I just wanted to a share a link with you – it’s a blog by a very talented young English teacher called Luki Bancher.
Luki Bancher est un jeune professeur d’anglais au parcours sans histoire : après un an passé aux Etats-Unis (1997-1998) pour parfaire son anglais après le bac (1996-1997), il passe un DEUG et [...]
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Top tips for begging
*where smart clothes
*Beg in front of a bakery
*ask for an exact amount
*hide your wine bottle
*make a sign about the people, not about yourself
*ask a man, they give more often than women!
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Ecoutez le reportage, et essayez de repérer des mots-clés:
icy winter snorm
paralysed
snow, sleet and freezing rain
fender benders (minor accidents involving two or more cars)
cancel flights
Texas Pan-handle
expected
Oklahoma
Texas
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Few English words are spelled phonetically, making it difficult to learn how to spell correctly. Some reasons why English spelling is so difficult may be:
English is a mix of several languages, and people would sometimes use the same words, but with different pronunciations. As dictionaries did not exist, people that could write spelled words however [...]
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I thought this video was interesting just to show the difference between a French cheque and an American one. Notice that when Americans sign their names, they simple write their first name and surname, and don’t really have a distinctive signature like we Europeans. An American colleague explained that this is the way they are [...]
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The Beatles were a British pop/rock group that was formed around 1960 in Liverpool, England. The group’s original name was the Quarrymen. At the end of the nineteen fifties, a type of music called Skiffle was popular in Britain. Skiffle was a mix of trad jazz and blues that often used primitive instruments like washboards. [...]
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How to set up your facebook account.
If you want to add me to Facebook contacts, feel free. Just search for Jonathan Lewis and you’ll find me…
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Yesterday the French government announced that the number of deaths on French roads increased in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. This bad news coincided with a report from an insurance company that showed that the French were the most dangerous drivers in Europe. The report was based on how many people [...]
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Some of you have written to me about problems watching youtube videos on this site. Sometimes, (it happens to me, too) the videos are very slow to download. It will pause while more data is being downloaded. This is very irritating, but happens frequently when many people are online at the same time. The red [...]
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Notes:
The fab four: surnom pour les Beatles
A crash course: une formation rapide
Master of Arts(MA): Normallement, bac+5. Ce diplôme doit être pour ceux qui ont déjà ce niveau.
To have something ‘under your belt’: an achievement, success. Quand on a réussi à obtenir quelque chose on peut dire, “I’ve got it under my belt’
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Beatles fans can be [...]
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As you may already know, in Britain people drive on the left and not on the right like in the rest of Europe.
Many of my French students often mock this difference, suggesting that we British drive on the left simply in order to be different from our European neighbours.
The truth is that most civilisations [...]
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Vous aimez le piment? Découvrez le plus épicé du monde!
Chilli pepper : piment
red pepper : poivron rouge
pepper (black or white) : poivre
Red hot : très, très chaud!
Mild: doux (character, climate)
Batch : lot
To run out (of something) : épuiser, être en rupture (stock).
Scoville : Mésure de chaleur. Plus d’informations sur wikipedia
Warning : avertissement
Eye-watering : (expression) [...]
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