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We agreed that Jane would join us at King's Cross.
We need an idea that can unite us.
It took some time for the two halves of the bridge to join.
You have a lovely voice. Why don't you join our choir?
What do you think will happen if I join these two wires?
The victory in the war united the nation and made it more hopeful.
Mike dreams to join the navy after he leaves school.
James was a born leader and soon the party united behind him.
Who would like to join me for a game of volleyball?
Children, stand in a circle and join your hands.
England and Scotland united in 1707
Why don't you join us for dinner tonight?
I think in the modern world it is important to unite and not to divide people.
Oil and water will not unite.
Wendy left her office and went to the cinema to join her friends there.
Do you mind if I join you?
When did the two parties unite?
Julia wants to join the army which I can't understand.
We would like to welcome everybody who has joined the cruise today.
Are you sure that these parties have united?
Where do the two streams join?
Andrew joined us for a walk.
I think I will join the club of young ecologists.
Paul is a member of a football team now, he joined it not long ago.

1. Dennis was at the train station waiting for a train.

2. Where were you living in 1990?

3. At eight o'clock she was reading the news.

To conclude, women’s conditions have evolved since the 19th century, when women’s roles were reductive for them with, as we said, only one goal, be the perfect wife and mother.
But fortunately things have changed alongside the centuries, with more rights for women and a much reduced equality gap between men and women.
But the gap between both genders remains present, and still today, women and men work together to make this difference disappear in the name of feminism but also of gender-equality, as we saw in the Emma Watson’s speech.
. Although for decades British women have gained more and more rights, there are still many inequalities between men and women today and so this leads us to wonder: When will women be totally equal to men ?

Nowadays, the fight for gender equality continues. In many countries women don’t have the same rights as men. Among other things, they don’t have an equal pay. Many women have decided to carry on the fight. One of them, Emma Watson, delivered a speech at the headquarter of the United Nations on September 2014 to remind that men and women have to be set on an equal footing.
This British actress is also the Ambassador of the campaign HeForShe which aims at ending gender inequality.The HeForShe solidarity movement was created by UN Women in June 2014. This campaign mobilizes people of every gender identity in the world as advocates of gender equality

SYNOPSIS
In 1968 women machinists at the Ford car factory in Dagenham, near London, vote to strike.
Ford has decided to give them less money, on the grounds that their work is unskilled.
Rita O’Grady becomes the leader of the women in their growing fight against the company.
Rita and the women have the support of the factory’s union rep, Albert, but other union bosses are opposed to the strike.
The women lose much of the support of the male workers when Ford closes the whole factory as a result of the women’s strike.
The problem becomes so serious that the UK government’s Employment Minister, Barbara Castle, arranges to meet Rita.
Despite threats that Ford will pull out of the UK, Castle agrees to most of the women’s demands, and promises to introduce laws that ensure pay equality between the sexes across the UK.
Made in Dagenham tells the story of real events at Ford’s Dagenham factory in 1968. The women went on strike to protest the fact that they were classed as unskilled workers. They were on strike for three weeks, and production at the factory –the biggest in the UK – came to a complete stop.
The problem was only resolved by the intervention of Employment Minister, Barbara Castle.
In 1970 the Equal Pay Act was brought in and it was now against the law to have different rates of pay for men and women.
Despite this law, the fight for complete equality still continues: in 2010 women working full-time in the UK earned on average 16.4% less per hour than men working full-time.
Although the film is based on real events, it is not completely accurate. There was no real Rita O’Grady – the writers based her character on several of the women.

YOU see, sir," said the staff-captain, "I was quartered, at the time, with a company in a fortress beyond the Terek—getting on for five years ago now. One autumn day, a transport arrived with provisions, in charge of an officer, a young man of about twenty-five. He reported himself to me in full uniform, and announced that he had been ordered to remain in the fortress with me. He was so very elegant, his complexion so nice and white, his uniform so brand new, that I immediately guessed that he had not been long with our army in the Caucasus.
"'I suppose you have been transferred from Russia?' I asked.
"'Exactly, captain,' he answered.
"I took him by the hand and said:
"'I'm delighted to see you—delighted! It will be a bit dull for you... but there, we will live together like a couple of friends. But, please, call me simply "Maksim Maksimych"; and, tell me, what is this full uniform for? Just wear your forage-cap whenever you come to me!'
"Quarters were assigned to him and he settled down in the fortress."
"What was his name?" I asked Maksim Maksimych.
"His name was Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin. He was a splendid fellow, I can assure you, but a little peculiar. Why, to give you an instance, one time he would stay out hunting the whole day, in the rain and cold; the others would all be frozen through and tired out, but he wouldn't mind either cold or fatigue. Then, another time, he would be sitting in his own room, and, if there was a breath of wind, he would declare that he had caught cold; if the shutters rattled against the window he would start and turn pale: yet I myself have seen him attack a boar single-handed. Often enough you couldn't drag a word out of him for hours together; but then, on the other hand, sometimes, when he started telling stories, you would split your sides with laughing. Yes, sir, a very eccentric man; and he must have been wealthy too. What a lot of expensive trinkets he had!"...
"Did he stay there long with you?" I went on to ask.
"Yes, about a year. And, for that very reason, it was a memorable year to me. He gave me a great deal of trouble—but there, let bygones be bygones!... You see, it is true enough, there are people like that, fated from birth to have all sorts of strange things happening to them!"
"Strange?" I exclaimed, with an air of curiosity, as I poured out some tea.

A new museum entirely dedicated to laziness has opened in Colombia’s capital, Bogota. But, you have to hurry if you want to see the exhibits and find out about being lazy because the exhibition lasts for only one week. The unusual show has displays that include a whole range of sofas, beds, hammocks, futons and anything that lets you take the weight off your feet. There are also plenty of televisions for visiting couch potatoes to watch while they lounge around in the museum. The museum’s opening so soon after the holiday season is no coincidence. The idea is for people to think about laziness, and perhaps change their behaviour and lifestyle throughout the rest of the year. It is a hands on, or we should say bottoms on, way of making us think about laziness in our high-speed, fast-paced societies.

The museum’s curator Marcela Arrieta said she wanted people to have a rethink about laziness and decide whether it really is a bad thing. She told the Associated Press news agency: "We always think about laziness as an enemy of work.” Ms Arrieta may not be leading a revolution for a shorter working week, but she could have a point in that we might just be designed to need more down time than our jobs allow us. Avoiding the pressures and stresses of work and chilling out more may even make us healthier and live longer. Arrieta explained that the exhibition aims to “make people think about the social issues implied in taking a nap, in being jobless or in feeling that maybe we are wasting time.” Try out her advice for yourself; take the weight off your feet, put your feet up, and think about being lazy.

We agreed that Jane would join us at King's Cross.
We need an idea that can unite us.
It took some time for the two halves of the bridge to join.
You have a lovely voice. Why don't you join our choir?
What do you think will happen if I join these two wires?
The victory in the war united the nation and made it more hopeful.
Mike dreams to join the navy after he leaves school.
James was a born leader and soon the party united behind him.
Who would like to join me for a game of volleyball?
Children, stand in a circle and join your hands.
England and Scotland united in 1707
Why don't you join us for dinner tonight?
I think in the modern world it is important to unite and not to divide people.
Oil and water will not unite.
Wendy left her office and went to the cinema to join her friends there.

Jane: I can’t wait for the Christmas and New Year holiday.
Andrew: I know. What are you planning to do this year?
Jane: For Christmas I will stay with my parents. Then for New Year I will visit a friend who lives in Edinburgh.
Andrew: That will be great. I’ve always wanted to celebrate the New Year in Scotland.
Jane: They call it Hogmanay in Scotland, and it should be great fun.
Andrew: Will you go to a party?
Jane: We will go to Princes Street. It is the main road in the city center. They have a massive party.
Andrew: What about all the cars on the road?
Jane: There isn’t any space for cars. Anyway, the road is closed so all the people fill the street from side to side.
Andrew: What will you do at the party?
Jane: Just have fun. Go into some pubs for some drinks and look at all the entertainment.
Andrew: It sound like good fun.
Jane: Yes it will be. Then the best bit is singing Auld Lang Syne at the stroke of midnight.

He pitched into me as soon as I arrived, asking where the work was.
Cut flowers will soon wilt without water.
After only an hour's hiking they were beginning to wilt in the heat.
We were stopped by two hulking security guards.
How do you expect me to lift that hulking great box?
The carpenter knocked off early to take his kid to baseball practice.
A low branch knocked her off her horse.
One of the side mirrors on the truck got knocked off.
He was hell-bent on revenge.
Babies like to gnaw hard objects when they're teething.
A dog lay under the table, gnawing on a bone.
I've been gnawed by guilt about not replying to her letter yet.
The feeling that I've forgotten something has been gnawing at me all day.
After dinner, I ensconced myself in an armchair with a book.
She is fully ensconced in the Senate.
He was ensconced in a large armchair in his warm living room.
Off-label uses may include giving a drug for a disease other than the disease it is approved for, or for treating a child when the product is approved to treat adults.
The lives of thousands of birds are in jeopardy as a result of the oil spill.
The deal could be in jeopardy if it emerges the company is engaged in activities prohibited by the US government.
He rummaged through the jumble of papers on his desk.
Her clothes were all jumbled together in the suitcase.
Enclosed is a brochure that highlights the benefits that you can receive as a corporate donor.
They produced a brochure on healthy eating that was to be distributed in supermarkets.
He ran into difficulties with his mortgage, building up more than £18,000 arrears.
The government is committed to the full and timely payment of its public debt and arrears.
We'll have to see how things pan out.
Their attempt to start a new business didn't pan out.
They begrudged every day they had to stay with their father.
He’s worked every weekend for the last three months, so you can’t begrudge him a little time off now.
I had the car jacked up on blocks.
Ad rates will be jacked up to $3600 a month.
We had no idea which hotel would be best, so we just took pot luck with the first one on the list.
Mary's welcome to stay for dinner if she doesn't mind taking pot luck.
We invited all the neighbors over for a pot luck supper last night.
Stop shilly-shallying and make a decision now!
I didn't really know anyone at the party, so I felt like a misfit.
I was a bit of a social misfit at college because I didn't like going out at night.
Did you tattle on us to the teacher?
My sojourn in the youth hostel was thankfully short.
After a brief sojourn in Holland to study Sanskrit, he moved to India.
The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.
Her friends never faltered in their belief in her.
She did a bang-up job.
The basement work area is filled with creative clutter.
We want our message to stand out among the clutter of advertising.
I try not to let my problems at work carry over into my private life.
The competitive balance of the regular season has been carried over to the playoffs.
Every chugger I speak to believes in the value of what he or she is doing, and that public hostility is just part of the job.
She did a stencil of a rainbow on her daughter's bedroom wall.
You greedy pig! You're not having another chocolate biscuit!
It would be greedy to have another slice of cake.
I knew William when he was still in diapers.
I flunked my Biology exam.
No one has owned up to stealing the money.
A young nurse looked at the two men and waited for one of them to own up.
Good posture makes your muscles more limber.
he proposal to cut taxes was nothing but a campaign gimmick.
Some Wall Street bankers say one-stop shopping is more of a marketing gimmick by the banks.
The fan-voting element is little more than a gimmick that helps the network distinguish its award show from others.