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ABBAcadabra !
Quel bonheur de retrouver cette aventure originale inspirée des chansons du célèbre quatuor suédois... Rien ne sert de les comparer aux titres orignaux... ceux-ci sont eux aussi originaux... et l'objectif n'est pas la comparaison mais la création... Le...
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Ode À L’Amour (Extraits)
à Henriette Ils s’embrassent… et pour un instant d’éternité leurs visages s’assemblent en un cœur… cette vision de leurs visages perdura… telle l’image d’un bonheur éternel imperturbable… un tableau de maître… le type de photo que l’on voit sur les couvertures...
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Language and Expression
When I was nine my little sister was really learning to speak and walk and I undertook to do my impossible to get her to speak and walk… or at least die trying… from the day she was born I had spent as much time as I could with her… caring for her almost...
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Stop Look Listen... to your Students
Stop Look Listen The problem with a lot of teachers is they are convinced they are excellent teachers… they never stop and think… they blame their students for their poor results yet never ask their students what they think… there are also teacher who...
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MUS – Au Tour de… Ringo (Willy Cat)
Ringo, ex mr Sheila, père de Ludo, a, comme Sheila, longtemps fait les gorges chaudes et les frais de ses détracteurs, le brocardant pour niaiserie variétale… d'abord Ringo Willy Cat, à une époque où tous les chanteurs français se voulaient américains,...
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Marine a raison : un délinquant étranger n’a rien à faire en France
Je suis absolument d’accord avec Marine Le Pen quand elle dit que tout étranger coupable d’un délit sur le sol français de quelque nature que ce soit et quel que soit le degré de gravité et ses conséquences judiciaires doit être irrémédiablement expulsé...
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Ace of... ABBA
Le (deuxième) quatuor pop suédois Ace of Base (famille Berggren) a bien appris sa leçon de son modèle ABBA... même si le succès n'a pas été autant au rendez-vous... les soeurs Jenny et Malin ont de bonnes et belles voix mais ne sont pas Agnetha ni Frida...
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Why I dropped English Books
Why I dropped English Books A good teacher is a good learner… and a good teacher should always listen to his/her students… As I had been teaching English for some 20 years to people from all walks of life at all levels and it came to me one day that the...
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Linking Lessons
Linking lessons is key to a successful English course and an essential part of lesson planning… Students need to find a logic in the progress of the course to progress themselves… helping their understanding and memory jog along the way… Students often...
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The Logistics of Reason
People are intelligent… there’s no doubt about that… even if most people will tell you they’re not and they have a problem with this or that topic… and can’t learn… That’s all wrong… false and fortunately so… but what people really lack most today is...
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Studying How We Learn
Before going into teaching #English #teachers should study how we learn… especially since English course books are designed to suit a syllabus which most teachers never bother to check before they use them… a syllabus only imposed by publishers… and not...
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English and Grammar
I never really understood that urge English teachers have to put their students through endless grammar exercises… and as a teacher myself felt I had to do it too… but, as I realised much later, only both under syllabus and peer pressure… All I remembered...
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The Art of English – Testing and Auditing the Student’s Levels, Needs and Objectives
Students may tell you their level is this or that… although it is very difficult to assess one’s own level when one is not an English teaching professional… hence the need for a thorough audit of the level, needs and objectives… This audit will not only...
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Of Organisations and Work
If it was up to me -or given half a chance- I would fire 80 % of management and executives and 20 % of staff in big companies and organisations, especially all administration of all governmental organisations… as those –if only at least those- are inefficient...
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When Virtual hits Reality
We live in a world where virtual reality abounds and often rules… yet if we’re all at one time or another exposed to it not all of us understand it… Most people still find it difficult to relate the drawing of money from a cash machine to the fact that...
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Why I dropped English Books
A good teacher is a good learner… and a good teacher should always listen to his/her students… As I had been teaching English for some 20 years to people from all walks of life at all levels and it came to me one day that the feedback from the students...
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Language and Expression
When I was nine my little sister was really learning to speak and walk and I undertook to do my impossible to get her to speak and walk… or at least die trying… from the day she was born I had spent as much time as I could with her… caring for her almost...
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The Art of English – Reading
eading is not what it is believed to be… merely mastering the art of putting together letters into words and making sense of it… both vocabulary and grammar, or even pronunciation and meaning… Students drag their feet when it comes to reading… as kids...
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Sylvie GERMAIN - Le Livre des Nuits
Sylvie GERMAIN s'est toujours intéressée au fait religieux, plus encore spirituel... et c'est ce qui a souvent guidé sa plume au fil des errances de ses histoires... et de leurs personnages... Le Livre des Nuits nous plonge au plus profond du quotidien...
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Talent
Beaucoup de gens ont du talent... Du talent dans divers domaines... une foule de domaine souvent ignorés... jamais révélés car la plupart des starisés n'ont souvent que le seul vrai talent d'être fils ou fille de... époux ou épouse de... partenaire de......
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Talent
Many people have talent... or a special talent... Talent may come in various areas and fields... a whole array of too often unsuspected talent(s)... talent(s) never revealed unlike other people whose talent is only to be born son of... or being partner...
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Arnaques au consommateur. Ces faux artisans qui ne vous veulent pas du bien !
Selon la Direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes, la DGCCRF, les arnaques d’artisans ont explosé en 2017… +7% par rapport à l’année précédente. Ainsi, ce ne sont pas moins de 10 000 plaintes qui ont été...
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Les Africains sont vraiment mal placés pour se plaindre de racisme en France quand dans leur pays d’origine ils se déchirent par tribalisme !
Dans un essai choc intitulé « L’Afrique à désintoxiquer », Kakou Ernest Tigori veut liquider quatre-vingts ans de mensonge et, ainsi, libérer l’Afrique et l’Europe occidentale… de l’Union soviétique qui est morte depuis bientôt trente ans. Pour que l’attelage...
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For State and Country
AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR EVENTS A Great Story for Alternate History Fans! In the spring of 1861, the bombardment of Fort Sumter might have ended with the garrison's rapid surrender and their dignified return to the North. Instead, the fort was...
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Lilith, Demon of the Night
A MURDER MYSTERY INVOLVING A MODERN-DAY VAMPIRE CULT When a man dressed in a long priest's robe and wearing a black, low-crowned, wide-brimmed ecclesiastical hat walked into a Catholic church just prior to the start of a funeral service, stuffed garlic...