IGCSE With Mrs C

 This might be a good moment to revise my 'Top Ten Sentence Suggestions' and my "Top Ten Grammar Suggestions" and my "Debating Language" by following linked-in pages to better understanding.  Ten Top Sentence Suggestions 1.      Write short clear sentences. See t his guide on syntax for help. 2.      Learn how to use the full stop/period. See this punctuation guide !  3.      Do not over rely on commas. See t his guide on commas . 4.      Bring the subject up to the start of the sentence: the dog sat on the mat, not on the mat the dog sat. 5.      Keep a note of your most common spelling errors Correct Spelling Incorrect Spelling Literature Litterature Writer Writter First of all Firstable To lose ( I lost my keys yesterday) To be loose (my son’s front tooth is loose) 6.      Avoid slang wo...

Hello everyone, As we shed our school bags and timetables, this can be a lovely moment to pick up a book ... I've just finished Michael Morpungo 's Born to Run (as I saw him give an online reading only last night! it was fab) and have started Rachel Joyce's The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (which I am enjoying greatly). So what's the best way to choose what to read this summer? Well, the best is always to go into a bookshop! There are plenty in Strasbourg, but a good starting point is always Librairie Kleber , and especially their International bookshop (which is next to Starbucks and Apple store). Most second-hand bookshops also have an English book section. Another way is to go through Reading Lists. For example, NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels Goodread's Summer Reading List  (which has Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a favourite of mine at the top of the list). Here Random House's " high school reading list " ... ...

If you've ever thought of approaching literature from a historical approach (English through the ages, if you like) or from a thematic approach (Romantic, realism, Naturalism), this website is a great starting point. The site considers the different literary periods, and is really very thorough: Literary Periods Renaissance Literature The Enlightenment Romanticism Transcendentalism Victorian Literature Realism Naturalism Modernism Bloomsbury Group Existentialism Beat Generation English Literature History From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599 The Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616 The Age of Milton 1608-1674 From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744 The Death of Pope to the French Revolution 1744-1789 The French Revolution to the Death of Scott 1789-1832 From the Death of Scott to the Present Time 1832-1893 Appendix American Literature History Preface The Colonial Period 1607-1765 The Revolutio...