Englisch-Nachhilfe für die Klassen 11 und 12 (13)
Qualifikationsphase (Grundkurs und Leistungskurs)

Topics

  1. British and American Traditions and Visions
    • British History: From Empire to Commonwealth, Monarchy and Modern Democracy, the UK and Europe
    • American Dreams – American Realities
  2. Globalisation – Global Challenges
    • Economic and Ecological Issues
    • International Peace-Keeping at the Turn of the Century: The Role of the UN and the USA
    • My Place in the Global Village – Opportunities and Risks of Globalisation
  3. Post-colonialism and Migration
    • India's Challenging Diversity – Postcolonialism, Reality and Global Ramifications
    • Indian and Pakistani Communities in Britain
  4. Shakespeare
    • Shakespeare and the Elizabethan World
    • In-depth Study of a Play and Corresponding Film Passages
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Elizabethan Poetry
    • Scenes from Theatre Performances
    • The Interest of Young Audiences in Shakespeare
  5. Science and Technology
    • Visions of the Future – Utopias and Dystopias
    • Science and ethics: Genetic Engineering, Therapeutic Cloning and GM Feeds
    • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia
  6. Media
    • Dangers and Opportunities of Modern Media Usage. How does it affect me?
  7. Critical Analysis
    • Political Speeches, Novels, Drama, Poetry, Films and Editorials

Figures of Speech

Alliteration Allusion Anaphora Antithesis Assonance
Chiasmus Hyperbole Litotes Metaphor Metonymy
Onomatopoeia Parallelism Parenthesis Personification Point of View
Repetition Rhetorical Question Simile Synecdoche Understatement

English Composition

  1. Analysis of Simple Sentences
    • Subject and Predicate
      • Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
      • Subjective Complement
      • Adverbial Qualification
      • Predicative Adjective and Predicative Noun
      • Direct Object and Indirect Object
      • Objective Complement
    • Phrases
      • Adjective Phrases
      • Adverb Phrases
      • Noun Phrases
    • Clauses
      • Adverb Clauses
      • Adjective Clauses
      • Noun Clauses
    • Sentences
      • Simple Sentence and Compound Sentence
      • Subordinate Clause
      • Complex Sentence
      • Noun Clauses, Adjective Clauses and Adverb Clauses
      • Conversion of Simple Sentences to Compound Sentences
      • Conversion of Compound Sentences to Simple Sentences
      • Conversion of Simple Sentences to Complex Sentences
      • Conversion of Complex Sentences to Simple Sentences
      • Conversion of Complex Sentences to Compound Sentences
      • Synthesis of Sentences
      • Sequence of Tenses
    • Direct and Indirect Speech
      • Rules for Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech
      • Questions, Commands and Requests; Exclamations and Wishes
      • Conversion of Indirect into Direct
    • Idioms and Collocations

English Composition II

  1. Paragraph-Writing
  2. Story-Writing
  3. Reproduction of a Story-Poem
  4. Letter-Writing
    • The Heading
    • Salutation
    • Body of the Letter
    • The Subscription
    • The Signature
    • The Superscription
  5. Classification of Letters
    • Friendly Letters
    • Invitations
    • Business Letters
    • Letters of Application
    • Official Letters
    • Letters to Newspapers
  6. Precis-Writing
    • Uses of Precis-Writing
    • The Art of Compression
    • Usage of Indirect Speech
    • Revision
  7. Expansion of Passages
  8. Essay-Writing
    • Unity, Order, Brevity and Style
    • The Personal Touch
    • Paragraphs
    • Structure of an Essay
    • The Introduction
    • The Body of the Essay
    • The Conclusion
  9. Essays
    • Reflective Essays
    • Narrative Essays
    • Descriptive Essays
    • Expository Essays
    • Imaginative Essays
  10. Creative Writing
    • Diary Entry, Comment, Reading Log and Blog
  11. Plot and Story
    • Components of a Plot
      • Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Dénouement

Poetry

  1. What is Poetry?
  2. Regular Rhythm
  3. Rhyme
  4. Stanzas
  5. Essential Characteristics of Poetry
    • Music (Verbal Music)
      • Rhyme - Internal Rhymes
      • Vowel and Consonant Sounds
      • Onomatopoeia
      • Alliteration
      • Assonance
      • Consonance
      • Repetition
      • Refrains
      • Meter and Rhythm
        • Kinds of Poetic Feet: Iamb, Trochee, Spondee, Dactyl, Anapest
        • Monometer, Dimeter, Trimeter, Tetrameter, Pentameter, Hexameter (Alexandrines), Heptameter, and Octameter
      • Caesura and Enjambment
      • Free Verse
      • Blank Verse
      • Stanzas: Couplet, Tercet (Terza Rima), Quatrain, Cinquain, Sestet, etc.
    • Vision
    • Imagery
      • By Description
      • By Certain Figures of Speech
        • Metaphors and Similes, Symbol, Image, Personification, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Allusion, Allegory, Oxymoron, Paradox, Understatement, Litotes, Irony, and Hyperbole.
      • By Picturesque Epithets
    • Emotion
  6. Poetic Styles and Forms
    • Narrative Poem
    • Lyric Poem
    • Metaphysical Poetry
    • Romantic Poetry
    • Ballad
    • Couplet
    • Dramatic Monologue
    • Elegy
    • Limerick
    • Ode
    • Sonnet
    • Villanelle