English in the 6th form

Welcome!

This site has been set up to help you with English in the 6th form of aso. The handbook that is referred to is Contact 5, An advanced English course (by Jef Vanden Borre and Geert Claeys, Wolters Plantyn).

Some help with...

• vocabulary
  • word formation
  • in case
  • slang
• grammar
  • formation of the tenses
  • exercises on the formation of the tenses
  • some revision exercises
  • the present perfect
  • A romantic history (verbs)
  • exercise on relative pronouns
  • relative pronouns
  • prepositions of place
  • articles
• literature
  • Shakespeare (BBC)
  • The complete works of Shakespeare online
  • Queen Elizabeth I (BBC)
  • Shakespeare's Globe theatre
  • Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (the Electronic Literature Foundation): in Middle English and modern English
  • The Wife of Bath: prologue and tale (Wikipedia)
  • Poetry Archive
  • Angela's Ashes (A conversation with Frank McCourt) - film trailer
• skills
  • reading
  • writing
  • listening
  • speaking

Some help with...

• unit 1: Language learning
  • American English
• unit 2: Men and women
  • Canterbury Tales / The Wife of Bath
  • Female and male
• unit 3: Crime
  • Crime verbs and prepositions
  • In court
• unit 4: Superbabies
  • Birth, marriage, death
  • Aldous Huxley, Brave new world - the whole story
• unit 5: Shopping
  • Harrods
  • Supermarket Guru
  • Compulsive shopping
• unit 6: Stereotypes and nationalities
  • Belgiumquiz
  • In a London pub
  • Compound adjectives describing people
• unit 7
• unit 8
• unit 9: Shakespeare
  • crosswords about the vocabulary and Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • multiple choice questions about Shakespeare's life and work
  • Shakespeare related
  • Verse or prose
• unit 10

Other interesting links:

• Sint-Jan Online - Discussion Group An-Na (Antwerp- Naantali)
• Ten things the EU has done for you (BBC News)
• BBC radio - television -  news in 33 languages
• British newspapers: The Guardian - The Independent - The Times - Daily Mail - The Sun - The Daily Mirror
• News articles about the United Kingdom (all recent articles in Belgian press (in Dutch))
• The Eurobarometer
• World languages
• Canterbury Tales Museum - Canterbury Cathedral
• Chaucer's tales go online complete with old graffiti (article in The Guardian on the BBC series and the Wife of Bath)

Website started: 6th of November 2007  - Most recent update: 05.13.08