MLI Material

Complete   the exercises below for Friday 16th November.

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Instructions for English  text.

1)Which  of the underlined sentences express a hypothetical  past event and which  express the future in the past ?

2)Pick  out the verb patterns in the highlighted sentences.

3)   Translate both  the highlighted and the underlined sentences.

 Put the text below into English

ROMA - La notizia della morte di Eluana arriva nell' Aula del Senato poco dopo le otto. La annuncia il senatore Villari. Il presidente Schifani invita a osservare un minuto di silenzio. Poi il clima si fa incandescente. «Eluana non è morta, è stata ammazzata», accusa il vice capogruppo del Pdl al Senato, Gaetano Quagliariello. Seguono momenti di tensione, si sfiora il contatto fisico fra i due schieramenti. «Si continua a fare l' ennesimo atto di sciacallaggio politico sulla morte di Eluana», replica il capogruppo del Pd, Anna Finocchiaro, alle parole di Quagliariello. Subito dopo arriva il commento del presidente del Consiglio. Una nota, dettata alle agenzie di stampa da Milano, dove Berlusconi ha trascorso la giornata. Il capo del governo ha appreso «con profondo dolore la notizia della morte di Eluana Englaro  ……… «È grande il rammarico che sia stata resa impossibile l' azione del governo per salvare una vita». La nota del premier appare accusare, fa riferimento all' impotenza del governo ma anche - senza indicare - chi quell' impotenza ha prodotto. Il resto del centrodestra è più esplicito. Gianni Alemanno dice che «questa morte si doveva e si poteva evitare».

MAGISTRALE - material for 13th/16th November

Complete the following worksheet :

 Mastering Advanced English Language, Sara Thorne

 Worksheet 2

Chapter 3 – Style

1. What is focus ?
2. What is foregrounding?
3. What is end focus? – give an example of end- focus with “There” used  as a dummy subject.
4. Change the focus of the following sentence by using the passive voice:

They accused him of murder –

5. What is rhetoric ?-
6. Give examples of the following

a)   Alliteration

b)   Irony

c)   Metaphor

d)   An Oxymoron

e)   Paradox

f)    Personification

g)   Simile

h)   Symbolism

MLI - Material for 9th November

Here is the copy from  the Jura advert. Try  to analyse the language employed for Friday's lesson.

In tennis, a tie break gets the adrenalin pumping. For Roger Federer, Swiss tennis icon, any break  off theTennis court is the right time to  enjoy a perfect coffee.  His choice of coffee machine?...JURA because he refuses to compromise on quality. Be it a cappuccino, latte macchiato, espresso  or ristretto, with  every Jura the genuine flavour of the coffee bean  flows straight into  the cup.

 Available from Harvey Norman, Domayne, David Jones and other leading retailers. For your nearest Jura

IMPORTANT - CHANGE IN OFFICE HOURS 6th November

Please note that I will not be doing my office hours on 6th  November. If you need to  see me, come on 9th  November, 9,00 -11,00.

Magistrale - Lesson Prepartion

For 6th  November: 

 1)  Worksheet 1 - Read Thorne,S , Mastering Advanced English  Language. Chapter One (The Structure of English) then  complete.

1. Give definitions of the following terms:

Grammar 

Morphology

Syntax

Discourse

Form

Function

Phrase

Head word

Pre-modifiers

Post-modifier/qualifier

     2. Give examples of the following :

Open class words

Closed class words

Common nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

Countable uncountable nouns

Collective nouns

modifiers

Static verbs

Dynamic verbs

Transitive verbs

Intransitive verbs

Lexical  verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Modal  verbs

The perfect aspect of verbs

The  progressive aspect

                     Finite verbs

Non-finite verbs

Adverbs of time, manner, frequency, place

Adverbs of degree

Sentence adverbs –disjuncts/conjuncts

Pronouns with  a deictic function

 The five main type of determiner

Co-ordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Free morphemes

Bound morphemes

Words formed by derivational morphology

 Words formed by inflectional morphology

 A noun phrase

 2) Print off the material below .

What is literature?

1.       Read the following opening lines. Which  ones do  you think  are the openings of poems?

The table below sumarises the different aspects of language in very broad terms. Using this table as a checklist,  say  which   aspects in the lines below give them a “poetic” feel.  

Meaning	e.g. Lexis ('word meaning') e.g. Semantics ('sentence meaning')
Grammar	i.e. Syntax and Morphology
Sounds/Writing Shapes	i.e. Phonology (speech) i.e. Graphology (writing)

a)      The English language,  with  its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between  the  naked and the nude.

b)      The past is forever with  me and I remember it all.

c)       The few. The Proud .The Marines.

d)      A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln  Cathedral is a piece of architecture.

e)      Water is H20,  hydrogen  two parts, oxygen  one; but there is also  a third thing that  makes it water.

f)       Have you ever spent two  and a half of your three hours allotted shopping time hunting for a parking space?

g)      Is there any knowledge in the world so  certain that man  cannot doubt it?

h)      Impossible is nothing.

i)        She had nothing to  eat.They  made a film about her because she had nothing to  eat.

j)        A young boy being led away from  a staion by his mother was brandishing a large knife with a serrated blade .It was plastic but realistic.

k)      ‘Come to  sunny Prestatyn,’ laughed the girl on the poster.

l)        A  Diamond is Forever.

40 - Love - Roger McGough

middle                           aged
couple                           playing
ten                                 nis
when                             the
game                             ends
and                                they
go                                  home
the                                 net
will                                still
be                                  be
tween                            them           

COMECLOSE AND SLEEPNOW
1	it is afterwards and you talk on tiptoe happy to be part of the darkness
5	lips becoming limp a prelude to tiredness. Comeclose and Sleepnow for in the morning when a policeman
10	disguised as the sun creeps into the room and your mother disguised as birds calls from the trees
15	you will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals and refusing coffee run alltheway
20	home
	Roger McGough

Cake by Roger McGough

i wanted one life
you wanted another
we couldn't have our cake
so we ate eachother.

MLI - LESSON PREPARATION

The worksheet below is to  be completed for Tuesday, 6th  November

Worksheet 1 -Thorne, S, Mastering Advanced English Language,( Palgrave Macmillan)  Chapter One  (The Structure of English) then  complete.

1. Give definitions of the following terms:

Grammar 

Morphology

Syntax

Discourse

Form

Function

Phrase

Head word

Pre-modifiers

Post-modifier/qualifier

     2. Give examples of the following :

Open class words

Closed class words

Common nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

Countable uncountable nouns

Collective nouns

modifiers

Static verbs

Dynamic verbs

Transitive verbs

Intransitive verbs

Lexical  verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Modal  verbs

The perfect aspect of verbs

The  progressive aspect

                     Finite verbs

Non-finite verbs

Adverbs of time, manner, frequency, place

Adverbs of degree

Sentence adverbs –disjuncts/conjuncts

Pronouns with  a deictic function

 The five main type of determiner

Co-ordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Free morphemes

Bound morphemes

Words formed by derivational morphology

 Words formed by inflectional morphology

 A noun phrase

MLI / MAGISTRALE 1

 As requested, there will  not be lessons on Friday, 2nd October .