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Phillip Niemeyer is an art director at 'Double Triple' ( an art & design studio). Three days ago, his "Picturing the Past 10 Years" was issued in the New York Times . Click on the outlined name of the US daily (above -green) to discover a chart gathering...
Here is the American flag parody by ADbusters you studied before Xmas holidays You have already detailed the original U.S. flag & revised its different elements : you know what they stand for -well, at least, you ought to know this : - | You also know...
Gingerbread recipes, gingerbread houses and men are also part of the Xmas holiday traditions Some historians claim Gingerbread Houses date from the early 19th century : "Hansel and Gretel" -a fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers - showed such a house. But...
Today is Boxing Day ! Boxing Day is a bank holiday and a public holiday in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Hong Kong, Jamaica, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and in some countries in the Commonwealth...
Dogs : parts of the body Today, some of you had to match different words with the various parts of a dog body, on a diagram. Here is another one, with a few other (easy to remember !) words... Now check if you know them all ; then, try to remember which...
..."The Langoliers" You are currently studying "The Red-eye flight", an excerpt from Stephen King's novel. "The Langoliers" is one of the four novels gathered in the book "Four past Midnight" (1990). This video is taken from the film based on his novel....
The origins of proper nouns may be surprising... "Tamiflu" : by now, most of you have already heard this name. It is the medecine aimed at curing the H1N1 flu. We may either have watched/heard it on TV, read it in newspapers or magazines... or heard it...
Wikipedia on the Berlin Wall >>> (1) Documentary film "Berlin Wall - Escape for freedom" The film is a bit long -but the trailer lasts about 1 minute and the clearly articulated voice-over makes it easier to understand : give it a try :o) video by factualtv...
"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...
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...
... 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...
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...
"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...
The man must be an art connoisseur... A "pouring and dripping" paint work by Jackson Pollock appeared on this blog yesterday... today it looks as if a new one had appeared ! And yet, peer at the illustration closely : can't you see the signature ?? "The...
Today, July is nearly over Let's travel back into time : the year is... 1965 : President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law In December 1945, Truman had been the first president to propose national health insurance : at the time, the...
... also Spaces & Exchanges Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom : rankings map (2008) Every year, RWB establishes a ranking of countries as for their freedom of the press. The Worldwide press freedom index list is based on surveys sent to journalists...
A baby's staring at us... ... while the voice of a black man starts listing the various situations when his skin does not change colour. Sometimes publicity targeting have no commercial goal... And it happens to show smart adverts like this one : it was...
Do you remember the parody of "The Matrix" ? Here is another parody : unlike the futuristic background of "The Meatrix", in this animation the scene is set in present times. Chances are you will recognize the film which inspired the animation below :o)...
BREATHINGEARTH.NET As soon as you click on > > > BREATHINGEARTH the simulation starts. You can visualise people's birth and death rates all over the world.. The simulation also shows the carbon dioxyde emissions of every country in the world. You have...
Visualising can help you understand educational programmes better... >>> The BBC has created a splendid TIMELINE illustrating BRITISH HISTORY , from the Neolithic until nowadays. Photo by Marcin Wichary - licence CC BY On the BBC Timeline , you can browse...
The BBC Radio Homepage presents a series of channels that will help you improve both pronunciation and fluency > > > BBC International RADIO There, you can get INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS : the BBC World Service (news in English), BBC news in Russian, Arabic,...
Guess you have all heard of this American TV series dealing with Wisteria Lane neighbourhood... We know about Lynette and her five "lovely" kids, Gabrielle's never-ending love & hate story with Carlos, and Bree's freezing smile... Not to mention Susan's...
July 17, 2009 : Walter Cronkite dies at his home in New York. He was 92 years old. The anchorman dominated the television news industry during one of the most changeful periods of American history. He broke the news of the Kennedy assassination, reported...
In " Oil Spill : Lake Michigan Photos " I told you about Jane Fulton's photos : they had us imagine an oil spill in Michigan too. Hers looks like premonitory work today : Here is the transcript of the 36-second video from NBC news : "And with the current...
Here are grammar handouts which might help some of you. Just click on the links below to get recaps about : The English tense system : an overview [les temps en anglais] The passive voice Reported speech [discours indirect] Modals [auxiliaires modaux...
