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English Day by Day

English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.

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L'utilisation des pronoms relatifs - "Who" VS "Which"

L'utilisation des pronoms relatifs - "Who" VS "Which"

Les pronoms relatifs sont sans doute l'un des points de grammaire les plus compliqués en anglais avec les temps lorsque l'on creuse dans les détails parce que leur fonction n'est pas toujours bien maîtrisée en français par les locuteurs natifs. Or, pour...

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Barack Obama's facebook account

Barack Obama's facebook account

Hey, today we concentrated our efforts to analyse the following picture: Here is what we said about it: "to be written by Sarah T." You really need to get deeper into the analysis if you want to get a good grade for your final exam. No surface talk, but...

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King Kong - An adaptation of the Heart of Darkness?

Hey, today we first had a little chat about current issues in the US at the moment again. And here is what we said after viewing this document: The document is a report about the failed terrorist attack which is said to have been performed by Al-Qaida....

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Shrek 2 - The credits - A parody + interesting adjectives

Hey, today we first talked about your trip to Greece and here is what we said about it: "to be written by Félix / William" Then we watched the very beginning of Shrek 2 and we commented on the elements of parody included in the scene.You can watch the...

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Topical issues in the US + End of "Heart of Darkness"

Topical issues in the US + End of "Heart of Darkness"

Hey, today we first had a little chat about two major topical issues currently burning in the US. Here is what we said about them: There are currently two major topical issues in the US: - First, the terrorist threat. A bomb was luckily defused / disabled...

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Refreshing your memory about Joe's childhood memories

Hey, today we first did a little recap of what we had said about the text entitled "The Rolls Royce". Then we continued on speaking about it and more precisely about the characters in the text and the opinions they had about Joe's father, Peter. Here...

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Le préfixe "by-"

Le préfixe "by-"

Le préfixe by- sert à désigner un à-côté de quelque chose. Son sens vient de la préposition de lieu que l'on peut utiliser aussi bien avec un verbe de mouvement que pour situer quelque chose dans l'espace. "I put the bag by the door" (j'ai mis le sac...

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"-ing", une terminaison nominalisante

"-ing", une terminaison nominalisante

Il faut faire attention en anglais car la forme "-ing" isolée, aposée à un verbe, n'est pas une forme verbale mais bien nominale. Un verbe sur lequel on rajoute ce suffixe devient un substantif et se comporte comme tel. Notre traduction en français peut...

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Shrek - The credits

Shrek - The credits

Hey, today after speaking a little about your classmates who are still stuck in Greece, we watched the credits from the movie "Shrek". Here is the transcript of the opening: Once upon a time there was a lovely princess but she had an enchantment upon...

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Ashleigh's Rules + text + Sunday Bloody Sunday

Hey, we first had a warm up about Ashleigh's Rules and Facebook. Here is what we said about it: "Ashleigh's rules" Ashleigh was a 17-year-old British girl who was killed by a psycho / freak she had met on the Internet, more precisely on Facebook. After...

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