This blog is designed for French highschool students -from Louis de Broglie school in Ancemont OR from anywhere else- who want to improve their English.
Les média en parlent... Est Républicain, fin 2009 Le 16 juin dernier, nous avons reçu la visite de Monsieur le Recteur de l'Académie, Monsieur le Président du Conseil Général de la Meuse, Madame la Vice-Présidente du Conseil Général, les Inspecteurs de...
English people love talking about the weather. "Lovely day, isn't it ?" What's the weather like ? Click on these link ; link to revise. Let's revise some vocabulary ! link This is a well-known song : It's raining, it's pouring (link) "It's raining, it's...
Paul Revere and the Raiders is an American rock band which had enormous success in the second half of the 1960's and early 1970's. Indian Reservation, the Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian is the Raiders' biggest hit. You'll find the lyrics are...
What is this ? Well done Charlotte (8C). It is a didgeridoo indeed. It is also known as a didjeridu or didge. It is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago and is still in widespread usage today...
We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Good tidings we bring to you and your kin, Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year. Oh, bring us a figgy pudding Oh, bring us a figgy...
Have a look at these 3 girls : Sonia is the tallest. Who is she ? le superlatif (supériorité) formation Adjectifs d'une "syllabe" the + adjectif + est 1. tall, small, old the tallest, the smallest, the oldest 2. s'ils se terminent par consonne-voyelle-consonne...
Let's meet at 10:45 PM, 11:00 PM at the latest, outside the school entrance. See you tonight ! Here's the link to the blog created especially for you and your parents. It will be updated daily. (Parents délèves de 4èmes, cliquez sur ce lien pour des nouvelles...
There are 2 TH-sounds in English. The first one is called "voiceless" or "soft" sound, as in "think", for example. In phonetics, it is symbolized like this : / θ/ The second one is called "voiced" or "hard" sound as in "this/that", for example. In phonetics,...
SATURDAY NIGHT Saturday night, I went somewhere. Where did you go? Where did you go? I went to a party and I met someone. Who did you meet? Who did you meet? I met a witch and she did something. What did she do? What did she do? She took her wand and...
Here's this week's mystery picture : Who was he ? What was his name ? Need help ? Click on this link... Well done Manon (8C) ! His name was Guy Fawkes. He was a Catholic. On November 5th , 1605 he tried to blow up the Parliament in London and kill the...
La deuxième manche du défi lecture in English aura lieu vendredi 3 février prochain. La rencontre se déroulera sur le même principe que pour la première rencontre, à savoir par visioconférence. Les 4 équipes en lice, The Bloggers d'Héraklion, The Saint...
Un concours de dessin est lancé pour les élèves de 6ème C et de 6ème D. Ils doivent écouter attentivement la chanson This is a cat de Patricia Johnston et la représenter sur une feuille A4 cartonnée. Les plus belles oeuvres seront récompensées. A vos...
Who is this? http://www.africapresse.com What's his job? When and where was he born? How long ago was he born? Well done Pierre (9A) ! He is indeed Barack Hussein Obama II, the 44th President of the United States. He was born in Hawaii 48 years ago, on...
The Big Challenge was created in 2001. So it has existed for 8 years now. This year 67 pupils have taken up THE challenge at Louis de Broglie High School. So don't miss the Big Challenge on Thursday, May 7th at 4 o'clock . Meanwhile you can visit the...
The first day of the month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of year when warmer weather begins and flowers and trees start to blossom. It is said to be a time of love and romance. It is when people celebrate the coming of summer with lots of...
If you need to revise the date, here's a link to practise ! And test your knowledge on the days of the week by clicking on this link And don't forget, you can have an extra point if you write the date correctly on your tests ! What day is supposed to...
Red Nose Day is coming soon, this year it is on Friday March 13th ! But What is Red Nose Day ? Red Nose Day is a big charity event. The Comic Relief team takes some fantastic fund-raising in schools, offices and homes across the United Kingdom, mixes...
Here are a few tongue twisters to practise your pronunciation: The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains. (My Fair Lady) Huge houses are hadly hot. The happy hamster has a hat. Hungry Harry ate a hundred haddocks. Four fat frogs flattened five French...
download-free-pictures.com/history/columbus-discovers-america When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, he thought he was in India. That is why he called the people "Indians". The Europeans wanted gold but they also discovered potatoes,...
We have studied this sculpture in class and this is what some of my 14-year-old pupils think: Emilie : "This is a picture. On this photo I can see a sculpture of an American woman pushing a shopping cart full of junk food. This sculpture looks real. The...
9 Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director Last month we talked about aliens and E.T.s. First, we answered the 7 questions of a very unusual poll and discovered that some of us may have been abducted by aliens even if they...
Saint George is one of the best known Christian figure. He was a Roman soldier famous for his bravery. He stood up against Christians being tortured. According to a legend, he slaughtered a dragon in a town in Libya and resued the King's daughter. The...
It is a tragic anniversary today. 10 years ago on this very day the USA was attacked by terrorists who hijacked 4 aeroplanes and caused the death of nearly 3,000 thousand people. Their targets were the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York...
Mme Markoulaki, a teacher of English from Greece, and myself have organised an email exchange between our pupils. 'Maria Markaki' school is a private language school in Heraklion, Greece. My 50 students are in year 7 C and 7 D and the Greek students attend...
The First European English Contest For School The Big Challenge is an English language contest for students between the ages of 11 and 16. It is held every year in May in schools across France, Germany and Spain. In 2010, over 640,000 students with 30,000...
