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teachers. She might be a member of the Board of Education, a headmistress or a secretary. 5. The narrator expects her to take them as a sign that she cares about their content, read them through in order to examine the skills and professional experience of the applicant and finally to keep them. 6. She feels these letters show evidence that she is a competent and fully qualified teacher. They prove she has been well trained and that she has already had a teaching experience. Therefore she is bound

Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles, California, on the first of June 1926 by the name of Norma Jeane Mortenson, and died on the fifth of August 1962. She was an actress, singer and model. She began her carrier as a model, which led to a movie contract in 1946. The final years of her life were marked by illness, personal problems and a reputation of being unreliable and difficult to work with. Her death is officially classified as a “probable suicide”, but the possibility of an accidental overdose

naturalism. Sister Carrie is his first novel: it’s about a girl, named Carrie, who moves from her parents’ home to start a new and better life in the city. Life won’t be easy for her, she will have to face many barriers and disappointments of the city itself but at the end, her obstinacy will bring results and she will reach the top of the society. Materialism, including the desire for and the dependence of money, is a very important theme in Sister Carrie. Theodore Dreiser wrote in his novel:

knew that her boss was under pressure from the corporate headquarters because she was the only one not signing the nondisclosure agreement, and she was using her good results as leverage for not signing the document, then making a counter-move in order to open negotiations. She tried to negotiate using a third party influence in order to stick up for herself and this led to conflict between her and her company. Moreover she negotiated in such a way which was not natural for her and this had weakened

Jane Austen wrote. She was born in 1775 in a fairly wealthy family coming from Hampshire, England. Elements of her biography may clarify the choices of topics she deals with in her novels. Thus her social status is related to early English gentry to better understand their vision of a everyday life where life is not so difficult financially and where you can have access to education especially through books and the dream wedding without working. She then offers a vision of a world she knows, in the novel

Peel Pie Society, the one whose point on view on the other characters is the most given and whose point of view we hence adopt. She is 32 years old; she has curly chestnut hair and hazel eyes. She is slim but not very tall (To Isola, 20th April, p.103). She lives in Chelsea, London artistic and literary district (cf. pp. 14-15 and p. 103 for physical description). She wrote humorous columns for the Spectator (a British weekly, the oldest in Britain, founded in 1828) during the war under the "nom-de-plume"

simple correspondent à des indications scéniques type dialogue, théâtre ou script. Neutre She was walking down the street when I last saw her. He approached her He crossed over to her He let him in She followed him down the hall, up the stairs and into his office where she sat down right in front of his desk. she heads out but pauses before leaving she starts out then stops She turns to him She turns away from him and heads for the stairway. after a beat he follows her Ed trails=He

character is Mary Ann Singleton, she is twenty-five years old and she works as a secretary. She is from Cleveland, Ohio. (23 words) b- She is in San Francisco, California for an eight-day vacation. c- Mr. Lassiter is the owner of Lassiter Fertilizer. He is Mary Ann’s boss. d- Mr. Lassiter appreciates Mary Ann very much: l.25 “(…) he said the office is falling apart with you gone.” e- She wants her mother to call Mr. Lassiter for her to let him know that she won’t report back to work as scheduled

ce qu’on aime ou ce qu’on aime pas. EX : I love chocolate, you like dogs, the cat likes the mouse, she hates pizzas, the mouse dislikes the cat. b)- Lorsque l’on exprime une vérité générale, une caractérisitique permanente. EX : Water boils at 100°C. EX : She always wakes up at 7 AM. EX : Cats eat mice. c) – Lorsque l’on exprime une habitude : EX : I go to School every day . (every = chaque) EX : She drives her bike every week. EX: Peter reads five books a month. Comment construire le présent simple

in her son's life. When Oliver was a child, she used to disagree the way his son earned his money, she was worrying about his ambitions. She disagreed with his behaviour, and was ashamed of him. She seems to have never encouraged him. Today, he has neither wife or children but we understand that her mother is dead when he talks to her portrait. He have a portrait of her in his flat and another in his private room, in the shop. She is always with him. She has probably been dictating him all her life