College Reading and Writing 110 August 11‚ 2010 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje’s book The English Patient was published in 1992. At first this book would appear to be a mystery at first‚ but at heart it is a story of romance‚ growing up‚ and the war. This book takes place at an abandoned villa in Italy toward the end of World War II. Due to the authors writing style he flip flops between characters and settings though out the book making it confusing for some and intriguing for others.
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General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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CLASS – XII ENGLISH CORE [Time : 3.0 hrs.] [M. M.: 100] __________________________________________________________________________________________________ General Instructions : (i) This paper is divided into three sections: A‚ B‚ and C. All the sections are compulsory. (ii) Separate instructions are given with each section
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turn out to be a failure. We didn’t master the English language and cannot say proper English. What is the reason? We all have read some graded books which are written with a particular amount vocabulary. I found it very surprising that a novel can be written with only 2000 or less words! But we college students cannot write a good assay even when we have a vocabulary of 5000 words. So it’s very obvious that we don’t master a correct way to learn English vocabulary. Lexicologists say that the extant
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English has emerged as the global language of trade and commerce in the past few decades‚ affecting many key aspects of business in the modern world. The English language has become the standard for all important official communications in an increasingly large number of countries with a wide variety of native languages. In the modern world‚ English continues to spread as the major medium through which both small businesses and large corporations do business. There are about 5‚000 languages
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Sapphire Cooper English 92 10/28/2013 Draft#1 of Multidraft Essay Photographs on display are the pictorial analogs of the “I am … “ it’s a capture moment the person wanted to record “here I am being me “. “ I love shopping “ ( a picture of a young lady in the city with a lot of shopping bags ) “ I am a dean list student “ ( a picture of a young man collecting an award during graduation . These photographs can be anything just as long as they something about who you are. People do informally
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The English Teacher The English Teacher is the third of the trilogy that began with Swami and Friends‚ and The Bachelor of Arts. This novel dedicated to Narayan’s wife Rajam is not only autobiographical but also poignant in its intensity of feeling. The story is a series of experiences in Krishna’s life - some joyful‚ some sorrowful; and his journey towards achieving inner peace and self-development‚ in the traditional Indian sense. About the Author Rasipuram‚ Krishnaswami Narayanaswami‚ or R
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No one denies the importance of English language in the present time as global language. It is clear that the English language has become more dominant around the world. In some countries it use as the mother tongue and‚ other countries learn it as second language in their schools. This is making English widespread. In addition‚ many reasons which contributed to rising of English spreading. For example‚ use it for communication between people around the world‚ as well as‚ it is language of modern
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FINAL REPORT CLASSROOM ENGLISH IN BUDI MULIA DUA TAMANSISWA YOGYAKARTA Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the requirements To Obtain an Ahli Madya in English By Dieksi Agawati Hapsari NIM: 08221010 ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM DIPLOMA 3 FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITAS ISLAM INDONESIA 2011 APPROVAL PAGE Title : Classroom English in Budi Mulia Dua Tamansiswa Name : Dieksi Agawati Hapsari NIM : 08221010 Approved by: | Field Consultant | Academic
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of Indian English Indian English refers to dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India and also by Indian Diaspora elsewhere In the world. Due to British colonialism for over two hundred years’ as were used more to British English than to American‚ Australian or Canadian English. And due to the presence of vernacular languages in our country‚ English was chosen to be the co-official language of the union of India. Our obvious choice is one of the varieties of British English; which educated
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