1. Dwell on the following quotations: “A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body”, “A house is made of walls and beams. A home is built with love and dreams”. Which one do you agree with the most? Why?

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Vocabulary to the film

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) while he was writing the play Romeo and Juliet. The story is fiction, though several of the characters are based on real people. In addition, many of the characters, lines, and plot devices are references to Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare in Love won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench).

"This Is the House That Jack Built" is a popular British rhyme and cumulative tale* that does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.

"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871 in his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ‘runcible spoon’ was coined for the poem.

Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.

1. What means of communication do you know? Which is the quickest? Which is the cheapest? Which means of communication do you use?
2. What means of communication do you know? What is your favourite way to communicate?
3. In your country, what is the emergency number for the police, fire brigade, ambulance? Have you ever dialed these numbers? Is there a Directory Enquiries? What's its number?

STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006)

Directed by Marc Forster

Written by Zach Helm

Running time:  113 min.

 “This is a story about a man named Harold Crick. And his wristwatch.”

The nuclear tone is the most important part of the intonation pattern without which the intonation cannot exist. Phoneticians single out from 4 to 12 nuclear tones, but the majority of them agree that the following nuclear tones are most frequent and make up core intonation: