MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO FACULTY OF EDUCATION Department of English Language and Literature How to improve students’ communicative skills Bachelor Thesis Brno 2007 Thesis Author: Lenka Temerová Thesis Supervisor: Mgr. Renata Jančaříková Announcement Hereby I state that I worked on the Bachelor Thesis on my own and used the sources of information listed in the bibliography only. Vyškov 23rd April 2007 Lenka Temerová
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the future‚ or dance with an animated mouse. The Magic Kingdom certainly delivers the fantasy that it promises. Its most appealing aspect is that everything appears to be so perfect; every building‚ object‚ and decoration is sparkling clean. A major point of interest is the nightly parade of animated Disney characters. As a marching band drums in the distance‚ cartoon characters‚ like Goofy and Snow White‚ stop to mingle with the tourists and begin to usher them to the sides of Main Street for a parade
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How does R.C. Sherriff successfully manage to describe the horrific effects of war on different soldiers? People think they know everything about war just because they have seen dozens of war themed movies and plays. A movie always portrays the soldiers and commanders as unbreakable men who die as heroes or go back to their countries‚ unharmed and unaffected but this play shows the reality of war and how it breaks or makes a soldier. There is a big misconception about the idea of war‚ it is
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yet it was only the beginning of the quarrel between President Wilson and the American people over the Treaty of Versailles. Beforehand‚ Wilson had delivered the Fourteen Points Address to Congress January 8th declaring World War 1 as a moral cause and struggle for peace. Wilson mentioned fourteen points. Notably‚ the 14th point foreshadowed the concept of the League of Nations which would later be reintroduced as Wilson’s Ultimate goal to establish during the Paris Conference. Contrary to his goal
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all his readers to complete all life’s goals and never lose your inner child. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is an inspiring novel that at moments you will laugh and others you will cry. Randy lets all his readers into some of the brightest and happiest moments of his life and also his devastating death with pancreatic cancer. Written in first person point of view Randy grows on you as a person and by the last page of the novel you feel as though you know him. One of my favorite quotes from Randy
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laid out in neat rows and are lined with plastic chairs. The sound of chatter and laughter echoes through the hall. The canteen is a place where all the children get together at lunch time‚ have lunch and talk about who has the best pencil case and how much they hate maths. Everyone is queuing up single file holding brown trays. I watch as the cook pours the sloppy food onto the plates. After collecting lunch all the children sit down on the tables in their friend circles. I can hear the chewing
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Last Lecture Don’t judge a book by its cover. You hear that expression all the time. However‚ it couldn’t be applied greater than the book titled‚ “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. When I first looked at the book‚ I expected to encounter a story filled with nothing but sadness. However‚ after reading this National Bestseller‚ I found that I had discovered a tale of life. “The Last Lecture” documents the life of Randy Pausch in the form of short stories that exemplified the kind of man
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Our world is surrounded by mathematics. Math is a very important element in our daily lives. We use math for several reasons‚ for things that are required as well as those that we’re just interested in knowing. Math is used for personal aspects in our lives as well as professional features. The most important notion of this and also cited in the Principles and Standards material‚ everyone needs to be able to use Math in some sort of setting‚ whether its work‚ personal‚ or for further study. According
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How the 1950s and 1960s changed the United States Your grandparents or great grandparents were obviously hormone filled young men and women. As many men were coming home from war‚ so were a ton of hormones. There were 76.4 million babies born from 1946 to 1964‚ with the greatest overall numbers coming from 1954 through 1964. By 1964 those babies‚ known as “baby boomers”‚ accounted for almost 40 percent of the United States population. Along with the growing population came a growing need for more
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Built To Last - Summary of Key Points Written by James Collins & Jerry Porras both are associated with Stanford About this book: This summary of Built to Last is included because if one is going to change an organization‚ one needs to know what to change towards. This book is one of the best we know of that answers that question. It is one of the best pieces of research done on why certain organizations are more successful over time than others. Because its time horizon is a minimum of 50 years
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