Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
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(1) Jack O'Lantern is one of the most popular legends related to Hallowe'en : it's an Irish tale... Click on the lantern to discover the story of 'Stingy Jack'... (1) : Photo by Photograph by Toby Ord, under CC BY-SA license
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"The Boat that Rocked" got a most English title in France : "Good Morning England !"" ... which became "Pirate Radio" in the U.S.A. It tells the story of a fictitious pirate radio station : "Radio Rock", whose crew of disc jockeys broadcast rock and pop...
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Linus blows the class rep' election... ... by telling his schoolmates about the 'Great Pumpkin' during the speech, though he aimed at becoming the class representative (= "délégué" in France). Indeed, Linus is probably the most naive character in "The...
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... 1989 ? A powerful earthquake -which lasted 15 seconds- shook San Francisco : the epicentre of the quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale.Tremors from the quake were reported 400 miles away in Los Angeles and 200 miles away in Reno (Nevada). There...
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Today you met your English assistant. Have a look at the map : do you remember where she comes from ? Which state ? Which city ? For Monday 19, you know you must draw her portrait. Re-read your notes and remember the information she told you about, in...
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This word is unusual : every time you remove one of its letters, it changes into another one... ... until you get a one-letter word -which still has a meaning ! .
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Speech at T.E.D.'s -Technology, Entertainment, Design (1) The former vice-president of the U.S.A. (also film-'star' of "An inconvenient truth") suggests 15 possible ways of reducing climate change... now ! The man who called himself the "former future...
Lire la suiteHere is what you mustn't do in a cinema : watch Mr Bean, he is forbidden to do various things. He cannot drink nor eat... ... until he gets THE soda and THE pop-corn :o)
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A 2-minute version of the Google Earth Climate introductory tour View the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth : find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN's climate conference ^ in Copenhagen (COP15),...
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Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan refuses possible failure... ... by world leaders to reach a global agreement on fighting climate change at UN talks in Copenhagen in December . Last Thursday, Annan was at Descartes University in Paris to promote...
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