May 5 2010 - May 21 2010

English Language course provided by Travel Management Global in conjunction with Suzanne Sparrow (Plymouth) English Language School

Cow Parsley, skirting a Devon hedgerow

Texts:

Texts are saved in Word 1997-2003 format but will open in Wordpad or another suitable word processor. They may also be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Catenative and Phrasal Verbs [PDF]

Development of the English Language (The Lord’s Prayer) [PDF]

Lewis Carrol [PDF]

Conditional Sentences [PDF]

Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales [PDF]

Jabberwocky (Poem)

You are Old Father William (Poem)

Ralph Vaughan Williams [PDF]

George Butterworth [PDF]

Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams) [PDF]

Scarborough Fair (Lyrics)

Scarborough Fair (Comments)

William Shakespeare [PDF]

Sonnet 18

Purple Passages from Shakespeare [PDF]

Music:

Scarborough Fair

The King’s New Clothes

The Banks of Green Willow(Butterworth)

The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)

The Lord’s Prayer in Old English

Links:

The Book Depository - a good source of discounted books. Delivery free of charge anywhere in the world.

Deezer - Find and listen to music on line. Songs cannot be downloaded.

And finally:

Time - Who knows when we shall meet again. (Alan Parsons) Lyrics

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View video: Thomas Szasz on ADHD

“Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced Saas); born April 15, 1920) is a psychiatrist and academic. Since 1990[1] he has been Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. He is well known for his books, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1970) which set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

His views on special treatment follow from classical liberal roots which are based on the principles that each person has the right to bodily and mental self-ownership and the right to be free from violence from others, although he criticized the “Free World” as well as the Communist states for its use of psychiatry and “drogophobia”. He believes that suicide, the practice of medicine, use and sale of drugs and sexual relations should be private, contractual, and outside of state jurisdiction.” - Wikipedia

 See also: <Science of deception> (cf. here) and <Violence in schools>

Further reading:

Naughty Boys: Anti-social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture (Paperback)

The Mind Game, Phillip Day

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