Welcome to Mrs Le Nair's diary

Chers élèves, ce blog a été créé afin de faciliter votre apprentissage de l'anglais et vous mettre à portée de "click" les exercices, textes, vidéos ou audios étudiés en classe. Vous pourrez ainsi travailler de façon plus autonome et vous tenir à jour lors de vos absences.
Bonne année scolaire et apprentissage à tous !

jeudi 17 octobre 2013

1eres L /TL White House butler worked for 8 presidents



http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/28/barack-obama-oscar-tipped-drama-butler

Barack Obama 'teared up' watching Oscar-tipped drama The Butler

US president tells radio host that film about a black member of White House staff who serves seven presidents made him cry

mercredi 9 octobre 2013

TS : Gattaca - Movie Trailer

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/11/26/gattaca-alert-or-should-we-welcome-the-new-age-of-eugenics/


Gattaca deals with a future that draws ever-ever closer where parents dictate the genetic makeup of their child. Before gestation, embryos are screened for diseases, addictions and other undesirable qualities, and a so-called "Valid" is produced, a child who has his or her lifetime's potential mapped out for them, with perfect 20/20 vision. This is science fiction operating within the "not-too-distant" future, representing a world which is totally familiar, apart from this central trope of genetic engineering, and the prospect of regular rocket launches to the furthest moons of Saturn. It also deals sensitively with the recurrent sci-fi issues of what exactly it is that constitutes humanity: are these perfect children with flawless genes truly human?

Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is one of the last of the 'In-Valids', conceived in love rather than in a test tube. Upon his birth a DNA test suggests he has a 99% chance of developing a heart defect and dying before he is 30. This condemns him to a life lived in fear of early death, a life where he is a source of constant terror to his parents, where schools bar him for being an insurance liability and where he is denied the chance to achieve his dream — that of being a space pilot. His father tells him "Son, the only time you're going to see the inside of a space shuttle is if you're cleaning it."
But Vincent refuses to accept this brave new world, and seeks a way to deny his genetic destiny. He strikes a deal with a crippled Valid, Jerome (Jude Law), and steals his genetic identity. What makes us who we are? Gattaca's answer to this is biological, a meticulous series of close up shots of skin flakes, eyelashes, urine, pinpricks of blood — all the substances used for DNA testing. Vincent layers the biological fragments that make up Jerome on top of his own identity, and applies for the space programme under a false guise.

Bionic Eye 'Enables Blind People To See 2013

African Americans: Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit





Kanye West 's version : blood on the trees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVI6Q8jsgG0

Songs of protest inspired by the civil rights movement of the 60s
The Beatles: Black bird
John Coltrane : Alabama
Stevie Wonder : Happy Birthday
Ben harper : Like a king
Aretha franklin : Respect/lift every song and sing
Joss stone : We shall overcome/ eyes on the prize
The blind boys of Alabama : Free at last
Blus mitchel : March on selma
Bob marley : redemption song/ go tell it on the mountain
Common & will I am : a dream
Daddy : the ballad of Martin Luther King
Neil Young : Alabama
Stevie Wonder : living the city
U2 : Pride
Public Enemy, "Fight The Power"
Wyclef Jean : Here's to the state of Mississippi
Rage Against The Machine : "Wake Up
The staple singers : when will we be paid for the work we've down ?
Bob Dylan : Times they are a changin'

vendredi 4 octobre 2013

2ndes :iPads replace Teachers in Digital Schools(BBC news)



BBC NEWS / Digital schools: Can tablets replace teachers?

10 September 2013 Last updated at 00:30 BST
A number of schools in the Netherlands are pioneering a revolutionary method of learning - replacing teachers and textbooks with tablet computers.
Anna Holligan reports from Sneek.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20930195