Don't Speak

BARACK OBAMA Use the following link to access the video document and do the activities below : HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47c6z2mrTEM&feature=fvw" YouTube - Obama addresses school kids- Full Video 1)Listen to the student speaker (the passage after his words of welcome and his brief allusion to his own studies) and fill in the blanks (one blank = one word). As I stand before my pairs today, I want you to know that excellent educational opportunity may be handed to us but

The tone of the letter is very sarcastic but also very funny … starting with the first words of the letter QUOTE lines 1-5) To start with, let us speak about Mrs Dunbar’s family. This family is made up of Mrs Dunbar, the author of the newsletter and also the narrator, her husband, Mr Clifford Dunbar and their three children. We don’t know much about this family except that Mr Dunbar fought in the Vietnam war as an American trooper (QUOTE lines 9/11/14) and that he was married twice : once

pretending to care about the children front of their family. We see it when we read “Sade noticed that Mrs Bankole no longer call them “Yemi” and “Ade”” (page 49). As the trouble at customs had upset her, she becomes a bit unlikely, she is stressed, she speaks forcefully, she rushes, and she doesn’t talk a lot. The sentence “Mrs Bankole grabbed Sade’s hand and thrust some coins into it. She pointed to the counter inside the café” (page 50) makes us understand that she wants to get rid of the children.

in your job search. * Know what you want. Don't accept a job just because someone offered it to you. Find out what you'll have to do once you're hired and make sure that's what you want to do. But don't be too picky. If this is your first job, you can't be the boss the first day. You will have to do what someone asks you to. * Don't be shy. Contact people and businesses in your area that hire people with your career interests. Ask to speak to someone in the employment office. Find out if

shoulder. They say crying makes the heart lighter." "And what good will that do? Urvashiwill not come back to Armaan." Suddenly Salim looks up. "Do you think I could speak to her? Maybe I could persuade her to come back to Armaan. Tell her that it was all a mistake. Tell her how sad and contrite he is." I shake my head. I don't want Salim trampling all over Mumbai2 looking for Urvashi Randhawa. "lt's not a good idea to poke your nose into other people's affairs, or make other people's troubles

of it ( half way between sarcasm and fear ) : “give him his God and church!”, “your Reverend has all figured out”. The light tone is meant to “ exorcize” the dramatic situation. He also makes sensible remarks ( if your child is sick and you can’t speak, who will call the doctor ? With what phone? ). III. The scheme. Nathan has a strategy although he falters at one point ( p.256 ) because of Minor’s convincing eloquence ( “soft-spoken”, “calm”). What if David was right about Rory and his personal

who| | |must nevertheless learn to let her go--a tragicomic story of the 1970s that foreshadowed the importance of end-of-life politics in present society. | | |In the following excerpt, protagonist Michel Folain speaks to Lydia, a near-stranger, about his dying wife's wish: that he find her replacement; that, above all, he not| | |lose his capacity to love.

title, we immediately discover the setting, Brooklyn, even before knowing anything about the narrator. However, we learn quite a lot about the man who is talking, even if we don’t understand immediately what he means when he tells about his death (since he only alludes to his cancer as if by chance). Moreover, we don’t know his name yet: his way of introducing himself is not a conventional one. For instance, he first tells us more about his daughter than about himself. This is a clue for the

are more talkative than men is unsupported by evidence. Yet it often appears that people use women’s supposed loquaciousness as a justification for “tuning out” much of what women say. Women report that they do not feel listened to, that when they speak in meetings their comments and suggestions are ignored or belittled—and that the same comments or suggestions from men have more impact.  They are not imagining this reaction.  One pair of researchers trained women and men to try to take leadership

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