These days in France  you've been hearing about the "Royal Wedding" almost as much  as in England. To look at things from a different angle, here is a link to the BBC. Six minutes to improve your English.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2011/04/110426_6min_english_republicans_page.shtml

And another link to a video which will inform you about what British republicans think. After all they represent almost 30 % of the population. They can't be ignored.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13125501

To finish, here is a cartoon that denounces the vast amount of money spent on the wedding while the country is going through an economic crisis.

Do you like watching series such as Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill or CSI ? And you're fed up with waiting a year before being able to watch the new seasons ? Then Alloshowtv is the best website for you ! You can find the episodes of almost every series that have just brought out in the USA in Original Version with or without subtitles. Therefore, you can practice your English while you're watching your favourite series. In my opinion, I prefer watching series in original version than in French version, because sometimes the translation and the voices aren't very good.

Here's the link : http://www.alloshowtv.com/

Marie-Claude

(Humour added by the teacher !)

IT WAS OPEN DAY AT CHAGALL ON MARCH 12TH !

"SMILE" WAS THE MOTTO OF THE DAY

THE DESIGN BUILDING WAS FULL OF SURPRISES .

FORMER PUPILS CAME FOR A DRINK AND A CHAT WITH THEIR FORMER TEACHERS.

ALL ONE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH IN HIGH SCHOOL COULD BE ASKED.

If you want to read all the new year's resolutions they've made, click HERE or in the right-hand side column in the "Other Pages" section.

By the way, today's already February 18th. So we can check if some of these resolutions have been kept...

But the actual point in these resolutions is to find out who wrote them ! So read and think, then comment (Under this note !!!) to give your answer. And hopefully 2°6 students will answer you !

(Don't forget it may take some time until your comment is published, as this blog is moderated.)

Meanwhile we wish you all fun-filled holidays !!!

Borrowed from another English teacher : http://lewebpedagogique.com/englishblog83/tag/holiday/

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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, or Simone de Beauvoir, was a French author born on the 9th of January in 1908 and who died on the 14th of April il 1986, both in Paris. We can say she was a philosopher, as she wrote some books like Le Deuxième Sexe, divided into three volumes, in which she defends a great an solid feminist theory.

 She also got involved in the women's liberation in the 1970s. Although she became atheist while growing up, Simone was at first educated in the "Court Désir", a school were girls from rich families were educated, and were her younger sister joined her. But this easy life quickly became an difficult one : her grandfather went bankrupt, which significantly reduced the resources of the family.They had to move to another flat, a dark and cramped one. This situation made the De Beauvoir parents think their daughters had to study hard to be sure they would be able to live well later.

This family was a literaryone, who liked theater and books. These passions were transmitted to Simone who decided, when she was fifteen, to become a famous writer. Her studies made her become a philosophy professor. Next to this, she took part in a magazine where some intellectuals from "la Gauche" wrote committed articles.

Among these intellectuals, there was Jean-Paul Sartre, another writer, with whom she lived a great love. She nevertheless refused to marry him. We can say their relationship was rythmed by misadventures and tumultuous episodes (he was quite unfaithful). She wrote a book about him after his death (in 1980) which shocked many Sartre's friends.

To sum up, we can notice she made her dream come true : She became a famous writer and lived an exciting life.W can add a figure to her record : she wrote twenty-three novels since she was thirty-seven, in other words one per year -approximately. I really advise you to read her books which are a a concentrate of emotions and feelings so well described !

Lorédana　 

I'm going to talk about a movie I really enjoyed seeing about one year ago at the cinema. 

Very Bad Trip is an American movie by Todd Philips, appeared on the cinema screens on the 5^th of June 2009 in the USA and the 24^th of June in France.

It's the story of four men : Doug, Phil, Stu and Allan who decided to come to Las Vegas in order to celebrate the future wedding of Doug, but the events of the night turned quite wrong... They woke up the following day with a baby in the wardrobe of their hotel room, a tiger in the bathroom, the room was totally messed up, and they had not any memory of what happened during the night. Even more serious, Doug had disappeared so they had to delay their return trip for the wedding.

The characters are really different and funny and I think the actors do a great job.

If you like funny, original and amusing movies, this one is to be seen !

For more information and to see the trailer of  that movie :

http://www.fillmedia.com/very-bad-trip-box-office-movie-trailer-959.htm

The DVD is also now available.

Marine.

My comment:

Look at the posters. Do you call this translation?

If you want to improve your English and your marks, make your teacher happy and pass your baccalauréat with distinction, go to this website and learn an idiom a day.

http://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idiom-a-day.htm

But don't overuse idioms, or as George Orwell said...

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, on turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

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I hope you feel happy as a bee.

But some of you may not be that pleased to go back to school after all that Christmas and New Year parties have imposed on us. Indeed some lists (presents for instance), are easier to make than others, (resolutions).

So to you, perfect bloggers, perfect pupils and colleagues, who don't need to write any lists, I wish

a very happy new year !