Task 1: Something interesting to share

Today I am inviting you to get acquinted with the section Culture in the British newspaper The Guardian. It contains a lot of interesting articles about different aspects of British culture as well as about  those from around the world. What you need to do is as follows:

1. Look through a couple of articles in the Culture section and choose one that you found interesting.

2. Read it and then share the following information about it with your peers and me:
a) The title
b) The author
c) The link to the article
d) Why you have chosen it
e) A brief explanation of somethng you learned from the article
f) A couple of things you would like to learn about after reading it

3. Publish this information in your blog.

4. Read 2 posts your peers have written

5. Think of 3 questions you have after reading your peers' posts and share them in your peers' threads. Ask WH-questions and if necessary a question to clarify smth your peer has written about.

Good luck!

Looking forward to reading your posts!


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