Monday, September 9th 2013. Alexander McQueen’s biography He was a famous and provocative fashion designer. His dad was a taxi-driver and his mum was a teacher. When he was young, he lived in Stratford in a tower block. He had five sisters and he made...
Wednesday, November 20th 2013. A heroic pilot This document is a press article which tells the story of a plane which crashed on the Hudson River near New York City. What caused the accident was a flock of birds. But the pilot had a great experience,...
Thursday, November 7th 2013. Listen to the report here: Indian girls go missing This audio document is about / deals with / tackles the topic of inequality between men and women in India. Indeed there are twice as many boys as girls in India. It is not...
Independence: When the British left in 1947, in order to avoid further religious tension, two separate states were created: a Hindu state, India, and a Muslim state, Pakistan (East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971). Demography: With 1.2 billion inhabitants,...
Seconde B/C Monday, September 30th 2013. Let’s ask questions to the Boutins! What’s your name? My name’s… Have you got any children? Yes, I have 3 children… Have you got pets? Yes, we have one dog and one cat… Where do you live? We live in Stony Brook…...
Thursday, September 19th 2013. Occupy Wall Street The Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17th 2011 and lasted till October. It’s about the crisis: Poor people demonstrated to say they needed a job, a home, they needed to be better paid… They...
Seconde D/E Tuesday, September 17th 2013. New York New York is composed of five districts / neighborhoods / parts : The Bronx in the North, Brooklyn in the South East, Queens in the East, Manhattan in the center and Staten Island in the South West. The...
Terminale S 1) A robot + A woman in a house (living-room) Live // robot? Dancing in front of TV (Saturday Night Fever, 1980s – John Travolta – disco dancing) Parallel with the robot: imitate / mimic Dance steps / On wheels / his? its? arms When? In the...
Westward Expansion – Timeline 1767: Daniel Boone explores Kentucky for the first time. Click here to know more about Daniel Boone 1803: Louisiana Purchase - President Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. This doubles...
Decades ago, millions of Indians left here for the West in search of better opportunities and a new life but increasingly a new trend is emerging where many of the children of those who settled and made lives in the US or the UK for example, have decided...
Wednesday, September 17th 2014. New York New York is nicknamed “The Big Apple”. There are five boroughs / districts / neighborhoods in New York: The Bronx is in the North, Brooklyn is in the South East, Queens is in the East, Manhattan is in the center...
There are many English speaking countries in the world : South Africa, Canada, Australia, The USA (The United States of America), England, etc… People there have different flags… The South African flag is the rainbow flag with 6 colours (black for black...
2nde B/C Thursday, March 20th, 2014 Maria, an eco-friendly person? This document is an interview of an eco-friendly person, whose name is Maria. The question that has been asked to her could be: “What do you do for the planet?” or “Do you recycle a lot?”...
Seconde D/E Tuesday, November 12th 2013. Alone in Alaska Hitchhiker = a person who walks on the side of the road hoping someone will stop and take him in his car. To shiver = to tremble because of the cold Cheerfully = happily Dawn = morning This is the...
Seconde B/C Monday, November 4th 2013. My greatest challenge Lindsey is a student in sociology. She is 25 and she lives in Bristol, Connecticut. She walked across 6 states, from Connecticut to Nebraska: she crossed New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,...
Monday, October 7th 2013. 8 tips to take pictures with a phone 1- Take a lot of pictures because you can choose the best… 2- Shoot at eye level because it makes neutral pictures. If you shoot a picture from below, it’s a low-angle shot (= contre-plongée),...
Seconde D/E Tuesday, October 1st 2013. Let’s meet the Boutins! Introduce = present Home = house Attached = ci-joint Average = typical Two stories = two floors Have a meal = eat Enjoy = appreciate Outdoors = outside Scuba diving = plongée sous-marine Run...
Seconde B/C Wednesday, September 25th 2013. Kevin’s childhood in New York Kevin has a few memories from the time of his childhood in New York. He was 2 ½ (two and a half), 3 years old and it was in the summer, it was the baseball season so he and his...
Thursday, September 18th 2014. There are many different cultures in the city of New York. For example Asians who live in Chinatown, Italians who live in Little Italy, African Americans who live in Harlem, there is also a Spanish Harlem. Jews live in Brooklyn,...
Thursday, March 20th 2014. Italy’s immigrants living conditions This document is a video report for television / for the news about the condition of living of immigrants in Italy. They lived in Africa when there was a war so they wanted to go to Italy....
1- The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization (NGO). 2- It was created in 1961 under the name World Wildlife Fund. 3- Its aim is to safeguard the natural world. 4- It also tackles the threat of climate change. 5-...
Seconde D/E Tuesday, November 5th 2013. My greatest challenge This is Lindsey, she is 25 and she is a student in sociology. She entered / took part in an experience / a program(me) called Togetherness: the goal / the aim was to meet as many people as...
Seconde B/C Thursday, October 17th 2013. Lewis and Clark went on expedition with 40 men, from Saint Louis / They started from / left Saint Louis on May 14th 1804. They took food, warm clothes and weapons (rifles) with them. They also took poles to push...
Seconde D/E Wednesday, October 2nd 2013. OTTAWA The region of Ottawa has 1.2 million inhabitants among which 870,000 (eight hundred and seventy thousand) people live in Ottawa city alone. Ottawa is the fourth largest metropolitan area in Canada, after...
Seconde D/E Monday, September 23rd 2013. A Japanese in New York… Mari is Japanese but she has lived in New York… She studied in Columbia so she knows Harlem. People in Harlem talk to each other, they gossip so you have a neighborhood feeling. In Harlem,...
