Mrs Sallibartan's English ressources

To the fifth form Descartes mainly.

Here are some sites to help you do your researches.

After looking at them you'll have to choose an aspect of this story and make an oral report about it in pairs.

It will be about 1m long and come with an illustration (a picture, a power point, something you've drawn or created).

For information in English go there

You will get the members of the crew on this site.

Here you will find The map,

and there an activity about this story.

To finish have a look at this video to understand the importance of a good pronunciation.

To the fifth form Chasles mainly.

Here are some sites to help you do your researches.

After looking at them you'll have to choose an aspect of his life or adventures and make an oral report about it in pairs.

It will be about 1m long and come with an illustration ( a picture, a power point, something you've drawn or created).

 a video about his life

a text to read

some interesting information

his boat

a painting

poems and songs

Here are some ideas for your report if you don't have any :

drawing his routes on a map,

compare his view of the world to the world as it is.

drawing boats, sails. makings little boats out of nutshells

creating the seas he sailed on,

creating the land he discovered.

describing the painting in the painter's position

making a  telescope, showing the tools he had.

writing dialogues, little plays.

watching a bit of the film 1492, writing a critic on it.

writing the celebrations of Columbus day.

Work well now and don't forget Miss Fiasson and I will be pleased to help you with your work.

As soon as it is finished it'll be published on this blog.

Most of the British electricity comes from huge power stations across the UK.

They're mainly powered by coal or oil, but there are many other ways of producing power.

A reporter from the BBC went to Edinburgh in Scotland where experts are developing a new cleaner method of making electricity - using the power of the sea.

They've been nicknamed 'sea snakes' because they're really long and winding and they create electricity from the ocean's waves.

Politicians there have given the go ahead to launch a number of power stations that sit on sea.

A collection of giant metal tubes sit on the surface of the water, and as the waves hit them, they move up and down.

That movement is converted into electricity which is sent back to shore through large cables that sit on the surface of the seabed.

The project is still in its early stages, with engineers in Edinburgh putting the final touches to the wave machines before they are sent out to work in the North Sea.

Once they're in place, experts reckon each wave machine could generate enough power to run 500 homes.

Watch his video.

He even managed to walk inside one of the giant metal tubes which was really bizarre.

Inside the wave machine it was really dark and all he could hear was the echo of my voice.

There were lots of computers and wires all over the place and he had to be really careful wherever I stood.

Filming down there was pretty tough, but it was SO exciting to see how the power of the ocean could one day produce lots of electricity that will eventually be used by us in our homes in dry land.

You could have a look at this site where you learn series of verbs.

On this one you can switch from positive sentences to negative ones.

You can also watch this video about a teacher from Madrid who speaks about her last week end.