English Day by Day

Translation Techniques

By English Prof

Hey, today we first warmed up with some gossips. Here is what we said: In the US, everybody talks about Eva L. and Tony P.'s divorce. Eva has found a text message from one of Tony's colleague's wife and it proves he has cheated on her. She now wants a...

Correction of your tests + beginning of a new sequence

By English Prof

Hey, today you first had to work on the correction of your tests. Then we continued the lesson with the study of a document that you need to finish analysing tomorrow. Here is a copy of this document: HW: for tomorrow, you need to speak about this document,...

The Origins of Thanksgiving

By English Prof

Understanding the text and dialogue

By English Prof

Hey, today we first spoke about the future wedding of Prince William and his fiancée. Here is what we said about this piece of news: The wedding of Prince William and his fiancée is a topical issue = it's in the news at the moment. The couple has announced...

How to speak about causes and consequences

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Hey, today we first corrected the exercise about since / for and we continued speaking about the audio document we had started last time. Here is what we said about the causes for global warming: Global warming is due to greenhouse gases. GW is provoked...

How to speak about causes and consequences

By English Prof

Hey, today we first corrected the exercise about since / for and we continued speaking about the audio document we had started last time. Here is what we said about the causes for global warming: "to be written by Idir" Then we spoke about the possible...

Prison Valley - an interactive web documentary

By English Prof

Since with some of you we will study the theme: "Death Penalty in the US", I thought it would be a good start for you to have a closer insight to what the words "prison" / "jail" mean in English. You can have access to a very interesting new form of documentary...

Need to review how to make a dialogue...?

By English Prof

Hey, if you need the documents that I gave you this morning, here they are: - Download the correction for the dialogue here. (Léna's paper) - Download the word bank for speech verbs and other actions here. (Linda's paper) Enjoy! and I hope you'll achieve...

Correction of your dialogues and reading comprehension

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Hey, today we first should have had Karitoum's presentation about the picture "Teenagers, Act Now!" But she was absent... so it will be for next time. You can download the picture here again: Please Karitoum, post your comment to the blog when you are...

In France, this is considered very English...

By English Prof

Hey, today we first corrected your homework exercise about as if / as though . Here is the correction: 1- The French / French people are believed to speak English very poorly as if / as though they never learned /learnt foreign languages. 2- Americans...