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 Share on Facebook
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Haitian-Americans, many of whom live in South Florida, are praying for good news after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. The earthquake registered a 7.0, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage. (Jan. 13) Share on Facebook
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On this day, the third of December, twenty-five years ago, at least 3800 people died as a result of a gas leak at a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Some believe that as many as 25000 people died in total during the years that followed. Even today, dangerous chemicals are still leaking into the air [...]
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Cumbria is the county that has Britain’s famous Lake District, a very beautiful area of lakes and mountains. Here is the transcript of the video. Some words have been removed. Can you guess what they are? Answers at the bottom of the page. Authorities in England say they are (1)___________ checking the safety of about [...]
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image: http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk Today (9th November 2009) is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was constructed in the early 1960s and was intended to stop mass emmigration to the west from East Germany, especially young, skilled workers and scientists (the ‘brain drain’). Important events that led to the fall of [...]
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I decided to put this up to show you how the media can feed us with complete junk. A journalist wastes his time (this is the Associated Press, not some local small ads paper) interviewing a man who saw nothing! In the interview he even admits that he didn’t know what was going on, and [...]
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Jonathan’s comment on the report: This kind of crime is nothing new. In Britain we call it ‘ram-raiding’ not ‘crash and grab’, although the American term is pretty good. The video gives you a good opportunity to enrich your vocabulary as several similar words are used: Burglary: cambriolage Burglar: cambrioleur To steal: voler Thief : [...]
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The former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern was famous for keeping his Irish accent, not trying to change it to something more ‘statesmanlike’. Listen to the way he says, ‘thirty-three’ – if you have difficulties pronouncing the ‘th’ sound in English, you are not alone! The singer with the popular Irish boy band has died [...]
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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 [...]
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Do you know who ‘tank-man” is? Watch the video and read the transcript. Try to guess the words you don’t know by the context of the text.
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Les titres en bref. Un exercice de compréhension, avec quelques mots expliqués. Si vous aimez ce type d’exercice, dites-moi, et j’en ferai d’autres.
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