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Power -as represented in TV series

Power -as represented in TV series

When French builds up... your English ! Terminales - Places & Forms of POWER Here is an interesting article from Télérama website letter, on how power occurs in TV series -especially in English- and how it is represented. Reading it helps you work on...

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Open journalism : 'The 3 little pigs' VIDEO

"This advert for the Guardian's open journalism screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social...

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US TV series : improve your English !

US TV series : improve your English !

The timeline below shows various American TV series that can be watched also in France -until December 2012 : Lots of them are rather famous in France : you probably already know many of them, as "Dexter", "Medium", "NCIS", or... Their quality varies...

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The Guardian -since May 5, 1821

The Guardian -since May 5, 1821

^^^ was formerly known as "The Manchester Guardian" and founded in 1821. "The Guardian" is told to have the 2nd largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world (after the New York Times). On the first page of the May 5, 1821 issue,...

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Press/radio/TV... MEDIA websites

Press/radio/TV... MEDIA websites

Kidon Media-Link is a website gathering myriads of links There, you can get thousands of media and news sources -from almost any country in the world- which allow you to access magazines, newspapers, TV or radio programmes. Have a try ! <<< Every country...

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A singer's web page targeted !

To be honest, Justin Bieber's music gets on my nerves :-( But variety is the spice of life and... of music too I guess. The singer's "My World Tour" page has become the target of an internet joke : Click here >> BBC news to read the full article The unexpected...

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EarthdayTELEVISION

EarthdayTELEVISION

Earth Day's coming soon... be ready ! For a start, you can click on the logo below... and visit the site of EarthDayTELEVISION. There, you can watch specific channels like Global warming / Alternative energy / Greener living / Earth Day (and others) or...

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A history of the Internet -ANIMATION

"History of the Internet" Here's s an animated documentary that presents the inventions of the web : from time-sharing to filesharing... from Arpanet to the Internet ! Animation by Melih Bilgil (the video's not always 'fluent' -couldn't manage to fix...

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Milgram's experiment & TV "games"...

Milgram's experiment & TV "games"...

How far would people go ? On Wednesday night, a new "game" was on air on a French TV channel. Click on the TV set to watch the video extract, on the BBC : "Christophe Nick, the producer, said he was amazed that so many contestants [in the Game] followed...

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CNN live. . . on the Internet

CNN live. . . on the Internet

Most often, "Cable News Network" is referred to by its initialism : CNN CNN This major American cable news network was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. CNN was the first network to offer a twenty-four seven television news coverage, and the first all-news...

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