Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe is a world-wide chain of theme restaurants.
The first Hard Rock Cafe opened in London in 1971. The company was founded by Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett. Immediately it was a great success and the founders decided to expand their business abroad. So since 1982, many new Hard Rock Cafes opened in very big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin. The Seminole Tribe of Florida bought out the whole company in December 2006.
In a Hard Rock Cafe, you can have a drink or eat something but it is most famous for the concerts which are given inside. It is also popular for music memorabilia: you can see many instruments or partitions that belonged to rock'n'roll artists.
In 2006, a Hard Rock Park opened in South Carolina. It contained many attractions but it was a total failure and was closed in 2008.
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| Clementine M | |
| Sixtine Q | |
| Isaure J | |
| Justine L | |
| Elsa F | |
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| Augustin Po. | |
| Jonathan L | |
| Peurdy S | |
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The Union Flag
The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Flag, also called the Union Jack. In 1194, the King of England, Richard I, decided to introduce the cross of Saint George as the national flag of England.
In 1603, King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England, and he decided to unite the Scottish and English flags, combining the cross of Saint George and the cross of Saint Andrew. This flag was also called the Union Jack. “Jack” means a kind of flag used by ships to announce their nationality.
Then in 1801, Ireland was united with Great Britain and the cross of Saint Patrick was added to the flag. This new flag is not symmetrical. Scotland joined the Union before Ireland, so Saint Andrew’s cross has the most honorable position: it’s above Saint Patrick’s cross near the flagstaff.
If the flag flies upside down, this is a signal indicating distress, but it’s also insulting the Crown.
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Sea Shepherd
Sea Shepherd is a non-governmental association established in 1977 by Paul Watson, the co-founder of Greenpeace (1969). This organization presents itself like a defender of ocean wild-life.
Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. Their most spectacular operations surely take place in the southern ocean against Japanese illegal whaling. Their objective: a decrease of killed whales by hundred percent. Only by their presence, Sea Shepherd's fleet stop the killing of whales.
These operations are not safe at all; last year a vessel from the Sea Shepherd sank in the middle of the southern ocean after a collision with a Japanese boat. They need to sink the Japanese whaling fleet economically. It really is the only language that the whalers understand – profit and loss, and Sea Shepherd's job is to boost their losses and lower their profits.
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Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both students at Standford university in California.
Page and Brin named the search engine the built Google, a play on the word "googol", the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google's mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
But Google isn't just the famous search engine, in addition to its standard web search engine, Google has released over the years a number of online productivity tools such as Gmail, Google maps, Google hearth and they even created their own web browser: GoogleChrome.
The revenues of Google were of 23.651 billion dollars in 2009.
Augustin Poyet
Carnivorous Plants
There are about 550 carnivorous plants in the world, six species and three types of trap:
- the drosera, which belongs to the sub-active trap
- the sarracenia, the darlingtonia, the nepenthes and the cephalotus which belong to passive trap
- The dionea which belongs to the active trap.
The droseras are plants which glue the insect. Once it is stuck, slowly the plant folds inside to digest the caught insect. The sarracenia, the darlingtonia, the nepenthes and the cephalotus are similar. These are passive traps. They only wait for the moment an insect falls in the tube.
The dionea is the most popular and well-known carnivorous plant. It’s an active trap. When an insect lands inside the trap, it closes very quickly and the insect begins to be digested.
There are carnivorous plant species we can only find in specific countries such as the cephalotus follicularis in Australia or the darlingtonia californica in North America. Carnivorous are rare plants and often unknown, but they are plants you can take care of.
Pierre Martinot
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collection includes more than 2 million works of art spanning 5 thousand years of world culture from prehistory to the present.
J.T. Johnson first opened the museum in 1872 on the Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Originally the collection consisted of a stone Roman sarcophagus and 174 European paintings. Later 2 American architects built the actual Victorian style building on the eastern edge of Central Park.
The museum is divided in 19 departments, each one gathers works of an artistic kind (Medieval Art, Greek Antiquity…). One part of the museum is devoted to rooms from different periods, which are grouped together in a house inside the MET. During the visit, you discover several style and you can guess the American living context from the XVI to the XIX century. I have been touched by the richness of the MET and hope to go back there!
Isaure Jayet
London 2012
The London Olympic Games will begin on 27th July and finish on 12th August 2012. London had already received the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948.
After a journey of seventy days the Olympic flame will arrive in London on 18th May 2012. The opening ceremony will be organized with music, dance and the athletes' parade. During the games, Athletes will present twenty-six sports.
The Olympic stadium will accommodate 80,000 people. Its construction began in May 2008 and finished in 2010. Many other constructions are being built on industrial and contaminated land. Others infrastructures are also being built: an energy centre and a pumping station. After the Olympic Games, the park will become an urban park, and the Olympic village will be converted into homes.
Two key organizations fund the games: the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Delivery Authority. Their budget helps the building of the structures in the Olympic park. The London Olympic Games will be a great meeting for many countries.
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My trip to England
I went to England during a week in August. I was with a group of about 50 French teenagers. We were with one or two French people in our host families; I was with my cousin, a Luxemburger and an English teacher from Italy.
We were in a school called KSE: "Kent School of English". It is a school for foreign people. Young people can go there from 1 to 4 weeks and from 12 to 20. We were about 250 people from Austrian, Italy, Spain, Germany and France.
Each morning we had 3 hours of lesson with a different teacher. We were 12 per class. On afternoons we had to choose an activity like tennis, bowling, beach volley, and so on. On evenings we did activities like barn dancing or karaoke with Austrian pupils. One afternoon we went to Canterbury but it was raining, and on the last day we went to London.
It was a very nice trip but unfortunately it was too short to progress much.
Elsa Fermaut
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee house chain based in Seattle, Washington. The first Starbucks coffee house was opened in Seattle Washington in 1971 by three friends : Zev Sielg, Gordon Bowker and Jerry Baldwin. The name of the coffee is taken from the book Moby Dick.
Starbucks is the largest coffee house company in the world, with 17,133 stores in more than 55 countries, including 11,068 in the United States, nearly 1,000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan.
Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, coffee beans, espresso, and other hot and cold drinks. They also sell salads, panini, hot and cold sandwiches, snacks, pastries and items such as mugs and tumblers.
The first Starbucks outside North America opened in Tokyo, Japan in 1996. In France, the first coffee house opened in Paris in 2004.
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The Commonwealth
he Commonwealth is an organization of 54 States linking up the United Kingdom. It represents 2 billion persons, in other words 30% of the population of the world.
The Commonwealth was created in 1884. It is an association of old colonies. The head office is located in London. The head of Commonwealth is Elizabeth II who was elected in 1952 but the general secretary of Commonwealth is Kamalesh Sharma. The first colonies who joined the Commonwealth were Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, and South Africa.
Every 2 years all government leaders have a meeting. They discuss Commonwealth priorities. The next meeting will take place in Australia in 2011.
In 1971, the Singapore declaration of Commonwealth principles that follow the human rights declaration was created. The purpose of the Commonwealth is to promote democracy and equality and fight discrimination.
The Commonwealth reunited 19 African countries like Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria, 13 American countries like the Bahamas, 8 Asian Countries like Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, 3 Europe countries like Malta, and Great Britain and 11 Oceania countries like Fiji. All these countries were united by common interest but there is no treaty.
Astrid Caraboeuf
Motor Racing
Car racing is one of the world's most watched televised sports. Formula one is the best-known because drivers race at high speeds, up to 360 km/hr. But today, I am going to talk about some other famous races.
The Indianapolis 500 miles race is an American automobile race. It takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana annually over the Memorial Day weekend, and lasts about 3 hours.
Bathurst 1000 is a 1000 kilometers touring race, at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Australia on the second Sunday in October. 1000 kilometers is equivalent to 620 miles. However, even if the distance is slightly higher, Bathurst lasts about 6 hours because the Bathrust's track is composed of speeds and lows parts whereas Indianapolis is a very simple and speed track.
Rallying is distinguished by running not on a circuit, but participants and theirs co-drivers drive between set special stages on tab or on ground. It's a wonderful sport, that's why many people like it.
Thomas Leroy
This is your web space!
Just like last year, you will be required to give at least one oral presentation in class. Then you will publish a summary of your presentation here, with a small illustration. Can't decide what to talk about? There are some great ideas on Icons!
Pupils' Websites 2010 |
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| Nicolas | Dassault's Drone |
| Tiphaine | Rubik's Cube |
| Olivier | Scouts |
| Erik | Oddworld |
| Laure-Elise | Le Croisic |
| Amaury | Vineuil Poney Club |
| Marie H | Dancing |
| Justine | Karl Lagarfeld |
| Camille | Andy Warhol |
| Maxence | Effects of UV |
| Marie P | Disney |
| Sacha | Mangas |
| Benjamin | Elecric guitars |
| Lise | One Tree Hill |
| Hippolyte | Mobile Phones |
| Florian | Music & Films |
| Louis | Haiti |
| Jessica | McFly |
| Tristan | Bob Dylan |
Dreamweaver CS3 (v.9)
It's the name of the web development tool you will be using to design and create web sites this year.
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English Karaoke - wide choice of songs
TOEIC Training
Now is the time to begin intensive training for your forthcoming TOEIC exam. Be prepared - and good luck to you all! Here are some links to help you:
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Download the "Manuel du Candidat" and read it before your test
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Grille de corrélation TOEIC / CECRL
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Test Simulator
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4Tests Practice Test Site
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English Zone: against the clock test
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English-Test.Net Listening
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English-Test.Net Word Quizzes
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Free TOEIC Practice Test (30 minutes)
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TOEIC Good Luck Guide
