Recommended readings for NIVEL BÁSICO 1 & NIVEL INTERMEDIO

Hello everyone,

As you may know through your teacher, the English Department has already published the recommended readings for this year. Here you have the readings for 1º de Nivel Básico:

A Connecticut Yanakee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. Comic strip. Oxford University Press.

Plot summary: Hank Morgan is a happy young man in Connecticut, USA, in 1879 until one day someone runs into his office and and shouts "Come quickly, Boss. Two men are fighting." After this, something very strange happens to him, and his life changes forever."

The Black Cat, by John Milne. Macmillan Readers.

Plot summary: Yesterday morning, an archaeologist was found dead in a Cairo hotel. The archaeologist was called Pearson. The police are making inquiries...


In Nivel Intermedio we are going to read:

Changing Places, by David Lodge. Penguin.

Plot summary: Changing Places is about Philip Swallow, an academic working at Rummidge University and Morris Zapp, Professor and and expert on Jane Austen at Euphoria University. As part of their exchange programme, these two gentlemen swap places and assume the job of the other. Swallow is excited with this as he gets an escape from his drudgery, his wife and his kids. He remembers the time when he visited America last and he looks forward to having a wonderful time alone at the States. Zapp, on the other hand, is already tired with his journey and has agreed to this only because his wife has agreed to postpone their divorce if he moves out of their house for six months.

As the both of them settle down with their new jobs and surroundings, they also experience some amount of cultural shock. While Rummidge is a small, rural town where all the people live like one big, family, Zapp misses his night clubs and adventures. Swallow is overwhelmed with the freedom in Euphoria. Both the gentlemen end up having an affair with the other’s wife. Some incidents and events in both the places make them want to stay on in their new place rather than go back to their previous lives.

HAVE A NICE READING!!!