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THE PAST PERFECT FORM + I had forgotten We had met before You had failed the exam You had gone to bed It had just started raining They had already left __ I hadn’t finished We hadn’t slept You hadn’t been to work You hadn’t made a reservation He hadn’t read the news They hadn’t gone home yet ? Had I missed anything ? Had we eaten ? Had you graduated yet ? Had you ever been to Brazil ? Had it stopped snowing ? Had they got divorced ? USE We use the Past Perfect (i) when we are talking about the past and then, just for a moment, we want to refer to something that happened before then. (ii) in type 3 conditional sentences e.g. “If I hadn’t made a reservation, we wouldn’t have got a table.

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THE PAST PERFECT

FORM

+ I had forgotten We had met before

You had failed the exam You had gone to bed

It had just started raining They had already left

__ I hadn’t finished We hadn’t slept

You hadn’t been to work You hadn’t made a reservation

He hadn’t read the news They hadn’t gone home yet

? Had I missed anything ? Had we eaten ?

Had you graduated yet ? Had you ever been to Brazil ?

Had it stopped snowing ? Had they got divorced ?

USE

We use the Past Perfect

(i) when we are talking about the past and then, just for a moment, we want to refer

to something that happened before then.

(ii) in type 3 conditional sentences

e.g. “If I hadn’t made a reservation, we wouldn’t have got a table.”

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‘SPEAK OUT: INTERMEDIATE’

UNIT 4: GAVIN & STACEY

‘Speakout Intermediate BBC DVD PREVIEW Unit 4 with substitle’

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bbc+extracts+for+speak+out+gavin+and+syacey&

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How long had Gavin been at work when his wife phoned?

When had he last seen her?

In which city was Gavin’s new job?

Who called Gavin while he was talking to his new boss?

What did Gavin do with his mobile phone?

What did Owain invite Gavin to do?

Why did Gavin’s Uncle Bryn come to the office?

What did the secretary bring Gavin while he was talking to Huw and Owain?

Who had sent it to him?

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Marco Polo Season 1 - Official Trailer - Only on Netflix [HD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxmgKuL7ZM

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Art and the Lives of the Artists

1.Reading Comprehension

Read this short biography of Raphael Sanzio taken from a guidebook to Urbino

CASA RAFFAELLO — RAPHAEL’S HOUSE IN URBINO

Raphael Sanzio was born in the Italian hill-town of Urbino in 1483, the son of

Giovanni Santi, who had become an established painter, there, during the rule of the

town’s most famous duke, Federico II. As a boy, the young Raphael spent several

productive years in his father’s workshop where, according to his biographer, Giorgio

Vasari, he was taking formal lessons from Giovanni and watching his commissions take

shape from start to finish.

He learned much about composition by emulating Piero della Francesca, whose

finest works are still to be found in and around Urbino, and was later trained in the

Umbrian style by Pietro Perugino, a formative influence on the young artist. The two may

have collaborated on a fresco for the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia in 1500 but, in any

case, Perugino’s ability to combine graceful poses with clear and balanced forms had

been assimilated by his pupil by the time he painted St. Sebastian a year or two later.

In 1502-1503, Perugino entrusted him with ‘The Coronation of the Virgin’ and, with

that, his Umbrian apprenticeship drew to a close. Raphael then made a series of visits to

Florence, where his technique matured still further. Soon, his mastery of figurative scenes

had combined with the monumentality and harmonic proportions that we now recognize as

characteristic Raphaelite traits.

In this period, Raphael was clearly learning a great deal from the works of

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch. Leonardo’s approach in

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particular, extraordinary refinement combined with deep feeling, is obvious in Raphael’s

‘The Mute Woman’, which you can still see at the ducal palace in Urbino.

In 1509, Raphael left Florence for Rome and began a series of impressive works for

the ageing Della Rovere Pope, Julius II. The city’s rediscovery of antique sculptures from

the Greek and Roman past and the advent of a new Humanistic-Platonic philosophy

inspired a whole generation of artists. Raphael’s work on the Stanza della Segnatura

courtroom and, later, the Stanza di Eliodoro, embodies this new intellectual sophistication

perfectly as Christian ideas meld with humanistic reinterpretations of Classical themes in a

masterclass of High Renaissance style.

When Julius II died, he was succeeded by Leo X, the Medici Pope, who continued

to provide Raphael with lucrative commissions. Priests, cardinals and the banker Agostino

Chigi also kept Raphael and his workshop busy with a series of frescos, portraits, panels,

architectural drawings and cartoons for mosaics and tapestries.

By 1516, his mastery of the human form was complete, as shown in his ‘Portrait of a

Woman’, which captures his muse, Margherita Luti, in the full bloom of her youth. ‘La

fornarina’, as she is popularly known, was a baker’s daughter whom he loved passionately

and who inspired him in the final years of his life. However, a subsequent canvas featuring

Pope Leo X, Cardinal Luigi de Rossi and Cardinal Giulio de Medici (the future Pope

Clement VII), probably represents the summit of his achievement as a portrait artist.

A heavy workload, including commissions from the King of France, and the frantic

life of the capital took its toll upon his health and Raphael died of a fever, somewhat

prematurely, at the age of thirty-seven in 1520.

Gone but not forgotten, Raphael’s family home in Urbino was restored by the

architect, Muzio Oddi in 1635 to celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest painters

who ever lived. In 1869, his father’s workshop was refurbished as well, and is now a

gallery featuring canvases, panels and ceramics, some by the artist himself and others by

his followers. Thanks to the efforts of these and other enthusiasts you, too, can visit Casa

Raffaello, the scene of Raphael’s birth and early life, and celebrate the myth, the legends

and the achievements of his short but extraordinary career. Full information is available at

the website, http://www.casaraffaello.com/

And if you can’t make it to Urbino in person, you can always tour the fabulous 500th

anniversary exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, online:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw9HQLDh6-rm_xtk8HMmOwA

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Now answer the following questions:

a) Where did Raphael live as a boy?

b) What was his father’s job?

c) Which artists influenced Raphael most?

d) Which Popes did he work for?

e) Who was ‘la fornarina’ and why was she important?

f) Who was Giulio de Medici and why was he important?

g) How did Raphael die?

h) How old was he when he died?

i) What did Muzio Oddi do in 1635?

j) Where did Raphael’s 500th anniversary exhibition take place?

2.Narrative Tenses in English

i) Look at these sentences:

a) Giovanni Santi … had become an established painter, there, during the rule of the

town’s most famous duke, Federico II

b) the young Raphael spent several productive years in his father’s workshop

c) he was taking formal lessons from Giovanni and watching his commissions take shape

from start to finish

Here, three narrative tenses are used to indicate the sequence of events. The

Simple Past denotes a finished action in the past. The Past Perfect describes an event

which took place before then and the Past Continuous indicates something happening, at

a point in past, which had duration and was temporary, repetitive, incomplete or

interrupted.

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ii) However, when we talk about the enduring effect of a work of art which still exists, we

use the Simple Present:

d) “Raphael’s work on the Stanza della Segnatura courtroom and, later, the Stanza di

Eliodoro, embodies this new intellectual sophistication perfectly as Christian ideas meld

with humanistic reinterpretations of Classical themes in a masterclass of High

Renaissance style”

e) “…a subsequent canvas featuring Pope Leo X, Cardinal Luigi de Rossi and Cardinal

Giulio de Medici (the future Pope Clement VII), probably represents the summit of his

achievement as a portrait artist”

f) “…his ‘Portrait of a Woman’, which captures his muse, Margherita Luti, in the full bloom

of her youth”

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3.Grammar: Tenses

Now complete the biography of the artist H.R. Giger by putting the verbs in brackets into

the simple present, the simple past, the past continuous or the past perfect.

H.R. Giger was born in Chur, Switzerland, in 1940. When he ……….1………. (be)

twenty-one, he ……….2………. (go) to Zurich to study Architecture and Industrial Design.

While he ……….3………. (attend) Zurich’s School of Applied Arts, he ……….4……….

(meet) Li Tobler, a beautiful but troubled Swiss actress who ……….5………. (inspire)

some of his best known works, such as ‘Li 1’ and ‘Li 2’.

Giger ……….6………. (graduate) in 1970 but, already, he ……….7………. (start)

designing posters in his surrealist ‘biomechanical’ style, with the aid of an airbrush. His

reputation ……….8………. (grow) and soon he ……….9……….. (paint) album covers for

some of the most successful Rock bands of the period. In 1977, he ……….10……….

(publish) his first book, ‘Necronomicon’. Soon afterwards, Hollywood scriptwriter Dan

O’Bannon ……….11………. (see) Giger’s work in Paris, ……….12………. (buy)

‘Necronomicon’ and ……….13………. (give) it to the film director Ridley Scott, who

……….14………. (ask) Giger to help him design the sets and the monster for the science

fiction movie, ‘Alien’.

Over the next twenty years, the ‘Alien’ franchise ……….15………. (spread) Giger’s

disturbing vision far and wide. The artist ……….16………. (be) now rich and famous but

his muse, Li Tobler, ……….17………. (kill) herself. “I want my life to be short and intense,”

she once ……….18………. (say) but events ……….19………. (spiral) out of control and

she ……….20………. (sink) into apathy and depression. She ……….21………. (be) only

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27 when she ……….22………. (die). Her serene, ethereal beauty ……….23………. (live)

on in Giger’s most poignant works, however, acting as a counterpoint to the dynamic of

fear and transcendence which ……….24………. (characterize) so many of his paintings.

Despite this setback, the artist’s career ……….25………. (go) from strength to

strength until 1998, when he ……….26………. (buy) the Château St. Germain in Gruyères,

Switzerland, and ……….27………. (turn) it into a permanent museum for his work. Years

after his death, the H.R. Giger Museum still ……….28………. (draw) enthusiastic crowds

of visitors, eager to see his most famous pictures, sculptures, furniture and film sets.

Almost as intriguing as the Museum itself, is the H.R. Giger Bar, next door, whose

interior design is as warped and twisted as many of his macabre artworks. Giger, himself,

……….29………. (design) the bar to be an immersive art experience and duly

……….30………. (model) the walls, floor, ceiling, fittings, tables and chairs in his unique

‘biomechanical’ style.

4.Speaking

Look at this website: https://hrgiger.com/barmuseum.htm

Imagine that you work for the Gruyères tourism office. Discuss what kind of events you

could organize at the H.R. Giger Bar.

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An Arundel Tomb

Side by side, their faces blurred,

The Earl and Countess lie in stone,

Their proper habits vaguely shown

As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,

And that faint hint of the absurd

The little dogs beneath their feet.

Such plainness of the pre-Baroque

Hardly involves the eye,

Until it meets his left-hand gauntlet,

Still clasped empty in the other;

One sees, with sharp and tender shock,

His hand withdrawn,

Holding her hand.

They would not think to lie so long.

Such faithfulness in effigy

Was just a detail friends would see:

A sculptor’s sweet commissioned grace

Thrown off in helping to prolong

The Latin names around the base.

They would not guess how early in

Their supine stationary voyage

The air would change to soundless damage,

How soon succeeding eyes begin to look,

Not read.

Rigid, they persisted,

Linked through lengths and breadths of time.

Snow fell, undated.

Light, each summer thronged the glass.

Birdcalls strewed the same

Bone-riddled ground.

And up the paths, the endless altered people

came,

Washing at their identity.

Now, helpless in the hollow of an un-armorial

age,

Only an attitude remains:

Time has transfigured them into untruth.

The stone fidelity they hardly meant

Has come to be their final word,

To prove our almost-instinct almost true:

What will survive of us is Love.

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VOWEL SOUNDS IN ENGLISH

1) Click on the links below and practise the short vowels in English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/shortvowel7

2) Click on the links below and practise the long vowels in English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/longvowel1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/longvowel2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/longvowel3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/longvowel4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/longvowel5

3) Now study the poems which follow and read them aloud, trying to pronounce the vowel sounds

as accurately as possible. Use the stress-timed rhythm of the verse to help you.

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DIPHTHONGS IN ENGLISH

1) Click on the links below and practise the diphthongs in English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs7

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/pronunciation/diphthongs8

2) Now study the poems which follow and read them aloud, trying to pronounce the diphthongs as

accurately as possible. Use the stress-timed rhythm of the verse to help you.

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THE MAGIC ‘e’ When we add an ‘e’ to the end of many words, especially words with a short vowel sound, it changes the sound and the meaning. It makes the vowel sound long, like its alphabet name:

‘a’ ➔ ‘ay’ ‘e’ ➔ ‘ee’ ‘i’ ➔ ‘eye’ ‘o’ ➔ ‘oh’ ‘u’ ➔ ‘you’ hat hate pet Pete rid ride cod code us use The final ‘e’ is a ‘marker’ in that it changes the sound and meaning of a word but remains silent. The ‘e’ is a marker of a long vowel sound. The nearest vowel to it sounds like its alphabet name: a e i o u Look at these words: alone, date, wine, life, shine, write, fume, those, twice, made They all have a long vowel sound:

vowel + consonant + silent ‘e’ = long vowel sound

A final ‘e’ also makes the 'g' soft, as in hug / huge, rag / rage, wag / wage, stag / stage. As well as indicating a long vowel sound, it makes the final ‘th’ more voiced, as here:

breath / breathe cloth / clothe bath / bathe

Here are some words that are changed with final ‘e’

Short Vowel Sound Long Vowel Sound at ate mat mate mad made bit bite rid ride strip stripe pin pine quit quite sit site on one hop hope tap tape cap cape tub tube us use hug huge rag rage There are exceptions, however. These words are so ancient that they retain their short vowels: Love / glove / above / have / come / some / none / oven / cover / glove / to live

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First, watch this video-clip:

Frank Underwood 'You are entitled to nothing'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abnlvAQ_E7I

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Good evening.

For too long, we in Washington have been lying to you. (STARTLING STATEMENT)

We say we’re here to serve you, when in fact, we’re serving ourselves.

And why? We are driven by our own desire to get re-elected.

Our need to stay in power eclipses our duty to govern.

That ends tonight.

Tonight, I give you the truth.

And the truth is this: The American dream has failed you. (STARTLING STATEMENT)

Work hard? Play by the rules? You aren’t guaranteed success. (STARTLING STATEMENT)

Your children will not have a better life than you did. (STARTLING STATEMENT)

Ten million of you can’t even get a job, even though you desperately want one.

We’ve been crippled by Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, by welfare, by entitlements.

And that is the root of the problem: entitlements.

Let me be clear.

You are entitled to nothing.

You are entitled to nothing.

America was built on the spirit of industry.

You build your future.

It isn’t handed to you.

And the problem with Washington is that we haven’t given you the tools to build it.

The only way for us to serve you is to give you the means to serve yourselves.

Well, that’s exactly what I intend to do.

Not handouts.

Jobs.

Real paying jobs.

In the next few weeks, the Democratic leadership will introduce a program called ‘America Works’.

Its goal is simple: to put the ten million Americans who are unemployed to work.

All of them.

If you want a job, you get one.

The cost is five hundred billion dollars.

Now, that’s a lot of money.

To pay for it, we’ll need to rethink Social Security, healthcare and benefits from the ground up.

We can’t maintain the welfare state as we know it.

Now, that’s not a popular thing to say.

Anyone running for office wouldn’t dare utter those words.

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Every advisor and consultant and staff member would beg a presidential candidate not to say

them.

But I can say them.

Because I will not be seeking the Democratic nomination in 2016.

Candidates are cautious.

They must equivocate, they dodge and tiptoe.

But I’d rather leave this office having accomplished something of value than secure another four

years having done nothing at all.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ushered in an era of hope and progress when he proposed the New

Deal.

And at the time, his reforms were considered radical.

But he once said, “This country demands bold, persistent experimentation. (QUOTATION)

It is common sense to take a method and try it.

And if it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something”.

Roosevelt would have understood better than anyone the necessity for trying something different.

The New Deal succeeded for many years, but we must now try something newer before it fails us.

If ‘America Works’ succeeds, we will reinvent the American dream.

If we fail in our attempt, we will admit it frankly and try another. (QUOTATION)

But above all, we must try something.

Thank you, and God Bless the United States of America.

Notice how the President uses the following rhetorical devices:

QUOTATION

CONTRAST

ALLITERATION REPETITION

THE RULE OF THREE

RHETORICAL QUESTION

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“Get Brexit Done !” — Boris Johnson, 13 December 2019

Good morning my friends. We did it. We did it. We pulled it off, didn’t we? We pulled it off. We broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock. And in this glorious pre-breakfast moment before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want, first of all, to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own, in the election that has just gone by.

I, of course, want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980’s, which was, literally, as I look around, before many of you were even born. And with this mandate and with this majority, we will at last be able to do… what?

[Crowd shouts “Get Brexit Done!”].

You paid attention. Because this election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people. And with this election, I think we have brought to an end all of those miserable threats of a second referendum. And I say, respectfully, to our stentorian friend in the blue twelve-star hat, “THAT’S IT ! - time to put a sock in the megaphone and give everybody some peace.”

Our stentorian friend in the blue twelve-star hat Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader

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But I have a message to all those who voted for us yesterday — especially those who voted for us Conservatives, One-Nation Conservatives, for the first time.

You may only have LENT us your vote. And you may not think of yourself as a natural Tory. And as I think I said 11 years ago to the people of London when I was elected in what was thought of as a Labour city, your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the Conservative box. And you may intend to return to Labour next time round. And I, and we, will never take your support for granted. And I will make it my mission to work night and day, flat out, to prove you right in voting for me this time and to earn your support in the future.

I say to you, in THIS election your voice has been heard (and about time, too), because we politicians have squandered the last three-and-a-half years in squabbles about Brexit. And we have even been arguing about arguing. And about the TONE of our arguments.

I want to put an end to all of that nonsense. And we will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January — no if’s, no but’s, no maybe’s. We will leave the European Union as one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money; our trade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people. And, at the same time, this One-Nation Conservative government will massively INCREASE our investment in the NHS, the health service that represents the very best of our country with this single beautiful idea that, whoever we are, — rich, poor, young, old — the NHS is there for us when we are sick. And every day, that service performs miracles.

That is why the NHS is this One-Nation Conservative government’s top priority. And so we will deliver 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP surgery appointments and how many new hospitals?

[Crowd replies “Forty!”].

Correct. And we will deliver a long term NHS budget enshrined in law — £650 million more every week — and all the other priorities that YOU, the people of this country, voted for. Record spending on schools. An Australian-style points based immigration system. More police. How many?

[Crowd replies “20,000!”].

Colossal new investments in infrastructure, in science, using our incredible technological advantages to make this country the cleanest, greenest on earth with the most far-reaching environmental programme. And YOU, the people of this country, voted to be carbon neutral in this election. You voted to be carbon neutral by 2050 and we will do it. You also voted to be Corbyn neutral by Christmas, by the way, and we will do that, too.

YOU voted for all of these things and it is now this government, this PEOPLE’s government, OUR solemn duty to deliver on each and every one of those commitments. It is a great and heavy responsibility, a sacred trust for me; for every other elected Conservative MP; for everyone in this room and everyone in this party. I repeat, in winning this election, we have won votes and the trust of people that have never voted Conservative before and people who have always voted for other parties. Those people want change. We cannot, must not, must not, let them down. And, in delivering change, WE must change, too. WE must recognise the incredible reality that we now speak as a One Nation Conservative Party — literally for everyone from Woking to Workington, from Kensington, I'm proud to say, to Clwyd South, from Surrey Heath to Sedgefield, from Wimbledon to Wolverhampton.

And, as the nation hands us this historic mandate, we must rise to the challenge and to the level of expectations. Parliament must change so that WE in Parliament are working for YOU, the British people. And that is what we will now do, isn’t it? That is what we will do. Let’s go out and get on with it. Let’s unite this country. Let’s spread opportunity to every corner of the UK with superb education, superb infrastructure and technology. Let’s get Brexit done. But first, my friends, let’s get breakfast done too. Thank you all very much for coming. Well done, everybody.

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Notice how the Prime Minister uses the following rhetorical devices:

CONTRAST

ALLITERATION

REPETITION

THE RULE OF THREE

RHETORICAL QUESTION

THE MANTRA

Good morning my friends. We did it. We did it. We pulled it off, didn’t we? We pulled it off. We broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock. And in this glorious pre-breakfast moment before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want, first of all, to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own, in the election that has just gone by.

I, of course, want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980’s, which was, literally, as I look around, before many of you were even born. And with this mandate and with this majority, we will at last be able to do… what?

[Crowd shouts “Get Brexit Done!”].

You paid attention. Because this election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people. And with this election, I think we have brought to an end all of those miserable threats of a second referendum. And I say, respectfully, to our stentorian friend in the blue twelve-star hat, “THAT’S IT ! - time to put a sock in the megaphone and give everybody some peace.”

But I have a message to all those who voted for us yesterday — especially those who voted for us Conservatives, One-Nation Conservatives, for the first time.

You may only have LENT us your vote. And you may not think of yourself as a natural Tory. And as I think I said 11 years ago to the people of London when I was elected in what was thought of as a Labour city, your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the Conservative box. And you may intend to return to Labour next time round. And I, and we, will never take your support for granted. And I will make it my mission to work night and day, flat out, to prove you right in voting for me this time and to earn your support in the future.

I say to you, in THIS election your voice has been heard (and about time, too), because we politicians have squandered the last three-and-a-half years in squabbles about Brexit. And we have even been arguing about arguing. And about the TONE of our arguments.

I want to put an end to all of that nonsense. And we will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January — no if’s, no but’s, no maybe’s. We will leave the European Union as one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money; our trade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people. And, at the same time, this One-Nation Conservative government will massively INCREASE our investment in the NHS, the health service that represents the very best of our country with this single beautiful idea that, whoever we are, — rich, poor, young, old — the NHS is there for us when we are sick. And every day, that service performs miracles.

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That is why the NHS is this One-Nation Conservative government’s top priority. And so we will deliver 50,000 more nurses and 50 million more GP surgery appointments and how many new hospitals?

[Crowd replies “Forty!”].

Correct. And we will deliver a long term NHS budget enshrined in law — £650 million more every week — and all the other priorities that YOU, the people of this country, voted for. Record spending on schools. An Australian-style points based immigration system. More police. How many?

[Crowd replies “20,000!”].

Colossal new investments in infrastructure, in science, using our incredible technological advantages to make this country the cleanest, greenest on earth with the most far-reaching environmental programme. And YOU, the people of this country, voted to be carbon neutral in this election. You voted to be carbon neutral by 2050 and we will do it. You also voted to be Corbyn neutral by Christmas, by the way, and we will do that, too.

YOU voted for all of these things and it is now this government, this PEOPLE’s government, OUR solemn duty to deliver on each and every one of those commitments. It is a great and heavy responsibility, a sacred trust for me; for every other elected Conservative MP; for everyone in this room and everyone in this party. I repeat, in winning this election, we have won votes and the trust of people that have never voted Conservative before and people who have always voted for other parties. Those people want CHANGE. We cannot, must not, must not, let them down. And, in delivering change, WE must change, too. WE must recognise the incredible reality that we now speak as a One Nation Conservative Party — literally for everyone from Woking to Workington, from Kensington, I'm proud to say, to Clwyd South, from Surrey Heath to Sedgefield, from Wimbledon to Wolverhampton.

And, as the nation hands us this historic mandate, we must rise to the challenge and to the level of expectations. Parliament must change so that WE in Parliament are working for YOU, the British people. And that is what we will now do, isn’t it? That is what we will do. Let’s go out and get on with it. Let’s unite this country. Let’s spread opportunity to every corner of the UK with superb education, superb infrastructure and technology. Let’s get Brexit done. But first, my friends, let’s get breakfast done too. Thank you all very much for coming. Well done, everybody.

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