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Right Brain or Left Brain?

2011-01-05T16:49:00.005+08:00

This topic will be discussed (for Reading and Speaking
classes) during the first and second week of January. Do all the exercises given in the handout. Please arrange for consultation if you require further assistance.

Here are the required reading articles for this:

http://painting.about.com/od/rightleftbrain/a/Right_Brain.htm

Take these tests:
1) http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm

2) http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/questionnaire.cgi

3) http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583

Sonnet 18

2009-02-18T00:23:00.007+08:00

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

What is a sonnet?

The word “sonnet” meant simply “little song,” i.e., a short lyric poem- pre-Shakespeare. In Renaissance Italy and in Elizabethan England, the sonnet became a fixed poetic form, consisting of 14 lines.

The original form is the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, in which the 14 lines are arranged in an octet (8 lines) rhyming abba abba and a sestet (6 lines) rhyming either cdecde or cdcdcd.

The English or Shakespearean sonnet are made of three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef and a closing rhymed couplet.

Another form of sonnet is the Spenserian sonnet which is a variation developed by Edmund Spenser in which the quatrains are linked by their rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Get to know me..(and hopefully be inspired)

2009-02-17T22:40:00.001+08:00

Hi all,
I am a teacher. Yes, you know that already, right?
However, I am also a learner, a student who learns everyday. I believe in life-long learning and that education can be gained either formally or informally.
At the moment I teach at a school in Kota Kinabalu (have been there since 2001) and I specialise in English Language, English for Science and Technology and MUET.

Let's get to know each other.. And learn from each other via this interactive blog. God bless!