Découvre les tongue-twisters et autres virelangues d'anglais et d'ailleurs, en faisant un tour à St James Park, à Londres... aujourd'hui, c'est la Journée européenne des langues !
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Libre à qui le souhaite de tisser ici ses propres fils avec ceux d'un blog à la trame dessinée par l'anglais et son univers. Orientés par exemple par l'histoire, l'humour, la musique ou le cinéma ses vidéos, textes, sons, illustrations -etc- viennent y prolonger les thèmes explorés en cours, et j'y publie des ressources conçues pour enrichir la pratique de la langue. S'il peut devenir outil de progression, je souhaite aussi qu'il vous procure plaisir et parfois même amusement... why not ?!
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Découvre les tongue-twisters et autres virelangues d'anglais et d'ailleurs, en faisant un tour à St James Park, à Londres... aujourd'hui, c'est la Journée européenne des langues !
Prepositions : 14 common mistakes...
click on the infographic below to get useful tips on how to choose the suitable preposition :
grammar.net website displays a wide range of nice infographics to help you improve your language use : definitely worth a visit... have a try :-)
The infographic below displays texting characteristics and explains how language evolutions may be related to texting.
You [ought to...] regularly revise irregular verbs lists : they're either alphabetical or morphologically-based....
A French colleague built this map to group the verbs by themes, which you might well find it easier to memorise... click on the map to download it, & have a try !
Thanks to J-M. Chavance who created this document,
which is licensed under a CC BY-SA
On the examenglish <<
website,
you'll find various free tests to prepare international ESL/EFL exams : IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET.
To describe and analyse a photo...
... you also need to specify the angle taken by the photographer : it often shows his/her intention : what does he/she want to focus our attention on ? Which particular side of the picture does he/she want to highlight ?
The series of shots above ⇑ displays various camera angles, sizes and movements.
You'll find some explanations here , <<
especially as for camera shot sizes : CU is the shortened from for "close-up" (= the French "gros plan") for example...
This series of animations humorously relates the "History of English"
These Free Open Learning videos were created by the Open University
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ANGLO-SAXON or "Whatever happened to the Jutes ?" | The NORMAN CONQUEST or "Excuse my English" | SHAKESPEARE or "A plaque on both his houses" |
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The KING JAMES BIBLE or "Let there be light reading" | The English of SCIENCE or "How to speak with gravity" | English & EMPIRE or "The sun never sets on the English language" |
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The age of the DICTIONARY or "The definition of a helpless task" | "AMERICAN English or Not English, but somewhere in the ballpark" | INTERNET English or "Language reverts to type" |
GLOBAL English or "Whose language is it, anyway ?" |
All of them are licensed by the Open University
under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence
The questions below might help improve speaking in public skills (for instance, speaking in front of your own class/teacher/examiner...). In "King George VI" the speaking difficulties arose from Bertie's stammering...
The video below gets you to view the King's speechES : the film's speech, and the real one.
Could both speeches be synchronised ? If you compare both audio tracks, you'll hear (and see !) that the film crew did a great job :