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Thanksgiving history

Hello Dear all,

Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated primarily in United States and Canada. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. It will be celebrated on November 24th this year. The thanksgiving celebration has been brought by Europeans settlers to America in order to thank for the harvest.

Let's gather at this moment to thank for all we have got so far.

Watch the video below and get to know a bit about the history of Thanksgiving day.

Happy thanksgiving day

Best wishes

Nevton

what makes a good sales rep

Hello Folks

The objective of the post today is talking about what makes a successful sales rep.

PRE-TASK

Discuss this question: (5”)

“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

1. What makes a successful sale a good product or a good salesrep?

2. What makes a good salesrep?

Vocabulary - Adjectives of character

• Which of the adjectives would you use to describe a good salesrep ? Give reasons for your choice.

Now listen to the video below and check some of the adjectives that Alec Baldwin mentions:

Transcript

Glengarry Glen Ross

written by David Mamet

In this scene, Blake (Alec Baldwin) is confronting the employees of a tough Chicago real-estate office, Shelley Levene (Jack Lemmon), Ed Moss (Ed Harris) and George Aaronow (Alan Arkin) while their unsympathetic supervisor John Williamson (Kevin Spacey) looks on. If you would like, this monologue I'm sure can be edited into one incredibly long one, if you want to take out the lines from the other actors.

Blake: Let me have your attention for a moment! So you're talking about what? You're talking about...(puts out his cigarette)...bitching about that sale you shot, some son of a bitch that doesn't want to buy, somebody that doesn't want what you're selling, some broad you're trying to screw and so forth. Let's talk about something important. Are they all here?

Williamson: All but one.

Blake: Well, I'm going anyway. Let's talk about something important! (to Levene) Put that coffee down!! Coffee's for closers only. (Levene scoffs) Do you think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown. I'm here from Mitch and Murray. And I'm here on a mission of mercy. Your name's Levene?

Levene: Yeah.

Blake: You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?

Moss: I don't have to listen to this shit.

Blake: You certainly don't pal. 'Cause the good news is -- you're fired. The bad news is you've got, all you got, just one week to regain your jobs, starting tonight. Starting with tonights sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. 'Cause we're adding a little something to this months sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture? You're laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them! You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, you ARE shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it 'cause you are going out!!!

Levene: The leads are weak.

Blake: 'The leads are weak.' Fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years.

Moss: What's your name?

Blake: FUCK YOU, that's my name!! You know why, Mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove a eighty thousand dollar BMW. That's my name!! (to Levene) And your name is "you're wanting." And you can't play in a man's game. You can't close them. (at a near whisper) And you go home and tell your wife your troubles. (to everyone again) Because only one thing counts in this life! Get them to sign on the line which is dotted! You hear me, you fucking faggots?

(Blake flips over a blackboard which has two sets of letters on it: ABC, and AIDA.)

Blake: A-B-C. A-always, B-be, C-closing. Always be closing! Always be closing!! A-I-D-A. Attention, interest, decision, action. Attention -- do I have your attention? Interest -- are you interested? I know you are because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks! Decision -- have you made your decision for Christ?!! And action. A-I-D-A; get out there!! You got the prospects comin' in; you think they came in to get out of the rain? Guy doesn't walk on the lot unless he wants to buy. Sitting out there waiting to give you their money! Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it? (to Moss) What's the problem pal? You. Moss.

Moss: You're such a hero, you're so rich. Why you coming down here and waste your time on a bunch of bums?

(Blake sits and takes off his gold watch)

Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?

Moss: Yeah.

Blake: That watch cost more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am. And you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you -- go home and play with your kids!! (to everyone) You wanna work here? Close!! (to Aaronow) You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this -- how can you take the abuse you get on a sit?! You don't like it -- leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you got, make myself fifteen thousand dollars! Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can you? Go and do likewise! A-I-D-A!! Get mad! You sons of bitches! Get mad!! You know what it takes to sell real estate?

(He pulls something out of his briefcase)

Blake: It takes brass balls to sell real estate.

(He's holding two brass balls on string, over the appropriate "area"--he puts them away after a pause)

Blake: Go and do likewise, gents. The money's out there, you pick it up, it's yours. You don't--I have no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, close, it's yours. If not you're going to be shining my shoes. Bunch of losers sitting around in a bar. (in a mocking weak voice) "Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman, it's a tough racket." (he takes out large stack of red index cards tied together with string from his briefcase) These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you, they're gold. And you don't get them. Because to give them to you is just throwing them away.(he hands the stack to Williamson) They're for closers.

I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. (to Moss as he puts on his watch again) And to answer your question, pal: why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to, they asked me for a favor. I said, the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.

(He stares at Moss for a sec, and then picking up his briefcase, goes into inner office with Williamson)

Have fun,

Nevton

Global warming

Hey Folks

The weather has change a lot lately. All over the world people are suffering the effects of the global warming(drought,flood, twisters, tornados,high tide, etc.)

How about you?

1. Have you ever thought about it?
2. What have you done to protect our planet?
3. What can be done to save the world?

Watch the video and match the right answers:

a. The planet's temperature has risen from about 1.2 to 1.4 degrees Farenheit in the last

• 150 years
• 100 years
• 1000 years

b. The green house effect begins with

• the sun
• the earth
• the atmosphere

c. The two warmest years in measured history have beeen

• 1958 and 2005
• 1978 and 2005
• 1998 and 2005

d. Artic sea ice has decreased 10% in the last

• 13 years
• 130 years
• 30 years

e. By the end of the century, temperatures will increase between

• 2 to 10 degrees
• 2 to 12 degrees
• 10 to 12 degrees

f. Which of the following natural phenomena is not mentioned?

• draughts
• earthquakes
• floods

g. To reduce global warming we are advised to

• use public transport
• reduce speed
• drive fewer miles

Have fun.

Nevton

Source: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=7956

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=7956

OxfordWords blog | Oxford Dictionaries Online

Hello People

This is a very good blog, which will help you with your studies.

I hope you like it.

OxfordWords blog | Oxford Dictionaries Online

Nevton

Anglo-Saxon - The history of English

The post today is about the history of English in 10 minutes.

I hope you like it.

Source: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/english-language

Have fun

Nevton