Posts belonging to Category 'general information'
January 28, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
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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Tags: check, cheque, faire un chèque américain, how to write a check | 
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December 30, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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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December 17, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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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December 10, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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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December 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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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October 7, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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 [...]
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October 6, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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 [...]
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October 6, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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 [...]
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