Japanese Whispers

What are the similarities and differencies between the "British dream" and the "American dream" ? To anyone having seen or read The Remains of the Day, the very notion of a British dream (be it a new one) may seem laughable. Well, is it ? And doesn't it have something in common with its glorious ancestor, the American dream ? Similarities : The British dream does in fact have a lot in common with its American counterpart. It is a dream of material success, but not just that, it is also a dream

Après le dîner, je suis monté dans ma chambre qui se située au premier étage. Arrivé en haut je ne trouvais pas l'interrupteur pour allumer la lumière. L'étage était tellement grand que j'allais m'y perdre. Je fis alors demi-tour pour aller chercher une bougie dans la cuisine. Lorsque je suis arrivé dans le couloir, j'ai senti que quelqu'un passé à côté de moi, mais il n'y avait personne, j’étais seule. J'arrivai en fin dans la cuisine, quand je vis, en face de moi, un fantôme. Mon cœur se mit

time the No. 15 bus reaches the end of Princes Street it's packed. There's Yolanda from Texas, Giuseppe from Italy, Pilar from Madrid, Australians, Israelis, Irish, Russians, Japanese and gawky youths who look like they're into Tolkien. We're all here for one thing. Giuseppe pulls it out of his backpack. "The book," he whispers, half conspiratorially. It's well thumbed. There are feverish scribbles inside. And bookmarks. These people take The Da Vinci Code very seriously. Most tourists in Edinburgh's

liver drugs, drugs to make our hair grow back. This is the power of advertising! These billions of messages telling us what we want, what we need and what we should do to feel happy. Our desires are manipulated by advertising and marketing that now whisper and shout and wink at us from every corner of our lives – at home, at work, at school. Consume. Consume. Still not happy? You haven’t consumed enough. Morgan Spurlock, Don’t Eat This Book, 2005 5 10 Read the text 4. Pick out the figures given

connaissez les mots suivants. Écrivez leur traduction dans les cases. a. Verbes Speak Say Ask Answer Reply Repeat Remark Add Announce Wonder … Speak loudly Shout Cry Scream Yell … Speak in a low voice Mumble Mutter Murmur Whisper Say in a low voice … Speak to express feelings Exclaim Protest Object Complain Confess Promise Insist Threaten … Body language To nod To smile To shake one’s head To wink To frown To grin To wave hello / good bye To stare

Developments Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad Grootmeester-Wijnproever van het Nederlands Wijngilde Pieter EIJKHOFF draft; 2000.10.15 II Fig. 1 (Title page): The Chinese character 'jiu' with the general connotation 'wine' on a wooden Japanese sake cup. The left part of the character, three strokes, indicates 'liquid', the right hand part indicates a wine vessel. (from: Von Siebold House, Leyden, The Netherlands) CIP-gegevens Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag. Eijkhoff, P. (Pieter)

acquainted with him have described him to reporters as good looking, courteous, well educated, wealthy and fashionably dressed. But his associates are men and women who have been called the most dangerous in the world. He is said to be linked with the Japanese Red Army, the Organization for the Armed Arab Struggle, the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, the Quebec Liberation Front, the Turkish Popular Liberation Front, separatists in France and Spain, and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army

Regional search-and-rescue teams set out on foot or in helicopters, occasionally enlisting tracking dogs or parachute jumpers, and newspapers retell their stories with gusto. Fall has drawn Russians into the forest for centuries. Even hardened urbanites whisper endearments to the wood spirits before turning their eyes to the ground, a gesture to their pagan ancestors. But Aleksandr Kuznetsov, who founded an online “mushroomers’ club,” said he believed that Russians’ sense of the natural world had dulled

.find my key." 2. I...carry it. It isn't heavy. 3. Mum ! ...you open the door, please? 4. I...see. It's too dark. 5. "Can you translate this word for me ?" "Sorry, I...speak English." Exercice 5- "can", "can't", "may", "may not" ? (**) fluent Japanese. 7. I...see Mary playing with her dog in the garden. 8. ...we go home now? 9. They...be happy but it isn't sure at all. 10. Penguins are birds but they...fly. 1. It ...rain : the sky is very dark. 2. ...you jump over that chair? 3. Sorry, but I

the ring round the Russo-Japanese War, and incidentally kept the door open into China. In all cases history would have been very difI~rent but for the intervention of the British fleet. None the less and perhaps as a consequence---the growth of the German fleet under the 43 DEMOCRA TIC IDEALS AND REALITY successive Navy Laws, induced the withdrawal o f the British battle squadrons from the Far East and from the Mediterranean, and cooperation in those seas with the Japanese and French sea-powers