Inglese

HARD TIMES. Thomas Gradgrind is a teacher, he believes in facts and figures. He lives in Coketown (a fantastic town in the north of England_coke is a type of coal). He believes that life should only centre around practical matters and that the use of the imagination is a time-wasting distraction from the serious world of the real life. Their child...

Joseph: He is a father of John.
Major Freebody: He is an old friend of Joseph.
Personal Comment: This is an interesting story. My favourite character is Sherlock Holmes because he is intelligent and because he helps the people in great danger. The author, Arthur Conan Doyle, write the story very well...
Language: It is simple, but very

Defoe’s novels are fictional autobiographies. Their structure is characterised by a series of episodes and adventures held together by the unifying presence of a single hero. The characters usually appear in isolation either physically or socially.
The hero of Defoe’s novel belongs to the middle-class. The author decides to set the story on a dese

NEGATIVA
Sogt+infinito+s(alla 3° pers. Sing)
Do/Does+sogt+infinito
Sogt+do/does+not+infinito
IMPERATIVE
AFFERMATIVA
Infinito+please / Let+pronome pers+infinito+please
PASSATO REMOTO
SIMPLE PAST
AFFERMATIVA
INTEROGATIVA
NEGATIVA
V.R. Sogt+infinito+ed
V.IR. Sogt+2° voce del paradigma
D

“SHAKESPEARE’S THEMES”
Shakespeare’s texts presents 2 important themes: love and the passing of time. Shakespeare viewed love as a winning force; in fact Romeo and Juliet defy their families’ wishes in the name of love. Antony and Cleopatra love for other reasons. Love however , is subject to the passing of time, so only art and poetry can beat the

organizzare idee correlate temporalmente
but (ma), or (o), either/or (o/o), neither/nor(né/né), both/and (sia/che)
however (comunque, tuttavia), otherwise (altrimenti), yet/still (eppure), nevertheless(ciò nonostante), despite/in spite of+ING (nonostante), on the other hand(d’altro canto), even if (anche se), unlike(differentemente da), , while

Modernism
The term Modernism refers to a movement which dominated the sensibility and aesthetic choices of the great artists. It implied an assumptions of introspection and technical skill. In painting Fauvism with its stress on the supremacy of color. In 1907 Pablo Picasso and George Braque began to develop Cubism. After we have the Abstract P

Physical beauty and spiritual beauty
His first approach of beauty comes from the senses, from the concrete physical sensations. For Wordsworth only sight and hearing but for Keats all the senses are very important. This “physical beauty” is in all the forms of nature, in its colours, in its perfumes, in a woman, so beauty seen in all its detail

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Present Continuos (Presente Progressivo)
Si forma con sogg + verbo essere + gerundio
Si utilizza
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The religious problem began strong again: the Catholics were fined if didn’t follow the English Church and the Puritans disapproved the Church of England bishops. When the Puritans suggested that the Church should be governed by lay elders, James insisted on retaining the bishops. All those ministers who refused to use the book of the common prayer or r