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Let’s be e-poets for the European day of languages! + Letter to a penfriend
O for organize, often, officially, only, offer, own,
let’s open our houses to our
old opposites and let’s have a good party!
D for dream, day, definitely and do the best!
Do your best!
E for Enjoy the Ode to Joy!
Elected engineers and experience!
T for take your time!
0 for our best friends and our best neighbours!
J for our joy, for our original future
just for our wonderful men and women
for our children, our cities, our buildings,
our forests and our nature!
O for our magnificent trees and plants and flowers
our gardens, our vegetables and sun!
Y for our yellow and yelling yes!
… Young and yesterday!
… Our years!
E for elected and election
enjoy, everyday, everybody,
everything
U for until,unpack,up,
upstairs,use,
united and unity
for United Kingdom
R for ready, real and really, rich and richness,
relax and relaxing, race, rabbit,react,ring,
roads and rivers,receive,remember, riddle,
rain and rainy, read, readers, reading, roots,
routes, room,right, rules,
reach,recognize, roadsign
run, run, run, run, run,run,
run,run,run,run,
run,run,run,run,run,
run,run,run,run,run,run,
run,run,run,run,run,run!
O for over,offer,open,officially,
often,only,order,
own, other
P for paint and painting
E for enjoy and e-communication!
Colors (US) Colours (GB) 4°2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGqE7j_zRg&feature=related[/youtube]
4°2
Some interesting images you found (dictionaries were allowed)
in bigger characters my favourite ones!
I am black like a monster and a murderer
I am red like blood and a victim or like a crime
I am grey today, like the weather
I am green and free like a garden
I am all in a muddle today and crazy like my thoughts
I am white today, big and soft like a cloud in the sky
I am pink today, happy and beautiful like a flower
I am pink today, happy and messy like love
I am brown today, dizzy and not beautiful, not like a round day
I am white today, cute and interesting, humid and beautiful like a lake
I am grey today, sad and wrong like TV (like a TV set)
I am blue today, happy and serious like people
I am pink today, awesome and cute like a clever clown
I am brown today, sweet and beautiful like life
I am pink today, like beauty, yummy and crisp like a big lovely apple
I am yellow today, shiny, sparkling and fascinating like a bright candle
I am blue today, fresh and icy like ice in winter
I am grey today, sad and miserable like a morning rain
I am yellow today, happy like a beach
I am red today, like a pen and small like a big hen
I am purple today, tall, very tall like my heart because I love you!
Le prétérit et la Maison Blanche
Good morning,
Six months ago, Gail O’Brien didn’t know whether or not she would be able to treat her cancer. Betsy Burton wasn’t sure if she could afford to keep paying the skyrocketing premiums for her employees’ health insurance. Paul Horne was struggling to make ends meet after his prescription drug coverage hit the “donut hole.” The thing about these stories is that they could happen to anybody. Millions of Americans — maybe even you or someone you know — have been struggling for years with our broken health care system. These stories are what inspired me to fight for the Affordable Care Act and made me so proud to sign this landmark legislation into law six months ago. Every day, I hear from Americans like Gail, Betsy and Paul, and a few of these folks have stepped forward to bravely share their stories with the entire country. Take a minute to hear what they have to say: The Affordable Care Act is already making a difference in the lives of millions of Americans. And starting tomorrow, the Patient’s Bill of Rights goes into effect, ending some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry and putting you, not your insurance company, in control of your health care. Here’s what the Patient’s Bill of Rights means for you:
This is a long-overdue victory for American consumers and patients. For years, millions of Americans have been at the mercy of their insurance companies as they jacked up rates, denied coverage or dropped patients all together. Now, some opponents of this reform have pledged to “repeal and replace” all of the progress we’ve made over the past six months. But I refuse to go back to the days when insurance companies could deny a child health care due to a pre-existing condition or impose a lifetime limit on care for a cancer patient. Those days are over. The Affordable Care Act provides basic rules of the road that make our health care system work for consumers. It cuts costs and will help us begin to get our fiscal house in order. And most importantly, it provides Americans with the peace of mind that their insurance will be there for them when they need it. To learn more about the Patient’s Bill of Rights and the Affordable Care Act, visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform Sincerely, President Barack Obama P.S. Last week, I surprised Gail O’Brien by calling her at home. You can see what happened here: |
ee+ce A2-B1 Obama e-mail teenager gets US ban
14 September 2010 Last updated at 10:47 GMT BBC news
1)Quel est le nom et l’âge de cet adolescent? Où habite-t-il?
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2)D’où a été tiré cet article?–————————————
3)”He has been banned from entering the US for life” :
– il est autorisé – il n’est plus autorisé à se rendre aux USA
4)”a case of a boy being “silly””:- il voulait nuire au Président américain
-il ne s’est pas rendu compte de ce qu’il faisait
5)”No criminal action was being taken”: -il est poursuivi – il n’est pas poursuivi
6)”He could not remember exactly what he had written in the e-mail”:
-il ne se souvenait pas de ce qu’il avait écrit dans le courriel
-il se souvient parfaitement bien de ce qu’il avait écrit dans le courriel envoyé au Président américain.
7)”abusive language”: – ce sont des “mots doux “et sympathiques d’encouragement
- – des grossièretés
– du vocabulaire faisant partie de la diplomatie
Expression libre: Written expression of your choice: in English or in French
Who is Obama?
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Obama e-mail teenager gets US ban
A teenager from Bedfordshire has been banned from entering the United States for life for sending a “threatening” e-mail to the White House.
Luke Angel, 17, of Silsoe, was investigated after he expressed his dislike of President Barack Obama and the US Government.
Bedfordshire police, who then visited Luke, said the e-mail was full of abusive and threatening language.
“He was told that he wouldn’t be able to go to America,” they added.
A spokeswoman said it was a case of a boy “being silly” and no criminal action was being taken.
“We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and so we went round to see him,” she said.
“He said ‘oh dear, it was me’.”
He told police he could not remember exactly what he had written in the e-mail.
A2-B1-B2 Edward Hopper
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgzFalhMEI[/youtube]
“If I could say
it in words,
I wouldn’t need
to paint”
video clips: copy and paste!
http://americanart.si.edu/education/resources/guides/index.cfm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTGd2xDhuDI[/youtube]
NGA New York curator speaks about Edward Hopper’s paintings
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cNhbrb8P6k&feature=related[/youtube]
Boys and girls meet:
a gorgeous adult Persian cat and a lovely German sheepherd
puppy – they’re going to get on like a house on fire.
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2008/02/norman_rockwell_and_the_civil.html
several Rockwell’s illustrations:
http://www.nrm.org/pdfs/family-guide.pdf
It is true or false ?
The atmosphere:
calm and quiet
disturbing and disquieting
peaceful and relaxing
noisy with a lot of people walking and doing their shopping
It gives an impression of quietness and accomplishment
It conveys a strange feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen
It conveys the feeling that something pleasant will take place
Which adjectives ?
sad- romantic- gothic- realisitc- modern- everyday America or Grand America
Which words?
romanticism- realism-modernism- gothicism
What are the artist’s favourite scenes?
Choose two answers:
– busy streets or empty streets
-daylight in the early morning or at night
–urban scenes – everyday America or Grand America
-people interact with each other (talk and chat)
people are indifferent and do not care about each other
-people look at various directions
–colourful or sad scenes
-people on their own (seuls) or people with friends
–towns, cities or seascapes and landscapes
-loneliness and isolation
-lonely and isolated
On the one hand,
On the other hand,
It is up to the viewer to decide !
The viewer is considered as a free person to judge and make his own picture of the scene
The artist is very respectful of the viewers as he does NOT impose his own viewpoint
The viewers are free to invent their own world
they can choose between positive and negative feelings,
between loneliness and isolation