Teaching & Learning English
Inspired by essay Absurdity and suicide form Le Myth de Sisyphe and La peste, Written by French writer Albert Camus. Préface One lived in absurd, yet some is ignorant of that. Why absurd? Irrational, bizarre, void. One had options to give up and succumb: Either made haphazard expectation of the coming future, yet this idea is … Read more
Ray Bradbury wrote “There Will Come Soft Rains” in 1950, just five years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945) and at the dawn of the Cold War nuclear arms race. The story is deeply influenced by the horrors of nuclear warfare and the growing fear of total annihilation during the early Atomic Age. 1. The Shadow of … Read more
1.Shakespear is gay, as most historians say 2.At the age of 18, Shakespear married Anne Hathaway, a woman who is 8 years older than him(**Bruh**) 3.In sonnet 18, Shakespear discusses a young man who is “lovelier, and more gentle and dependably constant”, historians suggested that he was gaying with the man in the poem, while … Read more
This page provides space for my current English Language and Literature students (and anybody else who might want to join in) to discuss their studies of Shakespeare. Think of it as an online Student-Led Seminar 🙂 Welcome to this online Shakespeare Discussion Corner! 🎭 Hello, fellow Shakespeare enthusiasts! 🌟 Whether you’re diving into the enchanting world … Read more
My Grade 8 students were practising writing news reports about the battles in Animal Farm to explore how language choices create bias in news reporting, even when sticking to the facts. Unfortunately, the images of the first three pages lost quality during the transfer from camera to computer 🙁 but you can still appreciate the … Read more