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WATCH FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS 2016

ENGLISH SOUND AND SUBTITLES

MERYL STREEP AND HUGH GRANT

 trailer HERE

Florence Foster Jenkins , an heiress form NYC always wanted to be a concert pianist and play Carnegie Hall. An injury in her youth deterred that dream. So she sets out to sing her way to Carnegie Hall knowing the only way to get there would be "Practice Practice Practice " . Her husband supports her venture and the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins playing Carnegie Hall becomes a truly historic event. Written by stephen scialli. source imdb

NATURE IS SPEAKING. ENGLISH SOUND AND SUBTITLES

Nature is Speaking, Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

More videos on youtube. Displaying subtitles
The rainforest
The water
The soil
The mountain
The sky
The ice.....

MOVIES

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

ENGLISH SOUND AND SUBTITLES

Director:

 Peter Ramsey

Writers:

 David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), William Joyce (book)

Stars:

 Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher

STORYLINE

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs, and imaginations of children all over the world. Written by DreamWorks. source. ¡mdb

  

FAST and FURIOUS 7

ENGLISH SOUND AND SUBTITLES

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Director:

 James Wan

Writers:

 Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson (characters)

Stars:

 Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson |

STORYLINE

Dominic and his crew thought they'd left the criminal mercenary life behind. They'd defeated international terrorist Owen Shaw and went their separate ways. But now, Shaw's brother, Deckard Shaw, is out killing the crew one by one for revenge. Worse, a Somalian terrorist called Jakarde and a shady government official called "Mr. Nobody" are both competing to steal a computer terrorism program called "God's Eye," that can turn any technological device into a weapon. Torretto must reconvene with his team to stop Shaw and retrieve the God's Eye program while caught in a power struggle between the terrorist and the United States government.

MOVIES

ATTILA

ENGLISH SOUND AND SUBTITLES

When American soldiers inadvertently steal Attila the Hun's secret riches, the wrath of the barbarian is awakened; the mummified warrior will stop at nothing to kill the intruders.

Director:

 Emmanuel Itier

Writers:

 Anthony C. Ferrante (screenplay), Emmanuel Itier(screenplay)

Stars:

 Cheick Kongo, Chris Conrad, Mikayla S. Campbel

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MY HOUSE

MY HOUSE

First of all, we live in a semidetached house situated at the top of a hill, close to a small town in Valencia.

Our house has a huge bright living room which has a large balcony and a great fireplace, three comfortable bedrooms with high windows and they all include a big dressing room and nice bathroom each. There is also a study and laundry room. It has an enourmous kitchen with professional catering equipment and household items, as well.

Furthermore, we can enjoy magnificent breathtaking views through the windows, hear lovely birds' sounds in the morning and breath clean and pure air which smells of thyme, rosemary and lavander. There are a lot of trees and mountains around us and we can see protected wild animals while we are walking through mountains or along the road. Our neighbours are very friendly and welcoming.

In addition, there is neither traffic nor noise. Therefore, people can have a quiet and healthy life here. However, if we need to buy something in the supermarket or go to the cinema, to the university or anywhere, we have to go to other towns. It is very important (that) we have a car for living and moving here. Nevertheless, when we have a medical emergency, the ambulance comes quickly.

Tu sum up, if I had more money than I have now, I would like to live in a superb cottage in Ireland Maybe, some day my dream will come true. Written by Susan

To intermediate two. B1  

• passive
• past perfect simple or continuos
• have something done 
• reported speech
• neither or either
• new vocabulary and connectors
•  more words

To advanced 1. B2

• subject + is thought /believed/ said to + infinitive or perfect infinitive or it is said/believed/thought that + clause. PASSIVE
•  third conditional
• gerunds or infinitives
•  reported speech with reporting verbs
•  advanced vocabulary and connectors
• must/might/should+ have+participle
• more words

JOKES

Ha, Ha!

Hi, Hi!Ho, Ho!

 My house is so, so, so small that when the sun comes into my house, I have   to  leave.

    
 A man goes to the doctor and says: 'Doctor I've got a problem, I've got two
 personalities.'
The doctor answers: 'Be quiet, sit down and let's talk all four of us.'

A SCOTISH PRAYER

 Heavently Father, bless us,            

                              

                                           and keep us all alives:                                       

 there are eight of us for dinner,

 and there is only enough for five!

 Teacher: Mary, have you read "Freckles"?     

  Mary: No, mine are brown

An epigram: Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in yourliving room by people you wouldn't have in your home

     - What's the definition of mixed emotions?
     - Seeing your mother- in-law driving your new car off the edge of a cliff


 A big moron and a little moron were standing on a bridge. The big moron fell off.

        How come the litle moron didn't?
        - He was a little more on (moron)


What happens in the Africa jungle from 6 a.m to 8 a.m every day, even on  Sundays? 

               

                                             Two hours

 I can turn you into a Red Indian

 -  How?
 - See? I told you! How!





When the waitress in a New York City restaurant brought him the soup du jour,  the Englishman was a bit dismayed.



 - " Good heavens," he said, " what is this?
 -  "Why, it's bean soup," she replied
 - " I don't care what it has been, " he sputtered. " What is it now?

PROVIDING/PROVIDED (THAT), UNLESS, AS/SO LONG AS...

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condiciones necesarias (= only if)
provided (that)	con tal que
providing (that)	con tal que
as / so long as	siempre que
on (the) condition (that)	a condición de que
but for + noun	de no ser por
condiciones imaginarias
assuming (that)	suponiendo que
in case, just in case	por si acaso
supposing (that)	suponiendo que

if - si 

whether - si

UNLESS (al menos que...)

• The poor man won’t be able to buy a new car unless he wins the lottery
• (El hombre pobre no podrá comprar un nuevo coche al menos que él gane la lotería)
• be able to: ser capaz de

• RECORDAR que con WILL/WON'T/WOULD/WOULDN'T usamos BE ABLE TO. ver reglas condicionales

  No usamaos CAN/COULD 

PROVIDE/PROVIDING - siempre que, mientras 

• Providing (that) the weather is fine, we'll have a picnic on Saturday
• (siempre/mientras que haga buen tiempo, nosotros iremos (tendremos) de picnic el sábado)
• THAT can be omitted
• Providing the weather is fine, we'll have a picnic on Saturday
• You can go to the party provided/providing you come back before midnight
• (puedes ir a la fiesta, siempre que vuelvas antes de medianoche)

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Relatives clauses can be omitted.HERE

AS LONG AS - siempre que, mientras 

• You can borrow my DVD player as long as you return it on Monday.
• (tu puedes pedirme prestado mi DVD siempre que me lo devuelvas el lunes)

• Unless
• Even if
• in case & if
• Only if
• Provided that
• As is & As long as
• Suppose that
• what if
• whether or not

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PRINCE DEAD AT 57

HE'S GONE

WE ARE OVERWHELMED

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Della (Shaw), a jazz singer, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His parents were both from African-American families from the U.S. south. They separated during his youth, which lead him to move back and forth. Prince had a troubled relationship with his step-father which lead him to run away from home. Prince was adopted by a family called the Andersons. Prince soon after became friends with the Anderson's son, Andre Anderson (Cymone) together along with Charles Smith they joined a band called Grand Central. The band later renamed themselves Champagne and were a fairly successful live band, however soon diminished.

Prince at the age of eighteen started working on high-quality demo tracks with Chris Moon. With these demo tracks Prince eventually ended up signing a recording contract with Warner Brothers Records and was the youngest producer associated with the label. Prince made his debut on the record label with his 1978 album, For You. It wasn't a strong successful album, however it was fair for a beginning artist and ranked 163 on the U.S. Pop Charts. Prince's next releases would tend to do much better on the charts with his singles, "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and I Wanna Be Your Lover in 1979. This would start to introduce Prince as a person who presented sexually explicit material into the music industry. However Prince didn't begin to attract mainstream artists until he release his single, 1999. This single began to be noticed by M.T.V. viewers and this would make him a part of the main-stream music media. Prince released two more singles called Little Red Corvette and Delirious. The album featured Prince's new band, The Revolution. In 1984 Prince would release what would be seen as an admired and profound masterpiece the feature film/sound-track album, Purple Rain in 1984. Prince's father, John L. Nelson would contribute to this album, by cowriting the chord sequence for a couple of his songs. Prince continued to give cowriting credit to his father on several other albums, as his famous chord sequence would be used in several of Prince's singles and albums.

A lot of Prince's songs did not agree with listeners and one of his songs, Darling Nikki prompted a group of people to start a censorship organization called, Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) as the track implemented grinding ludicrous acts such as masturbating, which stunned listeners. Prince however continued to release various other singles with the same platform his memorable releases being, Around The World In A Day, Parade, Love Sexy, and Batman.

Prince released a sequel to Purple Rain in 1990 called Graffiti Bridge, a soundtrack album accompanied this movie entitled, Graffiti Bridge. The film did terrible in box-office and was nominated for several Razzie awards. Many people saw the sound-track album, as the high point of the film.

In 1991, Prince assembled a new band called, The New Power Generation with this band he would release singles such as Diamond And Pearls, Cream, and Gett Off. Prince eventually changed his stage name from Prince to a symbol, which lead people to call him, "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". Prince soon took back his old stage name.

Prince in the 90s continued to release singles such as Came, The Gold Experience, Chaos And Disorder, and Emancipation. With the rise of the new millennium Prince continued to release material such as a religious album called The Rainbow Children,One Nite Alone,The Chocolate Invasion,The Slaughter House, and did a collaboration with Stevie Wonder on Stevie's single called, What The Fuss in 2005. Prince will be known as an artist whom inspired millions through his music and set an inspirational platform in terms of music which artists still abide by, his tones can still be heard from songs by other artists because of the influence Prince had on them.

 Biography By: Peter Sean