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 words and keep the tone relatively formal Formal Informal Novel Book film Movie Man, woma

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