Management of English Medium Schools A short introductory Application training Programme at DSD |Unit No.3 | Spoken English This unit consists of the following contents: • Introduction to Spoken English and its need in today’s developing world • Seven Rules to Learning English and 3000 commonly used words • Commonly Used Expressions ‚questions and phrases • Everyday used questions and sentences • Accent Reduction‚ Vowels and Phonemes • A Teacher’s
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Greek drama Oedipus the King‚ written by Sophocles‚ is regarded as one of the most perfect tragedies ever written. The tragedy Oedipus the King is highly esteemed partly due to its use of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony means that facts or events‚ which are not known to the characters on stage or in a fictional work‚ are known to the audience or reader. Sophocles uses dramatic irony to demonstrate how little the protagonist really knows. The main dramatic irony in Oedipus the King contrasts Oedipus’s
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Borders and Boundaries In John Sayles movie “Lone Star” and in Silko’s article “The Border patrol State”‚ the main idea in both the readings revolve around the racial discrimination and the racism based on the ethnicity on the U.S Borders. Both the readings have the clues and evidences where the authors are challenging the conventional notions of the borders in the U.S. Silko‚ on one hand‚ sees the border patrol as a governmental assembly addicted to interrogation‚ torture‚ and the murder of those
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ENG230 11/25/2010 Oedipus the King Character Analysis Oedipus the King had accomplished many great things during his reign of Thebes and in his life time. Oedipus found out during his reign in Thebes that the Gods who loved him also knew his devastating fate. As a young man when Oedipus answered the riddle the Sphinx he soon found his self having everything want and need. He earned his spot as the new King of Thebes‚ he had a great wife and lovely set of children and
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Year 11 English Unit 1 Outcome 1 - Reading and Responding Border Crossing (text response essay) This outcome is to be completed in class in one lesson. It is your responsibility to hand in all work to your teacher at the end of the lesson. You may bring in the following only: * Plastic pocket‚ dictionary‚ pens. Paper will be supplied for you. One page of hand-written‚ single side notes may be brought into the classroom. Length: 600 to 800 words. Date: Week beginning May 13th
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The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once identified the key ingredients of the tragedies that his culture is so famous for. These ingredients include a character with a fatal flaw‚ the realization of the fault for a particular problem and the final sudden reversal of fortune. For many tragedies‚ the fatal flaw is demonstrated as excessive pride‚ which usually serves as the driving force of the play’s action. It is common‚ even beneficial‚ to have pride in oneself‚ but when it becomes expressed
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narrator is and whether they are involved in the story. In Thomas King’s short story “Borders”‚ a twelve-year-old boy recounts the experience he had with his mother crossing the United States border. As a result of a child narrating‚ it is easy to see the contrast between the boy and his mother‚ the ignorance by the government‚ and the compassion in the duty-free manager Mel. Using the boy as the narrator was important to the telling of “Borders” because it provided an honest‚ unbiased communication
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Character Analysis King Lear- King Lear is first presented in the first scene as an egocentric man who is ignorant of the many flaws in his personality. Lear has formed himself a personality and defined himself as an individual and utterly refuses to give up this vision of himself‚ one can only imagine the figure that Lear must have once been considering the absolute dominance and control that he exerts over the others around him. As is revealed in the first act‚ Lear is drastically unrealistic
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Reading Borders reminded me of an experience I’ve had a short time ago. My parents invited some of our family friends and their children to dinner‚ and by no coincidence‚ they are all Chinese families. While the parents are socializing‚ we high school students talked about our lives. Soon I realized that I was looking at something that makes me curious: the ways children with multiple identities identify themselves. The friends I was talking to have significant differences in identifying themselves
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King Lear -- Sympathetic Characters A sympathetic character‚ is a character that the writer expects the reader (in this case watcher) to identify with and care about. In Shakespeare’s play King Lear‚ the characters Gloucester and King Lear both start out not being liked by the reader because they come off as mean and cold. By the end of the play‚ the reader does sympathize for both of these characters because of how they have been betrayed by their children. Both King Lear and Gloucester
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