1 (104) Step Across This Line, Additional Work Step Across This Line Crosswords 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Across 1 fluent, flowing (6) 3 an inhabitant of a city, state or nation (7) 6 running away from (7) 8 the small book of id you need when crossing national borders (8) 10 people who invade a place (8) 11 a foreigner who moves to or settles down in a new country (9) 13 adjective of genes (7) 14 metaphor of your cultural or national origin (5) 15 the crossing of boundaries, going beyond fixed limits (13) Down 2 the act of seeking something, going on an adventure in search of something (5) 4 to cross a line or border illegally (8) 5 another word for borders, limits (10) 7 the contemporary process of economic and cultural internationalisation (13) 9 a border, a line, the marking of a boundary (8) 12 someone who moves from place to place (7)
2 (104) Crosswords Solution L I Q U I D C I T I Z E N U R E B F L E E I N G P A S S P O R T S L T U P O N F A B I N V A D E R S S A A O S L I M M I G R A N T I I I T Z G E N E T I C A R S E T A R O O T S I N O T R A N S G R E S S I O N
3 (104) Explain the following phrases and expressions from the text to be confronted by to be housed to call someone s bluff to be stripped away to pocket something to call to arms to be on guard to be beyond the pale to mean something literally to gain the upper hand to foster to crystallize to test someone s mettle Make a sentence with each expression.
4 (104) Find synonyms (or related words and images) to the following words from the text: Immigrant Border Cultural blending Change Fluid Journey Intolerance
5 (104) Match the words below with their right definitions 1. Frontier a. Person who inhabits a particular place 2. Transformation b. Person who keeps or protects for persons, property or values 3. Denizen c. Original model on which something is patterned a prototype or standard type. 4. Liquid d. Act of shocking cruelty 5. Transgression e. To be relocated by necessity or force 6. Charade f. The action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit 7. Guardian g. Growth to a global or worldwide scale 8. Atrocity h. Boundary or the edge of something unexplored 9. Indivisible i. Pretense, sham or farce 10. Archetype j. People with few or no possessions 11. Displaced k. Change or alteration 12. Have-nots l. Something that cannot be divided 13. Globalization m. Fluid, not solid or fixed
6 (104) Work in pairs. Take turns explaining and guessing the words on your lists. A B 1. Globalisation 1. 2. 2. Transgression 3. Atrocity 3. 4. 4. Guardian 5. Archetype 5. 6. 6. Liquid 7. Displaced 7. 8. 8. Denizen 9. Indivisible 9. 10. 10. Transformation 11. Frontier 11. 12. 12. Have-nots
7 (104) True or False? Mark the flowing statements as true or false and discuss your answers. Rushdie argues that: Migration is a survival instinct that humans are born with. TRUE FALSE BOTH We surpass limits and cross borders to find ourselves. Alice in Wonderland illustrates how migrants change to fit into their new worlds. The migrant is the hero of the modern world. The way we think about reality changes reality. Globalization is a great threat. People in the West have turned as barbarous as the terrorists we fight. Borders and limits have become more important after 9/11 2001.
8 (104) A New World Order, Additional Work A New World Order Crosswords Across 6 having more than one meaning, uncertainty, doubt (9) 7 liquid, (5) 8 term for damp, moist, warm and clammy weather (5) 9 a piece of land surrounded by water (6) 2 confused, bewildered, mystified (7) 3 well-known, recognizable (8) 4 a refugee who applies for shelter in another country (6,6) 5 origin, native land, place of birth (10) 10 rise into the air (4) 11 accept, include - or another word for "hug" (7) 12 another word for baggage (7) Down 1 pompous, lofty, bombastic, selfimportant, pretentious (6)
9 (104) Crosswords Solution
10 (104) Explain the following phrases and expressions from the text To take something in one s stride To blurt out To make things up To have a passion for To be dealt a hand To scamper off To beat a retreat To pass for something Make a sentence with each expression.
11 (104) Find antonyms (words with the opposite meaning) from the text to each of the words below 1. Unequivocal, clear, definite: A _ b u s 2. Increase, enlarge: _ e ce 3. Eager l _ c _ a 4. Tense, not at ease C f b 5. Ascend s n _ 6. Buckle up (e.g. a seat belt) _ u _ l _ 7. Flexible, adaptable S bb n 8. Accuracies acc _ cies 9. Calm, quiet, relaxed H _ c c 10. Spacious, roomy _ ra _ p _ d
12 (104) Match the words below with their right definitions 1. Island a. lively interest, devotion 2. Enthusiasm b. refugee who applies for political shelter in another country 3. Turgid c. land mass that is surrounded by water 4. Puzzled d. uprooted 5. Soar e. pompous, lofty, bombastic, pretentious 6. Birthplace f. unwilling to yield 7. Stubborn g. confused, bewildered 8. Unpalatable h. unattractive (e.g. about taste or behaviour) 9. Unmoored i. Origin, native land 10. Asylum seeker j. rise rapidly into the air
13 (104) Work in pairs. Take turns explaining and guessing the words on your lists. A B 3. Unmoored 1. 4. 2. Soar 5. Stubborn 3. 6. 4. Island 7. Asylum seeker 5. 8. 6. Enthusiasm 9. Puzzled 7. 10. 8. Turgid 11. Unpalatable 9. 12. 10. Birthplace
14 (104) True or False? Mark the following statements as true or false and discuss your answers. Caryl Phillips is originally from Britain TRUE FALSE BOTH Caryl Phillips mother feels uneasy about visiting her place of birth because she has enemies there Caryl Phillips was exposed to racial discrimination in Britain as a child Caryl Phillips felt uncomfortable about his racial difference as a black child in Britain Caryl Phillips associates literature with his passion for transgression Borders and boundaries have always been a problem for Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips thinks that everybody needs roots and a clear sense of identity Caryl Phillips ideas about a new global world order are naïve