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«Good stuff, if brief, twice as good.» – It was an Aragonese writer that said that (Baltasar Gracián)
Θ There are two good reasons why English learners should take interest in these expressions of oral tradition. For one thing, they provide an extraordinary word bank you […] 
•→Commenting-on-the-news/⇐[speaking]
•→http://www.englishpage.com/readingroom.html⇐ World news for students of English in three levels ⇑ Dead easy!
¤ Special English A simple form of the English language, used by a public radio station called Voice of America, run by the United States government in Special English programs […] 
♦ American comedian Elon Gold ↓ …on English accents You know, the problem that here in America, when it comes to the English, we mistake accents with intellect; right? We think they’re smart, because no matter what they’re talking about, they sound quite intelligent. It doesn’t really matter; they […] 
Mammals [⇒crosswords⇐] •→ http://photographicdictionary.com/animals⇐ •→ Reptiles & amphibians ⇐ ←⇐ ←⇐ ←⇐ ←⇐ ←⇐ ←⇐ birds ∞ insects & bugs …⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐ ⇓ Creepy-Crawlies ¤ IDIOMS ⇓
• Animal idioms … →[01]← / →[02]← […] 
The word “traduce” is a falso amigo for Spaniards. It actually means ‘calumniar’, ‘difamar’ [Eng. “slander”]. Need I say more? What follows is some modern fiction passages translated into Spanish. To start with, here’s my own translation of the beginning and end of … ♦ JD […] 
. . . Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol’s parents were Slovakian immigrants, living in one of Pittsburgh’s Eastern European ethnic enclaves. At the age of 8, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St. Vitus’s Dance—a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system […] 
◊ Kids sniffing airplane glue ⇓
There were kids eight or nine years old, they were sniffing aeroplane glue, to get high on. These kids are responsible for turning musicians onto a lot of things they never knew about actually. So, I had a fantasy, how it happened. Kid is alone […] 
♠ 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 […] 
◊ Under The Black Flag: Exploits Of The Most Notorious Pirates [Don C. Seitz] Riveting account traces careers of buccaneers of many nationalities across 2 centuries and around the globe —from the West Indies to the South Seas. A few true stories of such notorious brigands as . . . Thomas […] 
Julian Barnes contributes a previously unseen extract from his novel England, England. Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight (=’England England’) that duplicates the tourist spots of England. Within easy walking distance are replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di’s grave, Harrods, Stonehenge, and the white […] 
→http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry ¤ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [1564-1616] The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. diciembre 9th, 2014 | Tags: texts | Category: Poetry | 8 comments 
[1910 – 1999] – •→http://www.paulbowles.org/ Paul Bowles was born in Queens, New York, in 1910. He began his travels as a teenager, setting off for Paris, telling no one of his plans. In 1930 he visited Morocco for the first time, with Aaron Copland, with whom he was studying music. His early reputation was as a […] 
¤ PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA (excerpts) Olivier is an aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer and twice Olivier’s age, always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Starting on different sides of […] 
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 […] 
¤ Director’s Cut: Underworld by Don DeLillo For the 60th anniversary of the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, read an excerpt from Pafko at the Wall ↓ the prologue to DeLillo’s American epic. Another except from Underworld . . . We were about thirty miles below the Canadian border […] 
Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend (1946-2014). The character first appeared (as Nigel) in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The […] 
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables⇐. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. ¤ Watch & […] 
¤ Robin Skynner & John Cleese: LIFE and how to survive it [1993] The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing – [excerpts] Robin: …I like the idea of a Greek psychologist called Charis Katakis. She’s taken a word we’re familiar with –‘myth’– and given it a wider meaning. […] 
¤ The Grasping Hand The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens [Winter 2010] To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, it is useful to recall the historical kinship between two movements that emerged at its birth: classical liberalism and anarchism. Both were motivated by the […] 
¤ Alexandra Horowitz: ‘Inside of a dog’ ⇓
In Inside of a Dog (What Dogs See, Smell and Know), Alexandra Horowitz evokes the dog’s perspective by interweaving the science of dog cognition and perception with personal reflections on her own dog’s behavior. Ranging from what it might be like to […] |
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