Today is …. BOXING-day, not sales day !
Just for you to be reminded of what this day originally meant, go and read … ;0))
Season's greetings !!! Here is Santa Claus !
If you want to listen to a few Season’s songs, help yourself ! You may also learn a lot of things about Santa and watch a few animations about « the Season » ! If you go to the Junior page (94S) you’ll watch a video of traditional pictures and hear a peaceful end-of-the-year [...]
Let's make a better world … (2)
You should go and watch the first video about the Copenhagen climate changes ! (on the Junior page : http://mistralangues94S.canalblog.com/ . Then, you may watch this one … and you have a right to be frightened !
…to the end …. (of the world ???) (3)
Few leaders were satisfied, and fewer citizens are happy with the first step of the climate-agreement-to-come Now, watch this last part …
TES2 : Ellis Island : the Gateway to Freedom.
Go and find information about Ellis Island, the former immigration-processing center which has now been turned into an immigration Museum. Please, DO insist on the third link, « the Gateway« . You will then have a full, methodic visit if you follow the different steps. This is NOT fiction, this is HISTORY : the origins of the [...]
Idioms ( 21 to 25 ) : 2
- Let’s call it a day ! ( let’s say we have finished our work for today.) – to take the rap for something or somebody. (to be punished for stg in sb’s place) – Her parents pulled the plug on her ( stopped their financial support ) – I have an off-day = I’m [...]
Statue of Liberty TES2
http://www.nps.gov/STLI/index.htm This is the link to the website I promised I would post on the blog. Read and learn!
Going West 1°L2
This a map of America in the 1870s. You can have an idea of the progression of the settlers towards the West.
How about a little aka? And early peoples…1°L2
This is a funny version of the aka that some of you already know! Then you can visit the following website about native Americans. Finally, have a look on the effects of the climate changes in Canada, on the Inuits. (before the Copenhagen summit).
Idioms ( 16 to 20 ) : 1
- Stop pulling my strings ! (Stop trying to control me !) – We’re on the same page ! = We see eye-to-eye about this issue ! (We have the same opinion.) – Don’t beat around the bush ! (say what you mean directly …) – She threw in the towel …(She gave up ! [...]