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⇔[Listen & Read]⇐
⇐ British Life & Culture ⇒[01]⇔[02]⇔[03]⇐
What Made The Crocodile Cry? – 101 questions about the English language.
Susie Dent draws on her popular television coverage of curious questions about English […]
•→ http://photographicdictionary.com/body-parts ⇐
• Idioms related to the body . . . →[01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇔ [04]←
· · · click the parts for idioms . . . →[01]← / →[02]← / →[03]←
→[quiz 01]← / →[quiz 02]← [body idioms]
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Intonation – Intonation is the rising and falling sounds of the voice when speaking. Intonation (Part 2) – Phrasing – In addition to the intonation of a statement, there is another aspect of speech that indicates meaning — phrasing. Intonation (Part 3) – Contrast – Once the intonation of new information is established, you’ll […]
⇒ [s] vs [∫] ⇐
[s] vs [z]
‘hiss’ vs ‘buzz’
•→www.jamesabela.co.uk/beginner/pluralpron.pdf⇐
•⇒Pronunciation of words ending in -S ⇐ When we pronounce the –s in the words ‘dogs’,’cats’, ‘dishes’, ‘lives’, and ‘it’s’, do we pronounce […]
•→ would – contractions ⇐
◊ How to understand native speakers’ questions ⇓
⇐ Click for TONGUE TWISTERS
There are hundreds on the Net, but you’ll have enough with these for quite a while. Here’s some good ones for Spaniards:
«Six Spanish students study […]
•→ Twitter Explained // •→ Wikileaks⇐[doc]
• Computer glossary … →[01]← / →[02]←
• Computer vocabulary … →[01]← / →[02]←
• Computers illustrated … →[01]← / →[02]←
•→http://www.eslflow.com/Computers—internet-vocabulary-worksheet.html⇐
∇ Screen frozen … ⇓ …Computer crashed
‘…not responding’ / ‘…blank’ / ‘…flickering’ / ‘…beeping’ / ‘…buzzing’
♦ English Vocabulary ↓ […]
•→ https://www.illustrationx.com/artists ⇐
Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and […]
Born in Kielce, Poland in 1945, →Rafal Olbinski studied architecture before dedicating himself to painting and design. He graduated from the Architectural Department of Warsaw Politechnical School.
In 1982 he immigrated to the US, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer. In 1985, […]
Born in Poland in 1952, →JACEK YERKA ←studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980.
While at university, Yerka resisted the constant pressures of his instructors to adopt the less detailed, less realistic techniques that characterize so much of contemporary art. Instead, he […]
¤ Optical Illusions drawn with SPIEGELKUNSTENAAR (MIRROR ARTIST) ↓
→ http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Hans.Kuiper/optillus.htm ¤ Trust your brains? ↓ Practice your Spanish with this slideshare
Alucina ⇑ 1. What’s our brains up to…! 2. If you see anything turning – you’re in need for a holiday!!! Stare at each circle in isolation and you’ll […]
Early 20th Century
Influenced by the work of the Post Impressionists: Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Matisse, there were two great branches of German Expressionism:
¤ Die Brucke: – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; – Edvard Munch; – Paula Modersohn Becker; – Kathe Kollwitz . . .
¤ Der Blaue Reiter: – […]
Pina is a 2011 German 3D documentary film about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch. It was directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered Out of Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
During the preparation of the documentary, Pina Bausch died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It […]
♠ RUBBISH ⇓
♠ FOOD ⇓
♠ TRANSPORT ⇓
♠ COMPUTER GAMES ⇓
I read this in theprisma (The Multicultural Newspaper) on 16th August 2012. ¤ Planned Obsolescence – Death on the Instalment Plan
An idea that belongs to capitalism: producing goods that soon stop working (programmed death) and […]
«The world is wide, no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.»
→ John Constable (1776 – 1837)
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•→ ‘SKELETON WOMAN AND THE HUNTER’ [Hopis’ legend]
♦ This Inuit legend tells of an unlikely love story between a young fisherman and a ghoul of the sea. A beautiful, hand drawn animation, directed by Edith Pieperhoff, based on a short story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ↓
Skeleton Woman […]
_ Some links to grace & beauty . . .
¤ Yasmina’s Joy of Belly Dancing – Belly Dance History ←
¤ Shopping for outfit & costumes⇐
◊ Sword Dance & DanzArabia →
•→ Arabic Belly Dance – Sara Guirado [The Professional] 2011⇐
◊ Zaheea […]
Oracle
Here’s an extract from Brian Eno‘s explanation of this random collection of maxims or aphorisms aimed at helping artists approach their work.
⇐ «These cards evolved from our separate working procedures. It was one of the many cases during the friendship that he [Peter […]
¤ «Krautrock – The Rebirth of Germany»: This BBC Four documentary looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll […]
LKJ (born in Jamaica, 24 August 1952) is a UK-based dub poet. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration […]
Creator of an innovative fusion of Indian bhangra music and drum’n’bass electronica, Talvin Singh was classically trainedon the tabla but rejected most of his learning when he founded the Anokha club night at East London’s Blue Note. Singh grew up in Leytonstone, and though he began playing tabla at the age of five, […]
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