- http://www.anglaisfacile.com/free/podcast-apprendre-anglais.php : this is a list of podcast and blogs

- http://www.listen-to-english.com/ : this is the web site I choose for my english work

And this is my oral about Mr Speaker :

- The link to the article here

- The original sound here

- My oral (the three first paragraphs) here

BONUS !

Because I think this blog is really well made to train it pronouciation, I did a second oral about “The poet laureate” :

- The link to the article here

- The original sound here

- My oral (the three first paragraphs) here

“Today I went to a technological improvement meeting. Much of the day was dedicated to music. I listened to music throught many different devices. It was a rewarding expérience. Indeed, I like new technologies and I will graduate in july from music degree.
During a congressional hearing, someone claimed the headphones are dangerous for ear health. He wanted everybody to turn down their mp3 player sound volume and think about the futur of their ears. By the time he finished his sentence, everybody turns off their mp3 player. The rest of the conference was interesting but I couldn’t take too many times. I had to go back home to write a little text for school about this day. All my days are not like that, sometimes I go to concerts or I play music with friends. I was a part of a band but I step down because of  the lavish expenses I did throught the music instruments I broke. So I fled the rest of my band. Althought playing music in a band miss me sometimes, I prefered use my rage into something more helpful. That’s why now I do sports. I play tennis, basketball and football. I’m just hampered by my size in basketball. Despite this, I’m a good player. All my trainings are after school. I due back at 8pm, I do my homeworks then I lay down. My studies are composed of science where I study physic related to music and art where I create my own music. I vividly cleared the end-of-semester exams but the end of the year is not finished.

On september I will go to Japan for tourism with four friends. It’s hard to fix what we will do. There will be a lot of things to do and see. There will be an usher-in of a new music store with a famous Japan band, a child festival with flying fish, 60’s dancers with old motorbikes in the street and a lot of temples to visit. At the very most we will see Tokyo and Kyoto. Even if we have a month, we have not enought money to travel a lot in the country. We don’t want to go in debt because of travelling more. That’s why we have to strinkingly prepare our trip. Moreover, with our summer jobs we will have barely enough money to pay the travel by air and the food in Japan. I will struggle not to spend a lot of money. Especially because there is a thriving manga goodies market. That will not be a reason to not peek inside some store. One time, I’ve seen a reporting about Japan. I was stunned by the fact that Japan keep ancestral traditions and monuments whereas they are at the cutting edge of technology. An other great point for japan culture is the fact that people are really respectful about cleanliness, people and nature. This is a really different way of thinking. People bow to hail someone and speak politely. Despite the little quantity of holidays, I would really live and work over there. I won’t be in a hurry flying back to France.”

531 words, 28 from my list.

Today I give you some sentences containing gaps, try to find the words !

2 of the texts in class :

1. “Obama is starting ‘_ _ ‘ ‘_ _ _’ his own touches on the day.” (2 words)

2. “The man behind this musical time-capsule was Alfred Clark, a New Yorker who ‘_ _ _ _ _ _’ the London-based Gramophone Company and provided the records.” (1 word)

3 of my transcription :

1. “I learned a lot by ‘_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _’ John’s short “Lexar junior” which came on the middle eighties just before I came to work there” (1 word)

2. “I know it’s a random choice, but it actually made ‘_’ ‘_ _ _’ of ‘_ _ _ _ _’ to me” (3 words)

3. “And I was at a Baseball game, I think it was in 2003, and I was trying to think about the design of this character and somebody ‘_ _ _ _ _ _’ me the binoculars cause we had such a bad sit.” (1 word)

Good luck !

Last tuesday in class we had to record our steps to become someone or to do something. Aurore, Yohann, Karine, Nassim and I did “How to become a geek”. So, the following sentences are our work :

“What do you nedd ?

- a beard
- big glasses
- Firefox and Linux stickers
- a computer with Linux operating system
- Opera web browser
- to be single
- some cofee and coke
- talk in binary language
- to know the universal answer
- to stay at your parent’s

Step 1 : Never leave your computer

Step 2 : Design your own softwares (for example imagimp instead of Photoshop)

Step 3: Throw all tour razors away

Step 4 : Speak only to people online even if they are next to you and use IRC instead of MSN

Step 5 : Finish all video gale in two days without slepping.

Step 6 : Be fan of Star-Treck

Step 7 : Go to Blizzard conferences

Optionnal (If you want to be Geeker !)

- correct articles on wikipedia
- learn by heart all Star-wars quotes
- pay each month to play online games “

See you on Tuesday afternoon !

Andrew Stanton : How you gone ?

JKH : I’m gone good, good to see you. I can’t say, It spend ?

AS : Five years

JKH : Finding Nemo

AS : Long time

JKH : About thirty pounds for me

AS : AhAhAh

JKH : thirty-five

AS : But ten for me

JKH : And, no, use to look, is young

AS : It’s the theoring, that’s it

JKH : It’s the jeez, right ? you’re nordic, right ? You come from scandinavia or somewhere.
So watching Wall-e last night and I love how movies are pitched, you know, cause I always think in my mind, you know, how cause there is a process where movies begin is : you have to go in a pitched story, and your pitch, obviously was : “What if man can have to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the robot”. Was it something that simple ?

AS : Yeah, unfortunately “we didn’t have” to pitch anybody, because the time we came up with just that, can see, was in ninety-four, at a lunch that John Lasseter and “Jonathan Pitturg” were having. So, when I had say “I want to do this film”, or come up with other idea for that, can see, John was there already, so it was an easy thing for us to push forward.

JKH : Now, tell me to the story pitching process of Pixar . Is it…You’re such a… I’m just saying you’re a level now, you can walk in the Lasseter’s office when he is having lunch and just call “Hi John, I’ve got the idea, here it is, you know, listen to me” or is it a long process ?

AS : No, it’s actually the power of our first pitch and to be honest it’s been like that in before we were big, I mean that’s a nice thing we’ve always been a sort of informal family, so the boss in the officine say : “John, come on, you know, this is what I want to do, what do you think of this ?”, it’s always been like that.

JKH : So, the challenge for Wall-e, I would assume, is you have a robot try to convainc human emotions and I was watching, you know, carefully, to see where that will come throught. I guess it’s the eyes, right ?

AS : You know, they come from a lot of places but the face was definitely a huge key factor. Hum, I learnd a lot by watching John’s short “Lexar junior” which came on the middle eighties just before I came to work there and I was amazed how much, just because the way the lamp was designed, you… The minute that move… You wanted to throw a character on it, you are compel to do that. So I did realise that, for a robot,to cary the all movie it should be designed in a way that you really want to see a character in it. And I was at a Baseball game, I think it was in 2003, and I was trying to think about the design of this character and somebody handed me the binoculars cause we had such a bad sit. And I missed the all leaning by turning the binoculars around in sort of making them sad, happy and stun. I realise. There is an entire character and soul right there in a pair of binoculars and that’s, that was really the key. So much more, that sadness, the sound you getting from Ben Burts, doing the sound design and the amazing animation that so saddled and masterful by the animators of Pixar.

2 : 37 – JKH : And in the heart of Wall-e, it’s a love story.

AS : Yeah, at a friend of Wall-e, to me that was the story. The rest of it is very much even now it’s a vast backdrop and goes over all, all over the place. It’s really just a support. This relationship between this two characters.

JKH : I can’t wait to get home and get the DVD because his home is my favourite part of the movie. I mean I saw the T-rex of from Toy Story and…

AS : Oh ! You’re good !

JKH : Oh I did it, all life, I scan things quickly, just see, cause I know you guys have a lot of things in there.

AS : Because there’re in there.

JKH : And the jokes for people of my age or the generation next cause there is a Rubik’s cube and a spork and all of this stuff.

3 : 16 – AS : Yeah, just showing my age.

JKH : That’s almost just. You must have worked a long time for getting a lot to put in this little piece.

AS : Yeah, I mean there is a great art book where you can see more the details cause there is so much stuff in there and it’s… Some of them are just in the shadows that we’ll never know, but we made it all.

3 : 29 – JKH : So Wall-e only has one film and “(…the boot)”, (…)and I cry now a lot. That’s not my favourite and it never has been. But it works for the movie.

AS : Wall-e just has bad taste in musicals. I mean, it’s… it’s… I can’t choose Wall-e likes.

JKH : Could he find a Terminator copy somewhere or something just… you know…

AS : I know it’s a random choice, but it actually made a lot of sense to me. First, it was for a static reason. I just had a juxtaposition. But the content and the song make so much sens and when I watched parts of the movie and I got the idea about how to hold hands to convey how you feel about somebody. It was… I just had to use it.

4 : 07 – JKH : So much Sci-fi films, I saw a “sail running”, I saw a “sonny green”, not for the reasons you think. But this movie has an environment message like finding Nemo

AS : Well the funny thing is that, both in Nemo and both in Wall-e, that stuff didn’t have a message. I was just going with logic that to push the relationship in the story. So came throught the back door. I mean I’m not trying to say “I’m not supporting this”. The last thing I have in to choose is a pretty thing like that. What I wanted to do was have the last guy or the last robot on earth and everybody have to live for some reason and it was very getable is… for visualy without much explanation is leader. Everybody gets all that’s in the right place of any age and we’ve got to move it all the way.

JKH : Oh…When we were kids remember pitchin. I’d love to throw things away.

4 : 57 – AS : I tried to explain to people, I said “Look, there was a reason in the seventies ” It was told on the TV every ten minutes not to leader or (…) in America we cry. You know it was just, it was just like this.

JKH : Remember the things we eat, you know and and yout throw stuff and things in the trash.

AS : There was just everywhere we showing our brain, so, to me, it’s a very kid like getable. Sort of concede. So I just want to get backward from now. That’s the reason why is there trash everywhere. And well, we just buy too much.
5: 19

So you can ear it here :

Presentation

Hi,

Do you know who is this man ?

Ok, ok, you’re not a comic’s fan. This is Mike Mignola and his major work is Hellboy. Do you know the Hellboy and Hellboy 2 movies ? Do you know the comics from where they were adapted ? Do you know the animated serie ?

If no, I think my exposé will open your mind on this world which grows increasingly.

So be patient, it takes a long time to make a great ten minutes exposé !

I would like to share with you my video about WALL-E.

And this is the first minute of my transcription:

I know I’ve made some mistakes, so if you find some of them, please post a comment !

My transcription:

“John Good : We are all in guys ? Everything is gone cool. Everything is gone Great
Hi, I’m Jhon Good, good to see you. I can’t say, It spend ?

AS : Yeah, unfortunately “we (didn’t) have” to pitch anybody, because the time we came up with just that, can see, was in ninety-four, at a lunch that John Lasseter and “Jonathan Pitong” were having. So, when I had say I want to do this film, or come up with other idea for that, can see, John was there already, so it was an easy thing to push forward. “

Today I add a caption to my blog: in red are my corrected mistakes and in green are my hesitations about some words or structures of sentences.

I had to correct the five blogs of people after me in the class:

First, Matthieu M.: I checked all your blog and I haven’t see any mistakes.

Second, Rony M.:

Hi Rony,

I found the same mistake as Nassim but I think you wanted to mean:
” Come back every week start… ” => ” Come back every week and start… ”

The rest was already corrected.

Third, Ikram N.:

• First point:

Hi Ikram,

I think you should have written “I’m Ikram, I am 20 and I study in the IMAC ingeneer school in France.” instead of “I’m Ikram, 20, and I study in the Ingeneer school IMAC in France.”

See you soon,

Nico

• Second point:

Hi Ikram,

It’s me again, and I’m back with your mistakes .
Ok, First point, “I try”, you would have meant “I tried” I guess. Because it’s a past action. I think you finished your homework.
Second point, I think “blog” should be plural => “blogs”. Because each classmate have his blog.
Last point, an orthographic mistake, “sendding” doesn’t contain two letters “d”, just one.

Cordialy,

Nico

Fourth, Yann N.: Already corrected.

Fifth, Thi Thanh P.: Not a lot of things to correct and the few was already corrected.

PS: I took the real students list and not the blog list. Sorry if I made a mistake .