Focus on the Learner – Assignment 1 1. Group Profile It’s a mixed group with a very mixed cultural background as only three students are actually from Germany. Four of the students were born in another country e.g. Lithuania‚ Turkey‚ France and Romania. They all moved to Germany as adults and all share German as a common language. The group is heterogeneous concerning the age they started learning English. Two students started learning as adults while the others started learning at school
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SONAR HIGH SCHOOL Annual Examination 2013 Full Marks: 50 Class: V Time: 1hr 30 mins Subject: English 1. Answer any five of the following questions: 2x5=10 a) What is Hillary’s step? b) What plan did the crocodile’s wife make to catch the monkey? c) Describe how Arjuna aimed the bird’s eye? d) The old woman was kind and helpful – Explain
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Feeling and Intellect Since Feeling is First by e.e. cummings and When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman are two poems whose main ideas contrast very much from each other. They both reflect the basic most form of human experiences‚ that being feeling and intellect since they often come hand in hand. When one is emotional‚ they often only consider emotion in a given situation rather than facts. In contrast‚ when one is intellectual‚ they generally focus on logic rather than sentiments
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Parts of Speech Noun A noun is a naming word. It names a person‚ place‚ thing‚ idea‚ living creature‚ quality‚ or action. Examples: cowboy‚ theatre‚ box‚ thought‚ tree‚ kindness‚ arrival Verb A verb is a word which describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something). Examples: walk‚ talk‚ think‚ believe‚ live‚ like‚ want Adjective An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun. Examples: big‚ yellow‚ thin‚ amazing‚ beautiful‚ quick
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Work – Exercise 6 3.3.5 Singular/Plural – Exercise 7 3.3.6 Questions – Exercise 8 3.3.7 Negatives – Exercise 9 3.3.8 Tags – Exercise 10 3.3.9 Reported Speech – Exercise 11 3.3.10 Editing & Spelling – Exercise 12 3.3.11 Apostrophe – Exercise 13 3.3.12 Tenses – Exercise 14 3.3.13 Synonyms – Exercise 15 3.3.14 Antonyms – Exercise 16 3.3.15 Pronouns – Exercise 17 3.3.16 Prepositions – Exercise 18 3.3.17 Concord 3.3.18 Adverbs – Exercise 19 3.3.19 Adjectives – Exercise 20 INDEX MEMORANDUM 4. English
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reflected as a good writing. However‚ students often make mistakes in grammar. They do not know when to use the present tense or the past tense. They still do not understand when they have to change the present tense into the past tense. Further‚ students are not accostumed with grammar and tenses in Indonesian. That is why students often make mistakes in grammar. They do not know which tenses should be used. They even do not know the part of speech of the word. As a result‚ the sentences that they make
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phrase like‚ “Ordering in a restaurant is difficult especially when it is crowded.” The average person probably thinks that the gerund is only used in the present tense in order to relate an on going activity. If you were in the process of doing something‚ you would need to express yourself using the present progressive or present continuous tense. This would also apply to something that is going to happen in the near future. So if I say‚ “She is playing the guitar‚” that is something she is doing at time
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The poems ‘Esther’s Tomcat’ by Ted Hughes and ‘The Cat And The Moon’ by W.B.Yeates share many similarities and contrasts. The main communality is that of the subject of the poems. They are both about cats. However the cats have many contrasting qualities to one another. Both the poems are in first person narrative. This makes the reader feel like the story of the poem is told directly to them‚ which involves them emotionally. However they vary in that of structure. Their structures are based on the
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the past tense. However‚ both of these poems‚ towards the end‚ change to the present tense. In the poem "Suicide in the Trenches"‚ the first two stanzas are in the past tense‚ for example‚ in the first line‚ "I knew a simple soldier boy..." and then in the third stanza‚ after the soldier dies‚ it switches to‚" You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye‚ who cheer when soldiers march by..." and in the poem "Dulce et Decorum est" a similar thing is done. The first stanza is in the past tense‚" Coughing
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GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THE STUDENTS’ THESIS ABSTRACT GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THE STUDENTS’ THESIS ABSTRACT (A Study on the Students’ Enhancement in English Grammar) by: Siminto The main purpose of English teaching at the State Islamic College of Palangka Raya is in order to the students should have some abilities in using of that foreign language that consist of the four language skills: listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing. The most essential of that teaching is stressed on the students’ competence
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