Chapter 2
1)
Aylin’s family spends the summer in a “summer
house”, otherwise known as a vacation house. While common in Turkey, this is not common in the United
States. Is it common in your
country for middle-class families to have vacation homes?
2)
Did/do you study English in your country? If so, do you think that you learned/learn
useful things or more literary language?
3)
In her first e-mail, Aylin tells Rachel that she
is “waiting for her with four eyes”.
This idiom is one that Aylin has translated word for word into Englishc,
but makes no sense in English. Can
you think of any idioms in your language that would not translate well into
English?
4)
Rachel tells Aylin that she’s “a junior”. In the U.S. education system, there are
special names for the first, second, third, and fourth years of high school and
college/university: freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior, respectively. Do you have a similar naming system for
grade levels in your country?
5)
Rachel doesn’t know what kind of clothes to
bring to Turkey. This is in part
because she knows that most people in Turkey are Muslim, and assumes that they
dress very conservatively. What is
the “dress code” for teenage girls in your home country – either an official
dress code of what is allowed, or a “social” one, dictated by society.
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