Up All Night

was working in my office on the 28th floor of a skyscraper. I was dictating some letters to my secretary when the fire-bell rang. I rushed out to the lift but it wasn't working. The stairs were full of thick smoke. We couldn't go down, so we had to go up to the roof. When we got there some people were waiting calmly. Others were shouting and screaming wildly. A helicopter managed to land on the roof and rescued six of us before the building collapsed. Salut! Je suis Bill Daniels. Je habite à Chicago

by a great deal of humour and wit, drew crowds of spectators for forty nights, though the play was brought out in summer and the marriage of the young king kept the court from Paris. The style is totally different from that employed in the _Précieuses Ridicules_, and is a real and very good specimen of the _style gaulois_ adapted to the age in which Molière lived. He has often been blamed for not having followed up his success of the _Précieuses Ridicules_ by a comedy in the same style

action then proceeds clockwise around the table and each player in turn must either match the maximum previous bet or fold, losing the amount bet so far and all further interest in the hand. A player who matches a bet may also "raise", or increase the bet. The betting round ends when all players have either matched the last bet or have folded. If all but one player fold on any round, then the remaining player collects the pot and may choose to show or conceal their hand. If more than one player remains

narrator’s journal and Olivias life in 1923. Journal 2 February (page 8-11) The narrator just arrives in Bombay which is completely different to her expectations. She got a picture from India by the letters and now everything changed. Her first night she spends in a room in the women’s dormitory of the Society of Missionaries hostel with six other women. A woman who is also awake shares her experiences with the narrator because she already spent 30 years in India. Among typical tips like “use boiled

regarding my internship in the hotel industry in India. You’ll discover what I did during this internship and how sometimes it was hard to deal with the Indian culture and the Indian way of working. Have a good reading. THANKS I would thanks all the persons who help me to succeed in this internship and I would especially thanks ALZEA the company which was in charge of find me a good internship in India. I also would like to thanks Mrs and Mr Soundararajan, owner of the Nalla Eco Beach Resort

two best friends, we went to Paris to make party and enjoy this vibrant city. One night, I think we enjoyed too much, and what had to happen happened, we had an accident. It made us totally inconscious at this moment. After this trying night, i woke up slowly with an horrible headache. I was spaced out and I needed few minutes to know where i was. I saw one of my friend next to mine. Then I remembered that last night, we had an accident. I felt asleep. My eyes opened when I heard the nurse talking

Before Viewing the film 1. Here are some pieces of poetry that would come up in the film as well as the quotations of the main character, Professor Keating. Discuss them starting with the Professor’s first quotation on the nature and relevance of poetry. "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary

influence over the purchase of grown-up goods Nov 30th 2006 | NEW YORK | From The Economist print edition AS THE holiday shopping season kicks off in America and elsewhere, children have started nagging their parents for the latest toys. But listen more closely, and that may not be all they are lobbying for. Marketing to children is no longer about hawking toys, sweets and cereal in between the cartoons. Children are now influencing purchasing decisions for grown-up items such as cars and holidays

making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a

that suits their needs best. All in all, a choice of five hundred phrases that, I hope, can help you speak business English more effectively. The full book can be bought at www.words300.com/books for $ 1.99. It includes two hundred and fifty situations, with thirty-three that refer exclusively to telephoning. In total, well over a thousand expressions to help students with their business English. ABOUT THIS E - BOOK Copyright by Andrew D. Miles, Barcelona, 2010. All rights reserved. No part of