Lesson 3

        

Homework: 

Read: Kipling, Rudyard. The White Man’s Burden. (Poem)
Make the exercise about "genitiv"under the point "Improving your language" from lesson 2. 

Material:

• Kipling, Rudyard. The White Man’s Burden. (Poem)

Lesson Outline:

1. Correction of the genitiv-exercise 
2. Group work with "The White Man's Burden" 
3. "The White Man's Burden" discussed in plenum.
4. Grammar: Comma

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1.      Working with “The White Man’s Burden” (7 groups)

a.     Start reading the poem out load.
b.  Translate the stanza your groups has been given and discuss what it says. 

c.     Discuss the questions below:

                                               i.     According to Kipling what was the white man’s burden?

                                              ii.     What reward did Kipling suggest that the white man would receive for carrying his burden?

                                            iii.     What attitude to the natives does Kipling reveal in the first stanza.

                                            iv.     This poem was written in 1899 as an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War. What is so provocative about this poem today? If you were a citizen of a colonized territory, how would you respond to Kipling?

1. 2. Recap on “The White Man’s Burden” (in plenum)

          3. Comma in English:

Sæt komma hvor det er nødvendigt i nedenstående sætninger.

1. A few days after the Prime Minister resigned.
2. As soon as I heard the shot I called the police.
3. Did you know the man who passed us right now?
4. Everybody understood that the situation was serious.
5. He hoped (that) he would be able to help.
6. He is a great athlete or so he thinks.
7. He laughed and said >I wonder if you're right.'
8. He said he was innocent. This however was not true.
9. I had to wait until the police arrived.
10. I remember how a month ago I had thought he would never come back.
11. I wonder if you could give me a hand.
12. If you really want to see Brazil why don't you go?
13. In fact there was nothing to worry about.
14. l am unable to pay back the money (which) you lent me last week.
15. lt was obvious that he had made a bad mistake.
16. My aunt who is 87 years old is fit as a fiddle.
17. Next morning of course the sun was shining as usual.
18. She didn't know what she was going to do.
19. She often lets me use her car which is an old Jaguar. 
20. She was sitting her eyes hidden behind sunglasses at a table in the restaurant.
21. The note I sent to my brother asking him to meet me at the station never reached him.
22. We were singing dancing drinking and generally having a good time.

 

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