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Hey there! If you follow that link , you'll find all the different goups for the last ETLV projects. The first thing I'd like you to work on, is finish that project. Send me your powerpoint presentation at slorent.fimon@gmail.com, and I'll give an extra generous bonus to all of you. Next, we'll have some regular English for good measure. Thanks, and take care!

Displaced in China Today we read the last document of the sequence. It was about a Mr. Saragoza, an American Apple employee displaced in China to supervise work in a Foxconn plant. He decided to quit his job because of the long work hours and because he couldn't see his children much. The text also summed up what a Foxconn plant looks like in China, and the magnitude of the numbers involved: 230.000 employees, guided by 300 foot guides, fed with 3 tons of pork and 13 tons or rice a day, working 12 hour work shifts, and producing 40% of the world's consumer electronics ( electronic devices ). This is what globalization is about, and many economists tend to forget that it has a price to pay (. ..that it has a flipside ): to "sacrifice living standard gains made [in] the 20th century [...] that have come to define American middle class." Vocab overnight     -> du jour au lendemain to sump up  -> résumer ( to sum it all up,  pour résum...

warm up i present at you 4 20 to mean 4 hours 20 minutes recreational drugs hippies embarrassing legalization 17 vs 70 it was no legal -> it wasn't legal revolutionaries to voice one's concerns straight edge xxx Planet Of The Phones Today we started studying a text from  The Economist. We tried and divided the document into different parts. Here is the outline ( le plan ): - 1st Part : sta TI stics / future / smartphones in daily life hyperbole to exemplify defining ubiquity growth to miss - 2nd part : supercomputing power on the move ; delivering data is cheaper and cheaper. Connectivity and interaction to drop -> baisser * * * we finished reading that text today.  Ideas from the text: part 1: smartphones outsell computers. They're portable and ubiquitous. It will change society just like the cars or the watch have in the past. Examples: - The Arab Spring (using Twitter to post info about the abuse of dictatorship, documenti...

the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks. Wrong : line 11, " for over two years, the company had been working on a project code named Purple 2, [...] reimagin[ing] the cellphone? " the components in the iphone came from many different countries. Right : line 14, "The answers [...] were found outside the USA, [...] all iPhones countain hundreds of parts, [...] 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad." these components were assembled / put together in China Right : lines 17-18, "And all of it is put together in China." Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket Right : line 3, "Mr Jobs held up his iPhone [...], tiny scratches marring its plastic screen [...], people will carry [it] in their pocket." S. Jobs demanded a glass screen. Right : line 22, "Mr Jobs demanded a glass screens in 2007." S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA. Wrong S. Jobs ...

Apple's Machinery / Manufacturing the iphone Today we scanned an article published in 2012 in the New York Times, and written by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher. Here are the points we think we understood: the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks. the components in the iphone came from many different countries these components were assembled / put together in China Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket S. Jobs demanded a glass screen. S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA. S. Jobs wanted to have the screen come from the USA, but it was too expensive. This text is about the period before the iPhone was released . Warm Up considered a symbol for  he was born on/in he died on/in Black Ark studios there is apple society, wants to reimagine iPhone, wants to... cost... reduce the costs of the iPhone article write in nytimes in 2012 by xxx the text talks about the project of iPhone durant / du...