Libre à qui le souhaite de tisser ici ses propres
fils avec ceux d'un blog à la trame dessinée par l'anglais et son univers. Orientés par exemple par l'histoire, l'humour, la musique ou le cinéma ses vidéos, textes, sons, illustrations -etc-
viennent y prolonger les thèmes explorés en cours, et j'y publie des ressources conçues pour enrichir la pratique de la langue. S'il peut devenir outil de progression, je souhaite aussi
qu'il vous procure plaisir et parfois même amusement... why not ?!
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anglais
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Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
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Be ready... the English you're about to listen is quite different from mine :)
And yet, teenagers are speaking here : I've just stumbled upon this BBC video featuring pupils from a Londonderry College. Listen to Northern Irish pupils talking about the slang they're familiar with : click on the map...
Map from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (Public Domain)
Coping with both slang and Northern Irish accent... not easy, eh ? ;o)
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(to) stumble upon =to discover something by chance, or to meet someone by chance (to) cope with =to deal successfully with a difficult situation
Here's a short podcast from "Wait wait... don't tell me !"
Click on the headphones and listen to this short report... Not only must punctuation be properly written... but it must also be properly 'spoken' ! "Wait wait... don't tell me !" is daily on air, on Click onnpr 's logo to read Wikipedia's article on this American media organisation.
Thanks so much to S. Leray, the colleague who had me discovernprpodcasts ;o)
A 'collaboration-and-trust' model for schools,rather than a 'market-and- competitiveness' one ! :"Diane RAVITCH recants long-held beliefs in her latest book...
Once an avid supporter of improving schools through accountability and choice, Diane Ravitch now says those ideas have led education astray. [...]"
“What she says in her book is that schools work best on a collaboration-and-trust model, and not on a market-and-competitiveness model.”
In September 2007, the Brtish duo Mattafixofficial website<< sang the soundtrack of the film "Living Darfur". At first the song was only downloadable ; it was the first music video clip shot inside a war zone.
The first seconds of the video feature an American actor you probably know... can you recognize him ? I'm helping you : he's one of the lead roles in the latest film by Clint Eastwood 'Invictus', currently on the French screens...
Apartheid was officially abolished in 1991. And yet, the differences between the Black South Africans and the Whites still linger... In this film, the American actor Morgan Freeman embodies a Nelson Mandela who bridges the gap between Afrikaners and Black South Africans thanks to the rugby national team !
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever — or else swoon to death.
... the poem by John Keats, nowadays considered one of the major romantic poets. The sonnet<< "Bright Star" was adapted for Fanny Brawne, whom the poet was engaged to in the last years of his life. Jane Campion based her biopic on John Keats' ultimate years and the passion he and Fanny Brawne felt for each other. here is the trailer :
The film is on the French screens at the moment, and it matches the St Valentine period quite well :o)
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a biopic = a film about the life of a real person (topic of the film = a biography
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Map from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (Public Domain) 
