Vocabulary:

cinnamon: cannelle
concrete: béton
sapphire :saphir
=> or: gold / argent : silver /diamant: diamond /émeraude: emerald

To sip tea: siroter du thé ( terme très idiomatique)

To fool someone: tromper quelqu’un …ATTENTION: a fool: n’est pas un fou mais un imbécile

a hair do: une coiffure => a hairdresser: un coiffeur / a comb: un peigne/ a hairbrush : une brosse

GRAMMAR

I Emploi particulier du comparatif:

the more…the more….= plus…, plus …

a) ex: plus on fume, plus il est difficile d’arrêter

The more cigarettes you smoke, the more difficult itis to quit

b) pour exprimer le superlatif, on peut employer un comparatif

Dans une famille de deux enfants: he is the elder : c’est le plus âgé

Dans une famille de 3 enfants et plus: he is the oldest : c’est le plus âgé

c) Elle est plus grande que moi: she is taller than I et non pas: she is taller than me

II verbes à particules

En anglais, les prépositions sont très importantes:elles apportent beaucoup de précision ET peuvent même changer le sens d’un verbe

Ex: to run:courir

to run out: manquer de, être à court de

Ici, put your record on : to put on = mettre en marche alors que to put = poser

Quelques expressions idiomatiques:

to put up with :supporter

to be to : idée de prévision

Three little birds sat on my window.
And they told me I don’t need to worry.
Summer came like cinnamon
So sweet,
Little girls double-dutch on the concrete.

Maybe sometimes, we’ve got it wrong, but it’s alright
The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same
Oh, don’t you hesitate.

Girl, put your records on, tell me your favourite song
You go ahead, let your hair down
Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams,
Just go ahead, let your hair down.

You’re gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow.

Blue as the sky, sunburnt and lonely,
Sipping tea in the bar by the roadside,
(just relax, just relax)
Don’t you let those other boys fool you,
Got to love that afro hair -do.

Maybe sometimes, we feel afraid, but it’s alright

The more you stay the same, the more they seem to change.
Don’t you think it’s strange?
[....]

‘Twas more than I could take, pity for pity’s sake
Some nights kept me awake, I thought that I was stronger
When you gonna realise, that you don’t even have to try any longer?
Do what you want to.

Girl, put your records on, tell me your favourite song
You go ahead, let your hair down
Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams,
Just go ahead, let your hair down.

After a litte discourse on Dublin, we’ll  have now a look on London city..

A website quite interessing if you are planning to spend a week-end, a week, a month, a year  or your all life there….

 http://www.visitlondon.com/whats_on/

I wanted also to make you discovered a neww British artist , called Corinne Bailey Rae and I will use some of her lyrics to have your learn some vocabulary

As it is now Cannes Film Festival in France, why not take the time to learn some vocabulary about cinema?

I do hope that you have tried once or even better that you regurlarly watch films in original version as it is such an entertaining and effortless way to learn English and you’re all so lucky with all the Englishspoken films at theatres nowadays! I truly advice you to watch OV films!!

So first let’s have a look at the official Festival website..in English of course:

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002

Ayez confiance en vous: soyez bien attentifs aux intitulés des épreuves ainsi qu’aux notes de bas de page. Ne laissez jamais de blanc en version et essayez de voir avec le contexte! Surtout ne paniquez pas car ces épreuves sont faites POUR vous et non pas CONTRE vous!

Good Luck !!!

Un extrait d’un article de la BBC en cette période ensoleilée et donc de régime pour certains….

Mars bars to remain vegetarian

Mars has reversed its plans to use animal products in some of the UK’s best selling chocolate brands. This follows a campaign by the Vegetarian Society and Mars has apologised to vegetarians, who were very unhappy about the company’s plans. This report is read for us by Yvonne Archer:

The firm, Mars, had said it would change the whey used in some of its products from a vegetarian source to one with traces of the animal enzyme, rennet. Rennet is extracted from calves’ stomachs and was to have been used by the parent company, Masterfoods, in all it’s ice cream versions of the chocolate bars too.

The Vegetarian Society organised a campaign against the move, asking members to voice their concerns to Masterfoods. And in just one week, more than 6,000 people bombarded the company with phone and e-mail complaints. Forty MPs also signed a petition to voice their opposition.

Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, said the company had listened to customers and decided to reverse its decision.

Fiona Dawson:

We have received lots of contacts from people who enjoy our products…It became very clear, very quickly, these people who love our products, actually, were very disappointed in our decision. So we realise we’ve made a mistake and we’re terribly sorry about that and we’ve pulled out all the stops to reverse this and ensure that we can allow these people to continue to enjoy the brands that they love at Mars.

There are three million vegetarians in the UK but Mars upset a lot of their other consumers too. The Vegetarian Society had called the move by Mars « incomprehensible » and « a backward step ». So for Liz O’Neill of the Vegetarian Society, victory was sweet indeed!

Liz O’Neill:

VOCABULARY

whey
liquid that is left when the solid part is taken away from milk that isn’t fresh

vegetarian
someone who doesn’t eat meat or fish (usually for religious or moral reasons)

is extracted from calves’
is taken from young cows’

to voice their concerns
to say or show that they were unhappy or didn’t agree with the decision

bombarded
sent a lot of messages in a short space of time

MPs also signed a petition
Members of Parliament (elected politicians) added their names to a list of other people’s names who strongly requested or demanded to change something

reverse its decision
change its judgement

pulled out all the stops
did everything possible to make something happen

a backward step
towards a worse state or situation than before

victory was sweet
success made them feel very happy

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