9 X 9/11

For once in that blog... some French:  a "Le Monde" article about a hugely crucial subject: 9/11
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/09/11/les-etats-unis-n-en-ont-pas-fini-avec-le-11-septembre_1409267_3222.html#ens_id=1395749
Thanks to Teo, I've done my research and found this video. I chose mainly it because I love that child's voice and the design of the carpet. While the kid is fumbling with the $20 dollar bill, listen to the background sound.

Come and ask me to show you a $20 bill students! You might make an impression on your  teacher if you can tell her, in English, what you've heard in the background!
For the BTS students in particular, a 9/11 research by architects and engineers:
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Mars latest news

Great video about Mars. Thank you Opportunity, Thank you Rovers!
http://izlegenclik.com/video-izle-29610-Opportunity+On+Mars.htm
and life too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10151001

KuaFu

KuaFu was a giant in Chinese Mythology who wanted to capture the sun...
Read about our sun again while listening to "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles!
It might cheer you up....
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/16jul_ilws/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g

TOP SECRET AMERICA

A Washington Post  Investigation by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
Watch the video first
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
Then, read the article entitled The secrets next door  by The  Washington Post http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
Finally, read about the reactions to the Washington Post series
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/2010/07/washington_reacts_to_top_secre.html

Our sun again

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sun-storm-to-hit-with-force-of-100-bombs/story-e6frfro0-1225909999465

A wise man

Thanks Yo for this precious link!

Talking for a New Fairer World

Interesting talk about population growth:
PS: taxonomy (in French, taxinomie or taxonomie): science and practice of classification.

Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish: Kings 'n Queens of Camouflage!

Here is the scientist who shot this incredible transformation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4PbW893ik&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Ho, those Freudian Slips!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/02/national/main6641548.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

For more...
http://www.myspace.com/mitchellandwebb

Internet Kill Switch

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Worst Case Scenario

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Have you ever heard of Kudzu?

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If you want to know more about it, have a look here http://www.kudzuworld.com/Kudzu/index.en.aspx

Grand Old Party 's future candidate?

In the U.S.A., the G.O.P. is also known as the republican party. Nixon, Reagan, Bush father, Bush son were GOP presidents.
You can also read the article below that tells us U.S. citizens might not know what GOP stands for... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/03/politics/main531460.shtml

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A quote

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

The promising journalist and the politician

Firefly? No! MIT's FLYFIRE

http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/#

38 years 4 months and fifteen days

That's the time it took the British government to admit that the killing of peace protesters on Bloody Sunday was unjustified and unjustifiable.
Watch and read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/15/bloodysunday-northernireland

Noisy Vuvuzelas on South African football grounds!

PEACE

I'm a fishwife

Go figure!
http://wordsmith.org/words/billingsgate.html
Dear Anu Garg, you make my day, and today, my blogging way.
And oh my, oh my, what a quote!

For those who have taken the time to open the link above and read that wordsmith.org page from top to bottom,they'll see what I mean.
Wordsmith is such a gem on the web.

silly bandz

pp

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The laws of Physics

Great article!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=deep-in-thought-what-is-a-law-of-ph-2010-06-04

DO YOU SPEAK FOOTBALL?

A great site for English learners who love football. Interesting interviews with series of questions below them.
http://premierskills.britishcouncil.org/premierskills-dvd-questions
And below, the South African map with the football stadiums of the 2010 world cup.

GOOGLING YOURSELF?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/05/earlyshow/saturday/main6551213.shtml?tag=cbsContent;cbsCarousel

Gulf oil spill: Will Deepwater sink the 101-year-old BP?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/gulf-oil-deepwater-sink-bp

STOP IT!

"The revolution volcano"

Its name, Laki, is easier to pronounce than Eyjafjallajokull. Some Icelandic words are easier to pronounce than others!
The Laki volcanic fissure in southern Iceland erupted over an eight-month period from 8 June 1783 to February 1784.
It triggered a weird weather and bad crops which were one of the causes of the revolution.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/15/iceland-volcano-weather-french-revolution

Synthetic Life?

For science-craving minds, an astounding breakthrough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-synthetic-life-form

6 mn 21 sec about robots

10 mn 4 sec about crows

8th Wonderland

The video might make you feel like visiting the website below:
http://www.8thwonderland.com/
Well, you'll have to join to visit the country first and then you might want to get naturalized. hat's what I did.
It was entertaining to watch the short videos beginning with "Meet the ambassador" but then, when I got naturalized, even if I thought the constitution which is to be voted soon made sense,I was disappointed by the ambassador's replies to my questions!
I don't regret getting naturalized anyway.
I still think it's a great idea, this new land of democracy. The web could indeed become a great platform for actual democracy

OIL SPILL OUT OF CONTROL ... or WORSE

Follow-up on the Mexican Gulf Oil Spill.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0513/gulf-oil-gusher-ten-times-worse-prior-estimates/

Facebook is not private.

pp

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David Cameron: New British Prime Minister

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/11/david-cameron-uk-prime-minister

steam on the left, magma ash on the right

Here is the best way to follow the Eyjafjallajokull volcano live!
http://eldgos.mila.is/english/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

And a great site to get more follow-up.
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/

I want one of those!

How to pronounce names

http://www.pronouncenames.com/

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

OIL SPILL OUT OF CONTROL

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7113708.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

CBS — 1 mai 2010 — Until last week, drilling in the Gulf of Mexico had been catastrophe-free for decades. Now, drilling opponents have new ammunition in their fight. Wyatt Andrews reports:

The leading conservative politician about UFOs

Extract from Wikepedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010

"The United Kingdom general election of 2010 will be held on 6 May[note 1] to elect one MP in each of the 650 constituencies to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The election was called on 6 April, and Parliament was dissolved on 12 April for the ensuing campaign. Voting will take place between 7.00 am and 10.00 pm. Local elections will also be held in some areas on that day.

The governing Labour Party will be looking to secure a fourth consecutive term in office and to restore support lost since 1997.[1] The Conservative Party will seek to gain a dominant position in UK politics after losses in the 1990s, and to replace Labour as the governing party. The Liberal Democrats hope to make gains from both sides; their most realistic ambition, as the campaign began, was to hold the balance of power in a hung parliament. Since the televised debates between the three leaders, their poll ratings have risen to the point where many are considering the possibility of a Liberal Democrat role in Government.

Archiving tweets?

Texting Teens

Icelandic Pronunciation

WOW!

Slow Down, Take it Easy!

AND WATCH OTHER VIDEOS FROM THE ORIGINAL SITE HERE:http://slow-n-easy.ch/

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL

CBS LONDON, April 15, 2010 Iceland Volcano Ash Grounds European Air Travel
Tens of Thousands Stranded as Airports Shut Down in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and France
Watch the video below the article. Some plumes of smoke...and ash
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/14/tech/main6394180.shtml
Also read about the eruption and what preceded it here:
http://www.nat.is/travelguideeng/glacier_eyjafjallajokull.htm
You can also watch here how the plume of ash travels and where it prevents airplanes from flying.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMKDU9MT7G_index_0.html
Read about

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;-)

They knew, We knew, Guantanamo news

TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT IN THE OPEN SOME DAY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece?print=yes&randnum=1270802329473

There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword.

By Paul Craig Roberts
See first who he is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts
Then read this
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03242010.html
And if it's too tough for you to read in its original version here are the French subtitles from a "Le monde" blog:
http://legauloisdechaine.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/03/26/la-verite-dechue-a-entraine-la-liberte-avec-elle-paul-craig-roberts/

The Metalliers Champenois restored the Statue of Liberty Torch

And as you can see, the Metalliers Champenois
(Champenois = from the Champagne region) restored the torch prior to 9/11

Soon in the class

by the 2TBAA, an exhibition about New York City in room I 02...
your English classroom pupils!

Here: the Chrysler Building
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/chrysler2_skyscraper.html

From Ireland! Thank you Lynn!

Lynn is visiting Ireland and sends that picture from across Oscar Wilde's residence in Dublin.
Vocabulary note: the gutter:

Learning vocabulary

Revise your basic vocabulary here. Thanks to Wilson Cheung for teaching me that "forehead"
can be pronouced /'forid/ but also /for'hed/!
http://learningchocolate.com/

Spring? Ok GO!

I find those videos invigorating.
http://vimeo.com/8528144 get an idea of how it was shot http://vimeo.com/8878427
http://vimeo.com/7166047
Great spring to you all!

Imagine Peace Tower

IMAGINE PEACE TOWER is composed of a tall shimmering tower of light that will appear every year and be visible from October 9th (John’s birthday) until December 8th (the anniversary of his death).In addition, the Tower will illuminate from Winter Solstice (December 21st – 28th),on
New Year’s Eve (December 31st) and the first week of spring (March 21st -28th).
It is lit from 2 hours after sunset until midnight, and until dawn on New Year’s Day.




See more pics of the Imagine Peace Tower here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yokoonoofficial/sets/72157607538726414/



Imagine peace Tower site: http://imaginepeace.com/projects/imagine-peace-tower

Oldies but goodies

Revise "Imagine" lyrics

Happy Saint Patrick's day

Even Google is featuring it!

Lousy papers / Teacher with a sense of humour

Contagious is a good word

Painting 18 hours a day

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ORIGAMI

Origami, the art of folding paper...
The video on the link below on PBS is definitely a must-see if you like art, craft, beauty and human inventivity.
So do watch this Independent Lens movie called "Between the Folds". Enjoy!
http://video.pbs.org/video/1340426590/
And there's this great site in progress: Le Crimp, a French folding group:
http://www.le-crimp.org/
Here's another video with Vincent Floderer from le crimp in English, s'il vous plait!:
At the beginning he says "I'm doing Origami since twenty years." If you send me what he should have said in the comment, I'll grant you additional points on your next paper. Be the first to correct him!
(What I would do to get just one comment :-(

Inglorious Bastards

Thank you Geoffrey, if you ever drop by!

A word a day, my favourite sites about words.

Thank you once again Anu Garg! Your site, http://wordsmith.org/ is a real treasure!
Here is a very interesting text in today's edition of Anu Garg's newsletter:

To subscribe to his newsletter and discover his precious online work:
http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

" Recently I visited London to attend a wedding. The bride had graduated from Oxford, and among the invitees were some of her fellow graduates and a professor. During the long ceremony, we intermittently chatted about London weather, Gordon Brown, Queen Lizzie, and language.

Among other things, we talked about the differences between British and American English. I recalled reading about the inroads American English is making even in the UK, so I decided to carry out an experiment to find to what extent American English had "corrupted" English English.

I told them that sometimes the British write certain numerals (e.g. 1 and 7) differently from how they're written in the US, and asked them to write a short sentence so I could see if there were other differences in the script.

I quickly thought of a sentence for them to write:
"Her favorite flavors were in the gray catalog, she realized."

I said it aloud and the five Oxonians and the Oxford don kindly wrote it down on their napkins (serviettes). I collected the napkins and then told them about the experiment -- it had nothing to do with handwriting. In reality, that sentence had five words that could be written with American or British spellings (favorite/favourite, flavor/flavour, gray/grey, catalog/catalogue realize/realise).

Of the six people who participated in the experiment, three spelled (spelt) everything the British way. The other three had one or more words spelled in American English.

What does this experiment prove? Not much, according to my 12-year-old daughter, "Your sample size is too small."

Language, by its very definition, is a vehicle of exchange. A language means nothing in vacuum. When two people share, they give and take, though the movement is not always equal in both directions. US export of movies, television, music, books, technology, etc. includes something that goes through under the radar: Language.

Will American English take over the other Englishes? Probably not. Will the English language diverge into distinct languages just as Latin turned into French, Spanish, Italian and other languages? Hope not.

But who knows? Only time can tell, but in the meantime let's celebrate the diversity of languages by learning words English has borrowed from some of the less-known languages: Hungarian, Hebrew, Nootka, Afrikaans, and Persian. Even though they're not as well-known to most of us, they are still spoken by thousands or millions of people."

I'm way more than a little proud to be quoted in his second book, Another word a day, on page 122! Anu Garg has written three books which are all in my library! Well, on my bedside table!

http://www.amazon.com/Another-Word-Day-Limited-Gift/dp/0471778788

And Anu's site has long been in this blog's tags.

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...

HUBBLE -IMAX

Hubble 3D Trailer
envoyé par IMAXMovies. - Regardez plus de vidéos de science.

Spying school follow-up

1984 in Philadelphia school ?

COMMENT !!! In class and right here!
The school's answer on its website:
http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?m=&t=hhs&p=hhs_today_anno&id=1143
And some articles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252234/U-S-school-child-porn-probe-revealed-laptops-used-spy-pupils-home.html

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/school-used-laptop-webcams-to-spy-on-us-pupils-at-home-14690166.html

http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/School-In-United-States-Accused-Of-Spying-On-Its-Students-Through-In-Built-Cameras-on-Laptops/Article/201002315553845?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15553845_School_In_United_States_Accused_Of_Spying_On_Its_Students_Through_In-Built_Cameras_on_Laptops

FACEBOOK FRIENDS ?

French Joke / pun / play on words

I've got an iPhone... well,indeed, " I " sounds like garlic in French!

The Robin Hood Tax

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/09/tobin-tax-nighy-curtis-film

NEWSY about JOBLESS RATES

Great NEWS SOURCE: http://www.newsy.com/

NEW YORK CITY

Here's to the 2TBAA are working on the Big Apple. Soon in your classroom!

You love the TV series Heroes...

You may enjoy Zeroes too!

ObamiPad

Obama on an ad?

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DROP HAITI'S DEBT

CLICK AND HELP !
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/haiti_cancel_the_debt_7/

Hackney Council 'clean up' Banksy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/11/29/london_life_banksy_feature.shtml

Banksy makes his movie debut at film festival

THE ABOVE WALL PAINTING IS NOT BY BANKSY, but a Banksy-influenced artist indeed!

Now, about Banksy!
Notorious though elusive street artist Banksy, whose work has decorated his home town of Bristol to Israel's West Bank barrier, has turned his hand to film-making. Exit Through The Gift Shop will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
WHO IS BANKSY?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7504132.stm
Sounds like a tabloid headline, doesn't it?
Well, since we've studied some documents about him, including some of his works, I thought you might be curious though I hope he keeps up the good job and doesn't fall into the abyss of power. For I believe fame is one of a kind.
Anyway, here you will watch the trailer of the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop
Read the article too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8471145.stm
Youtube Banksy, watch and say what you think in the comments.
Good for your English! Do I preach in the wilderness?

How New Words Are Made

View more presentations from Mark O’Meara.

Yale Musical: " Tha's Why I Chose Yale"

http://www.yale.edu/
http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/1423

Two former U.S. presidents asking to give to charity for Haiti.

Blizzard in Times Square

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-7-2010/moment-of-zen---calvin-trillin-s-prediction

PARENTS and TEENS

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/earlyshow/main6066101.shtml

Very Interesting Hoax?

Luc Montagnier
par NosLibertes

I'm afraid not...

PEACE IN MOVEMENT FOR 2010 onwards

Happy New Year!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-10-2009/lara-logan

If you want to learn about languages:

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108609

This article (above link) is a thrill.
If you're interested in languages, that is. And who isn't?!
What is the hardest language? Not English.Lucky you English learners!

ineffective spying?

Stephen Colbert 's irony vs the Patriot Act

and the spyvate sector
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258582/december-16-2009/the-word---spyvate-sector

... I'd rather play football

SPACE

Climate change, climate gate, whatever

Copenhagen Climate Summit: Polluting!
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/144782/This-hypocritical-charade-played-out-in-Copenhagen

Neil de Grasse Tyson about 2012

This great scientist is both entertaining and enlightening. For all those who would be worried about 2012, listen and relax!

MORE TROOPS

So, more U.S. troops in Afghanistan?
Listen to Rachel Maddow and find out. Excellent oral comprehension exercise about war...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Patrick baillet,

http://www.patrick-baillet.fr/

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!