English Resources (page 35)

Picture yourself, standing still in the middle of a very busy Victoria Station and not understanding English too well. Silently, for two minutes. You hear the noise of voices you d...

Central to Virginia Woolf s Jacob s Room is the character of Jacob. The title takes his name and throughout the novel we see him from multiple different characters perspecti...

What are Phonics?Phonics is simply a way of teaching children to read intuitively and quickly. By breaking words down to the sounds of letters and letter combinations, these sounds ca...

The role of technology today has expanded the learning environments beyond classrooms, which has resulted in more responsibilities for the teachers and more independence to the learne...

Thoughts of perfectibility were surrounded by much controversy and excitement for Victorian England. It was widely agreed that the existential industrial growth in Britain at the time...

A careful look at Jack Kerouac s On the Road brings the concept of excessive pleasure to the forefront, changing the tone of this particular extract from light-hearted fun to someth...

‘The Annuals are now the only books bought for presents to young ladies in which way poems formerly had their chief vent’- Robert Southey (1828) The first literary annual in Britain...

When I was a student at secondary school, there was a real stigma around the concept of private tutoring. For some reason, the students that had someone to improve their academic pote...

Masculinity is a central theme in both The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights, and both novels examine traditional and modern models of masculinity, contemporary to the ...

Music does more than simply communicate the emotions of characters. I will consider how Hitchcock uses music in Rope,[1] Rear Window,[2] and the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Mu...