Big Breasts & Wide Hips

The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900 and married at seventeen into the Shangguan family. She has nine children, only one of whom is a boy—the narrator of the book. A spoiled and ineffectual child, he stands in stark contrast to his eight strong and forceful female siblings.

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Eight phrases we owe to William Shakespeare

Due to his timeless popularity, the English language is heavily peppered with Shakespearean sayings.

Here are some of them.

The Explanations are in a DOC file

These award-winning videos follow the same syllabus and formula as Grapevine videos 1 & 2. Each consists of eight comedy vignettes, and some characters (Dennis Cook, Inspector Grant) re-appear from the Grapevine videos.English Channel can be used as a supplement to any beginner / elementary course. If it is done quickly, and extra discussion generated from the Teacher's notes it can be used at higher levels also.

The Student's Book contains tasks for each of the eight videos.

The Calling of the Grave (2010)

At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...' It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find. But the ill-conceived search ended badly. And with Monk safely behind bars, the momentum faltered. For forensics expert David Hunter, and those others who were part of the recovery team, life moved on. And the dead were left undisturbed.

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Iran’s complex, violent military history encompasses two world wars, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, border disputes, a revolution, a war against Iraq that lasted over eight years, and its desperate quest to become a nuclear power.