The Tempest

The Tempest by William Shakespeare ACT I SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.Enter a Master and a Boatswain Master Boatswain! Boatswain Here, master: what cheer? Master Good, speak to the mariners: Ler mais…

English Pronunciation and IPA

A video tutorial about the International Phonetic Alphabet and the English language. This is the second in a series of several videos that will help you understand the IPA and English pronunciation so that you can learn another language’s pronunciation. Ler mais…

Speech Sounds

English speech sounds and the IPA.

Consoantes em Inglês

Introducing Articulatory Phonetics Articulation, also called an articulatory gesture, is the motion or positioning of some part of the vocal tract (often, but not always, a muscular part like the tongue and/or lips) with respect to some other part of Ler mais…

Inglês V – Apostila

Inglês V – Fonética e Fonologia Para alunas(os) do curso de Inglês V (Fonética e Fonologia) da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ Período: 2017.2 [google-drive-embed url=”https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByVi2wtmAGTuTzNCdFlsZklJZlE/preview?usp=drivesdk” title=”Ingles-V_Handbook.pdf” icon=”https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/16/type/application/pdf” width=”100%” height=”1180″ style=”embed”]

So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch

Titian, Venus of Urbino So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch     So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch (Wallace Stevens)  On her side, reclining on her elbow. This mechanism, this apparition, Suppose we call it Projection A. She floats in air at Ler mais…

English Exercises – Focus and Emphasis

 

The Color Purple

A Telephone Call

A Telephone Call (by Dorothy Parker) Text See an analysis at the bottom of this page. PLEASE, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won’t ask anything else of You, truly I won’t. It Ler mais…

I Too

I, Too by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the Ler mais…