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SPECIAL GUEST Stephane Mellino from  LES NEGRESSES VERTES

Interview with Les Négresses Vertes (background music)

Les Négresses Vertes - Les yeux de ton père (I’ll kill you - edit ) [Clive Martin & Andy Wright Remix]

Les Négresses Vertes - Face à la mer (Massive Attack Remix)

Les Négresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche (William Orbit Mix)

Jade Moede - Pride

The Owen Guns - Fuck Cyclists

Paul Cargnello - Jealousy

Organoclorados- Ate o Sol

Last of Misfit Heroes - Dead behind the eyes

Californicks - Perder ou ganhar ( background )

Ainsophaur - Tout sauf l’accalmie ( background )

Santohs - Ya No quiero más (background )

Mortom - Burning your bridges

Wolfpack - The Shield

Glittertrash - Whirlwind (background)

Insanidade - On fire

Yalla Yallas - The Morning Sun

Under The Influence - Crows

Santohs - Ya No quiero más

This show was recorded in French 

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SPECIAL GUESTS : LES NEGRESSES VERTES

Interview with Les Négresses Vertes (background music)

Les Négresses Vertes - Les yeux de ton père (I’ll kill you - edit ) [Clive Martin & Andy Wright Remix]

Les Négresses Vertes - Face à la mer (Massive Attack Remix)

Les Négresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche (William Orbit Mix)

Jade Moede - Pride

The Owen Guns - Fuck Cyclists

Paul Cargnello - Jealousy

Organoclorados- Ate o Sol

Last of Misfit Heroes - Dead behind the eyes

Californicks - Perder ou ganhar ( background )

Ainsophaur - Tout sauf l’accalmie ( background )

Santohs - Ya No quiero más (background )

Mortom - Burning your bridges

Wolfpack - The Shield

Glittertrash - Whirlwind (background)

Insanidade - On fire

Yalla Yallas - The Morning Sun

Under The Influence - Crows

Santohs - Ya No quiero más

Gob Patrol - Bad Vibes

Suzitoy - Pro League

Homemade Ski Mask - Shooter

Manttra - Um lugar no cerrado

Maryllusion - Bad Dream

X-Ray Love - Lou

Kilfeather - In circles

Jade Moede - Pride

Screaming Bloody Mary’s - Hammer comes down

Rob Moss and Skin Tight Skin - There’s my ride

Ginny Fanthome interview about her book LOOSE GRAVEL  -

Bad Duck - Degenerado

The Derellas - Looking for you

Guillotine - A cran

Laurent Faye - Degré de Force

Gypsy Pistoleros - Mescalito Vampires

Robby Quine - Fabulosity UA

Adams Traktor - Divided

This lesson includes a role play for serving a customer and also an explanation of the different designs and sizes for phone lessons contact [email protected]

Presenting Ideas in a meeting

Keep facing the audience

Wait for everyone to settle down

Greet people

Connect device beforehand

Give a photocopy to avoid eye contact

Prior to starting we need to check:

-why we are doing this project

-how long it will take

-how many people we need on the team

-what materials

-potential problems

-proposed solutions

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1-A new project- let’s find out about it

JUDGMENT

To assess (weigh up the pros and cons)

To make an assessment

To deem necessary

To discern that something is necessary

To glean some information

To ascertain

To estimate

To hazard a guess (familiar)

a) It has been deemed necessary that the computer software be upgraded and we have estimated that it will cost more than €2000.

b) We don't know for the moment exactly but I hazard a guess that it will be €2300

c) We have to make an assessment of the existing software to see if we can sell it and I have gleaned some information from a phone call I had with a colleague that in fact second-hand software is not worth very much so it will be in my estimation not really a contributory factor.

Agreeing/disagreeing

To approve

This project is waiting for approval

The manager has approved the project and we have the go-ahead for production

The project is going ahead

The project has been approved

To disapprove

I disapprove of this idea

VERBS

To base on

To come up with

To fill in

To move on to

New project

So we are here today to talk about the new project the lexicon operation

Problem

We are here today to talk about the problem we have been having with the software

Praise

We are here today to give praise to team members who have secured deals this financial year

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To afford

We can't afford to upgrade this computer software

We must make do with what we have

It would be a bad idea to miss this opportunity, we can't afford to ignore it

You can't afford to make that mistake

You can't afford to miss this opportunity

It is very ill advised

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Financial vocabulary

A quote. A quotation

An inquiry about the product

A sales lead

We have some more leads concerning the crime

Never have we faced such serious problems

Never have I faced such a serious problem

Never have I been faced with such a serious problem

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Such a great idea

such + adjective + noun

So happy

So + adjective

It's high time you changed your tyres

It's time you changed your tyres

TENSES EXPLAINED

Present simple Regular repetitive situations

I work every day

stative verbs

I feel happy

I think it's a good idea

I like what I do

Do you like this restaurant?

Does she like this restaurant?

I work a nine hour day

I enjoy my work

First conditional presenting options

If you need assistance I will be able to show you how to access the file

If you can’t work it out for yourself, no need to feel worried about that, I know how you feel.

I will be able to go through it with you.

If the drop down menu isn’t showing you the file as I explained then maybe you need to check that you haven’t saved it incorrectly after changing something.

Present continuous Temporary exceptional situations

I am working

I am working on ongoing projects

at the moment, at

I have sold 10 units

This week this month this year recently

What have you decided to do?

I have used PowerPoint

I have never used Excel

I have hardly had a chance to finish my work

I have almost finished my work

I have sold 2000 memberships

I have never been to Moscow

I have driven three types of vehicle

We have decided to put back the meeting

We have received an accurate price estimation for the repairs

The vocabulary of CRIME AND social VALUES  by Paul Davies

The pioneering French sociologist Émile Durkheim theorized that attitudes towards crime and punishment represent an expression of a society's core values. Certainly, there is a strong element of moral relativity; that which is considered legal or illegal, acceptable of unacceptable, varies from society to society. However, we must also consider the idea that, in most societies, law, justice and punishment are imposed from 'above'. Even in modern democracies, key ideas about crime and punishment originated in darker, more oppressive times and the idea still persists that the criminal justice system exists to protect the rich and powerful. With this in mind, it is interesting to examine the words used in English to describe various crimes and criminals. With crimes that are almost universally abhorrent, there is little ambiguity. The terms used express revulsion and are condemning in tone. Usually these crimes are related to murder and sexual violence and the vocabulary employed is narrow and resistant to alternative interpretation. It is common for murderers, rapists or paedophiles to be described as 'cold blooded' and as 'preying' on their victims, the implication being that they are somehow reptilian and less than human. The celebrated US author Truman Capote named his iconic account of a bungled house break-in, the murder of the family who lived there and the subsequent execution of the two petty thieves involved IN COLD BLOOD. Obviously the ambiguity of the title is deliberate. Who acted in cold blood? Was it the thieves when they murdered an innocent family? Was it the state when it executed the murderers? Was it both? Other crimes carry a wider, more dynamic vocabulary, indicating a disparity between public attitudes to crime and the legal interpretations that are imposed upon the public. They also provide an insight into popular culture and myth. For example, the noun 'thief', the verb 'thieve' and the adjective 'thieving' usually have negative connotations. A thief is normally thought to be an unpleasant person.  If someone is described as 'thieving', the tone is almost always condemnatory. The thief is often thought to be the lowest of criminal categories and it is common to hear the phrase 'petty thief' to describe someone who, rather than being a 'professional criminal', is simply opportunist in nature. However, it is also common to hear the government, the tax department and banks described as 'thieves' or as 'thieving'. This would indicate a popular hostility to government and finance. The verb 'steal' has similar negative connotations. It is common to hear people complain that banks 'steal' their money. Likewise, the term 'pickpocket' has negative connotations. A pickpocket never steals from institutions, only ever the public. On the other hand, the noun 'Robber' has generally neutral or even positive connotations. A 'Bank Robber' is seen by many as a professional criminal and even, at times, worthy of respect. There is a famous song by the London-based punk band ‪The Clash‬ called 'Bank

Robber' which mythologises the professional, non-violent nature of the crime with doublenegative lyrics like "My daddy was a bank robber but he didn't hurt nobody." The noun 'Robbery' (used to describe the crime itself rather than the perpetrator) usually has neutral connotations and is used most commonly in reportage. Occasionally though it can be used negatively, usually to describe high prices, as in the term 'daylight robbery'. However, the verb 'Rob' is commonly used in association with mythic, redistributive folk heroes such as Robin Hood, who 'robbed the rich to feed the poor'. The noun 'Burglar' shares similar professional criminal connotations, as does the verb 'Burgle' and the noun 'Burglary', used to describe the crime itself.

4-FOURTH WEEK

MAY or MIGHT

HMS
Her majesty’s ship

H – have to-used for the law
M — must – used for strong advice
S — should – used for friendly advice

Have to - opposite of - mustn't


Must - opposite of - don't have to

You have to wear protective clothing on the building site (you don't have a choice) 👉👷🏻‍♂️

you mustn't enter into this zone unless you have authorization (you don't have a choice)👉🚧

You should go and visit your aunt (you do have a choice)👍 💁🏼‍♀️

You don't have to take a bottle of wine if you go to a party (you do have a choice)👍🍾


Friendly conversation using have to: you have to go and see this new movie 🎬


Friendly conversation using mustn't : you mustn't worry I'm sure everything is going to be all right 🧘🏾‍♀️


We use have to for deduction and we use have to for obligations.

Because have to is the highest modal used out of this list for obligation 
it is also the highest modal out of this list used for deduction: 

"you have to wear protective clothing" 
"Oh there was a knock at the door that has to be the postman.
When you go to Manchester you must take the M6. There was a knock at the door that must be John.

PART 2

CAN COULD MUST MAY MIGHT


Deduction language is also broken down into the family of can and could and the family of must, may and might

Capacity is a word which begins with C 

Mystery is a word which begins with M
The words must followed by may followed by might all begin with M 
so here we can remember that they are mystery words, things we do not really control
For example:
"oh it must be ‪1 o'clock‬"
"That may be my taxi"
"It might be time to check if the chicken is ready"



Capacity is a word which begins with C

For example the postman never comes to the door before 9 o'clock so if there's a knock on the door at 8:30 
we say that can't be the postman because we can judge by the fact that the postman never comes so early to the door. 

When judging the climate in the country we could say it can be very warm in the summer in Spain this is because it is 
usual for this to happen we wouldn't say it may be very warm in Spain. 

We also say it could be possible for you to have a table at nine in the restaurant.


If you are a Technically trained sales assistant it we would be more likely to use can or could
I think I know what the problem is that could be the pump or maybe we can imagine it's the ventilator
however if you are less qualified we are not so sure about something so we do not use can or could

May or might would be better for less certainty
For example
That might be the pump it might be the ventilator there again it may be some other thing which is not operating correctly.

Now a lesson about looming and lurking I would like to remind you that looming is about something on the horizon
it might be a good thing or a bad thing so if you have a photocopier you know that when you rent this machine you will need to check the 
toner every six weeks because the problem is looming.

However if you don't know much about a machine and you're not able to discern what exactly the problem is 
you would go with the M language so I understand that there's a problem with the machine and you said 
there was a noise near the heat sink so that may be a problem with the circuit will need to send somebody 
to check.
So here we could say that there's a problem lurking in the machine the problem is that we didn't see 
a problem in advance.
When we don't know about something, and when it is hidden we say it was lurking.
Looming is when it's obvious and we know it is coming.

The difference between cancer and back problems unfortunately cancer is something that lurks 
and back problems loom due to an accumulation of stress on the back on the spine.

Lesson one Tricking people

OBJECTIVE: a) Learn about unscrupulous tactics and the vocabulary and verbs related to them.

b) discuss any personal experience related to being a victim of unscrupulous tactics.

c) Invent a way of tricking people out of their money.

d) learn some other meanings of the phrasal verbs mentioned in this text and how they can be put to use.

Con artists confidence tricksters by Paul Davies

There is an old saying in Britain “if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is”. We have all heard stories about charming people, appearing out of nowhere, who smooth talk people, winning them over and buttering them up by paying them excessive compliments, using dialogue which repeats words like trust and loyalty using phrases such as “only you really understand me” or “you’re like the brother sister I never had” enticing them into putting increasing amounts of money into a get rich scheme only to disappear at the moment when the pay off is anticipated. Often, confidence tricksters also known as con artists will try to split up the mark’s existing friendships and family ties so that the mark also known as the victim can be more easily worked on. Many small confidence tricks or short cons involve appealing to people’s better nature for example the con artist asking for money or help with a sob story while in reality the money is needed for other purposes. However, larger, more elaborate cons known as Long cons usually involve appealing to people’s greed or lust. There’s an old saying “you can’t con an honest man”.

There is now a famous long con involving fictitious United Nations Aid money. The person claiming to represent a Third World government tells his or her mark, in the strictest confidence hence the term confidence trick and with excessive flattery, that there he or she has access to millions of dollars in United Nations Aid money but needs a foreign bank account in order to smuggle the money out of the country. If the mark / victim can help him or her by opening a bank account that he or she can access they will then split the money. He or she will also need a small amount of money in a bank account to cover expenses usually only 2000 or 3000 pounds and to make the accounts appear legitimate. Initially of course all will go well and the mark may even receive some money as payback. However the con artist will then explain that there is even more money to be made and the con becomes more elaborate. The mark will then reinvest the money he or she has made back into the scheme in order to make more. As the con progresses, the mark will be asked to put more and more money into the account as the stakes get higher and higher.

There is an interesting flaw in human nature that dictates the more a person has already invested in the scheme, the more they will invest in order to retrieve that money. It explains the success of the gambling industry. Of course, the con artist will become less flattering and more intimidating as the con progresses. As the idea of stealing money intended for famine relief is in itself highly immoral, the mark will be unlikely to go to the police or tell anyone what is happening and will instead, continue to throw good money after bad in the hope of striking it rich. Internet has proved to be a golden opportunity for many elaborate tricksters and online long cons are on the increase, some elaborate, some comically bad. If someone is an obvious mark we might warn them that a confidence trickster can “see you coming”. We will warn them that “you can never be too careful”.