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Obama has won

Watch Obama's victory speech.

key campaign issues on video

See what Barack Obama and john McCain have to say on key issues: on video!

Learn your vocabulary easily thanks to "j'aime les langues"

Here is a progam that can help you memorise your vocabulary lists!!
It is called "j'aime les langues"
"J'M Les Langues est un logiciel qui a pour but de faciliter l'apprentissage de listes de vocabulaire pour les cours de langues. Vous rentrez votre vocabulaire dans différentes listes, qui appartiennent à des dictionnaires de listes. Pour l'apprentissage de ces listes, il y a 4 types d'exercices: click, écrit, dictée et interro. Il est possible de n'être interrogé que sur certains mots, choisis ou aléatoires. ..."

European Day of languages

September 26th is the European day of languages. Here is the oppportunity to learn their names.

Luxembourg French, German, Luxemburgish
Ireland Gaelic
Denmark Danish
Austria German
Finland Finnish
Belgium Dutch, French
Netherlands Dutch
United Kingdom English
Germany German
Sweden Swedish
France French
Italy Italian
Spain Spanish
Greece Greek
Slovenia Slovak
Cyprus Greek, Turkish
Malta Maltese
Portugal Portuguese
Czech Republic Czech
Estonia Estonian
Hungary Hungarian
Slovakia Slovak
Lithuania Lithuanian
Latvia Latvian
Poland Polish
Bulgaria Bulgarian
Romania Romanian

Many other regional languages are spoken in Europe!
Three cheers for Breton
Kenavo Dor

Grammar one

1. He works in a bank.
2. He is studying the effects of nuclear radiations on pigs.
3. How long does the film last?
4. She comes from Scotland.
5. “What is she doing?” “She is hailing a taxi.”
6. He’s always smoking a pipe! (I’m sick and tired of it)
7. The match starts at 3.
8. I’m leaving tomorrow.
9. We‘ve rented a car.
10. It’s the first time I’ve eaten oysters.
11. I’ve just finished.
12. He has drunk two bottles of wine.
13. He has been drinking again!
14. He has worked here for 2 years
15. He has been working for hours.
16. They have been here since May.
17. We’re staying here a week.
18. I’ve been here since 2004.
19. He's (*has)been out of work for almost a year.
20. He’s (* is) out of work at the moment/on the dole.

Here starts 2008-2009

Welcome to the class blog. You will find information about classwork but also tips, bits of news, interesting links.

Buy a car. Get a gun in the bargain

Listen to the owner of the Max Motors dealership explaining how successful his offer for a car and a gun or a $250 gas card is at this address in the audio part of the article.

Multiplication maya

Multiplication maya
Vidéo envoyée par Roma-eterna

Multiplication Maya
Matematicas principio tzeltal (maya antiguo)!

Buzz Lightyear trains for NASA mission

Interesting piece of news, isn't it!

Fairgame: World Of Warcraft

May 10th is Fair Trade day.

Fair trade May 10th

To what extent are you a fair trade consumer?

Try this quiz to know.

Learn also about microcredit, made popular by Mr Yunus when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Aviation English

If you are interested in learning Aviation English visit the Macmillan site. They have just released a new method.
Plus here : the ICAO Rating Scale.

Relative clauses

Here is the end of the exercise:



The film deals with a child whose father was killed during the war.

Arthur Miller, whose fascinating biography I read, died in February 2005.

Here is the book (that) I was telling you about/ I was talking about.

We met a lot of women, most of whom had never heard about the disease.

The town, a third of which was destroyed during the war, has a beautiful gothic church.

He lacked courage, which surprised me.

What surprised me was his lack of courage.

I remember the day (when) we met.

He read all that he could lay hands on/ whatever he could.

Sustainable food

COWS UNITE!!!!

Visit this interesting site devoted to sustainable food.

You can read information like:

"A recent poll conducted for Food & Water Watch indicates that 80 percent of consumers want milk from cows not treated with the hormone to be labeled “rBGH-free" but Monsanto, the manufacturer of rBGH, has asked for such labels to be restricted."

You bet!! Who stands to gain?

Organic war

A very imaginative view of organic food vs junk food.

Antismoking ads

Watch and listen to this great antismoking ad by Stynx: Why do you keep running boy?

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Hey, whatcha sayin', boy,
Fancy gettin' jiggeh?
Hey, whats the problem, boy?
The smell of my exhale
I want you there, boy
I wanna hold you close
Is it my breath? My hair and stinky clothes?
You disappear, right outta sight
When I say, "Have you got a light?"
Why do you keep on running, boy?
Can't run so fast, got a pain in my chest (oh!)
Why do you keep on running boy (Runnin' boy)
I wish you'd stop, cos I'm so out of breath
*puff* *wheeze* *takes another drag*"

The Meatrix

The Meatrix is an imaginative pastiche of a famous movie, denouncing industrial farming.
Have fun.