Dirty South

How long has Nancy been living there and where did she use to live ? b) Choose four adjectives from the list below which best apply to that character and justify each chosen adjective with a quotation from the text. dangerous - desperate - caring - dirty - uncooperative - friendly - intrusive - rich 5 What does her home reveal about her standard of living ? Explain in your own words. 6 a) What do we learn about Nancy’s husband’s working hours ? b) ”I mean the cab comes at six in the morning.” Why

Invention du microprocesseur par Marcian Hoff 1975 Lancement des premiers microordinateurs, machines programmables suffisamment compactes et abordables pour être utilisées par des particuliers 1980 Création du système d’exploitation QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) par Seattle Computer Products, rebaptisé par la suite MS-DOS par Microsoft 1984 Création du Macintosh par Apple Computers, et qui instaure la norme de l’interface graphique avec souris. Le système d’exploitation Windows (version sommaire)

Reliez les mots des deux listes suivantes pour former des mots composés: passer • • break cash out key • • • • • • • • • • break cow board room up 1. Mettez les éléments dans le bon ordre en faisant attention à l'ordre des adjectifs: 1. dirty / a 1 bag 1 paper 2. wooden / antique 1 box / expensive / an 3. stray / a / cat / grey 4. rainy / day / summer / a 5. old / cars / sports far f----------- ----- good wonderful --- 3. Traduisez les phrases suivantes en anglais en utilisant l'adjectif

d'environ 3 milliards $US —, 2 3 4 5 . . . . Stephen KERR et Kelly HOLLOWAY, The Men who Moil for Gold, livraison spéciale de : The Varsity et Atkinsonian, Toronto, Jeremy NELSON (éd.), le 15 avril 2002, . CORPWATCH, Barrick's Dirty Secrets, Communities Worldwide respond to Gold Mining's Impacts, Oakland, mai 2007, . MINING WATCH, « Canadian Gold Mining lnterests lnvolved in Police Shootings in Ghana, West Africa », Ottawa, 30 décembre 1999, http://www.mini ngwatch. ca/cms/in

when he could not only look at it but row or sail upon it. The little sketch Sur L 'Eau gives a marvellous pic- ture of a misty moonlight night on the Seine ; and the Mediterranean volume with the same title shows that the charm of the south could enter into his northern blood. The limitations of his genius, however, are obvious when he tries to describe not the sights and incidents but the reflections of travel. Au Soleil, for instance, fares badly beside such a book as M. Bourget's

came together to form living organisms, had been widely accepted. It was commonly believed that insects came into being from food leftovers, and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments were conducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was placed on a dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that mice would originate from it after a while. Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed to be evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later understood that worms did not appear on

favorite, and even as a small tyke he had impressed me as someone who stood out from the ordinary, a person destined to achieve great things in life. Not counting the day of June's burial, our last conversation had taken place at his mother's house in South Orange, New Jersey. Tom had just graduated with high honors from Cornell and was about to go off to the University of Michigan on a four-year fellowship to study American literature. Everything I had predicted for him was coming true, and I remember

and political (b) changes would be crucial to strengthening ties, his schedule highlighted (c) the challenges for America as it seeks to build (d) stronger links with its former enemy. 23. Mr. Smith’s initial targets, understandably, are the 30m. South Asians which (a) live outside India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and who are willing (b) and able to pay (c) for a reminder of home (d). 24. But male bosses were much more severe than women (a): they were three times as likely (b) to sack a subordinate

full name, has its head office in Sofia in the west of Bulgaria. The company has a workforce of around 15000 employees today, with a little over half of them working in Bulgaria. Flucksons manufactures goods in most parts of the globe, in Europe, South America and Asia. The largest factory is still based in Sofia where the company was founded over a hundred and fifty years ago. The company expanded rapidly in its early days thanks to the long-range vision of its founder, Herbert Fluckson, who was

Depuis que Sophie est partie, tu t'ennuies toujours le week-end. Tu souffres d'un manque de soufre. Tu contemples The Grind sur MTV. Mille filles en bikini et tee-shirt trop court gigotent sur une piste de danse géante à ciel ouvert, sans doute sur South Beach à Miami. Des blacks baraqués les entourent de leurs abdomens aux carrés de chocolat luisants. L'émission n'a pas d'autre concept que la beauté plastique et la transpiration techno. Tout le monde doit avoir 16 ans pour toujours. Il faut être beau