English Short Stories – Simple and Illustrated Improve your English with English short stories. This is the fun way! Important Note Make sure you start with stories at your level, and go gradually up. Do not start with difficult stories that you can't really understand, OK? You can also check out the Learn English Video section. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses Level 01 – Beginners Introduction Story – a very basic story for beginners. Winter Story for Beginners in Easy English – practice winter vocabulary and basic sentence structure (positive sentences, negative sentences and yes/no questions) Click here for more English stories for complete beginners Level 02 – Beginners Plus – Easy English Stories Angela and Tom Series Story 01 – Angela and Tom meet Story 02 – Getting ready Story 03 – Flying to Texas Story 04 – Meeting Camilla Story 05 – Living in Texas Story 06 – I'm Hungry Story 07 – A Pen, a Bag and a Fan Level 03 – Elementary Story 01 – Daniel loves the beach Story 02 – April's month
Lynch, Getting an A on an English Paper Jack Lynch, Rutgers University – Newark Contents Note that this guide is still being developed. It's a start, but I know more needs to be done. I hope to spruce it up over time. This is a guide I put together primarily with my own students in mind, but I hope others find it useful. My audience is primarily undergraduates in college English classes, though of course some advice will be appropriate for high schoolers and graduate students. First the bad news: there are no shortcuts. Some sections comprise more than one page; I therefore provide a complete index of topics. Contacting Me: If you're in one of my classes, you should already know how to contact me, and I encourage you to do so at any time. If you're not, let me start by declaring I don't have the time to provide paper-writing support beyond what's in this guide (see my advice on writing strangers under “Internet Research”). from Jack Lynch's guide, Getting an A on an English Paper
Jargon The roots of nauticalese go back many hundreds of years and involve many languages. While the seaman’s jargon sets him apart on the one hand, he eventually must come ashore and interact with those ignorant landlubbers. Like all cultures that interact over time, some language assimilation takes place among the dialects allowing previously “foreign, sea jargon” to creep silently into daily parlance of the mainstream. Over time the word origins are lost to all but the linguists and members of the in-group. Some words come more or less directly from other languages while others are constructed by the sailors themselves over time to connote specific objects and functions unique to their craft. A study of nauticalese etymology informs us of the origins of many words commonly used today and most are used with little or no apparent relationship to the sea. This nauticalese dialect has many hundreds of words. Consider the following vignette: 1. A modern bitt with two posts and a cross beam 2. 3.
Persona Non Grata EGO 4 U Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style By Jack Lynch Last revised 28 January 2011. Note: I've been working on a new guide that might help some readers of this one, called “Getting an A on an English Paper.” It's far from finished, but it may still be useful. Jump directly to: Contents a — b — c — d — e — f — g — h — i — j — l — m n — o — p — q — r — s — t — u — v — w Links I've also been experimenting with a new search engine. Introduction These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes. I should be clear up front: I'm not a linguist, nor a scholar of the history of the language. And they're right. Why, then, have I spent so much time on a prescriptive and fairly traditional usage guide? The entries here are of two types: specific articles on usage, and more general articles on style. These general articles are no less important than the “rules.” Additional Reading H. On-Line Sources
Slang Overview | What role does slang play in our language? How does slang both shape and reflect culture? In this lesson, students consider the slang words they use daily and the role slang plays in our culture. Then, they explore the etymologies of these and other slang words and display their findings in a visually interesting way, as well as compile a class dictionary. Materials | Computers with Internet access. Warm-Up | Tell students to work with a partner to recreate a recent or typical conversation, either verbal or via text message, they had with a friend. Walk around the room, peering over shoulders and choose a few of the more appropriate dialogues. Once the selected students have performed, ask: Which terms do you think adults would fail to understand? Related | In the Times Book Review essay “The Definitive Slang Dictionary,” the linguist Ben Zimmer examines efforts from 1937 to the present day to pin down and study slang: Questions | For discussion and reading comprehension:
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