• Regional identities

• Factors determining regional identity

• Religion - geography - people - folklore/traditions - economy - history - language - stereotypes
• L.S. Lowry: The Canal Bridge (1949)  

• Big cities

• London

• The Observer: London - The Great Wen (2003)
• Camden - Southwark - Hillingdon - Bexley - Canary Wharf - Hoxton - Bethnal Green - Tower Hamlets

• New York City

• Eward Field: New York - New York Blackout 1977
• Skills: The lyrical I

• Remote places

• The US Pacific Coast

•  David Guterson: Snow falling on Cedars (1994)
• Japanese Americans - Japanese-American Internment

• The American Midwest

• Peter Hedges: What’s eating Gilbert Grape? (1991)
• MetMuseum: explore Washington crossing the Dalaware

• Language and identity: The Celtic Fringe

• CSM: Only Gaelic? (2007)
• Gaelic - Gaeltacht - Welsh - minority language - Sorbs

• North and South

• The Observer: North v South (2007)
• DailyMail: The new North-South Divide (2007)
• BBC: Life in the UK “has become lonelier“
• Miners’s strike (1984/85) - Margaret Thatcher - Trade Unions

• Spot on language

•  Talking about the past

• Present perfect / progr. - simple past / progr. - past perfect
• Will or would? - How to use would!
• Die Zeit: Die Beatles-Stadt Liverpool (2008)
• Emily Smith: Description

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