.

2.-When a culture separates from a dominating country

3.-Towards vital literary inheritances and language of colonial subjugation

4.-Because English was in all the colonies, as India, Africa, Caribbean.

6.-Yes, because English origins are from Germanic, French and Latin

7.-Its part of my identity because its part of my culture, and because I have learnt it since I was small

8.-Its the language that one knows best or that you have learnt the best

The day it rained chocolate

In the Kingdom of Moana, there was a king that was hated by everybody, because in the past he had been very bad to the people that lived in that Kingdom, but he wanted to change how the people of his Kingdom thought about him, so he though in something that would be very special for him and that could be very special for the people of his  Kingdom, so he called a local wizard, to help him to achieve what he wanted, so he told the wizard “ I want for chocolate to fall from the sky” so the wizard asked him back to assure himself, “ so you want for me to make the sky rain chocolate” the King answered “exactly”, so the wizard started thinking how to make a potion that made the sky rain chocolate, so finally after some weeks, he finished doing the potion that made the sky rain chocolate, so the day came that the sky was going to rain chocolate, so the King called all the people that lived in that Kingdom to see what was going to happened, so he said some words to the people that were there, “ as I have being so bad in the past, today I am going to make al does bad things in great things” so in that moment the wizard started to evaporate the potion, and after 5 minutes, chocolate started falling from the sky, so the people got so happy that made a great party for the king and for what he had done, for the Kingdom