Academic Skills
What are the stages of the writing process?
Planning, writing, editing and tuning the text in.
What happened in Europe between the 5th and 10th centuries?
Waves of invasions took place in Europe.
What is the difference between borrowing and lending?
Borrowing: to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time
Lending: to give something to someone for a short period of time, expecting it to be given back
Explain the use, structure and rules of Simple Present.
Use: routine, habits, general truth.
Structure and rules: 3rd person - add s; don't and doesn't + base form for negative and do/does for questions.
What are the stages of the research process?
Define the topic of the research by forming a question; find background information and additional resources; evaluate your sources and cite every one of them.
What are the advantages of bartering?
Bartering gives you the opportunity of getting rid of whatever you do not use anymore or that you cannot sell, without throwing it away—and this also benefits the environment.
Explain the use, structure and rules of Simple Past.
Use: ended actions.
Structure and rules: regular verbs add -ed; irregular verbs changed their form; didn't + base form for negative; did for questions.
Can you describe the feudal system?
Feudalism is a social, political and economical system imposed in Europe between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. It was the result of the second wave of invasions during the ninth and tenth centuries.
As a social system, feudalism affected how people lived as a society. There were distinct social classes: a monarch, a noble class who owned land, knights and a peasant class.
As an economical system, feudalism affected how people produced resources.
What are the differences between medieval and Renaissance art?
Medieval art mostly covered religious topics, such as stories from the Bible.
Renaissance art still manifested a religious view, representing topics similar to the ones that the medieval works had explored. Artists also began to include elements of the natural world for the pleasure of the viewer. The most distinctive characteristic of art from this period is the use of perspective.
What prepositions go with "borrow" and "lend". Give examples of each verb use.
Examples as reference:
She borrowed $1,000 from her parents.
He lent his friend his soccer ball / He lent his soccer ball to his friend.
Explain the use, structure and rules of Past Simple.
Use: To show the order of two past events; to describe a time up to a certain point in the past
Structure and rules: had + verb past participle; hadn't + past participle for negative and questions (changing just the position in the sentence).