learnenglishthroughliterature.com https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Lesson #209: ‘Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening’: Reading aloud in English (and enjoying poetry at a new pace) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #210 (Part 1): Intermediate and Advanced English Vocabulary (through Gaskell’s ‘North and South’) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #210 (Part 2): Intermediate and Advanced English Vocabulary (through Gaskell’s ‘North and South’) Lesson #211: 10 Intermediate/Advanced Phrases & Words to Enrich Your Writing (from Oscar Wilde) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #212 (Part 1): Multiple Verbs and Correct Word Order Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #212 (Part 2): Multiple Verbs and Correct Word Order Lesson #213: On Anthony Trollope (and 3 Easily Mistaken Verb Forms) Lesson #214: Appreciating April through Ancient Eyes (Chaucer’s poetry) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #215 (Part 1): ‘Besides vs beside’, ‘Always vs alway’, ‘Forwards vs Forward’ – Different meanings and usages Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #215 (Part 2): ‘Besides vs beside’, ‘Always vs alway’, ‘Forwards vs Forward’ – Different meanings and usages Lesson #216: Seven Nouns with Identical Singular and Plural Forms in ‘Adam Bede’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #217 (Part 1): ‘I want an appropriate simile’: Popular Similes English Speakers Use Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #217 (Part 2): ‘I want an appropriate simile’: Popular Similes English Speakers Use Lesson #218: Learning From A Letter – Charlotte Bronte’s words to her Aunt Lesson #219: ‘Annabel Lee’: Edgar Allan Poe’s Melodious and Melodramatic Poem Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #220 (Part 1): When to Use ‘Whether’ vs ‘If’ in English – Their Similarities and Differences Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #220 (Part 2): When to Use ‘Whether’ vs ‘If’ in English – Their Similarities and Differences Lesson #221: How and When To Use Paragraph Breaks in Writing Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #222 (Part 1): ‘At Home, In Days Gone By’ – 9 prepositions that express time Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #222 (Part 2): ‘At Home, In Days Gone By’ – 9 prepositions that express time Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #194 (Part 1): ‘Must’, ‘Have To/Have Got To, ‘Should’, And ‘Ought To’: Modal Verb Forms That Express Obligation Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #194 (Part 2): ‘Must’, ‘Have To/Have Got To, ‘Should’, And ‘Ought To’: Modal Verb Forms That Express Obligation Lesson #195: ‘At’, ‘By’, ‘In’, ‘Into’, ‘On’, ‘Out of’: Describing Location and Movement with Prepositions of Place Lesson #196: ‘As If’ vs ‘As Though’ through Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ Lesson #197: Alice’s Adventures With Homographs and Homophones (Words That Are Spelled Or Sound The Same) Lesson #198: Appreciating Descriptive Writing from Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’ Lesson #199: Observing changes in English words over time, through Cowper’s ‘The Rose’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #200 (Part 1): Different Ways of Seeing: Wordsworth’s ‘The Daffodils’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #200 (Part 2): Different Ways of Seeing: Wordsworth’s ‘The Daffodils’ Lesson #201: Reading to Improve English Language Skills? 3 Recommended Children’s Classics Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #202 (Part 1): The Differences Between ‘If’ and ‘When’, through Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #202 (Part 2): The Differences Between ‘If’ and ‘When’, through Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’ Lesson #203: ‘Still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside’: A reading comprehension exercise with vocabulary from ‘Jane Eyre’ Lesson #204: Considering Coleridge’s poem ‘Desire’ from 3 different perspectives Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #205 (Part 1): Understanding ‘Used To’ vs ‘Be Used To’ (with examples from Austen’s ‘Emma’) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #205 (Part 2): Understanding ‘Used To’ vs ‘Be Used To’ (with examples from Austen’s ‘Emma’) Lesson #206: Understanding, Identifying, and Using Relative Adverb Clauses in Writing Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #207 (Part 1): Adjectives that end with -ed and -ing in English (through Bronte’s ‘Villette’) Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #207 (Part 2): Adjectives that end with -ed and -ing in English (through Bronte’s ‘Villette’) Lesson #208: “Don’t go frightening the princess”: Ten English Verbs ending with -en Mini-Lesson Monday: Lesson #176 (Part 2): ‘All the Mole’s lively language …’: Distinguishing Between Formal and Informal Registers in English Lesson #177: Appreciating a Medieval English Poem: William Langland’s ‘Piers Plowman’ Lesson #178: Different Forms of the Verb ‘To Know’ in Charles Dickens’ ‘Our Mutual Friend’ Lesson #179: Agreement Between Subject and Verb Form – 7 Rules to Avoid Common Mistakes Lesson #180: Describing Habits and States of Existence with ‘Used to’ and ‘Would’, through Trollope’s ‘The Warden’ Lesson #181: Remembering a lost paradise: Christina Rossetti’s Poem ‘Shut Out’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #182 (Part 1): The Influences of Great Dictionaries on the English Language – Samuel Johnson’s ‘Dictionary’ Mini-Lesson Monday, Lesson #182 (Part 2): The Influences of Great Dictionaries on the English Language – Noah Webster’s ‘Dictionary’ Short Lessons