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The Wells Festival of Literature: Schools programmes

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How do you take your coffee? Showcase of Local Talent. Get 10% off Fine Dining. Become a Friend of the Festival. Find out how the Festival uses the proceeds to promote books and the love of reading. Keep updated on latest news and events. Emma Craigie – Strode College. Emma also spent time with English students in the library and finally spoke to A level Media and Broadcast students and was then interviewed by one of them. And is very privileged to be working with them in North London helping challenged ...

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DCblog: March 2014

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Tuesday, 4 March 2014. On 'I would have liked to have studied'. A correspondent writes to ask if I could explain the difference in the meaning between the following sentences: (1) I would like to have studied philosophy. (2) I would have liked to study philosophy. (3) I would have liked to have studied philosophy. The underlying issue is one of focus. Where is the perfective meaning inherent in the auxiliary verb have. Note the 'usually'. A lot depends on the context. If this is unequivocally pas...John ...

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DCblog: May 2014

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Monday, 12 May 2014. I’ve been appalled, this week, as most language-aware practitioners have, with the misinformation being presented in the media about the proposal to use examples of celebrities’ language along with classical literature in the proposed Language and Literature A-level specification. Russell Brand seems to have been the focus of most of the comment, along with Dizzee Rascal, Jeremy Paxman, and others. Excellent responses have already been forthcoming from the English and Media Centre.

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DCblog: June 2014

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Thursday, 26 June 2014. On the next OP production. A correspondent writes to ask what's the latest on the OP ('original pronunciation') front. A timely question, as it happens, as next month sees Shakespeare's Globe renewing its association with OP for the first time in almost a decade. Readers with long memories will recall that the Globe initiated the modern OP movement (in relation to Shakespeare) with its productions of Romeo. So: if you're interested in OP and would like to act as a supporter for th...

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DCblog: April 2014

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Friday, 4 April 2014. On talking about language to little ones. A correspondent tweeted a problem: 'My 5 year old keeps asking who decided all the words. Can you recommend any reading around this for her age? What a sharp 5-year-old! And a tricky one to answer. I've written about language for young people, but never as young as that. A Little Book of Language. She pulled no punches. In 2012 the NSPCC published a lovely little book called Big Questions from Little People. Why can't animals talk like us?

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    through my eyes: February 2011

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160;   through my eyes. Sunday, 27 February 2011. This Be The Verse: Philip Larkin (1922-1985). One of my favourite poems, so if you haven't read it before I hope you enjoy it. They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extras, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn. By fools in old-style hats and coats,. Who half the time were soppy-stern. And half at one another's throats. Man hands on misery to man. I was wor...

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BURNCARDS: Reno music, food, opinion, technology, news. » News

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BURNCARDS: Reno music, food, opinion, technology, news. » News. Archive for the ‘News’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. A few words of unsolicited advice for Michael Dell. At 10:28 am on Thursday, February 7th, 2013. Techies who follow the news have no doubt heard that Michael Dell has partnered with Silver Lake to take the computer company bearing his name private. Nobody’s made a better desktop machine than this. Dell must have garnered a considerable amount of loyalty amongst IT people like me, who mus...

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Jemma Alix Levy - Runamuck

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Jemma Alix Levy (Director) is the founding Artistic Director of Muse of Fire Theatre Company, for whom she has directed. As You Like It. The Taming of the Shrew. After receiving her BA from Amherst College, she graduated from The Juilliard School's directing program, and then earned an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin College's program in association with the American Shakespeare Center. From Milan Kundera and Luigi Pirandello);.