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About Time
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. At the age of twenty-one, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past. He decides to use his new gift to win the heart of the beautiful Mary with hilarious and moving results. About Time is based on the 2013 movie by Richard Curtis, writer of Notting Hill & Love Actually.
56 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2014
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Richard Curtis
153 books81 followersRichard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE
Graduate of Harrow School and subsequently Christ Church, University of Oxford. Academy Award nominee and recipient of Emmy and BAFTA awards for screenwriting. He is also a director and producer. In 2007, he became a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Graduate of Harrow School and subsequently Christ Church, University of Oxford. Academy Award nominee and recipient of Emmy and BAFTA awards for screenwriting. He is also a director and producer. In 2007, he became a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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December 26, 2020
A house along the beach. over the hills. A family watches Friday movie in the garden, regardless of the weather. The scenes, the people.. bring me back to the time when I was little and when I read the Europe Christmas story. 100% matches with a sentimental girl.
Perfect for a Christmas night. with the sound of "Santa tell me" and "How long will I love you". Worth reading millions of times. Not a story about love, It's a life story. I miss my DAD sm after reading this.
"“And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did: The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day, I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
“There’s a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.”
“I’d only give one piece of advice to anyone marrying. We’re all quite similar in the end. We all get old and tell the same tales too many times. But try and marry someone kind. And this is a kind man with a good heart.”
“I am f*cking furious. I am so uninterested in a life without your father.”
Perfect for a Christmas night. with the sound of "Santa tell me" and "How long will I love you". Worth reading millions of times. Not a story about love, It's a life story. I miss my DAD sm after reading this.
"“And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did: The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day, I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”
“There’s a song by Baz Luhrmann called Sunscreen. He says worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.”
“I’d only give one piece of advice to anyone marrying. We’re all quite similar in the end. We all get old and tell the same tales too many times. But try and marry someone kind. And this is a kind man with a good heart.”
“I am f*cking furious. I am so uninterested in a life without your father.”
July 30, 2023
Try to live each day as well as you can. Love this book and film so much. The best ever story <3
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