LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                               STUDYING CLIMATE CHANGE                                                                                                 -   DAVID ADAM INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR :                 David Adam was a British Anglican priest and writer. Adam was born in Alnwick, Northumberland. When he left school at 15, he went to work underground in the coal mines for three years before training for ordained ministry at Kelham Theological Col...

                            PRIDE AND PREJUDICE                                                                  JANE AUSTEN  INTRODUCTION:   “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of   a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”                            The play ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was written by the famous English novelist “Jane Austen”.  Sh...

                    HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS         - -J.K ROWLING INTRODUCTION                                        Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a young fantasy novel by J.K. Rowling, the second in the Harry Potter series. The story follows Harry’s tumultuous second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including an encounter with Voldemort, the wizard who killed Harry’s parents. Against this fantastic backdrop, Rowling examines such themes as death, fame, friendship, choice, and prejudice. Upon release, the novel became a worldwide bestseller and won several awards, including Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Aw...

  THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE              The American Revolution began in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord on 19 Apr 1775. On 3 Sep 1783, 8 years later it officially ended. Although the war took 8 years to end, the fighting was not one constant continuous effort without any major battle being fought after 1781 (Revolutionary War, 1996). The war was victorious with 13 British colonies in North America winning their freedom and becoming what is now known as the United States. In 1770 the Boston Massacre occurred. It was a direct result of Parliament, being compelled by British store owners who were losing their colonial trades (Agresto, 1979). This was an effort to try to soothe the colonists by repelling the Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts came into existence in 1767 and was created by Charles Townshend. The act was passed by English Parliament. It was put into place to collect taxes from American Colonists b...

 The Lexical Approach           The lexical approach is a method of teaching foreign languages described by Michael Lewis in the early 1990s. The basic concept on which this approach rests is the idea that an important part of learning a language consists of being able to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks. Students are taught to be able to perceive patterns of language (grammar) as well as have meaningful set uses of words at their disposal when they are taught in this way. In 2000, Norbert Schmitt, an American linguist and a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, contributed to a learning theory supporting the lexical approach he stated that “the mind stores and processes these [lexical] chunks as individual wholes.” The short-term capacity of the brain is much more limited than long-term and so it is much more efficient for our brain to pull up a lexical chunk as if it were one piece of ...

                                                 TRANSCRIPTION PRACTICE  TRANSCRIPTION  • Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols.  • Phonetic transcriptions are usually written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), in which each English sound has its own symbol. For example, the IPA-based phonetic transcription of the word HOME is ho ʊm, and the transcription of COME is kʌm. Note that in spelling, these words are similar. NEED FOR PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION  • A serious criticism of English by those attempting to learn and master this language is the chaotic character of its spelling, and the frequent lack of Consider the following examples:  1.The vowel sound [ iː ] as in the words shown below is represented by different...