English Resources (page 30)

This article contains a mock essay written by one of my students. When I met him, he was scoring a 3 to 4 in his mock GSCE English language and literature exams. Aft...

The study of linguistics incorporates a number of aspects which are very closely related, yet distinctive from one another. Some of the aspects we explore most often include phone...

The rhizome is an antigenealogy. ... The rhizome operates by variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus). Discuss how the ...

Depending on the type of text, students will need to use a variety of reading subskills. Here are some activities you can use to develop the different subskills.A: Scan ReadingWhen we...

        In ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’ and ‘Paradise Lost’, women are placed in the setting of a patriarchal society and their actions then...

This poem is primarily the expression of the devastation left as a result of the war. The first stanza paints a desolate descri ption of a dismal battlefield landscape which then d...

Written at training camp in Ripon, Wilfred Owen wrote The Send-off primarily as an expression of the rough journey taken both physically and mentally by the soldiers, the vill...

English war poet Wilfred Owen first drafted Mental Cases in Ripon in May 1918 based on the horrors he witnessed in Craiglockheart. It is a sardonic message disillusioning the grim...

Written in September 1917, Anthem for Doomed Youth is primarily the expression of the meaningless slaughter of the war. The anti-war poem begins by highlighting the violence of th...

The IELTS exam is essential to many students for many reasons. Some want to study abroad, others want to get a job or emigrate to another country. No matter the reason, having IELTS s...