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Showing posts with label Reading activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading activities. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 July 2021
Monday, 7 June 2021
Sunday, 6 September 2020
IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH
On www.test-english.com you will find lots of free practice tests and materials to help you improve your English skills and be more prepared for your English exams.
Here you can read a very interesting blog post!
Here you can read a very interesting blog post!
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
SUMMER HOMEWORK
Finally, summertime is here!
I hope you have a safe and relaxing time while you are
on holiday … but don’t forget to do your English homework! Please engage in some grammar
and reading activities over the summer.
All assignments are linked here.
Saturday, 4 April 2020
JAMIE OLIVER
Jamie Oliver is a chef born on 27 May 1975, in Clavering, United Kingdom. As a child he worked in his parents' restaurant, thus influencing his career path. He began attending Westminster Catering College at age 16 and then gained valuable experience working at several reputable restaurants.
His break into television came when he appeared in a documentary while working at the River Café in London. From there, he gained fame after hosting a hit cooking show, The Naked Chef. Multiple cookbook publications and restaurant openings followed, giving him a prominent platform for championing healthier eating for school children.
Here Jamie Oliver reveals what you really need to know in the kitchen.
Sunday, 22 December 2019
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
SHORT STORIES
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick – a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
Neil Gaiman
Friday, 22 June 2018
Saturday, 10 June 2017
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - 1^C LINGUISTICO
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy
tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne
Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740.
A widowed merchant
lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All
his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely,
as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast,
are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled.
Continue listening and reading this fascinating story ...
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Saturday, 20 August 2016
THE SECRET GARDEN
"The Secret Garden" is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published
in serial format
beginning in 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911.
It is now one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English
children's literature.
Saturday, 11 June 2016
Friday, 31 July 2015
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
The Fault in Our Stars is a beautiful, entertaining, thrilling, touching, bold, tragic, unforgettable book about love and death whose teenage protagonists make us think
over the meaning of true love.
Teaching notes for John Green's novels are available for download here.
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Monday, 28 July 2014
IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
SUMMER READING TIPS
One of the best
things about the lazy days of summer is having more time to read. It is wonderful
to sit outside on a beautiful day, smelling the grass and feeling the breeze,
lost in a good book. I think summer holidays and books should be inseparable!
Here are some reading tips for your carefree summer days!
What about downloading The Canterville Ghost? It is one of the most popular short stories by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and the stage.
Then you could download Kate Chopin's short story Désirée’s Baby as well as William Wilson, which is Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous character study of the doppelganger, or double, a theme explored in a similar way by the film Fight Club.
I could also suggest reading Henry James's ghost story The Turn of the Screw - this is a novella, which means that it is shorter than a traditional novel but focusing on actions of greater scope than the short story.
Then you could download Kate Chopin's short story Désirée’s Baby as well as William Wilson, which is Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous character study of the doppelganger, or double, a theme explored in a similar way by the film Fight Club.
I could also suggest reading Henry James's ghost story The Turn of the Screw - this is a novella, which means that it is shorter than a traditional novel but focusing on actions of greater scope than the short story.
Saturday, 8 September 2012
THE KITE RUNNER
Set in Afghanistan and the United States, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is a bildungsroman that illustrates the similarities as well as the differences between the two countries and the two vastly different cultures. It is the story of both fathers and sons and friends and brothers, and it is a novel about right and wrong and the nature of evil. Published in 2003 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Kite Runner is considered a contemporary classic.
The three most important aspects of The Kite Runner are the following:
- It is a historical novel about the pre-Russian invasion and pre-Taliban rule of Afghanistan, as well life in Afghanistan under Taliban rule and life in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Although the story is invented, the information about the political, social, and cultural systems of this Middle Eastern country provides a contrast to the contemporary headlines about Afghanistan primarily being home to terrorist cells. The Kite Runner paints a realistic portrait of a country about which most readers probably know very little and enables readers to separate the people of a country from its leaders (the Taliban) and/or groups (terrorists) associated with it.
- The Kite Runner is a coming-of-age novel about finding one's place in a world of chaos and transition. It explores the difficulties of developing into an adult relationship with your parents while simultaneously exploring ideas about the human capacity for good and evil, and the relationship between sin, forgiveness, and atonement. Its setting in both Afghanistan and the United States illustrates the universality of its characters and themes. In addition to these topics, The Kite Runner also touches on social awareness, religion, and philosophy.
- The combination of Hosseini's narrative technique (the combining of flashback and flashforward in a somewhat linear timeline), his character development (having even his best characters demonstrate flaws and shortcomings), stylistic devices (including the insertion of Afghani words, his sentence patterns and sentence structure, the use of rhetorical figures, as well as his subtle use of foreshadowing), and his extensive incorporation of symbolism resulted in both critical praise and popular success of The Kite Runner, a novel that is simultaneously embraced by academia and the general reading public.
Now test your reading and comprehension skills!
Sunday, 19 August 2012
THE SELFISH GIANT
READING ACTIVITY
Oscar Wilde's classic children's tale is about
how a selfish giant's life is transformed by the arrival of a special child who
teaches him about love and friendship.
It was
a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass
stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in
the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the
autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the
children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are
here!” they cried to each other.
One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his
friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the
seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation
was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he
saw the children playing in the garden.
“What are you doing here?” he cried in a very gruff
voice, and the children ran away.
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