Nessie School of Languages

Learning languages in Amposta

Terra nostra

16 d'abril de 2007
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Dopo la tempesta che ha rottole latitudini del mondo,in quell’isola vanno i nostri morti,ultimo sfizio del vivere.voi vivete, carceratti tutti insiemedentro i miei occhi chiusi.voi vivete, non chiedetemi la libertà. È una immagine, non è un pensierorimane nel curo come uno specchio.Acompagna i giocchi di paroleè ama la vita.non consenti l’irrealtà.inutili sono i reflessi innaturali.dove

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heute und morgen

15 d'abril de 2007
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Heute, hören nur schlechte, Wörter, heute.Essen noch gefährliche Ideen, heute.Spielen mit der Zukunft, heute.Und heute, denken wir immerdie Welt ist nicht schön, heute. Warum sind die Leute traurig,  heute?Warum können wir alles wechseln?Morgen, vielleicht,das Leben wird blutlos, morgen.Lieder und Sànger hören wir, morgen.Die Wörter werden schönmit keinen Kriege, morgen.

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STRUCTURE OF INFINITIVE

15 d'abril de 2007
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STRUCTURE OF INFINITIVE Just having a look at sport news I realised the high use of the structure of infinitive, as it happens in other languages such as Latin, so as to express the consequence of a previous event. – Nigeria´s Victor Ikapeke scored the goals as Monaco beat Nancy 2-0 at home to move

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LANGUAGE IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

13 d'abril de 2007
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LANGUAGE IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES Perhaps one of the most difficult parts  of the English language to understand is the meaning of newspaper headlines. Some verbs offer a great variety of different connotations, with meanings which sometimes can be very confusing. English tabloids abuse of idiomatic expressions, shortening of words and use several connotations of verbs

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LANGUAGE IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

13 d'abril de 2007
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LANGUAGE IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES Perhaps one of the most difficult parts  of the English language to understand is the meaning of newspaper headlines. Some verbs offer a great variety of different connotations, with meanings which sometimes can be very confusing. English tabloids abuse of idiomatic expressions, shortening of words and use several connotations of verbs

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The style of the English tabloids

12 d'abril de 2007
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INTRODUCTION   The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the different vocabulary, special connotations of words and verbs, specific use of  verbal tenses and characteristic grammar structures used in newspaper tabloids, in both articles and headlines. Every student of English has doubtlessly found that an average newspaper is one of the most difficult things

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Brief History of Ireland

11 d'abril de 2007
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Brief History of Ireland IRELAND There are two parts of Ireland. There?s the Republic of Ireland, which is an independent country, and Northern Ireland, which belongs to the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland has got six counties: Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, County Down, Antrim and Derry. The principal cities in Northern Ireland are Belfast (the main city),

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Introduction to the Irish conflict

10 d'abril de 2007
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Introduction We would like to have a short introduction of the difficult political and religious problem of Northern Ireland by stating the positions that the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are holding nowadays towards the future of this region of the Emerald Isle. The official British position is that Northern Ireland is part

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Comparing the Irish conflict with other European nationalist movements:

7 d'abril de 2007
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Comparing the Irish conflict with other European nationalist movements: –         Euskal-herria (The Basque Country) Another European country that is dealing with ethnical terrorism is the Spanish State. The Basks advocates that their origin is culturally and ethnically different from Castillian Spain and they try to get their independence. In the birth of the Bask Question,

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A Novel on the conflict: Brian Moore?s ?Lies of silence?

5 d'abril de 2007
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A Novel on the conflict: Brian Moore?s ?Lies of silence? BRIAN?S MOORE SHORT BIOGRAPHY Brian Moore was born in Belfast on the 25th of August 1921 to fervently Catholic parents. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He had twice won the Canadian Governor General?s Award for fiction and has been

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General differences between British and Australian English

31 de març de 2007
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General differences between British and Australian English  Grammatical differences   There are quite a few differences between Australian and British-English grammar. I am going to try to explain some of them:   The use of the auxiliaries shall and should with first-person subjects, as in ?I shall go?, ?We should like to see you?, is

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American English

29 de març de 2007
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Verb Phrases Certain verbs, like give, show, tell, bring take a direct object (DO) and an indirect object (IO). The indirect object, which is semantically a ?recipient?, can occur with a preposition after the DO, or it can occur before the DO without a preposition: John gave the book to Mary   DO IO John

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General differences between British and American English

28 de març de 2007
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General differences between British and American English The Pronunciation of North American-English   There are many more regional differences in the United States and Canada, as far as pronunciation is concerned, than in the rest of the English speaking world. American-English pronunciation is far more peculiar than Australian, New Zeeland English or South African English.

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Sandra Cisneros biography

27 de març de 2007
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Sandra Cisneros biography Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and a Chicana mother; she has six brothers and is the only daughter in the family. She moved frequently during her childhood and visited Mexico often, to visit her paternal grandmother. Like Esperanza, the main character in The House on

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The literature produced by latinos

26 de març de 2007
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The literature produced by Latinos who live in the United States is especially interesting in terms of the ways in which it tries to reflect the complex modes of speech behaviour among members of this community. Hispanics are different from other ethnic groups in the US, because they have maintained the use of the minority

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