Boxing day 2018 Live English Stream from Much Wenlock in England
Live English stream Boxing Day 2018 live from much Wenlock in England with Mr Duncan and Mr Steve. It's Boxing day and we are talking to you live from England.
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Boxing Day Live From Much Wenlock In England - With Mr Duncan - Learning English
Boxing Day live stream from the centre of Much Wenlock. With Mr Duncan and of course Mr Steve. 26th December 2017
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LIVE English - Watch Listen Learn - 2nd SEPT 2018 - Hotels / Chat / adjoining / Steve + Duncan
A new month is here and we are outside in the garden. Improve your English listening with Misterduncan in England - Live and interactive. Today we will take a look at hotels and words connected to staying at one of them. Have you ever wanted to learn the Russian Alphabet? We are outdoors today...As autumn approaches, we will look back over the summer months on the live stream. Mr Steve will be here as well, plus you are welcome to join in on the live chat.
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Learning English - Late and Live - 23rd May 2013 - 10pm UK time - android or iphone ?
Live English from England. Late and Live. 23rd May 2018. We talk about accents and how to practise English by yourself. I am wearing shorts tonight. Mr Steve will join us for some uncomfortable talk. How many children does Steve have?
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English Lesson - LIVE | Sunday October 7th 2018 | Grammar | Fat Words | Join the Live Chat 8-)
Live English lesson. Learn new words and improve your listening skills. Sunday 7th October 2018. Let's chew the fat on the Live Chat. Today we are talking about weigh gain or being overweight. Misterduncan wants to lose some of his big tummy. Steve will give us some words connected with fat.
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LIVE English Lesson - SUN 27th AUGUST 2017 - Learn to Speak English - irony / idioms / prepositions
Learn English Live - Live English Lesson - 27th August 2017. It's an extra long weekend here. Today we will be talking about 'IRONY' and 'COMPLAINING' . Do you ever write reviews? Did you watch the boxing match last night? We are going to play 'SPOT THE PREPOSITION'. We will look at idioms to do with milk. Mr Steve will be here with live and spontaneous chat and some flash phrases. We have the mystery idioms. Live chat is open for you to send your messages to me...live as live can be.
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John Ruskin | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
John Ruskin
00:02:23 1 Early life (1819–1846)
00:02:35 1.1 Genealogy
00:04:04 1.2 Childhood and education
00:05:47 1.3 Travel
00:07:39 1.4 First publications of Ruskin
00:08:55 1.5 Oxford
00:11:16 1.6 iModern Painters I/i (1843)
00:14:04 1.7 1845 tour and iModern Painters II/i (1846)
00:16:16 2 Middle life (1847–1869)
00:16:28 2.1 Marriage to Effie Gray
00:17:52 2.2 Architecture
00:18:49 2.3 iThe Stones of Venice/i
00:21:30 2.4 The Pre-Raphaelites
00:26:20 2.5 Ruskin and education
00:28:31 2.6 iModern Painters III/i and iIV/i
00:29:24 2.7 Public lecturer
00:31:08 2.8 Turner Bequest
00:32:18 2.9 Religious unconversion
00:33:22 2.10 Social critic and reformer: iUnto This Last/i
00:39:51 2.11 Lectures in the 1860s
00:41:44 3 Later life (1869–1900)
00:41:56 3.1 Oxford's first Slade Professor of Fine Art
00:45:16 3.2 iFors Clavigera/i and the Whistler libel case
00:46:52 3.3 The Guild of St George
00:50:10 3.4 Rose La Touche
00:52:00 3.5 Travel guides
00:53:19 3.6 Return to belief
00:54:18 3.7 Final writings
00:56:10 3.8 Brantwood
00:58:45 3.9 Personal appearance
00:59:51 4 Legacy
01:00:00 4.1 International
01:01:36 4.2 Art, architecture and literature
01:02:41 4.3 Craft and conservation
01:03:11 4.4 Society and education
01:05:00 4.5 Politics and economics
01:06:01 4.6 Ruskin in the 21st-century
01:08:58 5 Theory and criticism
01:10:17 5.1 Art and design criticism
01:16:46 5.2 Historic preservation
01:18:21 5.3 Social theory
01:20:22 6 Controversies
01:20:31 6.1 Turner's erotic drawings
01:21:13 6.2 Sexuality
01:25:49 6.3 Common law of business balance
01:28:02 7 Definitions
01:30:25 8 Fictional portrayals
01:34:49 9 Paintings
01:34:58 10 Select bibliography
01:35:32 10.1 Works by Ruskin
01:44:23 10.2 Selected diaries and letters
01:45:53 10.3 Selected editions of Ruskin still in print
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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.
The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.
He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.
Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is truth to nature. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild ...