Internet is a wondrous tool and I use it, (ain't I a fool?)for you dear pupils, who wish to speak the Queen's English. Well, maybe not but at least, if asked whether you speak English or not, don't say: "I do not!"
Friday, August 28, 2015
BACK TO SCHOOL!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
One more great site:Self Access Corner
Sunday, October 07, 2012
Use the web to learn English
Friday, September 07, 2012
The Web is full of treasures...
Monday, March 08, 2010
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Obama takes the oath of office, slips of the tongue and the place of adverbs
The 35-word oath is explicitly prescribed in the Constitution. It reads:
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
But Chief Justice John Roberts' administration of the presidential oath to Barack Obama was far from smooth.
But here's exactly what was said yesterday:
ROBERTS: Are you prepared to take the oath, Senator?
OBAMA: I am.
ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama…
OBAMA: I, Barack…
ROBERTS: … do solemnly swear…
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…
ROBERTS: … that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully…
OBAMA: … that I will execute…
ROBERTS: … faithfully the office of president of the United States…
OBAMA: … the office of president of the United States faithfully…
ROBERTS: … and will to the best of my ability…
OBAMA: … and will to the best of my ability…
ROBERTS: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
OBAMA: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
ROBERTS: So help you God?
OBAMA: So help me God.
ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.
Who stumbled? The flub was Roberts'.
During the oath, Chief Justice Roberts switched some words up. ... When Roberts erred, one child shouted: "That's not right!"
Their momentary disfluency came down to a problem of adverbial placement. In giving the oath, Roberts misplaced the word "faithfully," at which point Obama paused quizzically. Roberts then corrected himself, but Obama repeated the words as Roberts initially said them.
There was one other minor slip-up on Roberts' part: in his first run-through of the embedded clause, he got a preposition wrong, saying "I will execute the office of president 'to' the United States," rather than 'of '. A less noticeable speech error, but nonetheless the type of thing that happens when one speaks from memory without written prompts, as Roberts apparently did.
Several constitutional lawyers said President Obama should, just to be safe, retake the oath of office that was flubbed by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Thanks to Language Log
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1039#more-1039
and the San Francisco Chronicles
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/20/MNAF15E20I.DTL&feed=rss.news
Sunday, September 28, 2008
You want to improve your English?
Some of those are on the left column of this blog.
So, if you say to yourself:"I want to improve my English."
well... Just do it! 15 mn a day would be great.
I really hope you can take advantage of those sites.
Here is a new one:
http://www.manythings.org/
Monday, January 14, 2008
A glossary of grammatical terms
I guess this will be useful for those who don't see any difference between "their" and "theirs" or between "this" and "his"... :-(
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
un exercice à faire!
Ce qui fait hurler les profs quand ils corrigent leurs copies de bac!
Merci au collègue de Perpignan pour son travail exemplaire:
http://perso.orange.fr/yvanbaptiste/
Sunday, December 03, 2006
My daughter is 10
Can you do all that?
Copy it, paste it in Word and check you're able to do all that very easily.
You should, since you in your Lycée years!...
...VOICI DONC CE QU'UN ELEVE DE PRIMAIRE
DOIT AVOIR ACQUIS POUR L'ENTREE EN SIXIEME...
copiez, collez dans word, imprimez et vérifiez votre niveau de base...
1) EXPRESSION ORALE
Je peux décrire qui je suis, où je suis né, ce que je fais et où j'habite.
Je sais donner l'heure
Je peux parler en phrases très simples de gens et de lieux.
Je sais compter, indiquer des quantités et donner l'heure.
Je peux donner de façon suivie quelques informations sur moi-même (nom, prénom, âge, etc.)
Je reconnais des consignes claires et simples.
Je comprends des expressions familières et simples de la vie quotidienne (acceptation,
refus, remerciements, etc.)
Je comprends quand on me salue, quand on me demande comment je vais ou quand
on me dit au revoir.
Je peux comprendre le sujet d'une histoire courte ou d'un dialogue simple.
Je peux comprendre des questions sur l'endroit où j'habite, sur ce que je fais, sur les gens que je connais.
Je peux comprendre un message simple qui m'est adressé, par exemple sur une carte postale.
Je comprends les messages figurant sur les panneaux indicateurs.
Je peux comprendre suffisamment un questionnaire (à l'arrivée à un hôtel par exemple) pour y indiquer mon nom, prénom, date de naissance, nationalité).
Je reconnais des mots connus ou des internationalismes dans un texte écrit.
Je peux essayer de deviner le contenu d'un texte en m'aidant des illustrations.
Je peux essayer de deviner le sens des mots que je ne connais pas en m'aidant de leur ressemblance avec ma langue ou avec une autre langue que je connais.
Je peux reproduire sans erreur des mots, des expressions, des phrases courtes et simples déjà connues à l'oral et des consignes simples.
Je peux copier des consignes simples.
Je peux écrire des phrases simples sur moi-même ou des personnages, décrivant où ils habitent et ce qu'ils font.
Je peux écrire une carte postale simple.
Je peux écrire des phrases simples sur moi-même ou des personnages, décrivant où ils habitent et ce qu'ils font.
Je peux remplir des formulaires me concernant, par exemple à la reception d'un hôtel.
Je peux faire des achats quand il est possible de compléter par des gestes ce que je dis.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
IRREGULAR VERBS LIST
Many verbs are regular: to obtain the preterit or the past participle, you only have to add -ed or only -d behind the verbal base:BV+ed
ex: to wash / washed / washed
to bargain / bargained / bargained
! to solidify / solidified / solidified
But, you must know your irregular verbs because ...read more
1)you will use the preterit : Ved (the second column) to talk about the past
(yesterday, last year, in 2004, when you were young, in the old days, before 9/11,... all those are expressions indicating the preterit...on parlera des marqueurs du preterit en grammaire)
ex: Shakespeare lived under the reign of Elizabeth I and he died in 1616. He wrote the most famous comedies and tragedies.
2) you will use (the third column) the past participle Ven
(On l'appelle Ven parce qu'une une bonne trentaine de participes passés irréguliers se terminent par -en)
a) ALWAYS after HAVE (or has, had ...) to express the perfect. (marqueurs: since+date/ for+durée/already/ never/ever...)
- le present perfect (have/has+Ven) exprime un lien entre le passé et le présent.
ex: Shakespeare's plays have deeply influenced drama and since the 16th century, thousands of actors have acted as Othello, Hamlet, Romeo, and thousands of actresses as Desdemona, or Juliet. Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play?
- le past perfect (had+Ven dans une repère passé) exprime une action par rapport à un repère passé.
ex: My grand-mother saw Laurence Olivier on stage in 1948. She had never seen such a talented actor.
b)après BE pour le passif (or am, is ,are, was, were, have been, has been, had been...)
ex: Shakespeare's plays are played around the world and many books about him have been published worldwide.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
ESL
By typing in the google bar those three letters: ESL which stand for English as a Second Language, you'll find some useful sites like those in the first page of sites found: a4esl.org to revise Grammar (GRAM) and vocabulary (VOC) or also Randall's site for oral comprehension (CO): www.esl-lab.com .
J'aime aussi beaucoup eslblue main index que vous trouverez en tapant esl+blue dans google.
À vos ordis!
