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NC1A Practice makes perfect: why mock exams are great for students’ brains  ( The Guardian , 3 Dic. 2015) BB2 show:  Mock the week Unlikely Questions From This Year's Exams: Unlikely questions from this year's exams. Discuss the met physical meaning of the following poem. Would you like this exam to be A, multiple choice, or not. Discuss the following - the Nazis got all their ideas from the history channel. Who's the chap in The A-Team who would not go on the aeroplane, was it A, B, or B, A?  If a bank loses 60 billion pounds in a six month period, using numbers that you've plucked out of thin air, work out what the Chief Executive's bonus will be?  Quantify N in terms of Q when Q is a positive interchur that dissects a parabolic curve. How's your lucky pencil case now, eh, eh, eh?!  What's the name of that round thing that they throw in the Olympics? Discuss. Poetry. Is it all a bit gay?  Draw diagram ...

Everything you need to know about Shrove Tuesday : Feb. 28th 2017. Pancake Day 2013 blog entry . What is Shrove Tuesday like in New Orleans? If you go to New Orleans You ought to go see the Mardi Gras If you go to New Orleans You ought to go see the Mardi Gras When you see the Mardi Gras Somebody'll tell you what's Carnival for Get your ticket in your hand If you wanna go through New Orleans Get your ticket in your hand If you wanna go through New Orleans You know when you get to New Orleans Somebody'll show you the Zulu King You will see the Zulu King Down on St. Claude and Dumaire You know, you'll see the Zulu King Down on St. Claude and Dumaire An if you stay right there I'm sure you'll see the Zulu Queen.

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The Sandwich Technique to Deliver Bad News or Complaints The truth about whining, complaining, bitching & moaning Yorkshireand London are the UK's moaniest places Moaning is our defining British characteristic The hilarious  The Parrot Sketch by The Monty Python: - I wish to complain about this parrot...  What's wrong with it?  - It's dead.  No, no, it's not dead. It's resting.

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Kaitiakitanga – guardianship and conservation (The story) New Zealand Travel Website Sounds of NZ English Learn to speak NZ in 45" The media in NZ: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand  (videos) Top ten NZ books of the decade Hauntingly beautiful scenery: The Piano (1993) The story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times  where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. Truly remarkable! Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016):  Taika Waititi’s follow-up to the (also great) What We Do in the Shadows , is a pure delight and the perfect antidote after a bad day or a steady diet of too many sad movies. “Bad egg” Ricky Baker has been bounced out of more foster care situations than he cares to remember until he’s given his last chance with a couple living on a rural New Ze...

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses” – Bill Bryson 3D Key 1.  A. True: 1, 3, 6; False: 4, 5; Not enough info: 2  B. 2 by boat. 3 cruise. 4 traffic jams. 5 buildings. 6 negociate  2.  A. 2 freshly baked. 3 stunning views. 4 mouth-watering. 5 heart-stopping. 6 value-for-money. 7 breathtaking. 8 highly recommended  My favourite guides: Rough Guides The Travel Bug: A television travel programme I also enjoy:  Richard Quest, business traveller ...