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

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  • Taking the Tube

    18 September 2012 ( #3ème 4 - Seniors )

    Hi guys, today as some of you had forgotten to review their notes for the vocab test (lesson + classroom English), I decided to be lenient for this time. It will take place tomorrow. We continued the class with making a quick recap about giving directions...

  • Last Debate + Ethical fashion

    25 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hello guys, today 8 of you performed the last debate: "For or Against Death Penalty" and I have to say that in general you did quite a good job. Nearly no one was given less than the average (10)... I'm proud of what you have achieved! Let's keep it up...

  • How to write a dialogue + how to write an essay

    01 June 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale STG )

    Hi guys, today we worked on how to develop your essays and dialogues thanks to the assignment from the Pondichéry mock exam. Let's hope you will have understood the methodology a bit better. HW: - pour Lundi (rappel! = RATTRAPAGE d'un cours ce LUNDI 04...

  • Breaking Bad + Film genres and posters

    06 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hey guys, today we first watched the very beginning of a TV series called "Breaking Bad" and you had to make assumptions about the situation with Holly. Then we continued the class with associating film genres with ideas and elements. Finally, you were...

  • How to compare - Peter Parker / Spiderman / Gang

    09 November 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today you first took a mime test about the vocabulary "accessoories and weapons". I hope you did good. I will give you your grades asap. Then we corrected some sentences that you had made to express similarities and differences thanks to the...

  • Qualities and Defects

    07 September 2012 ( #3ème EURO - Seniors )

    Hi guys, today we tried to determine your personalities and sort out whether you had more qualities than defects. We drew a chart with positive and negative adjectives. You all agreed to say that being perfect was both a quality and a defect because when...

  • Canadian stereotypes - Some denied and some confirmed

    19 October 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hey guys, today we first worked as a warm up on French stereotypes. Here is what we said: Warm up : French stereotypes French people are said to eat cheese a lot are believed to like eating frogs are thought to be crazy about snails Of course it's a stereotype....

  • Supporting your candidate to the Presidency!

    26 October 2012 ( #3ème EURO - Seniors )

    Hi guys, today was D-day! You had to give your support speech for either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Some of you did do a great since they had learnt their speech alright and other unfortunately did not... I have to say I was a bit disappointed you were...

  • Poor furry animals... + Strange Fruit

    22 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hi guys, today we first started the class with this quite funny document (though gory) by French and Saunders. I highly recommend you watched other videos by these comedians online; I believe they are hilarious... Here is what we said about it: "to be...

  • Favorite Super Hero + Superman rocks!

    18 October 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today we first listened to an interview of a Spiderman fan. You can listen to it again below: Here is what we said about it: In the document, the speaker says he likes Spiderman because he's both normal (Peter Parker is an ordinary man) and...

  • Food and Travelling

    20 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale STG )

    Hi guys, today we started a new sequence about food and food problems during the first hour of the lesson. Here is the video we watched to talk about the issue: Here is what we said about the situation and the real meaning of the document: "to be written...

  • The History of... Crisps and Chocolate Chip Cookies

    19 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère LVA )

    Hi guys, before really starting the class today I first recommended you to log on to this website to practise and improve your pronunciation. It is VERY useful (above all the trial period for free... :) Then we talked about food and made a quick recap...

  • CCTV - The surveillance of society (sculpture)

    06 April 2011 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Here is a post particularly dedicated to senior STG students who will take their oral exam at the end of the year. The recording and commentary was made by Holly, our British language assistant from London, UK. This document deals with: CCTV, the surveillance...

  • The I-D-A-H-O method - How to analyse a document

    25 October 2012 ( #4ème 1 - Juniors )

    Hello guys, today was a much calmer lesson with 7 students absent... ... ... Well, well, ... We succeeded in working on the following worksheet to analyse a document. You can download it again here: You learnt how to present, describe, analyse, and comment...

  • Super Bowl and Singing along with Madonna

    07 February 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hey guys, today we first talked about the Super Bowl and the famous "half time". You can watch Madonna's performance below entirely if you want to: Then we continued and finished the lesson on American Dream and immigration with the final analysis of...

  • NYC's population & boroughs - Immigration

    09 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hi guys, today we first made a quick recap of what we had said yesterday about the picture after struggling with you to find a volunteer who was finally designated... what a shame! For the LESSON... Gosh, it's SO easy... Then we continued talking about...

  • Staging - Acting - Performing

    21 November 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère LVA )

    Hey guys, today even though not every body was present we managed to perform a nice lesson and you are going to be very good actors in the end, I'm sure of that and of your potential! Here are the important things to remember when in English theater class:...

  • Women's place in society - The Body Shop (Ad)

    06 April 2011 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Here is a post particularly dedicated to senior STG students who will take their oral exam at the end of the year. The recording and commentary was made by Holly, our British language assistant from London, UK. This document deals with: Women's place...

  • Creating and correcting a test

    22 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hi guys, today we corrected the tests you had submitted to me and you compared what you have designed to what I had built up for you. We finally answered all the questions in the test seeing that you already knew nearly all the answers since you had worked...

  • Describing VS Narrating

    16 November 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today we first warmed up with a little choreography to make sure everyone remembered the prepositions to locate something in a visual document. Here is the chart we finally drew to make sure you will not forget: "to be written by Seda" Then...

  • Waves of immigrations - Reasons for immigrating

    13 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hey guys, today you had to listen to the recording once more and concentrate on the ethnic groups and where they mostly lived. Then you had to give a definition for the words "melting-pot" and "diversity" from what you understood from the document. Here...

  • Listes de documents pour les oraux du second groupe (rattrapage)

    21 June 2011 ( #Sujets de Bac )

    Voici la liste des documents ainsi que les documents eux-mêmes (vierges de toute annotation) que vous pourrez utiliser si vous deviez passer par la case ANGLAIS pour les oraux de rattrapage après l'annonce des résultats du bac, début Juillet. Soyez judicieux...

  • Immigration waivers - How to get through customs and immigration services

    14 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hi guys, today we took the plane to New York JFK and you tried to get in the USA. Unfortunately for some of you as you were terrorists or drug dealers, you were denied access... You can download the announcements made by the cabin crew (me...) to welcome...

  • Pipedreams...

    08 February 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today we started a new sequences entitled "Dreams". We began to study an opening document for this topic. Here is what you have said about it so far: What type: This document is probably a poster for a lottery to win a car or an ad to promote...

  • Waves of immigrations - Reasons for immigrating

    13 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today you had to listen to the recording once more and concentrate on the ethnic groups and where they mostly lived. Then you had to give a definition for the words "melting-pot" and "diversity" from what you understood from the document. Here...