Straight talk

Intermediate German For Dummies is your key to success in becoming confident in both written and spoken German. In this book, you get straight talk, the nitty-gritty, and enough detail to see you successfully through any major and minor roadblocks to communicating in German. You’ll find this book very user-friendly because you can go through it in any order you choose, zeroing in on your priorities. You can skim or, better yet, skip over the grammar you don’t need. Use the book to find answers to specific questions you may have on a topic that comes up while you’re writing.

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Ebook An anthropology of indirect communication: Part 2 presents the following content: Chapter 9: Dance, dissimulation and identity in Indonesia; Chapter 10: Don't talk blend: ideas about body and communication in aikido practice; Chapter 11: Licence revoked: when calypso goes too far; Chapter 12: Indirect speech: heteroglossia, politeness and rudeness in Irula forest festivals; Chapter 13: Straight talk, hidden talk and modernity: shifts in discourse strategy in Highland New Guinea; Chapter 14: Unwrapping rudeness: inverted etiquette in an egalitarian enclave; Chapter 15: Ambiguity and ve...

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ON DECEMBER 7, 1940, DURING THE SEASON FINALE AT SOUTHERN California, Notre Dame coach Elmer Layden charged onto the field to protest what he felt was a rotten call. But Layden didn’t stop there. After blistering the refs, he screamed at USC coach Howard Jones. A normally genial man, Layden had finally submitted to the abnormal pressure of coaching Notre Dame football. This pressure had increased for nine straight years—ever since March 31, 1931, the stunning day Knute Rockne died in an airplane crash....

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During our first visit, Sara seemed distracted. She was a pleasant, middleaged woman who had never sought care from a psychiatrist. Several months earlier she had begun to feel tired and irritable; she thought she had the flu. When her 25- year-old son called to say that he was getting a divorce, she began to cry. “I worried I had done something to break up his marriage,” she told me, dabbing at her eyes. “I felt so guilty.” Over the following months she became depressed and so preoccupied that she often forgot to pay bills.

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To keep the record straight: Orville Close was first man on the Moon. Harold Ferguson was second. They never talk about it. It started on that October morning when the piece came out in the Parkville News. Harold grumbled that they'd gotten the story all wrong, calling his ship a rocket ship, and treating him like a flagpole sitter or a man going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. His wife took

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Are you walking around with gloom and doom in your head? If so, put all the recession talk aside and take a walk down Main Street. Do you see people carrying shopping bags? Going into restaurants? Using cell phones? You see, life goes on. Business goes on. Customers still need you. Yes, they may be more cautious about spending. Some may be in financial trouble. But if you keep your head on straight, you’ll ride out the recession just fine. Tackle the first three or four items in this report today, then consider one more idea every day after that....

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shoot out (something) - to stick or throw something outward The man shot out his foot from under the table and made his friend fall down. shoot straight - to act fairly, to deal honestly with someone The salesman always shoots straight when he is dealing with his customers. shoot the breeze/bull - to talk idly I met my friend at the supermarket and we decided to shoot the breeze for a few minutes. shoot the works - to spare no expense or effort to do something They are planning to shoot the works with the victory celebration for the Olympic athletes. shoot up - to grow quickly The...

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I. Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, the Ss will be able to use: can/ can’t statements and traffic vocabulary to talk about what you are allowed and not allowed to do on the road. II. Language contents: - Grammar: Modal verb: can and cannot/ can’t - Vocabulary: policeman, difficult, sign, one-way, park, turn left, turn right, go straight. III. Techniques: slap the board, complete the sentences, make the sentences, ask and answer, pair works, group works.

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[I Want to Start at the Start] [I Want to Go Straight to Hacking] INTRODUCTION: A little background is needed before we get into hacking techniques. When we talk about ‘Hacking’

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Dialogue 1: CINDY: Grant's a lively person, who never seems to stop talking. He's short and solid with blue eyes and a mop of grey hair. He's considerate and gentle, with a good sense of humour. He's very active physically, and loves all kinds of sport. I'd say he has a positive attitude towards life and people. Dialogue 2: CINDY: Michelle's a likeable woman, who cares about other people. She's quiet and shy and not much of a conversationalist. She prefers reading to sport. She's tall and thin. She's fair skinned and very pretty with long, straight, blonde hair and green...

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