ORGANISATIONAL QUESTIONS • 7 weeks; • 1 lecture a week; • One PowerPoint presentation + Written tasks + attendance minimum 70 %+ activeness = NO EXAM • Is evaluated according to Latvian standards • Theoretical background and practical experience ACADEMIC WRITING A broad definition of academic writing is any writing done to fulfill a requirement of a college or university. Academic writing is also used for publications that are read by teacher and researchers
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Read the extract from The Time Traveler’s Wife that begins on page 398 from ‘Henry is sleeping‚ bruised and caked with blood’ to ‘anguish together’. Using integrated linguistic and literary approaches analyse Niffenegger’s presentation of Henry in this extract. Go on to compare the presentation of survival elsewhere in The Time Traveler’s Wife and in The Time Machine. Both The Time-Traveler’s Wife by Niffenegger and in The Time Machine by Wells present the reader with the idea of time travel despite
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Every time a new scary movie comes out everyone goes the first couple of days to see it‚ but did you know that the movie that just came out probably had history in it?Scary movies from the 1800s to the 2000s have changed abundantly‚ they have improved the quality of the movies‚ each year the movie have a different theme‚ and most of the scary movies have history. Many people that go see the movie when it comes out did not know any of this so your not the only one. Between the year of 1900 and 1920
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stress the calm and comfortable atmosphere the speaker is in when Death is present. The reader comes to understand that the speaker holds no fear of Death‚ rather‚ great respect for the eternal being. When the speaker uses the word “kindly” as an adverb describing the manner in which Death approaches them‚ the reader can assume that Death is in no way threatening the speaker. Furthermore‚ the speaker goes on to express that “I had put away/ My labor and my leisure too/ For his Civility” displaying
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Qualifiying adjectives are "gradable"‚ i.e. it is possible to graduate their intensity‚ by the addition of an adverb of degree‚ such as very‚ quite‚ enough; most qualifying adjectives can also be put into comparative or superlative forms (big‚ bigger‚ biggest). Classifying adjectives cannot be graded: a person is either married‚ or not‚ or dead‚ or not; he or she cannot be "very married"‚ nor "more dead" than another person‚ at least not under normal usage of the words. That being said
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Krampus is to reveal the true meaning of Christmas… but with gore‚ and monsters and stuff like that. It’s not a perfect film‚ but the opening certainly is. The film from minute one seems less concerned with actually being scary in the sense that it’s trailers reveal‚ but more scary in the sense that it wants people to consider how terribly materialistic they are around this time of year. It’s the type of film that will let little things like a christmas tree catching on fire seem to hit so hard‚ but
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companion(18%)‚ increased heart rate(18%)‚ freezing or feeling of paralysis(17%)‚ and fear of losing control(11%)‚ as well as sweating‚ chills or fever‚ fear of dying‚ shortness of breath‚ a sense of unreality‚ dizziness or faintness‚ and numbness” (Scary Movies And TV Programs Having Long-Lasting Effects) . .This magazine explains the long term effects that can happen when you watch horror movies. Now that I really think about these affects I can relate to them. Symptoms such as increased heart rate
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Part 1 Language related tasks. Model sentence: He’s (he has) lost his passport. a) Analysis of meaning: He’s lost his passport on his way to the airport “presently speaking about an action that had taken place in the past”. b) Conveying meaning: My friend Ali had booked a plane to Malaysia. He asked me to take him to the airport. He left the house with his passport‚ at some point between him leaving the house and being in transit he must have lost his passport. As he arrived to the departure
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Assignment one - Language related tasks Word count: 994‚ excluding quotes‚ references and phonemic script. She used to drive to work. A. Used to describes an action/s that happened in the past and has since stopped. It can also be applied to things that were true but no longer are‚ for example ’there used to be a regular bus service ’. B. Draw a character on the board‚ elicit from ss a name‚ gender‚ where they live‚ where they go for fun and how they get to work (making sure include
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Discuss the presentation of confict in the texts that you have studied In “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens‚ conflict is presented as the outcome of industrialisation‚ material prosperity and a strict utilitarian way of life. In the 1850’s when the novel was written in instalments in ‘Household Words’‚ Victorian England was in the age of reform‚ which was creating new tensions between social classes‚ and creating a new type of ‘master’ represented by characters such as Mr. Gradgrind and more particularly
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