Tuesday, September 29th 2020 This document is a photography / a photo, taken by Matthew Abbott, an Australian photographer. It was taken in 2011 in Australia. It shows / deals with / presents / depicts / it is a portrait of … a young Aborigene / a young...
Friday, September 25th 2020. A history of the burger This document is a video which speaks about the history of burgers in the world. We learn that the patty might have been created by the Mongols who put the meat between the horse and the saddle to make...
Thursday, March 12th 2020. Steve Biko’s full name was Bantu Stephen Biko. He was born on December 18th 1946, in Tarkastad, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He died on September 12th 1977, at the age of 30, in Pretoria, South Africa. He died in prison. He became...
Choose a topic: 1. As a student , you have an opportunity to do an internship in a Silicon Valley company . Explain to your parents why that is a dream for you . Prepare your arguments and record yourself . 2. As a recruiter in a Silicon Valley start-up,...
3. Analyse the description of the creature. Rely on the first two paragraphs. Is it dead or alive? The creature seems to be switching from being dead to becoming alive. It is described with characteristics that belong to both states. It has human features...
Thursday, October 10th 2019 Do selfies constitute art? YES: - because selfies appeared / came after self-portraits - because it's something we create - photography is an art so selfies are an art too NO: - because selfies are dangerous - because it can...
Tuesday, September 17th 2019 Let’s debate and find arguments about a possible statement recognizing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples! How to express your opinion or contradict your adversary in a debate Arguments in favour of the recognition…...
Wednesday, September 5th 2018. THE HISTORY OF MUSIC IN AMERICA The times of slavery => Slaves used music / sang in Southern America, in the cotton fields, to motivate themselves / to spend the time / to support each other because they worked in poor /...
1 Read the subtitle and the last paragraph again : you can now explain the cartoon. The wall that President Trump built at the Mexican border with the USA is represented as a prison wall: there is barbed wire at the top of the wall and it is also represented...
Wednesday, October 9th 2019 Watch the video again: click here This document is video about selfies. In fact, it is a report from EuroNews, a European channel in English, which focuses on an exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery in London. The exhibition aims...
Wednesday, September 25th 2019. Trump orders burgers amid shutdown There was a shutdown (the government is closed), so Donald Trump called American burger companies and he placed an order for 1000 burgers because he organized a party. His first idea was...
Watch the video as many times as you want and try to answer the following questions. They will then help you to make a summary. What is the general theme of the video? Hamburgers, history and origins. What does it start with? How is the topic introduced?...
Thursday, September 5th 2019. In this trailer, we can see the host of the Burger Show. His name is Alvin Cailan. He explains that the show takes place in different cities: he is in LA but then he goes to New York City because the burgers in NYC are better...
3. Now watch the video and find information about: - The fake news that can be found on the Internet: - scientists have cloned a dinosaur - the world is going to go dark for 6 whole days - several young celebrities died (Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Miley...
A tender-eyed baby peers over the fence that divides the border between the United States and Mexico. The monumental black and white installation dominates the wall and is the work of French artist JR, and is located near the Tecate border crossing in...
Read from line 1 to line 9, and search for vocabulary: What’s the English for…? Autrefois = once Appartenir = to belong to Habillé en lambeaux = tattered Frénétique = feverish Arriver en masse = to pour in L’appétit = hunger Des subventions = grants Grogner...
1. What is this article about? It’s about fake news. 2. List all the words and expressions from the text related to that topic. fake news / disinformation / make up a controversial incident / Changing / written more than 30 fake amendments / Unconnected...
Wednesday, September 12th 2019 The audio document explains that the Aborigines do not appear in the Australian constitution / Australians don’t recognize the Aborigines. So there is a debate about including a statement in the constitution because they...
Protecting food, empowering whistle-blowers It used to be easy to tell if your food had integrity. You ate something you grew, hunted or gathered. And you knew exactly where it came from. But over time, we started becoming more disconnected from the source...
Monday, September 17th 2018. David Cameron’s declaration This audio document is an extract from the press conference David Cameron gave just after the result of the referendum on Brexit. What he means here is that… The hidden message is that… The underlying...
Chers élèves de terminale ES2, Etant donnée mon absence aujourd'hui, je vous propose une activité à faire en distanciel. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le fichier son d'une compréhension orale.(Si problème, n'hésitez pas à me contacter : englishcontactme@yahoo.fr)...
Monday, December 11th 2017. Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist who fought for the cause of women and especially their right to vote. She lived in the UK from 1858 to 1928 / from mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. She devoted...
Monday, November 6th 2017. Let it be This document is a radio report about the Beatles and more precisely about their song “Let it be”. The journalist starts his report with a question about whether this song will be the lastest or the last. He raises...
Wednesday, November 29th 2017. Oral comprehension – Winston Churchill’s speech This document is a radio broadcast of a speech by Winston Churchill , when he was British Prime Minister, in 1940. Here he was speaking / talking to / addressing the British...
Is privacy dead? Listen again... This document is an interview between a journalist and Steven Metcalf. They are exchanging about privacy on the internet. Steven Metcalf is an online privacy expert. He made an experience: he found 15 pages about the journalist:...
