start my presentation today, I’d like to play a little game with you. That is, guess the price of these beauty products. After I introduce the product on the screen, you can raise your hand and answer. Now, let’s start by this product, a facial cream by Sisley. How much do you think it is? ......The answer is 144 pounds. Next one, a facial brush. So what’s the price? …… Surprisingly, it costs 168 pounds. 168 pounds! Do you believe that?! It’s just a brush! This leads us to the topic of my presentation
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away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings You should trust your instincts when things are not as they seem. When something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Synopsis In the short story, The Landlady, a boy named Billy Weaver needs to find lodging in Bath, England. He goes to a boardinghouse. The landlady is an odd woman who compels Billy Weaver to stay with her at the boardinghouse. As the story progresses, clues are given as to the whereabouts of previous
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day. They always smell like the forest. It’s kind of this clean, fresh smell. I don’t know… It’s so entrancing. Their wavy, black hair always has this perfect curl that goes down their neck. I seem to always lose my concentration during their violin solo. It’s just… beautiful. I can’t keep my eyes off them. Catherine: They?! It’s more than one person?? Courtney: I mean, it’s not more than one person... It’s hard to explain. Catherine: We’re best friends! You know I would never judge you. Come
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and 3 blank pages. SP (SM) T52720/4 © UCLES 2008 [Turn over 2 SECTION A: DRAMA ALAN AYCKBOURN: A Small Family Business Either *1 Re-read in Act 2 from ‘Samantha enters the bathroom and surveys the scene in amazement ’ (p. 274 Faber) to ‘Jack: Leave him just as he is, I’ll deal with that. Sammy, draw the curtains round him, there’s a girl.’ (p. 278) What makes the characters’ actions and attitudes here shocking and at the same time very funny? Support your ideas with details from the passage
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communication were invented, so it makes it a little less crazy for them to all take the letter up on its offer. I am very curious about the murders the guests were accused of committing. I assume they were probably true because it talked about the boy drowning on Vera’s watch and about Justice Wargrave being a hanging judge. It hasn’t mentioned much if anything about the others having murdered anyone. It almost seems like Anthony Marston is too young to have murdered anyone, but the date of his alleged
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said “Its/it’s over. 3. Its/it’s a beautiful day. 4. Wow! Its/it’s a remarkable achievement. 5. The dog had lost its/it’s ball. 6. The peacock fanned its/it’s feathers. 7. Oh dear – its/it’s not working. 8. My hamster runs in its/it’s ball for hours. 9. My diamond has lost its/it’s sparkle. 10. He said “Its/it’s a miracle!” Worksheet Two This worksheet accompanies slide 17 of Punctuation.ppt Apostrophes activity Read the paragraphs below which are from Lei’s
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needs of a man in charge of them. It has been seven years since Ma has found her way to an interaction with someone other than her son, Jack, and “Old Nick” whom keeps them both locked up in a room. Jack has to wait to see if he can sleep with his own mother in their “home” because of the interactions Ma is forced to engage in for their own safety. In the novel, Jack goes on a rant that starts off with, “Nothing makes Ma scared. Except Old Nick maybe” (12). Jack’s mother is afraid of what is to come
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Araby North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces. The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all
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legitimate societal roles, and thus hold all power in society. As a result, children and elders feel uncertain of themselves and question the validity of their knowledge. Racked with insecurity, a child or an elder often asks himself, “what good is my truth [when it] means nothing?,” and this doubtfulness regarding the legitimacy of his knowledge increases his susceptibility to media influence (Delillo 23). Furthermore, the fluidity of knowledge exacerbates this insecurity and causes people to rely
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journey through the woods and fields on her way to town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. As she begins her journey, she talks to herself and warns, "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!…Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites…Keep the big wild hogs out of my path" (Welty 306), because as she says, "I got a long way" (Welty 306). She has taken several times before, and now "The time come around"(Welty 309), and she must travel
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