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The Homecoming

The Homecoming

Textbook Tasks

  • Quiz: The Homecoming
  • Category task
  • Check your spelling!
  • Gap text
  • Links to Activity 4: Find out more (p. 253)
  • Links to Activity 5: African countries (p. 253)

Extra Tasks

  • Introduction to South Africa
  • South Africa quiz
  • Rhino poaching
  • Tasks: Rhino poaching

Listening

  • My Country
  • Listening tasks: My Country

Visual Material

  • A Namibian road trip

Links

  • African women writers

    http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/themes/africanwomen.html
    (wmich.edu)
  • Would you like to read more African short stories? Read the review of the anthology from which ‘The Homecoming’ is taken

    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-granta-book-pf-the-african-short-story-edited-by-helon-habila-2377139.html
    (independent.co.uk)
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