The Red Book

Des nouvelles? Oui, des nouvelles. Ben quin! Je vous ai parle de Patrick? Ce Sino-Canadien francophile de Edmonton qui est devenu mon pote a l`ecole ou je travaille? Ben, il a ete engage avec la mission de rediger un manuel pour etudiants intermediaires (le nanuel d`anglais pour debutants existant deja). Ben ce petit coquin d`Albertin a eu ben du front. Comme l`anglais de nos boss est passablement moyen, elles ont entierement fait confiance a Patrick pour rediger, mise en pager, corriger et tout, et il en a donc profiter pour s`amuser. Et je peux vous dire que ce manuel, qui vient d`etre imprime et shippe dans les 3 ecoles de BMC (ma compagnie), est une vrai joyau! Voici quelques extraits
(Patrick ne s`est pas gene pour se foutre de ma gueule et de celle de l`autre Patrick, un prof irlandais):

Could - past tense

Dialogue

"Patrick: Yikes Pierre, I could smell you from the other classroom! When was the last time you took a shower?
Pierre: I`m sorry I couldn`t shower yesterday because my landlord cut off my water.
Patrick: I really feel sorry for your students. Couldn`t you remember to put on more deodorant? You still reek.
Pierre: Ha funny! Well at least I don`t have students who could see through my ugly shirt.
Patrick: It`s not my fault. I couldn`t find a nice one that fits. I guess today is not our day."

J`ai meme contribue a l`ouvrage. Je me suis occupe, afin d`aider Patrick, de la section During/while. Extraits:

"He asked her to marry him during the party while he was completely drunk."

"While in bed, he realized that he had forgoten her name."

"Patrick always give bad examples during his lessons"

"What did you do during your trip to North Korea?"

Et finalement, la perle d`abusrdite, oeuvre de Patrick lui-meme:

Conversation 2: It/He/ She has been

Lisa: Hey Tim, how`s your girlfriend`s novel going?
Tim: She hasn`t finished it yet. She can`t do any writing, her computer has been possessed by an evil spirit, and it has been adding random swear words to everything she writes.
Lisa: Oh yeah, it`s quite uncommon. Has it done this before?
Tim: Yeah, but a friend of mine is a priest and he managed to fix it last week. But it has already gone back to swearing!
Lisa: That`s terrible! What she`s going to do?"

Questions:

1) What`s wrong with the computer?
2) When did the priest fix the typewriter?
3) When you find yourself typing swear words, do you blame evil spirits?

Je vais ramener une copie de ce livre a Montreal, c`est clair. J`en ai deja pique une.

Satoshi