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The City-State of Tligol is ruled by dictators, holds monthly public executions and is haunted by a benign, fishing, giant; but by and large the inhabitants are content, and the food is amazing. The perfect place for a city break, just as long as you don't want to leave. Ever. Language has its own relationship to time. When Jennifer falls for Sam at his execution, she doesn't immediately realise that she can still find and live with him; but the city of Tligol has trains that will take her anywhere, including her own past, and future, and multiple possible variations, just as long as she doesn't leave the city. Jennifer rides the trains, loops around in time and sets an unplanned series of events in motion.
For lovers of The City and The City... and Hotel California!
Contents
Lesson 1: The City of Tligol
Study Note 1: Past, Present, and Future
Lesson 2: How to Introduce Yourself to Strange People
Study Note: How I Feel About Sam Now
How I Felt Then
Lesson 3: I am, You are, the cupola, the verb to be
Vocabulary in Focus: Going out and having fun
Study Note History: Time Travelling Trains
Exercise: Write a summary of your relationship
Culture Note: Explanation of the Existence of the Giant in Tligol
The Verb Ber
Lesson 4: How to Drink Lattes (Transport, Offices, Prisons)
The Canal Beside the Museum
Inspectors are Coming
The Citizens Speak
Regarding the Giant
On History
Study Skills
Tligolian Literature: Lady Emily F and Mr Jones
Lesson 5: Politeness and Fitting In
More Info on the Giant
Free Writing: Meat Pies, Bridges, and Kitchens
Exercise 2: Write Another Way to Explain What Happened in the End
Bad Language
Lesson 6: Saying Goodbye
Vocabulary: directions, religion, footwear
Lesson 7: Making Friends
Back Then
The Evil Forest
Lesson 8: Family Life
The House by the Canal Beside the Museum
You know
Conversation Practice (with your partner)
Lesson 8: Being Good
Exercise: My winter coat
Lesson 9: Being Bad
Ice Cream
Sorting Things Out
Lesson 10: Dying, Tligolian Style
Fun Fact: Exit Colin
Martha's Advice
Sam and Me
What I am angry with
Test Your Vocabulary: Talking to a Friend
Odds and Ends
Appendix
Libraries
Grammar
Trains
