Appunti di Inglese

Summary of The Tempest Prospero, an old man, Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Mirando, lived on an certain island in the sea. Their house was a cave in the rock, where prospero had also his study, infact he had a lot of magic books beacus ...

Super Size Me Why are Americans so fat? Morgan Spurlock is the producer/director/protagonist of Super Size Me. He demonstrated that a man can live for a month on fast food alone but . with which consequences? He often went to the ...

SYMBOLISMO Symbolism was a poetic movement which originated in France between 1880 and 1890 in the same decades, partaking of the same aesthetic vision. From poetry it soon extended to drama and prose. The French Symbolists were Paul Verlai ...

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED INTRODUCTION This book is a very strange one. All the stories, infact, were extremely gripping. The biggest ability of the author is that he incorporates an element of surprise in each story usually on the unexpect ...

TAVOLE SINOTTICHE DELLE UNITS DEL LIBRO     MURPHY R. ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE ED. CAMBRIDGE         **Present continuos (unit 1-3-4)   Si utilizza quando lazione si svolge in q ...

Teen gangs in the USA Having friends is a vital part of growing up. When we belong to a group of friends we share our ideas an experience with them, forming our personalities. Problems begin when the need to belong to a group is so strong t ...

Tempi Verbali Simple Present        aff. : sogg + v. base( + s alla terza persona singolare)        neg. : sogg. + do does + not + v. base    ...

SIMPLE PRESENT Esprime unazione che si ripete o abituale. E spesso accompagnata da avverbi di tempo indeterminato (sempre, spesso, di solito, generalmente, raramente, qualche volta, mai). AFFERMATIVA INTERROGAT ...

PRESENT PERFECT sogg+ havehas + part.pass -Almost(quasi), already, always,ever, never ,just, often, rarely, recently, seldom, yet. -all day, in my life, in the last few days, in this century, so far e up to now(finora), this weekmonth ...

TERNI A city with prehistoric origins, as testify the remains of the Italic settlers on the edges of the fertile Terni plain where the picturesque Valnerina stretches out. Very interesting, with reference to this, the findings preserved ...

Tess of the dUrbervilles di Hardy Thomas       The story: Summary OPENING SITUATION: The story begins with the meeting between John Durbeyfield and Parson Tringham, who explained that the man was a dire ...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Author profile: Mark Twain (his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and grew up in nearby Hannibal, a small Mississippi River town. Hannibal would become the model f ...

The Aesthetic Movement The word comes from a Greek word which means to perceive, or to feel. In fact the Aesthetic mood stresses sensations as the main source of art. The task of the artist is first of all to feel sensations and live 'aes ...

THE AESTHETICISM The term ' aestheticism' derives from Greek and means: 'Perceiving through senses'. It was also for the Romantic culture, in fact the movement has its roots in the Romanticism, but, at the same time, it sign ...

The age of anxiety   In the last two decades of the 19th century the positivistic faith in progress and science had led people believe that human misery would be swept away. The first World War left the country in a disillusioned and cy ...

The Ancient Mariner Type of Work: Lyrical fantasy ballad Setting A sailing ship travelling the seas; late Medieval period Principle Characters The Ancient Mariner, a sailor-storyteller The Wedding Guest, a listener The Sh ...

The Anglo Saxons Three groups of people arrived in Britain: Angles, Saxons and Jutes. So the land was taken by the Anglo Saxons tribes. They brought with them a new system of land exploitation (sfruttamento). There was no privat ...

The Anglo-Saxon period Historical and social background The Iberians is the name given to the pre-Celtic population of Britain (2000 BC). They appear to have been shepherds (pastori) and some evidence (testimonianze) remains to sugg ...

The AngloSaxons After collapse of Roman power, the principal danger for Britain came from the east by the sea: at first some Germanic tribes raided the island. The newcomers were warlike and illiterate and used only the runic alphabet. Thu ...

The AngloSaxons After collapse of Roman power, the principal danger for Britain came from the east by the sea: at first some Germanic tribes raided the island. The newcomers were warlike and illiterate and used only the runic alphabet. Thu ...