Bildungsstandards für die fortgeführte Fremdsprache (Englisch

Bildungsstandards für die fortgeführte Fremdsprache (Englisch / Französisch) für die Allgemeine Hochschulreife
Aufgabe 1 (Weiterer Prüfungsteil, Gewichtung: 15%)
1a Read the following extract from the novel Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera
Syal. The phrases A–O paraphrase the overall idea of the cited sections of the text.
Match them by writing the letter A–O in the box next to the text. There are five
more phrases than you need.
A The role model of submission and devotion
B Contrast between longing and outer appearance
C Clearing up with stereotypes
D Benefitting from clichés
E A perfect house husband
F Ridiculous pretence
G Suppressed experiences
H Equal rights for all family members
I Buying a new car
J A recent example of transformation
K Young lifestyles – same rules
L Unexpected advice
M Being homesick
N Passing on patterns of behaviour
O Preparing family meals together
The novel Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, written by Meera Syal, is centred around three second-generation
Asian women living in London. Friends from childhood, they are now in
their thirties and at a crossroads in life. The narrator Tania has left her family and Asian
community behind for a life working in the media. She has a white boyfriend named Martin.
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God knows, my father had high ambitions: ‘Only the best!’ he would
blare at us; ‘You be the best. You will get the best.’ Brave words from a
man who never got off the factory floor long enough to see the sky,
whose idea of haute couture was Crimplene trousers with the crease
already sewn in, whose every effort to better himself just succeeded in
making us ashamed of who we were:
Smelly Pakis hanging around hotel foyers while he pretended to be
checking out prices for the top-floor suite; jungle bunnies dithering in
the Mercedes showroom while Dad begged for a test drive; the poor
bewildered savages who found themselves, mistakenly of course, in
the first-class carriages of trains with Dad insisting the booking clerk
had made a terrible mistake.
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