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Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s third published novel and many readers and scholars think that it is her highest accomplishment.

When we talk to each other we reveal a great deal about how we think and how we feel about the subject at hand and the world around us.

Pride and Prejudice is now one of the most well-known literary love stories, with people encountering it either as a novel or a tv series or a film.

Like many novelists, part of what they write about relates to the wider world they see around them.

Like all characters in fiction, there are those we can think of as heroes and those we can think of as villains.

Pride and Prejudice is set in a number of rural settings. For much of her life Jane Austen lived at the family home in Chawton in Hampshire where her father had a number of sources of income, which included farming.

What are young British people like these days? What are they into? What do they do at school and in their free time? Where do they live and which languages do they speak? What do they eat? What do they wear? To answer these questions from our students, we need to know about current British culture.

Say the word ‘grammar’ to teenagers and you might be met by yawns or icy stares. But don’t be daunted – the experience can be positive, or even fun.

Few would doubt that students should leave a lesson with some kind of transcript of it: be it a notebook or, if technology allows, pages from an Interactive WhiteBoard (IWB) emailed to your students – in order to be able to go over the material covered in class.