Englisch-Nachhilfe für die Klassen 11 und 12 (13)
Qualifikationsphase (Grundkurs und Leistungskurs)
Qualifikationsphase (Grundkurs und Leistungskurs)
Topics
- British and American Traditions and Visions
- British History: From Empire to Commonwealth, Monarchy and Modern Democracy, the UK and Europe
- American Dreams – American Realities
- 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
- Post-colonialism and Migration
- India's Challenging Diversity – Postcolonialism, Reality and Global Ramifications
- Indian and Pakistani Communities in Britain
- 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
- 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
- Media
- Dangers and Opportunities of Modern Media Usage. How does it affect me?
- 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
- 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
- Subject and Predicate
English Composition II
- Paragraph-Writing
- Story-Writing
- Reproduction of a Story-Poem
- Letter-Writing
- The Heading
- Salutation
- Body of the Letter
- The Subscription
- The Signature
- The Superscription
- Classification of Letters
- Friendly Letters
- Invitations
- Business Letters
- Letters of Application
- Official Letters
- Letters to Newspapers
- Precis-Writing
- Uses of Precis-Writing
- The Art of Compression
- Usage of Indirect Speech
- Revision
- Expansion of Passages
- Essay-Writing
- Unity, Order, Brevity and Style
- The Personal Touch
- Paragraphs
- Structure of an Essay
- The Introduction
- The Body of the Essay
- The Conclusion
- Essays
- Reflective Essays
- Narrative Essays
- Descriptive Essays
- Expository Essays
- Imaginative Essays
- Creative Writing
- Diary Entry, Comment, Reading Log and Blog
- Plot and Story
- Components of a Plot
- Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Dénouement
- Components of a Plot
Poetry
- What is Poetry?
- Regular Rhythm
- Rhyme
- Stanzas
- 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
- Music (Verbal Music)
- Poetic Styles and Forms
- Narrative Poem
- Lyric Poem
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Romantic Poetry
- Ballad
- Couplet
- Dramatic Monologue
- Elegy
- Limerick
- Ode
- Sonnet
- Villanelle