ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 10 CHANGE OF A DRESS

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(Questions - Grammar notes)

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 9 THE PERFECT DAY

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Grammar Excercises

Present Simple 1 - Present Simple 2 - Present Simple 3

Present continuous 1 - Present continuous 2 

Past tense 1 - Past tense 2 - Past tense 3

Future with Will 1 - Future with Will 2 

HAMLET & MELANCHOLY

Worksheet  -  Transcript

THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN THE VICTORIAN AGE - JANE EYRE - PUNISHMENT

Jane Eyre - Power Point Presentation

The Exploitation of Children in the Victorian Age

Ask Jane Eyre

Further videos:  Teaching Adele - Fire Scene - Farewell Mr Rochester - Return to Thornfield Hall - Proposal scene - Interrupted Marriage - After the Wedding -  Jane Eyre and St John - The End

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 8: THE HOUSEKEEPING ROTA

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PRESENT SIMPLE - TEST

SIMPLE PAST - TEST

THE MOST COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 7: OLD FRIENDS & NEW ACQUAINTANCES

Video 1. Mind Your Language - The First Lesson (clip)

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 6: TO THE RESCUE + SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

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Practise makes perfect!   Click HERE  Listening exercises   Choose A2 (Elementary),  B1 (Intermediate)  or B2 (Upper Intermediate) according to your level

DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES ON ROMEO & JULIET WEBSITE

I was asked to create didactic activities for the latest "Romeo and Juliet" movie website http://www.romeoandjulietilfilm.it/materiale-didattico/ They have just uploaded them. You'll find 10 different workheets containing reading comprehension and watching comprehension tasks, character analysis and discussion questions.

LORD RANDAL & THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD

LORD BYRON - CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE : ONCE AGAIN UPON THE WATERS

TEXT ANALYSIS : ONCE MORE UPON THE WATERS

Fragments from CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE , Canto III , lines 5-18; 109-117; 127 -144 

 The lines below from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage provide an insight into the wild beauty of Nature and  the Romantic themes of solitude, melancholy and the transcience of life.

LINES 5 -  18

Awaking with a start,

The waters heave around me; and on high

The winds lift up their voices: I depart,

Whither I know not; but the hour’s gone by,

When Albion’s lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

Once more upon the waters! Yet once more!

And the waves bound beneath me as a steed

That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar!

Swift be their guidance, wheresoe’er it lead!

Though the strain’d mast should quiver as a reed,

And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale,

Still must I on; for I am as a weed,

Flung from the rock, on Ocean’s foam, to sail

Where’er the surge may sweep, or tempest’s breath prevail (... )

JOHN KEATS ON POETRY

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John Keats's love for Fanny Browne and the sonnet Bright Star

Analysis of Bright Star

Keats-Shelley House in Rome

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 5

Here are the worksheets for the movie trailers we used in our lesson 4

Romeo and Juliet

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 4 LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

Video 1.

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 3 HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH FLUENTLY

1. Time for a song: Blowin' in the Wind

Listen and complete the lyrics with the words given (click HERE)

GRAMMAR NOTES & EXERCISES

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 2 MEETING NEW PEOPLE

VIDEO 1. A NEW NEIGHBOUR 

Worksheet A New Neighbour

SHALL I COMPARE THEE ...? SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC

Watch the video and listen to the song. It's one of Shakespeare's sonnets sung by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd): Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee

Worsheet   (poem and text analysis questions) .

ENGLISH COURSE FOR TEACHERS - LESSON 1 INTRODUCE YOURSELF

Video 1 . Introducing yourself

Worksheet 1. Self  Introduction  (Click HERE )

EMMA WATSON ON GENDER INEQUALITY

Watch the video and answer the questions in the worksheet HERE

Full transcript of the speech

SUMMER ACTIVITIES 3 - THE A TEAM & THE BIG ISSUE

Ed Sheeran, the worldwide popular British singer and songwriter, wrote this beautiful ballad in 2011 after  following a last-minute performance at an event for the homeless. It tells of a crack-addicted girl (crack is known as a "class A drug"). It was written after Sheeran visited a homeless shelter and heard some of the stories of the lives people had been living. Making the song upbeat was Sheeran's way of masking the heavy subject matter. Also using the term "Class A Team" was another way of masking it a little more. Watch the video, listen to the song and complete the tasks 1 and 2 in the worksheet (HERE)

SUMMER ACTIVITIES 2: BELLE - A TRUE STORY ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN

New Movie! Belle: The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

Listening Comprehension

Watch the trailer of this new  movie, BELLE,  just released in the UK and coming soon to Italy, maybe by the end of this summer. While watching, fill in the gaps in this worksheet.