DISCORSO INDIRETTO
Il passaggio dal discorso diretto a quello
indiretto comporta di solito delle modifiche nel tempo dei verbi, nei pronomi e
negli avverbi di tempo sia in italiano che in inglese.
Discorso
diretto [...]
The new of
the modern novel
is the realism. The story is set in the present and the behaviour of the
characters is very close to the reader. Time ,place, physical descriptions of
people are clearly indicated. Modern travel fiction,
is a novel t [...]
Samuel Coleridge: the man and the poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in
1772. His father, a clergyman, moved his family to London when Coleridge was
young, and it was there that Coleridge attended school. He later attended
Cambridge [...]
Regola del THE
Di norma si usa the per indicare sostantivi
singolari e plurali determinativi,
noti cioè a chi parla, ascolta.
The si usa
sempre davanti ad alcune parole fra le quali le più comuni sono: garden, cinema, theatre,
[...]
Jane Austen is one of the major novelist in English literature. She was born in 1775, her father was the rector of the parishes of Steventon
and Deane in Hampshire. The years of her youth were free and happy but her life
was spent in a very limited [...]
Shakespeare theatre: In the origin was a
inn, there was three tires of gallery. There was an inner stage, and the apron
stage is a form of
trapezium. There was a trap, where the actors could exit or
enter. The theatre was opened without the roof [...]
Belinda’s Toilet
In the dressing
table scene of “Rape of the Lock” at the end of Canto I, lines 121-148, the main character, Belinda, has just
awoken from a peaceful slumber. She
slides out of bed and positions herself in front of her dressing [...]
Conditional sentences
A. Zero conditional
IF
+ DOES, DOES
If + present simple tense, present simple tense
1. If is used to state gen [...]
KIND OF ENGLISH
Temporal: it is necessary to study the English
of last centuries;
Geographical: English is a world language and
there are different varieties of the language; in Europe w study a mixture of
British and American English, becau [...]
central park
Pre-1858
In the mid-1800s, 500,000 people
were living in New York City, with most city dwellers housed in crowded,
cramped quarters below 38th Street. To escape the din of city life, people
sought refuge in such pastoral spaces [...]
THE
DEVELOPMENT OF FICTION
The period
of the Victoria Age was above all the age of FICTION, because of the immense
popularity the genre gained in the period. Many outstanding writers turned to
novel writing and the number of novel published in [...]
J.R.R.
TOLKIEN AND HIS “FALSE” EPIC
John Ronald Ruel
Tolkien (03.01.1892 – 02.09.1973) was an English philologist, writer and
university professor who is best known as the author of the Trilogy of the Lord
of the Rings (The Company of the [...]
AUSTRALIA
Australia is a huge
continent n the southern emisphere between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
It is situated in 10° north 47°, has got 7777777 sq km and has got 19-20
million of population.
There is a variety of climates [...]
Presentation of an article - Group makes noise over Day of Silence
Hi everyone!
My article talks about the “Day of silence” ,an event
which seeks to combat antigay bias in schools, in USA, begun on a small scale in 1996 and observed by tens [...]
VICTORIAN AGE
The
Victorian Age (1830/1901) corresponds more or less to the life of Queen
Victoria. She went to the throne when she was very young and she reigned for a
very long period. This was a period of expansion of the British Empire, tha [...]
The
sisters (part number 1) – Joyce
James
Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He comes from a middle-class Irish Catholic
family. However, his family descended the social ladder as his father wasn’t
able to hold a job for a long time.
H [...]
AMERICAN
DREAM
The origin of the American Dream comes against
deportation from the model of the Old World to
the government and economy. This allowed freedom never experienced before,
especially the possibility of a significant social mobi [...]
Rhyme of Ancient Mariner Part 1 by Colerdige
Paraphrase:
An old sailor, stops one of three wedding guest.
One says:” why do you stop me, with your long grey beard and glittering eyes?”
“The bridegroom’s doors are opened w [...]
A liceo
classico
Emotion vs. reason: describe the main features of
Pre-Romantic poetry as a reaction to 18th century Enlightment.
The Pre-Romantic Age is
a period of transition between the Enlightment and the Romanticism: in [...]
Romanticism
Politically speaking
From 1776 (the American War of Independence)
or from 1769 (James Watt invented the steam engine)
to 1832 (the 1st Reform Bill was
pa [...]
