Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
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Why is it so hard for customers to get out from Ikea's shops ? Here is one of Ikea's mazes : "A-mazing : a route a customer took through a store. Professor Alan Penn said they are designed to stop customers leaving" "If you've ever found yourself hopelessly...
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B1 - WRITING task Click on this overheated planet ⇑ to see the illustration you will study. Click on the PDF logo ⇑ to get the Worksheet and your writing task . >> [don't forget your password !] << (1) This article from 'Simple English Wikipedia' ⇑ may...
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ORAL COMPREHENSION Here is "South Africa plans huge solar farm" NPR's breaking news (delivered on October 28, 2010) : a radio file you will use to train your oral comprehension. This file is taken from the radio's website : NPR delivers both national...
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"Wikipleadia - The promise and perils of crowdsourcing content" This article ⇓ from 'The Economist'... ... deals with the charges of elitism the free online encyclopedia has to face ... and other troubles ! [User-generated content from the San Francisco...
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COMPREHENSION TRAINING "The Story of Electronics [...] employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the high-tech revolution's collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill." "Host Annie...
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This vocabulary sheet recaps words & phrases related to apartheid / segregation / racism Click on the map below to get the vocabulary sheet.
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How long did it take ? Barack Obama's historic election as the first black president of the U.S.A. was the result of a process that had started long before, with the previous elections of black men/women to civic & state political positions. Patrick Garvin...
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TEACHERS' LOUNGE English Second Language teaching jargon includes a great deal of acronyms This ⇓ page... ...displays most of the common ones... hope it will be of some use :o)
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In "Banksy sprays the Simpsons", << I told you about a famous British street artist who paints awesome graffiti and murals. The article also showed the introduction Banksy created for Simpsons' intro of episode 3 / season 22... You've already started...
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The American "cell phone behaviour"... ...was analysed by "Pew Internet" : they released a study which showed that if 65% of the American adults regularly use text messaging in September 2009, one year later 72% of them do. The study also pointed out...
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