Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison ‘Generals Die in Bed’ demonstrates that the war only bring the sense of futility and despair.’ Discuss. By Saro Man 9B Generals Die in Bed certainly demonstrates that war is futile and the soldiers suffer both emotionally and physically. Charles Yale Harrison presents a distressing account of the soldiers fighting in the Western front‚ constantly suffering and eventually abandoning hope for an end to the horrors that they experience daily. The ‘boys’
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E.g. I was living in Italy in 1998. I was living in Italy in 1998 – past continuous. We never go to the theatre these days. Form /Tense Simple Present We’re saving up to travel abroad. Form /Tense Present Continuous Root We’ve already been to Europe. Form /Tense Present Perfect We didn’t have enough money to go further. Form /Tense Simple Past Root We had spent all our savings by the end of the summer. Form /Tense Past Perfect We’d been
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SECTION 1 Learners and Teachers‚ and the Teaching and Learning Context A: TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTEXTS Task 1 1. In what context will you be doing the CELTA course? The context that I will be doing the CELTA course is as an already experienced teacher‚ having worked in most types of the teaching contexts listed in the task. I have worked‚ for the past eighteen years mainly with young learners‚ although I have gained some experience with adult learners during that time also. Having lived
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Students Suffer Intellectually in Online Writing Classes Jessica E. Miner University of Maryland University College With over 25 years of personal experience in teaching writing classes‚ Kate Kiefer‚ examines the answer to “Do Students Loose More Than They Gain in Online Writing Classes” with her argumentative essay. With writing this argumentative essay‚ Kiefer‚ believes that students of online writing classes can complete an online writing course with little understanding
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17/05/10 Cambridge ESOL CELTA Written Assignment 1 Language Skills Assignment PART 1 For the purpose of English language teaching‚ teachers tend to refer to four particular skills- reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening. (Harmer‚ 2007) Reading and listening are known as receptive skills. Both of these processes require meaning to be derived from material that is being listened to or read. Speaking and writing are known as productive skills. In the case of both of these processes language
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ASSIGNMENT 2 - FOCUS ON THE LEARNER. Background The learner is a 35 year old female from France. She is married with two children‚ and has lived in Oman for five years. The learner ’s first language is French. It is also the language that is spoken at home. Learner ’s profile The learner ’s level of English is between pre-intermediate to intermediate. She did not finish high school‚ and after grade 10‚ at the age of 16‚ she completed a certificate in disability studies. The learner studied English
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Poverty makes People Suffer Many people suffer every day and wonder how they are going to survive. If they have enough strength to continue through the day. Poverty is something that some people have to deal with an everyday basis. Even Jo Goodwin Parker suffered poverty. Jo Goodwin Parker states that poverty worn out all your pride because of the things these kind of people have to do‚ to be able to survive. For example‚ many people eat off the trash cans in the street because they got no
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CELTA – Pre-course Task Section 1: Learners and Teachers‚ and the Teaching and Learning Context Task 1 1. Lessons in groups‚ multilingual groups‚ open groups‚ full time or part-time courses‚ learners with little or no previous formal education‚ mixed or similar ability groups‚ mixed gender groups‚ large or smaller classes‚ day or evening classes‚ teachers with English-speaking or non English-speaking background. 2. In any of the aforementioned in the pre-course task sheet contexts.
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CELTA assignment 1: LRST 1. TEXT AND RATIONALE: The text I am selecting is a description of a clown who works in a circus‚ and a description of his everyday life. I chose this text for the following reasons: -INTEREST: Recent research has indicated that how interesting a text is will affect students’ cognitive performance. This kind of "interestingness‚" or text-based interest‚ was the focus of the study […] a content analysis performed on the recall protocols showed that the interest-evoking
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Selma Pasanbegovic Assignment 1 – Focus on the Learner Task a: Learner’s Background For the purpose of this assignment I chose Feruza‚ an Eritrean high school graduate. She was born and raised in Eritrea and came to live in Jeddah only five years ago. She studied English in an elementary school in Eritrea and continued studying it in an Eritrean International High School. She is not happy at all with what she has learnt during those years. She explained that during her elementary school years
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