Books for kids

The other day we had to present a book suitable for children age 10-12. I had no idea what to pick, even though it got some suggestions from a book about extensive reading. Instead, I simply solved the problem by going to the library and talked to one of the librarians working in the children's section. Finally, I had one by Eoin Colfer. It turned about to be an easy read and pretty enjoyable. Then  came the more difficult task: to find suitable books for teens. It was 100% fantasy, or close to it. Except for HP I haven't been close to a fantasy book in my life. I should probably read one, before I die. It was also quite hard to help the students, because they did not really know what kind of books they liked. My supervisor had divided their interest in "don't exist" (fantasy) and "do exist" (crime novels etc). That wasn't the categories I had expected to hear, but it seemed liked the students understood it. I also ended up writing some of the example books down. Unfortunately, it still ended being a difficult task to help the students. These boys really need to read more, they were clueless more or less. However, I did find a book I'd like to investigate more: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.

sent en kväll i januari

Blogga eller inte blogga? Som ni ser så har jag inte skrivit något sen i oktober. Snyggt! Bloggen är tydligen mitt medium eller? njae..verkar inte som det. Hur som helst som har jag fått en uppgift att skriva en dagbok under våren för en kurs i  Engelska för yngre åldrar. Ja ha tänker jag. Snille som jag är kommer jag nu lägga in den dagboken här istället. Det blir två flugor i en smäll, eller tre kanske. (1) användadet av bloggen blir lite mer autentisk (2) det ska ändå skrivas till en kurs (3) samt mitt projekt i Tanzania. Trixet från blir att i framtiden kommer nog det mesta att skrivas på Engelska.

Entry 1 (diary)

I'm a but thrilled this second time around. I hope I'll manage writing here once a day. Last week I decided to join my old English for young learners class. It ought to be nice to do it this semester than in the fall when I'll have plenty of things to do at my new school. I saw the list of books and I was able to get hold of number one:

Once in a house on fire by Andrea Ashworth lies on my bed stand. I guess I'll have to postpone the reading of my other book. I hope this book will be worth wild, especially since the books I read last semester were really good.

Other important news: this week I'll fix my passport, check vaccine for Tanzania, buy a HD-camcorder and hopefully get an answer from the Embassy of Tanzania. I apparently need a research permit to conduct my degree project in Tanzania. By the way, I have said that yet, but my plan it so travel to Dar Es Salaam and from there go on a bus to Morogoro. Hopefully, everything will work out really well the next couple of weeks and my contact in Tanzania and at SU have worked hard to fix things for me. Now I'm just doing some of the necessary actions to get ready for my trip to Africa in April.

Over and out!