w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level 8693/12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Passages for Comment October/November 2011 2 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper *1304216344* READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre
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SEMINAR III STYLISTIC LEXICOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Stylistic differentiation of the English Language. a) stylistic and style meaning of the word; b) types of stylistic meaning of the word: emotional evaluative expressive. Criteria for the stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary. 2. Words which have lexico-stylistic paradigm. Words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm. 3. Stylistic functions of literary words: poetic diction archaic words barbarisms bookish
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in 21st century‚ we have realized that the importance of English as a second language in Thailand is one of the strategic key in the development plan according to the 2 aspects. Firstly‚ the importance of English in term of developing the Thai citizen’s ability to reach the international standard. Among many developing countries we can see that the tendency of English speaking people are shapely increased as English has been considered a global language to communicate in many areas of using such
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The world during all its History has made use of certain languages as a mean of communication between people of all countries and cultures. Living nowadays in a world were information travels almost at the speed of light‚ everybody is directly affected by occurrences all around the globe‚ therefore there is a great need of a language to serve as link between the nations. Just like Latin was the language meant to gather people as the Roman Empire went on its row of conquests all over Europe and later
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ENGLISH THE LANGUAGE OF THE BUSINESS AND GLOBALIZATION In the early history the British had colonies all over the world. The native of these colonies learned English for their benefit. As English was the language of the rulers the natives learned English eagerly. That is how English become a universal language. Now most of these colonies are free. Yet the English language continues to be used there. Sri Lanka is one of them. Even now if one knows English he or she can travel to any part of the
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Against English as Official Language About 10% of the students at my High School are not Caucasian and probably speak a different language at home or might not speak English very well. English should not be the Official Language because of its unfairness to immigrants or anyone who doesn’t know the English language well. English should not be the official language because it would be unfair to immigrants or anyone who doesn’t have proficient English. Students who do not have very good English or don’t
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“Press 1” For English Rachel Hoffman Composition II Justin Remeselnik March 17th‚ 2010 One Nation Under English Quick what is the official language of the United States? English right? Wrong. Today in America‚ the melting pot theory has created a nation of millions of immigrants from all over the world. Record numbers of non-English speaking immigrants live their daily lives not having to speak a word of English! And instead of encouraging new immigrants to learn the English needed to
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My Predicaments With The English Language As a college professor in Accountancy‚ I was often tasked to watched over the classes of other professors during major exams. Often enough‚ I act as proctor for several classes in a local university where I used to teach. Most classes that I was tasked to proctor‚ were either Accountancy‚ Math or Economics. As common practice in the university‚ the type of questions that were given‚ were mostly in multiple choice and quantitative analysis formats
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Coming to the United States from a Spanish country means facing many challenges such as learning a new culture as well as a new language. Learning English has alway been a challenge for everyone. However‚ this gets worse when you’re learning English as a second language. This is because the second language English learners fears of getting bully. Another reason is that they’re scare of getting people laugh because of the way that they pronounce the words or their accent. At the same time‚ they scare
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Teaching English to middle school students is quite competitive and challenging job. Teachers are required to give their best efforts to teach English in a more easy ‚successful way. Educational games are very important‚ researched subject and sometimes have been seen just as simple fun. But games are very essential part of the children’s life since children like to play games by nature.They can be an effective method to facilitate the learning process ‚ they can also be used as a first step to begin
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