The Square Palme d'Or 2017

Holiday time well spent. Hope you can afford a flick.
Went to see The Square. Here's the official trailer of that movie
running in #Reims this week at the Opera. 
Lucky to have an ...arthouse cinema here in Reims.                                                                  Just learnt a new word! Hope to talk about it with you (the movie is subtitled!) back to school.
Worth a good mark/grade I'm sure. And by the way, where are those comments anyway?

Very different methods of cleaning

Movember

MOVEMBER is tweet trending in France! I wandered on the thread and saw TED TV.

If you haven't bookmarked it yet, you've got to discover TED TV. 

It’s a great free TV where people from all over the world come to talk about different issues and experiences. 

One of my favourite speech is this one:

 “My stroke of insight”

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight

And I also watched this to learn more about Movember which is now trending in France but not in the U.S. #Comey is #1 trend just now… FBI director James Comey.

So anyway, I watched this to know more about Movember… raising money, moustache, prostate cancer,setting up a charity.

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_garone_healthier_men_one_moustache_at_a_time

Six things

6 Things Not to Say in an Interview 

 

http://info.theladders.com/career-advice/avoid-these-words-in-job-interviews?utm_source=wednesday_newsletter_email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=interview_chechecklist&utm_content=amanda_article&utm_campaign=wednesday_newsletter

 

 

The SOUNDS of English!

Revise your pronunciation of the SOUNDS of English with the BBC for free and right here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/

And here, the same sounds, from a U.S. University: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

Work well during the summer. 15 mn a day is the best!

Oral Comprehension sites

updated November 2016...

Hello English learners!! The Oral Comprehension label in the column on your right with its list of links is active again. :-)
I hope you'll use it 15mn everyday. Listening is the key to improving your English!

 EVERY DAY. EVERY SINGLE DAY!
1. Choose one audio documents in any of the suggested links.
2. Listen to the audio doc at least three times. (LISTEN x 3 minimum) It doesn't matter if you don't understand everything. 
3. Try to answer the quiz when available.
4. Listen to the document once again with the script IF you want to and if it is provided.

ORAL COMPREHENSION sites

http://howjsay.com/ Comment prononcer un mot ?(how d'ya say ... how do you say?)

esl-lab.com: Randall's site made me begin that blog. Thank you so much Randall! 

http://www.newsinlevels.com/

On the top bar, you see Level 1, 2 and 3. You can even test your level before you choose.Put your mouse on it and choose a subject you like.

The British council made something just for you teenagers
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/
Go there, http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break  and elsewhere! 

And for you, whatever your age is!

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

and more particularly here with very varied documents, audio or video

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/listen-and-watch

Here is an example here about Dating. Interested students ?

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/big-city-small-world/series-2-episode-10-date

One more site, just discovered.
http://www.engvid.com/

A colleague's website
http://www.franglish.fr/COBAC/

https://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

A great youtube page here :

http://www.youtube.com/user/australianetwork/videos?flow=list&view=0&sort=dd&query=learning+English+series

Another youtube page with mini lessons (1mn or less!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiqK8jGEWo&list=ECF8F4F464C322BFFF&index=1

http://elllo.org The best with Randall’s but all of it is not free anymore. Too bad, I loved ELLLO (English Language Listening Lab Online) 
Still, some lessons are still here for free! 
There used to be more than a thousand short audio documents, with vocabulary help, comprehension exercises and the script. The script is only here for you to check your comprehension after you’ve listened to the audio for at least three times... Teaching is repeating.

Many documents. The page has been archived and is not updated anymore but the audio / video documents and the exercises are still available. Use them!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/listening.htm

http://www.agendaweb.org/ 

This is grammar mainly but useful!

This one will ask you to evaluate yourself and do some easy exercises and the site will memorize you. you'll like it!

http://lp.babbel.com/d/FRA_index.html?l1=FRA&l2=ENG&ch=SEM

http://www.manythings.org/listen/

A new great site!

English Social Network.You'll love it!
http://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishSocialNetwork

ORAL COMPREHENSION SITES

TWO GREAT FINDINGS!
Remember!
If you really want to improve your English, LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN to as much English as you can!

http://storycorps.org/listen

http://soundportraits.org/on-air/

How to pronounce names

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

Useful site!
Here is a video link about it!
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=56429

GREAT WEBGIFT FROM DOWN UNDER

A GREAT SITE for all those who want to get to speak English fluently:

http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/

BRAVO to the Australian Network! Kuddos Down Under;-)

Amazing demo: SixthSense

You want to know what the future looks like?
By the way, what movie and what actor does the speaker, Pattie Maes, refer to?
This is a question of oral comprehension for my pupils ;-) Additional points in sight for any comment...

A BIG THANK YOU to G.G.

http://rea.ccdmd.qc.ca/ri/listening/

G.G. has just sent me this link to a new great ORAL COMPREHENSION SITE,
with great oral comprehension exercises to do!
Enjoy!

A new oral comprehension site: Learn English Feel Good

I hope you all feel good... I knew that you would!

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/eslvideo/esl_movieclip9.html

It's now referenced under the label "Oral comprehension sites" on the left column of this blog. Enjoy and check out the other labels.

How to pronounce -ed at the end of verbs. BIG THANKS TO MONIQUE W. HEALY

The Wire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_(TV_series)



Hey Pupils! If you EVER drop by...
[ obviously, my site meter free membership says you don't but still, I keep posting... ha ha ]
... know that you'll be given a 20/20, the anglo-saxon A, if you do a 2-mn-oral report about
that TV series.

Obama takes the oath of office, slips of the tongue and the place of adverbs

Yesterday, Obama took the oath of office. He had to repeat it after the Chief Justice. See previous post.

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