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Thursday, November 25, 2010

M2 Approfondissement de l'anglais



You will find by clicking on the above link the translation into English of the passage from Prof Harribey's document.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

L1 Bloc 2 YouTube - The Pogues & The Dubliners - Whisky In The Jar (original)

YouTube - The Pogues & The Dubliners - Whisky In The Jar (original): "– Envoyé à l'aide de la barre d'outils Google"

L1 Bloc 2 YouTube - The Pogues With The Dubliners

YouTube - The Pogues With The Dubliners: "– Envoyé à l'aide de la barre d'outils Google"

A joint performance of a traditional Irish song by two generations of Irish singers.

L1 Bloc 2 YouTube - Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe

YouTube - Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe: "– Envoyé à l'aide de la barre d'outils Google"

Music from Asian Dub Foundation : "Fortress Europe"

L1 Bloc 2 YouTube - Raghav - Teri Baaton Mein (Hindi)

YouTube - Raghav - Teri Baaton Mein (Hindi): "– Envoyé à l'aide de la barre d'outils Google"

Banghra music from Raghav

Monday, November 22, 2010

Bon courage

Bon courage à tous ceux qui passent ces jours-ci les épreuves du CAPES d'Anglais!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

L1 civilisation britannique

In the first part of the semester we have covered the following subjects

1 The Reformation-why does it matter?
2 The lead-up to the civil war
3 The civil war – who won and why?
4 The “ Glorious revolution” and political stability
5 Agrarian revolution and Society in the 18th century
6 Luddism, Captain swing and the Industrial Revolution


We still have a few subjects to look at
7 The rise of radicalism
8 Towards democracy ? –Chartism and after

9 The heights of Victorian England
10 The biggest Empire ever

Youhave had one classroom test. There will also be a marked piece of homework, based on the documents in the "brochure", and a contrôle final de contrôle continu the first week in January.

JM

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian

School history gets the TV treatment | Education | The Guardian

L1 civi GB BBC - History: Civil War and Revolution

BBC - History: Civil War and Revolution

Here is a place you can revise what we learned about the civil war and the "Glorious Revolution".

LEA Civilisation GB YouTube - Road Rage by Catatonia

YouTube - Road Rage by Catatonia
Rock music from Wales

LEA Civilisation GB YouTube - Runrig - Live in Loch Lomond - Loch Lomond

YouTube - Runrig - Live in Loch Lomond - Loch Lomond
Folk-Rock from Scotland.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Classroom tests

My first year group "From the Reformation to the great exhibition"

I have marked your tests and will give them back to you today. I'm pretty sure this test counts for 25%.

First year group Bloc 2 "Social and ethnic identity and conflict in GB"
I haven't yet marked your tests - I need another week. Today we will start on the history of immigration .

Monday, November 08, 2010

All students - BBC learning English

BBC Learning English | French rockers are singing in English

Improve your English with the BBC. Above is a link to a site which provides, every few days, a short article in English, with help for the vocabulary. You can listen to the article too.

Sunday, November 07, 2010

L1 Bloc 2 Social and ethnic identity and conflict

This Tuesday we will have the first classroom test.
It will last one hour (so there will be a short class first.

There are two parts to the test. In part one (for eight points) you have to choose two items (out of five)and write a few sentences on each one.

In part two (for eight points) you have to choose one question (out of two) and write an essay.

L1 civilisation britannique From the Reformation to the Great Exhibition

This Tuesday we will have the first classroom test.

It will last 50 minutes (so there will be a short class before the test).

The test has two parts. In the first part, for fifteen points, you have to choose five (out of eight) items and write a paragraph on each one, showing how it fits in to the important changes we have been studying.

The second part, for five points, is a short essay question.

JM

Saturday, November 06, 2010

All L1 and L2 students

Revise your grammar of auxiliaries with these (musical) slideshows.

This one on questions
This one on tags
This one on echoes

You can open these files with powerpoint or with open office impress. Open office impress can be downloaded free.

The slideshow files may take a few minutes to download.

Make a right click on them and choose "enregistrer la cible du lien sous".

LEA L1 civilisation GB : popular newspapers : The Sun

The Sun | The Best for News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities | The Sun| The Sun

click on the title to see the website of the most popular newspaperin Britain.

Friday, November 05, 2010

LEA L1 Civilisation Grande Bretagne et Irlande

As I mentioned to you, I have recorded some of the classes. If you want to revise these classes, here they are in Mp3. Do a right click and choose "enregistrer la cible du lien sous"

week two class
week four class
week five class

There may be more later.

Learning English - Words in the News - Language after stroke

Learning English - Words in the News - Language after stroke

A useful website for practising your listening.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

LEA L1 CM British civilization Slides

I am going to put up today and tomorrow all the slide shows we have seen so far in class.
To read them you have to do a right click and choose "save target as".
Pour y accéder il faut faire un clique droit dessus et choisir "enregistrer la cible du lien sous". Le fichier sera enregistré sur votre ordinateur.
Ces fichiers s'ouvrent avec Microsoft Powerpoint, mais aussi avec le logiciel gratuit de la suite Open Office, qui s'appelle "impress".

Vous pouvez télécharger ici le logiciel gratuit pour lire les fichiers.

Here is the first one, about population, work, leisure, social class and so on.

Here is the second one about Education, schools and universities.

Here is the third one about the media.

There will be more (no doubt two more) later in the semester.
I will also put up MP3 recordings of some of the classes.

M2 professionnel Approfondissement de l'anglais

Tomorrow Thursday we will be working on the translation of the document on page four. Don't go looking for the translation of the whole passage on the web, now!

L1 Bloc 2 Ireland - The Pogues Sally Maclennane

YouTube - The Pogues Sally Maclennane

1980s music from Ireland.

L1 Bloc 2 Ireland - The Dubliners - Fields Of Athenry

YouTube - The Dubliners - Fields Of Athenry

An Irish song about the great famine of the mid-nineteenth century.

L1 Bloc 2 Wales - Road Rage by Catatonia

YouTube - Road Rage by Catatonia

Modern music from Wales with Catatonia.

L1 Bloc 2 Wales video of - Shirley Bassey - Big Spender (From "Divas Are Forever" DVD)

YouTube - Shirley Bassey - Big Spender (From "Divas Are Forever" DVD)

L1 Bloc 2 Wales - video of Welsh male voice choir

YouTube - only boys aloud sosban fach hd.mp4

A modern choir version of a very old Welsh song.

Monday, November 01, 2010

YouTube - Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night

YouTube - Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night

La chanson des Beatles "Hard Day's Night" dans un style un peu différent.