The Get Up Kids

THE VIRTUAL WORLD 1. Do you agree with the following statement? If yes, why? If not, why? Give your opinion. Computer games are anti-social and violent, and their users are mindless nerds. nerd = informal, someone especially a man, who is not fashionable and who is interested in boring things nerdy = adjective, informal, boring and not fashionable 2. Now listen to this extract from a radio interview with a university lecturer. Does he have the same view of computer games as

EMI – The long and winding road How collective idiocy left the record companies in bits When the history of our digital times comes to be written, one of the questions that will puzzle historians is why the record companies missed the significance of the internet. Throughout the post-war period, theirs was a big and powerful industry making lots of money, and controlling just about everything - recording artists, publishers, distributors and retailers. By 1982, music had gone digital. (The first

COMPREHENSION Read the whole text 1. What kind of text is it? Key elements: Extract, novel, autobiography, ‘Tis, Frank McCourt, 1999. Example: This text is an extract form a novel called ‘Tis, written by Frank McCourt and published in 1999. 2. What do we learn about the narrator? Key elements: Young man, Frank McCourt, 19 years old, came “New York city in the late forties to escape for poverty in Ireland”, wants to be a student, doesn’t want to be a houseman, or have a low-paid job, admires university

inherited the business of his father who was a successful entrepreneur He was a self-made man 3 4 §2: When he was young, Walton was a shy reserved child who kept a low profile He made a reputation for himself and won awards §2: Walton’s innovative strategy in the first store he managed made him lose money It was responsible for his success because of his innovative strategy 5 6 §3: Walmart’s geographical isolation was a driver of the company’s innovative strategy “The reason

(to go from door to door) -The Redeker Case: a column, a scathing/vitriolic indictment of Islam. What he has said is no gospel! (Ce n’est pas parole d’évangile) The police have decided to wisk him away. -Neo-Nazi websites made of white supremacists. Don Black is a former Klansman, ie he used to belong to the KKK and ie he once was a Klansman. *I can’t get used to his calling me by my last name! ↑: to grow, increase, rise soar, skyrocket, go up ≠↓: to be on the wane, dwindle, diminish, decline

children? Definitely I will say YES. Let me tell you why. Right now, there is a critical shortage of adoptive and foster parents all around the world. As a result, many children have no permanent homes, while others are forced to survive in an endless series of substandard foster homes. Statistics in 2008 said that only 20% of children have been adopted. The 80% of children who are awaiting for adoption have been historically been viewed as "unadoptable" because they are not healthy white infants

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ledgendary character in Old Greenwich, too frail to break an egg but strong enough to have lasted this long, and nobody dared ask just how long she had lasted. Centuries seemed appropriate when you looked at the skin on her hands. She coughed dryily. Most of the kids from round the block had come to the farewell party that they were throwing in my honor, as I made my way back to England after nine years of life in Connecticut, and I knew almost all of them. We sat in front of her, my elder brother in front

DANCE/TRANCE/HOUSE/TECHNO Feel your love- Kim Sozzi Handle Me (Soulseekerz Remix)- Robyn The Rythm of the night- Corona Now you’re gone- Basshunter What is love- Night at the Roxbury Move for me- Kascade & Deadmau5 Calabria 2008- Enur ft. Natasja What hurts the most- cascada Lovestoned (Tiesto Remix)- Justin Timberlake Looking for love- September World, hold on- Bob Sinclair Ft. Steve Edward Hot Stuff

Annie Get Your Gun2 (en 2001 dans le rôle de Little Jake). Il joua dans The Sound of Music (dans le rôle de Kurt) au Paper Mill Playhouse. En 2002 pendant qu’il jouait dans A Christmas Carol , Nick a écrit une chanson nommée Joy to the World, avec son père. Avec en fond sonore le cast de La Belle et la Bête, Nick a interprété la chanson dans l'album annuel de Broadway en 2002 Broadway's Greatest Gifts : Carols for a Cure, Vol.4. En novembre 2003, INO Records a reçu une démo de Joy to the World.