Record yourselves by clicking here

Try to sound "English"!

Listen to the recording on your CD and try to reproduce the same intonation and sentence pattern. Stress the words correctly and breathe at the right moments.

Good luck!

President Obama addresses US students

Listen to Barack Obama's welcome back to school speech.
It's rather inspiring and uplifting!

HOW TO REMEMBER NAMES

Check out this video! It's hilarious!

Try to analyse how the humour is created.

The Good Consumer

You still haven't spent a penny today!? What are you waiting for? Watch this video and learn how to be a ...good consumer!

http://es.youtube.com/watch?hl=es&v=A_ut93YYZu8&gl=ES

How to see, laugh or walk

English is a very rich language. Here are a few ways of expressing sight, laughter or gait.

Click on this link and study this list. Best of luck!

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkb62p5_9hg6wdxg7&hl=en

Do you know your US geography?

Practise locating the US states with a fun game!

Click on the following link and play!

http://www.anglaisfacile.com/pages/flash/us-states.php

SEGREGATION IN THE US

The Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution put an end to slavery in the US. However, African Americans' plight wasn't over for all that!

Watch a video on the period of racial segregation that followed the period of slavery:
(the documentary is shown after an advertising message)

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/5959-civil-rights-segregation-in-america-video.htm

And another video on the return of segregation in US schools today some fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement had managed to defeat segregation in the 1950s and 1960s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxSsxwKZxCI