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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!"
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Friday, January 22, 2021
Amanda Gorman delivers at Joe Biden's inauguration
Watch Amanda Gorman deliver her poem.
Then, you can watch Anderson Cooper, a well-known American TV journalist with Amanda Gorman.
https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1352117969271328768
Don't you like the sound of it too? (a 10/10 for any of my pupils who will tell me what she refers to.
#keeptrying) I do.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Sunday, December 06, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Discrimination
Movies teach you a lot about many things.
Learn about discrimination in the South with those two trailers.
1) Green Book
2) Loving
("for appropriate audiences" says the Motion Picture Association of America)
... very appropriate in my opinion.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zRXuCY7tRgk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
History - Not for easily impressed people
In April 2018, yes, it takes time for the truth to come out. The "museification" of one of the darkest hours of that huge country, the USA. (14 times France, remember.)
So here is the official site of the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.
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The site below has been in the column at the WOW lable between the favourite SCIENTIFIC websites label and the literaure label. Do visit the WOW label list! And do comment if you'd like one site listed here. Thanks in advance. ... so many ...gems on the web... even if truth hurts sometime. https://withoutsanctuary.org/index.html
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Follow-up articles
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/15/400-years-since-slavery-timelin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/lynching-memorial-backlash-montgomery-alabama
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Payzee Mahmod | TEDxLondonWomen - A true story.
Here is a gut-wrenching one. This TEDxLondonWomen talk lasts 18mn.
It's worth the while. Those of my pupils who will tell me at what time she says in this 18'45'' vid :
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
In French for once!
In French but really a thrill especially the answer to the last question at 2:03:00
Students Built World's Fastest Electric Monowheel
Love the Rhino! ... I mean the RYNO. Kuddos to Chris Hoffmann.
http://rynomotors.com/chris-hoffmann-overview/
http://rynomotors.com/
Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Sir Ken Robinson 1950-2020
Sir Ken Robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4Q17t4muY
Life is short but wisdom, values remain.
Sir Ken Robinson died Last August from an aggressive cancer, not from Covid, eventhough this is 2020.
I hope you'll listen to it all.
"People love to learn he says."
What he says before and after that is really something.
"There is an opportunity, it takes bravery and imagination and we have plenty of that in store."
You've heard of the boiling frog syndrom. Haven't you?