Friday, September 28, 2018

1 - GRAMMAR: CONDITIONAL SENTENCES



Zero Conditional – always true
If +  Present simple,  present simple
If I eat too much chocolate, I get sick. 

First Conditional – future possibility
If +  Present simple,   will/be going to +  verb
If it rains tomorrow, I won’t go to the beach.
Unless (if not) it rains, I will go to the beach.

Second Conditional -  impossible present
If  +  past simple ,   would  +  verb
If I found a mobile, I wouldn’t keep it.
If I had more money, I would buy a house.
If I were/was rich, I would have a yacht.
Give advice:  If I were you, I would study more.

Third Conditional – regrets / impossible past  
If  +  past perfect ,  would have + past participle
If I had studied more, I would have got a good mark. (But I didn’t get a good mark.)


PRACTICE ONLINE:



First Conditioanl: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_1_statements.htm

Second Conditional: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_2_statements.htm

Third Conditional:  https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_3_statements.htm

All three: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/if_clauses1/index.php

YOU CHOOSE YOUR DIFFICULTY:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/if.htm

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

20 - THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

Disruption of Multinational Empires
The Austrian Empire

Austria in 1815: Empire of many Nationalities

1. Dominant Nationality. The German-speaking Austrians, constituting one-fifth of the population of the Empire, were the dominant nationality. They held the leading positions in government, Church, education and army. The Empire's ruling family, the Hapsburgs, was also Austrian.

2. Subject Nationalities. These included Hungarians, Italians, Rumanians and Slavic-speaking peoples: Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As these subject peoples absorbed nationalist ideals - spread from france after 1789 - they aspired to independence.

Austria combats Nationalism


Monday, April 2, 2018

19 - THE BALLAD: Definition

Definition:
The ballad is a short, narrative poem. It is composed of a fixed stanza form. It has a simple plot and a simple metrical structure. A ballad is generally divided into quatrains and the quatrains are connected to each other with a repeated refrain. 

The ballad metre is very simple, each line has four primary beats. A quatrain usually has a standard (heroic) rhyme scheme (abab). The language and the syntax are simple. Alliteration is present, the repetition of the same - usually initial - sound in two or three words of the same line. The ballad also contains direct imagery (which is the pattern of images which evoke sensory responses in the mind). 

LORD RANDALL


23 - PRACTICE PET B1 ONLINE

Go to Blog and Practice Reading, Writing and Listening online; PRACTICE PET ONLINE