Images of Great Britain

British museum 2004 (foto Kirsten Fisher)

Texts

English  Character and humour

Episode from Keeping Up Appearances

E.M. Forster, "Notes on the English Character"E.M. Forster “The Obelisk”

 

Class Society

Penelope Lively, “The Happiest Days of Your Life”

Doris Lessing, DHSS” from London Observed (1992)

Stewart Dakers, "It's thanks to the "villains" that we sleep easy at night". The Guardian, Oct. 25. 2006

Ken Loach (dir.) Riff Raff (1990)

 

Photo from Riff Raff

Worksheet

Multicultural Britain

"A house with many mansions",  The Economist, Feb. 3rd. 2007

Charles Highson, “The Red Line” (1993)

Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic" from Love in a Blue Time (1997)

Written Assignment

 

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