Mobile phones users join the smokers as outcasts Amercican Times, San Francisco

1- 2 titles

b) Mobile users phone banned. d) Unwanted: mobile phones and tobacco.

2-Right / Wrong

a) wrong : l 2/3 b) right : l 6/7 c) right : l 15 “ many of whom like to wear their mobiles on their hip like the gunfighters with their pistols in the old west” The movers and shakers = the Vip’s in the political and media worlds = politicians and journalists etc ..like to show off. They want to show how important and powerful they are . So they can be compared to cowboys showing their pistols to their rivals. d) wrong: l 20/21 e) right: l 24/25 “ there has been an attempt to make the State Assembly adopt legislation .. off “ an attempt = a try = une tentative/ un essai to vote = to pass a law = to adopt legislation f) wrong : l 25-26 As it is dangerous to phone while driving, they won’t take motorists’ calls if they’re in their car. g) wrong : 31/32 “ If the backlash is beginning in SF, there’s nothing comparable going on in LA.” Violent reaction = backlash = a protest movement = a demonstration = une manifestation The people living in LA are very different from the inhabitants of SF. In LA there the movie and music industry so there are many very wealthy famous people who don’t care about legislation in general. We can imagine they wouldn’t care less for mobile phones restrictions. In SF, many people work in the Silicon Valley in the high tech industry development and in the research centres so they won’t accept being forbidden to use their phones because somehow they have contributed to creating them. h) wrong :l 36 / 37 hatred : la haine to hate He can’t stand mobile phones and declares he hasn’t got one.

3- Vocab equivalents:

- mania = craze l 1 - fashionable = trendy l 2 - sharps sounds = chirping l 10 - popular place = hot spot l 14