The new project for my students ( Fourth year of secondary education ) has been the creation of their own newspaper. I proposed my students to investigate about the Elizabethan Era and Victorian Era and write an Elizabethan and Victorian newspaper. Their papers would have a front page and most of the regular sections you can find in any ordinary paper. Prior…
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How to write a speech
A persuasive speech is a speech intended to convince the audience to do something. The art of delivering a powerful speech ( discourse ) is called Rethoric. The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Along with grammar and logic (or dialectic),…
Types of Houses in England
Most people in England live in urban areas. Towns and cities are spreading into their surrounding environment to cope with the increasing populations. In England, an average of 7,000 hectares of farmland, countryside and green space were converted to urban use every year. This is almost the equivalent size of 9,600 international football pitches! More people are buying their own…
Lemony Snicket´s A series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 American dark comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is a film adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, covering the first three books The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window. The film stars Jim Carrey as the villainous Count Olaf who adopts three wealthy orphan siblings in an attempts to steal their late parents’ fortune. Nickelodeon Movies purchased the film rights to Daniel Handler‘s…
Colour Idioms
Colour Idioms Out of the blue to catch someone red-handed in the red red tape to have green fingers green with envy a black sheep once in a blue moon to give the green light to to see…
She´s Electric by Oasis
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? is the second studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 2nd October 1995. Where have all the nouns gone ? An alternative to the standard cloze through the song She´s Electric. Some nouns from the lyrics have been omitted. Ask the students to put a cross whenever they think a word (…
Slanguage : British slang II
Mate’ – one of the commonly used terms of endearment and affection in British slang terms. Used when you are talking to a close friend, and is often easily substituted for the American ‘buddy’, ‘pal’, or ‘dude’. For example, ‘Alright, mate?’ ‘Knackered’ – a great word and phrase used by Britons to describe their tiredness and exhaustion, in any given…
Slanguage: a useful guide to British slang
Slanguage is a blend word that comes from slang and language. Slang is a particular kind of colloquial language, which comprises extremely informal language; usually known as buzz words. It helps to make speech vivid and colourful and creates group solidarity, but essentially belongs to young people. Though mainly used in speech, it can also be a regular feature in…