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About the film Marock.
Recently, I enjoyed watching this controversial Moroccan movie by the female Muslim director Laila Marrakchi."The title Marock is a play on words based on the French name of Morocco Maroc and Rock as...
View ArticleWe think, we share so we are.
This is a video I found on 80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy. It is based on a famous quote from 17th Century French philosopher Descartes "Je pense donc je suis". However, the 21st Century...
View ArticleOSS 117 (or the French stereotype!)
I have been watching OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus, the second movie about the famous French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (who shall be referred to as Hubert, to spare you the tedious length...
View ArticleNarrating a short story
This is again a brilliant animation from Ideas to Inspire. It could be used when teaching house and bedroom in another language, as well as verbs in the present tense.After watching it, students would...
View ArticleThe interview project: an interesting concept.
David Lynch is an extravagant film director who is most famous for The Elephant man and Twin Peaks. He has just set up The Interview Project which is a 20 000 miles road trip over 70 days accross the...
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Amélie Poulain workbook
Amelie_Poulain.doc Download this file This is a fantastic workbook about the French film Le fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. I found it on the TES website and it was created by aliciagomez. I used...
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Looking for Eric or how a Frenchman explains life to an Englishman!
Yesterday night, I watched Looking for Eric directed by Ken Loach and starring Steve Evets as a depressed postman from Manchester and Eric Cantona as "lui-même" or himself! Ken Loach is not known for...
View ArticleSecond successful attempts with the Flip.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my first attempts with the Flip camcorder my brother generously gave me. It was such an easy and straightforward experience that I wanted to try again. Since we...
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Learning a new language through storytelling.
TPRS.pdf Download this file When I was in Nice at the ECIS conference, I saw a very inspiring teacher Susan Gross presenting a session about promoting proficiency through music. Susan happens to be a...
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Still motivated!
Sometimes it gets to the point when I am thinking: "why bothering with technology?", "am I floating in a different dimension or even on a completely different planet?!"... This is again part of this...
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Donnant, donnant
Another French film that I saw lately and which I really enjoyed is Donant, donant directed by Isabelle Mergault. I had already seen her two previous movies Je vous trouve très beau about a lonely...
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A very cold trip
Last week I watched a Finnish comedy entitled in French " A very cold trip" and in English " Lapland Odyssey". My dear man and I enjoy watching films from different countries because they generally...
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The Guard
To start the Christmas holidays, my dear man and I watch an excellent Irish comedy The Guard which is utterly non-politically correct, hence we laughed so much (maybe?). A long time policeman played...
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Prefect sense
I recently watched Perfect sense with Eva Green and Ewan McGregor who fall in love in the midst of an apocalyptic epidemic of sensory loss. The film is a bit slow at times but I liked the idea of an...
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Take Shelter
It has been a while since I have watched Take Shelter with my dear man and I absolutely loved the beautiful images in that film. In a small town in Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has...
View ArticleTelling a simple story about food in French
What I like about Michel Thomas is that straight from the start, he teaches you the most important and often used structures in a language. In the case of French: "c'est / ce n'est pas..." is...
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Autumnal project in French or Spanish
I would say that the autumn season is not my favourite one due to the fact it leads to winter (you know this time of the year when you should not look out of the window, neither look in the mirror...
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