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time ago, it was essential to make transactions, to deal, to buy, to exchange, to live between people! Without money, the world will be anarchy. The society needs money to run correctly, to moderate the relationship. Money is a social tool. It is used to exist materially, and trying to climb the social ladder. But that money contributes to happiness? First thought, if there is one thing we can say, it is money is undeniably linked to each individual, are undeniably linked to the happiness of every human

sure you understand what you are told by using phrases like : sorry, would you mind repeating, please ? could you please speak more slowly ? Sorry, I didn’t catch what you said Sorry, would you repeat that last figure (or name, or date ….)? I’m afraid, it’s a bad line (the line is bad). Could you speak up ? How do you spell it, please ? EXERCICES Vocabulary Fill in the blanks with the following

démarquons des autres pays). Progress is made by innovation and innovation by research (l’innovation est crée par la recherche). Of cause, research needs money, lot of money every year (cela demande beaucoup d’argent chaque années). Progress participates to economic growth but its help social progress too (le progrès participe à la croissance économique mais il participe aussi a des avancé social). In fact, the differences between gender or skin ‘color have been reduced during the last century (en effet

from the speech to support your answer.) * Sarkozy describes Africa as a stupid continent who doesn’t think and who isn’t the master of its destiny, as a victim who doesn’t take things in hands and doesn’t want to evolve: “This need, (…), to believe rather than to understand, to feel rather than to reason, this need to be in harmony rather than to conquer.” The president presented the African as a man prisoner of his culture, stood out by the irrationality and the incapacity to envisage the

In general, we use the Present Perfect to talk about a relation between the past and the present: *If this is the result of an action in the past: Look! I've bought a new car - Look, I just bought a new car * If the action is done: I have read the book of SB how to manage the Human Resource *If the action is completed in a period which is not yet completed (Ex during the morning, I say I've been to The Doctor's this morning - I went to the doctor this morning [ if I talk about

Where everyone’s a minority Page 68/69 The text I’m going to present is an article written by Stodghill and Amanda Bower and published in the American magazine Time on August 25, 2002. The article deals with the ethnic groups in the United States and their growing importance in some cities like Sacramento in California. I will divide my commentary into 4 parts: 1. First I will locate the city of Sacramento and Sequoia Way and explain why many ethnic minorities live there. 2. Second

de temps CONJUGAISON Forme affirmative -> Verbes réguliers: base verbale + -ED Ex: Yesterday, I played football. -> Verbes irréguliers: à apprendre par coeur Ex: In 1998, I went to Australia. Formes interrogative et négative: on utilise DID Ex: -> Did you go to Australia? -> Yes, I did. No, I didn't (go to Australia). EMPLOI Action qui était en cours dans le passé et qui a été interrompue par une autre action CONJUGAISON Forme affirmative auxiliaire BE conjugué au prétérit (WAS/WERE)

Newsman : Good evening everybody, you're watching BBC 5. It's the eight O'clock news. So, to start, we're going to speak about the Icelandic volcano which erupted the 14th of April. The airports are steal blocked because the volcano has let out a huge cloud of dust. Lots of tourists are stranded in the 313 airports which are closed. They are there because the flights have been canceled. Lets listen to Valentin who is in JF Kennedy airport, in New-York City, he's with an Icelandic toursit. Well

Speak (Word Watcher, Third Making Period) Word: strut Definition: to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers Reason of the choice: new word Location of the word: 98 Part of the speech…: ‘My strut slows to a foot....’’ Word: trudging uphill Definition: a laborious or tiring walk, a rising terrain Reason of the choice: new word Location of the word: 98 Part of the speech…: ‘I even think

as the National Pact or National Covenant (al Mithaq al Watani), were approved and supported by their followers. The National Pact laid down four principles. First, Lebanon was to be a completely independent state. The Christian communities were to cease identifying with the West; in return, the Muslim communities were to protect the independence of Lebanon and prevent its merger with any Arab state. Second, although Lebanon is an Arab country with Arabic as its official language, it could not cut