Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
These forecasts and polls have just been updated : 1) A map that shows who might become the next President of the U.S.A. 2) A visual that represents the 538 Electoral College Votes. It shows each state sized by its number of electoral votes 3) A map representing...
Observe comment placer ta langue de manière à bien prononcer le son / ð / correspondant au "th" de "this", "then", "that"... elle appuie sur les dents de devant quand tu "souffles" l'air. Si tu places tes mains sur les cordes vocales, tu les sentiras...
Google's daily shows a new doodle -you know, these scribbles of their name that sometimes get true artwork ?!! Today's doodle is related to Wales saint patron (St David) : 1st March, 2018 doodle by Google Phil Haig's article [from metro UK website] :...
"12 Years a Slave" trailer - English (French subtitles) "[...] Solomon Northup was a free black man living in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. in 1841, when he was coaxed by “two gentlemen of respectable appearance” to travel to Washington, D.C. for employment....
The first sketch from the programme's here ! "American Gothic" was painted by Grant Wood. The artist "combined Americana with European technique. Inspired by the window that recalled the cathedrals he had seen in Europe during his training and travels,...
A tragedy is “a play with an unhappy ending”... ... but this is just too simple : there's more ! Tragic plays can be traced back all the way to the beginnings of drama in Ancient Greece. In "Poetics", one of the first books of literary criticism, Aristotle...
Cher élève, la nouvelle année scolaire a commencé : de nouvelles connaissances et méthodes, parfois de nouveaux manuels... des règles qui te permettent de mieux travailler -règles que que tu suis parfois déjà dans l'établissement comme dans ta classe....
LEARNINGCHOCOLATE : un site illustré pour enrichir ton vocabulaire. L'outil numérique découvert et utilisé cette semaine en classe est un dictionnaire illustré. Les illustrations sont là pour t'aider à les mémoriser et à les réutiliser. Clique sur l'illustration...
You work for the WWF Advertising Department : you'll have to design the front page of a leaflet campaigning against man-made global warming effects. The WWF = the World Wildlife Fund : a global environment-friendly organization created 56 years ago. Its...
IMPACTS of global warming Although the environment endures a great deal of threats and damages, there may be some solutions. The mind map below shows things people could do to slow global warming and to protect our planet : The third map indicates the...
MacMillan's Wheel of irregular verbs [update] Mémoriser le simple present (3e pers. du sing.) et le preterite des verbes irréguliers les plus courants en jouant en groupe ou en t'entraînant individuellement... et devenir imbattable !! Clique sur l'illustration...
Voici un tableau avec les différents aspects (simple / continuous ou "be + V-ing" - perfect / perfect continuous) des temps en anglais : passé, présent, futur (past, present, future). Tu as déjà vu toutes les formes inscrites... mais concentre-toi plus...
WANTED : Social Networkers' self-mockery ;o) By kalokwong1 - on 9GAG.com, a fun sharing community High School students & beyond : Decode the reasons why the author of the poster has chosen each explanation... can you answer these questions? Twitter :...
Today is "Groundhog Day" ! First... what's a groundhog ?! Just contemplate the photo below :o) Click on the picture to read a short article on Simple English Wikipedia... You will need information to complete the mini webquest I have just prepared for...
BBC History : Events / The Blitz People in Coventry walk to work past smouldering piles of rubble after a bombing raid in 1940. "Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was applied by the British press to the tempest of heavy and frequent bombing raids...
10 days to go before St Patrick's Day ! These infographics tell us about mythical Saint Patrick, the history of the saint and other facts and trivia. Dans 10 jours, la Saint Patrick et ses festivités : clique sur les infographies pour en savoir davantage...
Nov. 12, 2016 update : Guess-the-google is temporarily offline for maintenance. Hopefully back online soon. Guess the word that made Google answer by showing these pictures ! Here is the rule of "Guess-the-Google" game : while you watch a group of pictures...
Food and cooking are part of a country's culture -it can even get artistic ! From today on, they deserve a specific category on this weblog... Let's start with a recipe I found on VIDEOJUG open th page below : https://youtu.be/6ve3UFzhH7s Hallowe'en usually...
The infographic below outlines commonly using Google... affects your memory It reviews different Google tools in the Analysis (green) / Organisation (light blue) / Search (dark blue) / Image (orange) fields and compares how our memory and our brain used...
This year, the 84th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 26. Click on the infographic below to get detailed information on the Academy Awards' history. The ceremony will take place in Hollywood, and it will be televised live by the ABC...
On July 22, in... - 1588 : > > > The SPANISH ARMADA (an invasion fleet sent by Philip II of Spain) is sighted off the coast of Cornwall. - 1969 : US astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon, stepping down from Apollo 11. How much...
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...
Le corps, ses parties Click ⇑ En passant le pointeur de la souris sur les différents éléments du corps tu verras apparaître leur nom, et tu l'entendras prononcé The body and its different parts : First, listen to the 42" audio file : it lists different...
Wish to learn more on Valentine's Day tradition and habits ? You'll find about them in the infographic below : This infographic tells you about the history of Saint Valentine, and Valentine's Day in the United States. The illustration results from a collaboration...
(1) Sometimes... we really don't know how to pronounce an unknown English word ! > > > " PRONOUNCE" is an interesting "add-on" (= a tool you can add onto Firefox) which gets you to hear the word pronunciation : > select the unknown word > right-click...