Friday, 28 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Oral presentation marking criteria
Quality of English (5 points) Have you made any mistakes?
Precision, wealth of vocabulary and expressions, right level for audience, correct tone, etc.
Quality of text (5 points) Is it your own work?
Original, interesting, well-expressed ideas, logically presented, wealth of sources, good analysis, etc.
Clarity (5 points) Do we understand everything you say?
Volume, speed, pronunciation, intonation, rythm, stress.
Communication skills (5 points) How convincing are you?
Body language (looks at audience, smiles, shows self-confidence, etc.), use of documents, respects timing.
Monday, 1 October 2012
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Monday, 13 August 2012
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Where in the UK are people happiest?
Map of the world showing subjective well-being
"David Cameron put happiness firmly on
the political agenda by arguing that it was time we admitted that
there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on
GDP, but on GWB, i.e. general well-being" (quoted on the BBC in 2006 when Cameron was
HM Leader of the Opposition).
Friday, 3 August 2012
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
What will we be studying in PREMIÈRE "DNL" in 2014-2015?
HISTORY
- The British Empire ("l'Empire britannique: de la colonisation à la décolonisation")
- The USA at war in the 20th century ("les Etats-Unis et la guerre au XXe siècle")
GEOGRAPHY
- UK regions ("la place et le rôle des régions au Royaume-Uni")
- Europe and the regions of the European Union ("de l'espace européen aux territoires de l'Union Européenne")
Friday, 20 July 2012
Monday, 16 July 2012
Friday, 6 July 2012
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Among the nerves of the world. By Gaël, Florent & Romain
CRW Nevinson, one of
the most famous war artists, was born on 13th August 1889, the son of
the war correspondent and journalist Henry Nevinson and the
suffragette and writer Margaret Nevinson. He did his studies in
London.
Nevinson became friends
with Marinetti, the leader of the Italian Futurists which influenced
him very much. At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson volunteered
for the Friends' Ambulance Unit with his father. On his return to
Britain in 1915 he painted his first well-known painting : "La
mitrailleuse" to show what war was like from his point of
view. He then became famous as a war artist.
After WWI, he went to the
USA and painted a number of powerful images of New York. However, not
everybody appreciated his work. In 1920, a critic wrote about him: "…
at thirty-one , he is one of the most controversial, best recognized,
most promising, most admired and most hated British artists."
His experience of New
York was useful in rendering his famous London view Among the
nerves of the world in 1930.
This picture is a dynamic
image of Fleet Street at the end of the 1920s. Fleet Street is on the left bank of the
Thames. It was where newspapers were printed. The main entrance to
the Royal Courts of Justice is also located on Fleet Street at Temple
Bar. The view, from an upper window at the corner of Shoe Lane, is
towards the east, Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral.
It is a patriotic painting showing how dynamic the city of London was. The biggest city in the world up to 1925, it was the heart of the British Empire, one of the most powerful urban areas in the world on a political and economic level.
We imagine the noise of
the trafic and the bussle of the crowd.
St Paul's in the background dominates the scene. St Paul's is a symbol of London (more easy to recognize than Fleet Street).
The picture is probably for the inhabitants of London themselves because it is about London as a powerful city, a city of which the inhabitants can be proud.
Monday, 12 March 2012
The Commonwealth
“The Commonwealth bears
no resemblance to the empires of the past. It is an entirely new
conception built on the highest qualities of the spirit of man:
friendship, loyalty, and the desire for freedom and peace."
Queen Elizabeth II
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Sunday, 1 January 2012
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