Ways of Reading Third Edition - Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furniss, Sara Mills 2007

Appendix: notes on activities

Unit 1 Asking questions as a way into reading

The author, Ee Tiang Hong, is a Malaysian writer, who was born in Malacca in 1933 and educated at Tranquerah English School and High School, Malacca. Until his death in the early 1990s, he lived mostly in Australia.

Tranquerah Road: the road is an extension of Heeren Street, in Malacca.

Kampong Serani: ’Portuguese Village’, in the suburb of Ujong Pasir.

Limbongan: a suburb adjacent to Tranquerah. The Dutch used to moor their vessels off the coast here.

Kimigayo: the Japanese national anthem.

Nihon Seishin: ’Japanese Soul’.

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: the Japanese scheme to unify Asia, during the Second World War.

Meliora hic sequamur: the motto of the Malacca High School (’Here let us do better things’).

Merdeka: ’Independence’.

Negara-ku: ’My Country’; the Malayan, and then Malaysian, national anthem.

pontianak: a succubus, or evil spirit.

jinn: genie; evil spirit.

Omitohood: a Buddhist benediction (’Om Mane Pudmi Hum’), in the Hokkien Chinese dialect.

Unit 3 Analysing units of structure

The first sentence should read:

Following Nancy’s death Sikes tries to escape the hue and cry.

The order of the sentences in the published companion is:

15, 11, 3, 8, 9, 2, 6, 12, 4, 7, 1, 14, 5, 10, 13.