Dear students,
I'm writing to you after your results, and I know that everybody knows them!!!Simone...remember my words.....and study!
How is it going with your summer? At the seaside? In the mountains? Still at home?
Wherever you are......I'm with you. Just kidding!!!!!
I want to wish you a good period of relax, but I'd like to remember your task, too.
Read Frankenstein and repeat your grammar through the lessons I'll send you (I still don't know how).
Have fun and send me suggestions if you want, or ideas for our next school year.
With love
Your teacher of English
Giulia
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martedì 19 giugno 2012
domenica 27 maggio 2012
The top 10 Conditionals Song Lyrics
What do you think of revising the Conditionals through songs?
Look and ...write your opinion! :) :) :)
http://youtu.be/8Qqlvg2LfOQ
Look and ...write your opinion! :) :) :)
http://youtu.be/8Qqlvg2LfOQ
mercoledì 9 maggio 2012
What is Mother's Day?
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring
mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence
of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts
of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May. It
complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.
Celebrations of mothers and motherhood occur throughout the world;
many of these can be traced back to ancient festivals, like the Greek
cult to Cybele or the Roman festival of Hilaria. The modern US
holiday is not directly related to these. One of the early calls to
celebrate a Mother's Day in the United States was the "Mother's
Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe. Written in 1870, it was a
pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the
Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist
belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at
the political level.
martedì 8 maggio 2012
Comparison of 'The Decameron' and 'The Canterbury Tales'
Despite huge differences in plot and subject matter, there are many striking similarities between “The Canterbury Tales” and “The Decameron” by Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio respectively. Both of these 14th century stories, The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, and “The Canterbury Tales”, by Geoffrey Chaucer, are strikingly similar in many ways, leading the reader to notice a significant amount of “borrowing” from some tales of Boccaccio by Chaucer in select Canterbury Tales.
Canterbury Tales Key Facts
full
title ·
The
Canterbury Tales
author
· Geoffrey
Chaucer
type
of work · Poetry
(two tales are in prose: the Tale of Melibee and the Parson’s Tale)
language
· Middle
English
time
and place written · Around
1386–1395, England
date
of first publication · Sometime
in the early fifteenth century
publisher
· Originally
circulated in hand-copied manuscripts
narrator
· The
primary narrator is an anonymous.The other pilgrims narrate most of
the tales.
point
of view · In
the General Prologue, the narrator speaks in the first person,
describing each of the pilgrims as they appeared to him. Though
narrated by different pilgrims, each of the tales is told from an
omniscient third-person point of view, providing the reader with the
thoughts as well as actions of the characters.
tone
·
The
Canterbury Tales
incorporates an impressive range of attitudes toward life and
literature. The tales are by turns satirical, elevated, pious,
earthy, and comical.
tense
· Past
setting
(time) · The
late fourteenth century, after 1381
setting
(place) · The
Tabard Inn; the road to Canterbury
protagonists
· Each
individual tale has protagonists, but Chaucer’s plan is to make
none of his storytellers superior to others; it is an equal company.
major
conflict · The
struggles between characters, manifested in the links between tales,
mostly involve clashes between social classes, differing tastes, and
competing professions.
themes
· The
pervasiveness of courtly love, the importance of company, the
corruption of the church
Quiz about Canterbury Tales
1.
Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?
(A)
To meet King Henry III
(B)
To see a medieval mystery play
(C)
To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket
(D)Because
they are tourists
mercoledì 18 aprile 2012
The Titanic was the newest, most luxurious passenger ship on the seas when it was launched. Yet it sank on its first voyage. Why?
There were many factors. To begin with, it was night. The hole in the hull was just long enough to sink it. Another ship was near enough to see the Titanic’s flares for help, but failed to come to her rescue.
Yet there was one more factor: human error. The ship was moving too fast for the dangerous waters. If the Titanic had been moving more slowly, the calamity might never have happened.
A similar tragedy occurred in the harbour of Chicago, in the United States, three years after the Titanic sank.
The Eastland, a passenger ship, was built in 1903. It was popular for vacations on the water before the automobile became America’s way to travel.
But even from the first day, there were concerns about the Eastland’s safety. The ship was 82 metres long but had a width of only 11 metres. She was more than seven times longer than she was wide. Despite early fears, however, the Eastland was a profitable passenger ship for more than a decade.
By the end of the 1914 season, though, the teak deck of the Eastland was wearing out. Instead of replacing it with expensive hardwood, a new wonder material, cement, was chosen. Cement decking added much weight, high above the waterline.
To know more....
http://www.eastlandmemorial.org/
Yet there was one more factor: human error. The ship was moving too fast for the dangerous waters. If the Titanic had been moving more slowly, the calamity might never have happened.
CHILLING PARALLELS
The Eastland, a passenger ship, was built in 1903. It was popular for vacations on the water before the automobile became America’s way to travel.
But even from the first day, there were concerns about the Eastland’s safety. The ship was 82 metres long but had a width of only 11 metres. She was more than seven times longer than she was wide. Despite early fears, however, the Eastland was a profitable passenger ship for more than a decade.
By the end of the 1914 season, though, the teak deck of the Eastland was wearing out. Instead of replacing it with expensive hardwood, a new wonder material, cement, was chosen. Cement decking added much weight, high above the waterline.
To know more....
http://www.eastlandmemorial.org/
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