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Culture Reading Song Vocabulary

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UNCHAIN MY HEART

by Joe Cocker

Unchain my heart.
Baby, let me be,
‘Cause you don’t care.
Please, set me free.

Unchain my heart,
Baby, let me go.
Unchain my heart,
‘Cause you don’t love me no more.

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Hugh Turvey: Inside the Life of an X-Ray Artist

Hugh Turvey is a British artist and photographer who uses x-ray technology to create what he calls Xograms, a fusion of visible light and x-ray imagery. I first worked with him for an assignment in the magazine and have to come to rely on his expertise when it comes to seeing the unseen. I spoke with him about his work and recent photo published in the February issue of National Geographic magazine.

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X-ray of a goldfish in a bowl.

I am an experimentalist and I think in images. Since I started working with x-ray in the late 1990’s, I am constantly amazed with how little I know.” —Hugh Turvey

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Culture Learning

QUOTE OF THE DAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

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«Hell is empty and all the devils are here».
William Shakespeare

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Comprehension Culture Learning News Reading Vocabulary

Fantasy Hollywood: restaging classic films with black models

When two Senegalese photographers messed with some very familiar screen moments, they were taken aback by the racial dimension to the response.

Black Hollywood Breakfast                  Breakfast at Onomo’s, 2013. Photograph: Antoine Tempé

Back in the 80s, my classmates and I piled into Mbabane’s local cinema to watch Top Gun. We’d turn to each other, channeling our best version of Val Kilmer to spout “You can be my wing man anytime” – followed by intense laughter. Who doesn’t have a favourite line, an iconic moment from film lodged in our minds?

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading

How to eat curry!

This month, How to Eat fancies a curry. Eat-in or takeaway? Dishes to share or your own main course? Washed down with beer or wine? And does anyone ever have room for dessert?
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Loosen your belt, Britain! How to Eat – the blog seeking to establish an informal code of conduct for Britain’s favourite dishes – is back, and this month (with apologies to my Word of Mouth colleague Sejal Sukhadwala), we’re having a curry.

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading Vocabulary

QUOTE BY GERTRUDE STEIN

«I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. It’s better to be rich».

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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature, and a fervent collector of Modernist art. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, raised in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life.

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading

Holiday hotspots: where to go in 2014

 

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Start planning your 2014 travels with the help of our top 5 destination round-up. Some are hosting major events, others are under-the-radar places only just starting to attract tourists, but all of them are inspiring or exciting right now.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Emperor Penguin and Icebreaker

Print-Order40Photo by John B. Weller

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Culture Learning News Reading Vocabulary

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

 

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Shut out all night at the Golden Globes, the historical drama «12 Years a Slave» eked out the night’s top honor, best film drama, while the 1970s con-artist caper «American Hustle» landed a leading three awards, including best motion picture – comedy or musical.

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading Vocabulary

READING: LONDON UNDERGROUND

 

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The London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city’s suburbs. The oldest metropolitan underground network in the world, first operating in 1863, the London Underground is usually referred to as either simply «the Underground» by Londoners, or (more familiarly) as «the Tube».

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Monster Storms Raging on Failed Stars

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A new study suggests that brown dwarfs see very turbulent weather.

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Comprehension Culture Learning Reading

Reading Comprehension: Tower of London

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Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.