M is for the movers and shakers
Movers and shakers are people who initiate change and influence events, now most often applied to the rich and powerful in politics and business. The public perception of the term began after the first performance of Sir Edward Elgar’s choral work The Music Makers, in 1912. The work is a setting of Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s 1874 […]
E is for eating
Nobody spotted the dwarf yesterday, eh? Pity, such a sweet little one, I wonder where George found him. Now for advent calendar day 5: “Eat your words!” (Nimm alles zurück!) … and Milo does. The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) takes him into a parallel world where you have to eat words to use them. — I’m […]
Margaret Atwood at Literaturhaus
It’s rare to come face to face with an author you admire and go away feeling as empty as I did last night. Margaret Atwood read far less from The Year of The Flood than I would have wanted. Long passages of the translation into German were “played” with spunk by a fine young actress, […]
THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, by Meg Rutherford
Far, far away is a beautiful island of enchanting lakes and green, dreaming pastures. In other lands, the houses were lonely or crowded or crippled or else could not breathe. The birds heard their sighs, and flew to them crying: ‘Travel with us to the isle of contentment.’ Three little towers first had the courage […]
Making questions
Helmut and I are using some of my teaching materials here so he can improve his English. We’ve never spoken English with each other, because I’m an English teacher and there’s always this slight feeling of hierarchy in a teacher-student relationship, which doesn’t do a marriage any good. But here we are, and he wants […]
Englischlernen mit Blogs is as easy as 1,2,3
If you are practicing English online by yourself, here are three lovely blogs written especially for you to start with. Each one is special in its own way: 1. Der Englisch-Blog Dieser Blog von Markus Brendel ist auf Deutsch geschrieben und erklärt täglich entweder einen Ausdruck oder eine Frage aus der Grammatik. Gestern hat Markus […]
Question: What’s your summer read?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/read.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI’m strapped for time this week, with lots to do before we take off for Drummond Island. Three weeks with my husband! I can’t remember when we last had a break like that. I think it was ten years ago when we last went to the States together, just […]
