Cours d’Anglais

The Ninth of May – Mayi
The Ninth of May Europe celebrates the 8th of May as the end of World War II. In a small town in Cameroon the Batanga tribe celebrates the Ninth of May, the day that marks their return from exile at the end of World War I, more than a hundred years ago. When World War

Letter to my students
Students may have false ideas about how they should study. Here are some explanations to help them acquire fluency in a comprehensible input class.

Get Out of the Car!
This is a funny story that has been going the rounds on Internet. I used it with a few students and they found it easy to understand and very funny. Humor can be difficult to translate, but everyone seems to like this story. “Get out of” and “get into” are high frequency phrasal verbs and

Buttercup the Cat Is Not Black and White
This is an embedded reading for a passage taken from the first book of Hunger Games. The original version is the fourth text.

Présentation de TPRS (en Français)
Une explication de TPRS + Un article de presse sur la Conférence Internationale pour Enseignants de Langues à Agen.

Odds and ends, bits and pieces…
I need a new place to put things that don’t seem to fit anywhere else.
A place that’s a bit more personal and quite a bit less organized.
And I’ll open the dance with this poem by Louise Erdrich.