A critical examination of Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” speech, arguing that it concerns the ethics of revenge rather than suicide, and exploring whether it is a genuine soliloquy or a performance for hidden listeners.
A technical companion to the video analysis: how Shelley constructed “Ode to the West Wind” using the ode form, sonnet cycle structure, and terza rima, with discussion questions.
A digital scholarly flipbook examining Chaucer’s ironic portrayal of the Prioress in the Canterbury Tales, with particular attention to Alexander Pope’s 1741 modernisation of the General Prologue.
A combined reading and analysis of the opening eighteen lines of Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, examining the seasonal imagery, the pilgrimage context, and Chaucer’s use of irony.
A digital flipbook providing a practical introduction to transformational-generative grammar, covering sentence structure, syntax, and applications to language teaching.
A practical guide to English pronunciation covering individual sounds including L/R, N/NG, and F/V/H distinctions, vowels and consonants, minimal pairs, connected speech, stress, and rhythm, with particular attention to the needs of Japanese learners.
A full-length introduction to transformational grammar covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes.
A video series introducing transformational grammar at beginner to intermediate level, covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes including pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles.
A grammar series teaching English in context at intermediate level, covering reported speech and backshift, the present perfect, modal verbs, conditionals, the passive voice, and conjunctions, with attention to common errors and descriptive grammar.
A playlist covering the perfect forms of the English verb at beginner to intermediate level, explaining the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, and the distinction between simple, continuous, and perfect aspect.