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

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.

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 14^th 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