English-Teaching with Harry Potter
Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
On the Run
When on the run, Harry, Ron and Hermione had to weather much inclement
weather. Once, when...
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English-Teaching: Grammar Exercises
Grammar exercises meant for people studying English grammar.
Table of Contents
Exercises for Videos 1, 2 and 3
Exercises for Video 4: Nouns: Kinds
Exercises for Videos 9 and 10: Adjectives
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs (being updated)
Notes on Learning English
IntroductoryList of Online Resources
Types of Sentences
Notes on Verbs
The Oxford 3000
Introductory
1. Listening
2. Speaking
3. Reading
4. Writing
5.
On King Lear
"Where Nature doth with Merit Challenge." (I.i)
That line pretty much sums up the looming theme of the play and the exposition. It sets up the exposition which takes the first act. It is valid for the account of Lear and Glouster's fates--background of which is set up in this actby this very line--which, though Glouster hardly recognizes it (the agent being Edmund), Lear brings his Fate upon himself. Comparing that with other expositions of Shakespeare, first, with... continue readingOn Paradise Lost Book 1
Update on 03 08 2020. While this is all certainly the author's own original, genuine, hard-worked and therefore dear (to the author at least) work, a better resource, and by no means the source for this writing, is the Dartmouth Milton website.
July 21st, 2017, Friday
General
A central work in... continue reading