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Kenny Harrison is a manager of a small company downtown. He is 65 years old, and is very cheap and old-fashioned. Kenny lives a mile from his company, and usually walks to work. Sometimes, he rides his ancient green bicycle. Kenny wears the same clothes he wore when he was thirty. He wears pink shirts with orange pants! He even wears bowties!
At his company, everything is very old. There are no cellular or cordless telephones. Everyone uses the old black ones. There are no computers. Kenny and his employees use typewriters to print letters. These letters go to the post office. There is no fax machine. There is no copy machine. Everything is very slow.
There is a big meeting. Kenny wants to talk to his workers. Business is not good. Kenny wants answers.
“Welcome everyone. Do you want coffee? I will send Paul to the coffee shop.”
“Mr. Harrison, sir, if we had a coffee maker, we could have coffee here,” Shirley James says.
“Bah,,,,,coffee makers. Is there something wrong with the coffee from the corner shop? Kenny asks.
“No, sir,” Dave Glenn answers. “But it is slow. When the coffee comes, it is cold.”
“No problem. Coffee makers are expensive. If I can drink cold coffee, so can you! Now, why is business so bad this month?”
“Sir, we need computers. It is very difficult to do business with no computers. We must send messengers to other companies. We must always use the telephone. We only have one telephone, sir!”
“Bahhhhh…. Telephones are expensive. My grandfather ran this company without computers. We can do the same!”
Do you think this company should make any changes?
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Gwen Renée Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani ( born October 3, 1969) is an American singer and fashion designer. Stefani serves as lead vocalist for the rock band No Doubt. With previous material ranging from punk rock to new wave music, their third wave ska oriented third studio album Tragic Kingdom (1995) propelled them to stardom, selling 16 million copies worldwide. It spawned the singles "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak". The band's popularity went into decline with its fourth album, Return of Saturn (2000), but Rock Steady (2001) focused on dancehall production traits, and generally received positive reviews.
Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was primarily inspired by music of the 1980s, and emerged an international success with sales of over seven million.[4] The album's third single "Hollaback Girl" became the first U.S. digital download to sell one million copies. Stefani's second solo album The Sweet Escape (2006) yielded "Wind It Up", a moderate worldwide success, and "The Sweet Escape". Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. She won the World's Best-Selling New Female Artist at the World Music Awards 2005.
Stefani is known as a fashion trendsetter. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture and fashion. Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls. She married British grunge musician Gavin Rossdale in 2002 and they have two sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, who was born May 26, 2006, and Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, who was born August 21, 2008.
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Cell Phones
These years, technology is developing very fast and I think it is good for people. In addition, people like using it, especially cell phones. Nowadays, cell phones are more common and everybody has one or two cell phones. Alright, what should we do when we buy a new cell phone? You should think and do these steps.
Firstly, you should know what you want. Do you only want to talk, listen to music, play games, or watch videos? If you only want to talk, you don’t have to think a lot. Your shopping will be very short. However, if you want the more, you must think carefully.
Secondly, you should decide which model you want. Although small phones look pretty, they aren’t useful. Big cell phones are more useful than the small ones. Which one do you want to use?
Our third step is money. If you don’t have a lot of money, you may not be able to buy what you want. You should visit lots of shops or malls. Some malls may be cheaper than others. If you have a lot of money you can relax. If I were you, I would buy an iphone. It is more attractive than the others and better quality.
After all these steps, you must be careful of your health. Everybody knows that cell phone batteries have a lot of radiation. Please get some information about this subject before buying a cell phone.
Now you know everything about what you should do when you buy a cell phone. I hope you will buy the best. Happy shopping!
Duygu Yasar
Level 4
ENGLISH TIME
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Why can’t a woman living in Canada be buried in the U.S.?
She’s still alive!
This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so normal you would think nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Study it, think about it, and you still may not fing anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so with no coaching!
None of the sentences contain the letter “e.”
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turn a blind eye to
Ignore
Even though there is a law against smoking in restaurants, owners turn a blind eye to it. |
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There are about 125,000 hairs on the average person’s head.
Less than 2% of the world’s water is fresh.
About 70% of the world’s organisms are bacteria.
Every minute about 300 million cells die in the human body.
There are about 125,000 hairs on the average person’s head.
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