LANSAD 1 week five

Next week you will have your first classroom test. It will include exercises on the grammar points we have covered in class, vocabulary points from the articles we have seen in class, and translation sentences from the articles we have seen in class. You need to revise, otherwise you have no chance!

You can find J K Rowling's official site here

Here is an opinion site about Harry Potter : what does the webmaster think ?


Here are some articles on Harry from the BBC.

LANSAD 1 WEEK FOUR

Here is one more exercise on questions.
You will need to revise all the question forms, because they will be in your test.

And a simple exercise on questions beginning with "How?"

and one more

Go to this page and listen to the world news bulletin.
Listen once.
How many stories are there ?
Listen again.
What countries or famous people are talked about ?
Listen again.
How much do you understand about the stories?

Look around the BBC website and see if you can find articles IN FRENCH on the BBC site about the same subjects.

FLATMATES
The BBC Language learning site includes a soap opera about a group of students who live together. Listen to this week's episode - what do you think ?

LANSAD 1 week three

Today’s news


Go to this page and listen to the world news bulletin.


How many news stories are there ?

Listen again and note down what countries are mentioned.

Listen a third time and note down the people mentioned.

How much do you understand about the different stories ?

Vocabulary and spelling

The BBC site also has crosswords : check here


Grammar – question continued
Listen to my explanation first, then try this very short quiz :

Questions with “Who”


The US Election

Who is going to win ?

Here is an article from back in June. Listen to it, and learn the vocabulary.


Here is what The Independent thinks


What kind of people do you think read the Independent ?

This is what The Sun says


What kind of people do you think read The Sun ?

This is what Socialist Worker says

What kind of people do you think read this newspaper ?

Cartoons on Obama

Cartoons on McCain

Are the cartoonists harder on one candidate than on the other ?





American humour at the snoopy website

LANSAD 1 week two

LANSAD WEEK TWO



Using English in France

Reading, listening and vocabulary

The first theme we have been looking at has been stereotypes. But there are other questions which affect relations between the English and the French.

Do you think that too much English is used in France ?

- Do you say “email” or “courriel”?
- Do you say “baladeur” or “walkman”?

Can you think of other examples of English words which some French people try to avoid.?

What is your opinion ?


Look at this article about the use of English, listen to it a couple of times. Then look at the “read more” section. This piece is of course, again, from the BBC.



Read another article about the domination of English in today’s world.




Grammar : questions

Short exercise on Yes/NO questions



Short Exercise on Information questions




More difficult exercise on question forms in general





Discussion : Stereotypes

What stereotypes of Englishmen are common ? Is there a little truth in them?

Look at these cartoons about Englishmen. Do you understand them


What stereotypes of Spanish people are common ?

Spanish


What about Italians?




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