Issues in English 2 review

This review looks at Issues in English 2, Multi-skill, Language Learning application.

 Issues in English 2, is created for learners who like to practice English, with many hours of interactive vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing activities.

The activities are divided into 6 modules. listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and writing. All the modules include the video or audio clip, comprehension questions, cloze activities, spelling and dictation activities.

The Pronunciation module, let you record your voice and compare it with the original one but I did not like the voice, it seems to be artificial. 

The Dictation section is very useful, it is like a traditional dictation which the teacher read the dictation to the class.

 The design, layout and navigation are not user-friendly and I think the old fashion style of application should be change to encourage users to use it.

He helped to keep other Men’s spirits high and never compromised his political principles when offered earlt release.

Mandella tried to help other prisoners to be strong and persist in their beliefs. In spite of the tough situation in jail, he never deals on his goals.

Vladimir Lenin

Achievements

• he qualified as a lawyer.
• he was appointed as a barrister 
• he launched the newspaper, ‘Iskra’
• he was elected as President of the streamlined Russian Social Democratic Labor Party 
•  He wrote ‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism’.
• New Economic Policy

Turning Points

• he became influenced with Karl Marx 
• became a Marxist
• Lenin was sent into exile in Siberia
• he married Nadezhda Krupskaya
• First World War

Nelson Mandela

Turning Points

• university(unjust nature of South African Society)
•  resign from the ANC and work underground
•  arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
• massacre of 63 black South African(This led Mandela to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).)
• became president

Achievements

• qualified as a Lawyer
• opened  the first Black Law firm in South Africa
• helped found the ANC Youth League
• Conducting their own defence they eventually proved to be victorious
• select as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa 
•  awarded the Noble prize

Biography of Charles Dickens

Timeline

1812 - born in Portsmouth
1815 - his family moved to London
1817 - his family moved to Chatham in Kent
1823 - moved to Camden in London
1833 - his first story published
1836 - a first novel published 
1836 - married with Catherine Hogarth 
1838 - wrote Oliver Twist
1842 - visited USA
1850 -  started a weekly magazine called Household Words
1858 - separated from his wife
1866 - visited the USA again
1970 - died

Turning Points

•  job in a boot blacking factory
• leave the blacking factory and return to school
•  left school at the age of 15 and he started work in a solicitors office
•  married a woman named Catherine 
• Charles and Catherine separated in 1858

Achievements

•   became a journalist at age of 16
•  the first story published in a periodical Monthly Magazine
• the first novel published( The Pickwick Papers)
• Dickens wrote many novels 
•  started a weekly magazine called Household Words 

Biography of George Orwell Timeline

Timeline

1903 - born in India
1904 - his mother moved back to England
1911 - George went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne
1917 - he won a scholarship
1921 - he joined the British police in Burma
1927 - resigned 
1928 - moved to Paris
1932-1933 - worked as a teacher
1934 - got a part time job
1933 - first book was published 
1934 - first novel Burmese Days was published
1935 - Second novel published(A Clergyman's Daughter)
1936 - Aspidistra Flying published
1936 - married with Eileen
1936 - poverty in northern England
1937 - The Road to Wigan Pier was published
1936 - left to Spain (fight in the Spanish Civil War)
1938 - A Homage to Catalonia was published
1938 - suffered from tuberculosis
1938 - went to Morocco
1939 - Coming Up For Air was published
1941 -  started working for the BBC
1943 - he became a literary editor 
1945 - 'Animal Farm' was published
1949 -  his masterpiece '1984' was published
1949 - married his second wife Sonia
1950 - died 

Turning Point

• won a scholarship
• joined the British police
• decided to become a writer
• married with Eileen
• fight in the Spanish Civil War
• rejected for military 
•  worked for the BBC(became literary editor )
• married his second wife Sonia

Achievements

• his first book was published
•  worked for the BBC
• masterpiece 1984 was published
• publish several books

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