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⊕ Telling the Time ⇐ / ⊗ Asking for the time ⇐ ⇒words-about-time⇐ [www.english-at-home.com] ⇒time-expressions-in-english⇐
¤ Expressions of Time … ⇑ TASK (advanced) •→Time markers associated to tenses⇐
Φ Time collocations ⇔ [quiz] ⇔ Time expressions⇐ Φ IT’S (HIGH) TIME + PAST SUBJUNCTIVE […] 
The actions by which one nation is able to control other usually smaller or weaker nations. The two primary methods of imperialism are military conquest and political diplomacy.
♦ David Crystal ↑ Will English Always Be the Global Language?
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•→A Beginner’s Guide to Wes Anderson Movies⇐ •→http://www.abramsbooks.com/wesandersoncollection/⇐
It takes more than a trailer to explain Wes Anderson’s «The Grand Budapest Hotel.» →Fox Searchlight← releases a full, indepth featurette to help out. A young woman walks into a cemetery in […] 
⇐ ∞ Cheech & Chong, aka. ‘Los Cochinos’, come across some poop and → check it out ⇐ LOOK – PICK UP – FEEL – SMELL – TASTE – STEP . . . . . . DOGSHIT? ⇐ ÷ ÷ ÷ febrero 11th, 2015 | Tags: Scotland, Talks | Category: VDO, Interviews, monolog | 6 comments 
•→ http://www.davidshrigley.com/ ◊ Who I Am and What I Want ↓
♦ Blur ↓ ‘Good Song’
Waiting, I got no town to hide inThe country’s got a hold of my soulTV’s dead and there ain’t no war in […] 
•→ Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world ⇐ ⇒ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears ⇐ ¤ The Tree of Life ↓ Sir David Attenborough gives credit to Darwin & Mendel, and comments on evolution and DNA from a modern perspective… ∇ 5 David Attenborough moments ⇓ enero 18th, 2015 | Tags: doc, England | Category: Interviews, Film-makers | One comment 
Pioneering filmmakers that have expanded the image vocabulary of documentaries, Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke join BYOD to discuss Chronos, Baraka, and their new creation, Samsara. Discussing the difficulties of capturing stunning images in remote locations, and the signature filming techniques that have blown millions of minds, Ron and Mark key us into […] 
•→ Kevin Smith Screenplays ⇐ Born and raised in New Jersey and very proud of it; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. His first movie, Clerks. (1994), was filmed in the convenience store in which Smith worked. He was only allowed to shoot at night after the store closed. This movie […] 
A Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she began to work as a moderator and director’s assistant with Mongolian National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study […] 
◊ «Smoke» ↓ Wayne Wang + Paul Auster 1995
Read SCRIPT…→http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texts/articles/paul-auster-smoke_699.html← •→ SMOKE & ILLUSIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL AUSTER ← [read] ♦ ◊ ‘Blue in the Face‘, a sequel to ‘Smoke‘ ↓ highlights Auggie (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist’s in Brooklyn, while Jim Jarmusch comes into the […] 
The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is caught up in the […] 
→ http://www.davidlynch.de/ 1. Eraserhead (song: In heaven) 2. The elephant man (song: Recapitulation) 3. Dune (song: Toto – Main title) 4. Blue velvet (song: Bobby Vinton – Blue velvet) 5. Twin peaks (song: Julee Cruise – Falling) 6. Wild at heart (song: Nicholas Cage – Love me tender) 7. Fire walk with me (song: Sycamore […] 
. . . a Tunisian writer, artist, storyteller and filmmaker… born in 1948 ◊ El Haimoune↓»The Wanderers of the Desert» A traveling writer and teller of fables, Nacer Khemir here applies his age-old skills to a narrative feature film, the first in his highly-regarded «Desert Trilogy» that includes […] 
¤ London – The Modern Babylon Directed by Julien Temple | UK 2012 | Colour, black and white | 128min | British director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle) has released a new documentary called London – The Modern Babylon, exploring the history of his hometown […] 
1930 – 2009 ¤ JG Ballard‘s fertile imagination fancifully envisaged yet another World War where the British and the Americans fought on different sides. ⇒ This story, ⇒«Theatre of War» ⇐ was published in his book ‘Myths of the Near Future’, and it’s written in a style which looks much the same as a […] 
If you’ve read Iain Banks‘s novel, you’ll enjoy the BBC-Radio 4 interview. → http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf Includes an excerpt from Chapter 8 read by Iain Banks himself. Transcript below . . . Iain Banks meets James Naughtie and readers at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh to talk about his […] 
Born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England, he studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the […] 
An international bestseller since its publication in 1978, The World According to Garp established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This […] 
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939, she is Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books for children, her works having been translated into over 30 languages. Her reviews and critical articles have appeared in various eminent magazines and she […] |
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