Thursday, February 18, 2010

UFO and friends

Are you fascinated or intrigued by UFO well here is an interesting
article from the BBC, it is matter for thought.
Let us know what you think.

Plus do you have too many friends? or never enough?
Here is an other article from the BBC

For dolphin lovers


Here is for all dolphin lovers from the telegraph.
I think there are a lot around but with a special thought for Laure.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Catching up if you feel you did not do your best.

A new website to catch up if you did not learn regularly or fast enough.
It will help you select beginners and start working!

New dictionaries

It is a shame you are not English. You would probably love this website.
There are dictionaries for everything in which words are introduced in different ways.
There are articles too.
My favorite:
How climate change has influenced our vocabulary.
There are a lot of new snow play words. Why?
There has been snow in Florida this year and several severe snow storms in North America.
There is one dictionary specifically for you. If you wish to know more about English idioms and idiomatic expressions here it is: click.

Carnival

Your Carnival was great and you enjoyed it.

Here is what it was like in New Orleans from Time magazine: click
and in Rio de janeiro from the newspaper The Sacramento Bee : click

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Winter Olympics again

A real neat interactive guide to the Olympics by the Los Angeles Time
The daily newspaper of your epals!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Nasa again

Nasa is worth following on Twitter just for the beautiful pictures.
This is Rio dejaneiro:

here is San Francisco


Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco, CA. Beautiful shadow :-) on Twitpic

and London



London, England - first time that I saw the whole city withou... on Twitpic

Winter Olympics

The winter Olympic games are a great moment.

First, you have to know where Vancouver is you can see it better from here: click and here too.

if you wish to know more about each sport Click here
or here, and here.

The passing of the torch dating back to the tenth century BCE( Before the Common Era) is also very great and interesting.
if you want to see beautiful pictures of the event so far click here.
You can see all the torches on this New York Times website Click.

Now for a few exercises: click and here for a scientific outlook

An engaging game from the Canadian Olympic school that you should try: click.

A little history here and here to see who were the champions.

Have a great time watching, there is a problem though: there is no snow in Vancouver, the temperature is too high an average of 7.6 °C read here


epals

We have talked about Glogster in class today. Have a look and let me know what you think.

Here is the link, just click.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

10-02-09

Here is a new quiz on the last lesson for the 6° all of them!