80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi

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TSMO 80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi By Tom Philpott New York City, Wednesday August the15th, 2012 Is your kid going to a Coke school or a Pepsi school?

1 TSMO 80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi By Tom Philpott New York City, Wednesday August the15th, 2012 Is your kid going to a Coke school or a Pepsi school? If you don't know what I mean, consider yourself and your kid lucky. Starting in the early 1990s, poor public schools began selling exclusive "drink rights" to one or another big soda company, which would then supply all the beverages and junky snack food sold in the school snack bars, stores, and soda machines as well as at sports events. [...] Imagine going to a school where the uniforms are made by Nike, the cafeteria food comes from Pizza Hut and all the classrooms are sponsored by Mc Donald s or M&M s It is exactly what is happening in our country. [...] Obesity rates among children ages 6 to 11 in states that don't limit junk food sales and have contract with big companies have quadrupled over the past four decades, and nearly a third of children and adolescents more than 23 million kids and teenagers are obese or overweight. In 2010, President Obama signed a law requiring the establishment of national standards for snack foods and beverages sold in schools. Business and money VS health and kids, the mission is the hardest ever! A/Answer the following questions by making complete sentences in english: 1. What do they call a «Coke» or «Pepsi school»? 2. What is the author denouncing? 3. What are the advantages of such contracts for the companies? EXPRESSION Vous devrez rédiger un court paragraphe (environ 70 mots) et donner votre opinion sur la question suivante : Why do you think that schools shouldn't have contracts with companies such as Coca Cola and Pepsi? B/Answer the following questions in English by making complete sentences. 1/ What is the topic of this article? 2/ Why did Jimmy Hendrix want to join Clapton's group? 3/ What impact did that show have on his career?

2 Statue of Liberty Réponds au QCM page 9 du livret sur La Statue de la Liberté en t'aidant du texte ci-dessous et de recherches complémentaires sur internet. Design The statue was designed by a young French sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who was striving to build a statue like the great Colossus that once stood at the Greek island Rhodes. The statue's face was modeled after his mother's and the story goes that the body was modeled after a prostitute. The crown of Lady Liberty, as the statue is often affectionately called, has seven spikes, symbolizing the Seven Seas across which liberty should be spread. In her left hand she holds a tablet with the Declaration of Independence and in her right hand a torch, symbolizing Enlightenment. Construction The statue's steel framework was made by the French engineer Gustave Eiffel, better known as the man behind the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Thanks to an ingenious construction consisting of copper plates attached to the metal framework, the statue is flexible enough to withstand heavy storms. Large iron bars attach the framework to a central pylon. The Statue of Liberty was constructed in Paris, France. It took nine years before it was completed in 1884 after which it was sent to the USA in 214 crates. Even before the arrival of the statue, Bartholdi himself had traveled to the United States to discuss the location of the statue with president Ulysses S. Grant. Eventually it was decided tot erect the statue at a small island in the harbor of New York City. Today the island is known as Liberty Island. The biggest and most embarrassing problem was the construction of the pedestal, which had to be paid for by the Americans themselves. The statue's torch was displayed in Madison Square Park for six years - from 1876 until in an attempt to spark interest and attract funds. But it was only after publisher Joseph Pulitzer published the names of those who donated money for the project that the funds started flowing in. Eventually, the statue was erected ten years late, in 1886, when it was officially inaugurated by president Grover Cleveland. The Statue The Statue of Liberty is 46,5 meters (151ft) tall and together with the pedestal it reaches a height of 93 meters (305ft). You can take the staircase inside the statue and walk all the way up the 354 steps to the crown from where you have a nice view over New York City [...]. Source :

by Betsy & Giulio Maestro

by Betsy & Giulio Maestro he Statue of Liberty stands on an island in New York Harbor. She is a beautiful sight to all who pass by her. Each year, millions of visitors ride the ferry out to the island.