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- Windrush Child
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- All the Hate U Give
- Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- The Other Side of Truth: Refugee Seekers
- Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes
- Trash by Andy Mulligan
- Web of Lies
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Pigeon English
- Stay where you are and leave
- Pordenone Legge: A Gateway to Literatures in English
- A gripping novel on the dark side of social media
- Out of Bounds by Beverley Naidoo
- A Long Way Gone
- Stone Cold
- Purple Hibiscus
- SPEAK
- The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce
Tag Archives: YA
Pigeon English
We’re going to read a novel entitled “Pigeon English”. What do you think the title means? Any idea? The English spoken by pigeons???? 😆 A variety of English?
This book trailer may help you understand better:
The dictionary entry for “Pigeon English” is: an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindustani.
Now listen to the author himself. What inspired “Pigeon English”? Why did he decide to write this novel?
Having read the novel, now you can try to imitate the following. In other words, I would love you to appointe a newscast, the writer himself. The newscast introduces the novel with its key features to appeal to the students. One of you will roleplay the newscast and then the newscast will also interview the writer. Non an easy task, I woul define it prtty challenging, but..