Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
"The wondrous openness of the mind of a child" "Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments...
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The Most Widely Spoken Languages in the world & the countries they are spoken in I know the illustration below looks like a map of London tube ... but actually, it shows the most widely spoken languages in the world and the countries where people speak...
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"Everybody deserves the chance to benefit from the cultural and economic advantages language skills can bring. Learning languages also helps to develop tolerance and understanding between people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds." say...
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Here's a grammar sheet I've just prepared to help my little frogs cope with choosing a quantifier, for it isn't easy... there are so many of them !! Click on ^^^ the folder to get the recap :the main quantifiers are categorized in a table which is meant...
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A funny BBC teacher introduces you idioms connected with 'tea' : All right... instead of trying to imitate the rude noises you've heard in the end of the video, you'd better find a French equivalent to the 3 idioms you've just learnt in the video ! Check...
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Can you imagine reasons why learn English ? As for me, before I started learning English at school, I loved the songs I listened to and most of them had English lyrics... ... thus, I learned English because I did love the music of its words :-) What about...
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- ING - ED adjectives Many English adjectives qualifying emotion/feeling are formed from the -ed and -ing forms of the corresponding verb. If something is puzzl ing, it provokes a reaction : it acts on you. When you are puzzl ed, you react to something...
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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...
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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,...
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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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