Saturday 31 August 2013
SEAMUS HEANEY
Thursday 29 August 2013
SINGING ALONG WITH CRAIG DAVID
Wednesday 28 August 2013
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Monday 26 August 2013
REPORTED SPEECH
Reported speech refers to a sentence reporting what someone has said. It is almost always used in spoken English.
In reported speech the tenses, word-order and pronouns may be different from those in the original sentence.
If simple present, present perfect or the future is used in the reporting verb (i.e. says) the tense is retained.
For example:
For example:
Sunday 25 August 2013
DISCOVERING REGENCY ENGLAND
The authors offer a detailed analysis of early 19th-century England, producing an enlightening textbook of the life of both rich privileged and poor ordinary people who were the background in all of Jane Austen's books.
Without a doubt Jane Austen wrote superb stories of the middle and upper class society set during the Regency (here you can find an overview of that period), yet this book depicts the world which surrounded her during forty-one years of life. With the aid of diaries, newspaper articles, legal documents, memoirs and histories, it describes Jane Austen and her life, but what's more it concentrates on the everyday lives of the middle and lower classes, who comprised three-quarters of the British population, including the great novelist herself.
Monday 19 August 2013
OTHELLO
Othello is perhaps the most famous literary exploration of the corruptive powers of jealousy and suspicion. At the same time, it is among the earliest literary works dealing with race and racism. Othello, heroic even if eventually flawed, is the most important black protagonist in early Western literature. Othello faces persistent racism from other characters, in particular when he marries Desdemona, a privileged white woman whose father disapproves of the union.
Friday 16 August 2013
THE ROYAL BABY
At 4.24 pm on July 22 a baby was born in London. But not just any baby! This baby boy is a prince and will probably one day be the King of England.
Sunday 11 August 2013
HAMLET
Saturday 10 August 2013
Friday 9 August 2013
OLIVER TWIST
Oliver Twist is perhaps Charles Dickens’s most famous novel. It first appeared in instalments in 1837 and was later published as a book. The novel fictionalises the economic insecurity and humiliation the novelist himself experienced when he was a boy.
The novel was the first of the author’s works to realistically depict the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime.
The name Twist, given to the protagonist by accident, represents the disgraceful reversals (=changes) of fortune that he will experience. Oliver Twist is a poor orphan who is brought up in a workhouse in a heartless way, he is underfed and receives no education. He is later sold to an undertaker (=funeral director) as an apprentice, but the cruelty of his new master forces him to run away to London. There he falls into the hands of a nasty gang of young pickpockets led by Fagin, an old Jew who is one of Dickens’s best characterizations. They force Oliver to help them in their criminal activities. The boy is temporarily rescued by Mr Brownlow, a benevolent gentleman. Then Oliver is kidnapped by the gang. After many incidents, the gang is eventually caught by the police. Mr Brownlow adopts Oliver and shows kindness and affection towards him.