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1. I got some money for my birthday last week so on Saturday I went shopping and I bought some new clothes – some jeans and a shirt. They were in a asale and they had 30% off the nrmail price. I saved over 50 euros. I also tried on some booths, but I didn’t buy them because they weren’t very comfortable. I also took back some gloves that were a birthday present form my sister. They didn’t fit me very well, so I exchanged them for another pair. I weared my new jeans and shirt yesterday fot the first time. I felt good in them.

 

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The world’s first cash machine appeared at a branch of Barclays Bank in the north London in June 1967. The cash machine was the first and last invention of John Shepherd-Barron. “ In those days, it wasn’t possible to get money when the bank was closed. One day, I suddenly dispensed the idea of having a machine similar to a drinks machine that was cash, not drinks. It has a very simple idea exlained Mr Shepherd-Barron.

 

The chief executive of Bracays at the time liked the idea and immediately sang a contract with Mr Shepherd-Barron. The first machines paid out maximum of £10 a time. But we didn’t spend much in those days and that was enough for the weekend, Mr Shepherd-Barron remembers.

 

At the time of the invention of the cash machine, plastic cards developped, so customers didn’t exist paper cheues into the machines. But these was fragile and difficult to read, so the banks insert the plastic cash card.

 

Another bby-product of the cash machine was the PIN. Mr Shepherd-Barron originally wanted a six.digit number, but his wife, Caroline, didn’t agree. During breakfast one morning, she said four numbers was the maximum she coulf remember so, because of my wife, four digits became the world standard he laughs.

 

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A I’m thnking of selling some of my things. I need some money.

B Really? What are you going to sell?

A Oh – some of my clothes and DVDs . As many as I can!

B That reminds me of that guy in Australia a few years ago who sold everuthing he had on eBay.

A Why did he do that ?

B He wanted to stat a new life after he broke up with with his wife. He didn’t want to have anything that reminded him of her.

A What did she sell?

B Everithing. His house, everything inside it, his car and his motorbike. I think he also introduction to his friends.

A And di people buy things?

B Yes they did. Apparenly there were several hundred offers.

A And how much money did he get?

B I think got about £300,000. He used soem of the money to go travelling and then he bought an island and built hmself a house there.

A How old was he ?

B I think he was in his early 40s at the time.

A Well, I don’t need to sell everthing,m luckily.

 

 

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1. We didn’t watch all of film, but we wached most of it.

2.I didn’t read the first book in the series, bue I read the second or third.

3.She didn’t pass her economics exam, bue she passed all the others.

4.I didn’t see Bruce last night, but I saw Brad and Sheila.

5.We didn’t go out on Friday, but we went out on Saturday night

 

Pag.52 es.1

Smith quickly took the free kick while Liverpool were organizing their defensive wall. The Liverpool players were running to the referee to protest, but he already walked back to the centre circle.

Titanic was sailing from Southampton to Now York when it hit the iceberg at 11.40 p.m. on the 14^th April 1912. The ship was carrying 2,224 passengers, of which only 711 survived.

But lucky Lotto winner Jim Jones’s wife was more interested in her favourite TV show than in their good fortune. Mr Jones explains: “ I was listening to the radio in the kitchen when they announced the winning numbers. I was running to tell my wife, but she watched at the time and she just told me to be quiet. It was only after I shouted” I don’t believe it, fifty million euros “ for the tenth time, she finally realized what I was saying’. Mrs Jones then…

Pag.53 es.2

1. Ron broke his leg while he was playing rugby.ù
2. I saw you last night. You were walking along Queen Street.
3. We were running a stroll in the park when it started to rain. We got to the cafè.
4. My parents first met when they were teaching in the same school about twenty years ago. They had married about a year late.

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In July 1957, 15-year-old paul McCartney went to a garden fete at St Peter’s Church in Liverpool. John Lennon performed at the event with his band The Quarryman. Paul was looking for a band to join at the time and a mutual friend introduced him to John. Soon after, John invited Paul to join the Quarryman. On the 18^th October 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney first played together live. The following year, John was looking to add a further guitarist to the band’s line-up and Paul suggested an old school friend, George Harrison. George joined the band in the summer of 1958. After several name changes, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Long John and the Beatles, they finally became the Beatles in 1960. At first, the band mainly played American rock ‘n’ roll covers, but soon they wrote their own songs and by the early 1960s they performed mostly original material. The line-up of the Fab Four was complete when Ringo Starr replaced the original drummer, Pete Best, q962. In the same year, they released their first single Love Me Do and ‘ Beatlemania’ was born