← borders
05-05
⋮⋮ Program
- Airports and Auditions
- overview
- analysis
≣ Tasks
Overview
- Collate the information you gathered when you prepared for the lesson – write on your sheet.
- Notice all the instances where the writer is the victim of people’s assumptions – add to your sheet.
- “fluid identity” – explain the concept.
- What are the three stages migrants go through? Translate “subversive” into Danish.
- What is “artistic expression”? What are thespians?
- When has Riz Ahmed experienced the different stages? Illustrate this with examples from the text.
- What are the similarities between airports and audition rooms?
- Which stage does the writer hope to achieve in the US? What stage is he in as he leaves the UK? Which stage is he in when entering the US? Give examples from the text.
- In the paragraph beginning “The reason for this is simple”, explain how the UK and the USA see themselves – and what they are really like according to Riz Ahmed:
| US | UK | |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance | ||
| Reality |
Analysis
- Read the rest of the text and
- Generate one question for your group about something in the text which has resonated with you personally. Write a note to explain why this question is important.
- Generate three questions about the text and rank them in order of importance.
- Generate two questions on style: vocabulary, punctuation, tone, appeal to audience, etc.
- Generate three questions that link this text to the world outside the text: similar experiences, conditions in the world, other texts from class, your novels or from your personal reading experience.