Saturday 23 June 2018

EXTREME ADJECTIVES

Extreme adjectives are words that mean extremely + adjective.
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Friday 22 June 2018

READING SHORT STORIES ONLINE

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Here you can find a website which contains all sorts of short stories. Simply great! 

Thursday 21 June 2018

II PROVA SCRITTA ESAMI DI STATO

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Today  my students of  5^C Liceo Linguistico took an English test on the day of their II Prova Scritta.
As usual, it consisted of a text analysis and a composition, but they could choose among four different articles. All of them were very interesting, but quite complicated.
You can download them herejust in case you are curious!

Monday 11 June 2018

JACK KEROUAC

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Here you can read about Jack Kerouac, a pioneer of the Beat Generation.  
His method was greatly influenced by the prolific explosion of Jazz, especially the Bebop genre established by Charlie Parker and others. Later, Kerouac included ideas he developed from his Buddhist studies. He often referred to his style as "spontaneous prose." Although his prose was spontaneous and supposedly without edits, he primarily wrote autobiographical novels based upon actual events from his life and the people with whom he interacted. An often overlooked literary influence on Kerouac was James Joyce, whose work he alluded to more than any other author. Kerouac had high esteem for Joyce and he often used Joyce's stream-of-consciousness technique. He admired Joyce's experimental use of language, as seen in his novel Visions of Cody, which uses an unconventional narrative as well as a multiplicity of authorial voices.
Here you can find a PDF presentation on this controversial  American novelist and his most famous book, On the Road.


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Thursday 7 June 2018

AESTHETICISM AND DECADENCE

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The Aesthetic movement began in France with Théophile Gautier at the end of the 19th century. It was a reaction against the materialism and the strict moral code of the bourgeoisie during the Victorian Age. Read here.





Friday 1 June 2018