Tuesday 24 February 2015
Thursday 19 February 2015
TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH - LESSON 8
You can start to improve your listening skills and your pronunciation as well as enlarge your vocabulary by clicking here to watch some nice videos. Enjoy!
Monday 16 February 2015
INSIGHT TO THE VICTORIAN AGE
The Victorian period in
Great Britain (1837-1901) was one of political stability, huge
industrial and technological change, major economic development, prosperity,
optimism and faith in progress as well as poverty and social unrest, shocking
divisions between the rich and the poor, and grand attempts to combat squalor
and disease.
Click here to download a PDF presentation.
Here you
can find my previous post on the Victorian age.
Saturday 14 February 2015
Friday 13 February 2015
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
John Keats died young, but he left behind some fine collections of poetry admired most of all for their sensuous language (= language of sense impressions, rich in images appealing to the senses of sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing) and exaltation of beauty. He now stands among the great Romantic poets.
One of John Keats's most famous poems, Ode on a Grecian Urn, was written in 1819 and published before his death. In this poem the transience of human life merges with the power of the artist and a work of art to make things permanent. The urn has sometimes been regarded as a metaphor for poetry and the role it can serve.
Labels:
John Keats,
Literature,
Ode on a Grecian Urn,
Poetry,
The Romantic Age
Saturday 7 February 2015
POLDARK
Poldark
is a BBC television series based on the novels written by Winston Graham which
was first transmitted in the UK between 1975 and 1977. It is one of the
most successful British television adaptations of all time.
The
romantic saga follows Ross Poldark (Robin Ellis) as he
loses his fiancée, the beautiful and well-mannered Elizabeth, to his cousin
Francis. Ross ends up marrying his servant Demelza, but he is always
torn between the two women from very different social backgrounds. Set in
late 18th century Cornwall, the plot follows Ross Poldark's attempts to make his
ruined tin mines a success. Life is tough, smuggling is rife and Ross Poldark
finds himself taking the side of the underprivileged against the merciless behaviour of his
enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan. Although the emphasis is primarily on Ross and Demelza,
there are many other characters with their own stories.
In February
2014, the BBC announced a new adaptation of the series,
Poldark, due for broadcast this year and starring Aidan
Turner as Ross Poldark.
Ready to enjoy the remake of this exciting series? Read here.
Monday 2 February 2015
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Here you can find a thorough analysis of this poem written by Lord
Byron in 1814. It focuses on the
extraordinary beauty of a young lady, internal as well as external. The
first stanza praises her physical beauty. The second and third stanzas praise
both her physical and spiritual, or intellectual, beauty.
Labels:
George Gordon Byron,
Literature,
Poetry,
The Romantic Age
Sunday 1 February 2015
FEBRUARY
"Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Snowflakes
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Snowflakes
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