5 October 2015							Mrs MAYER	❶
TOOLS
*THE LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH 2015 (English-English)
(BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS) 
The best for us, written for learners of English, not native speakers, with all the latest    expressions.

*ROBERT & COLLINS 2013
The best bilingual. (The big one)

* OXFORD HACHETTE (2007 last edition…)

Test your dictionary:
•	in the French part: "courriel", if you don’t have it, change your dictionary !
•	in the English part : "couch potato"[mollasson(ne), (qui passe son temps devant la télé)]

* Online Dictionaries

*Google: Filmontv→UKLive TV (all the English Television Channels live)/ Application for iPad

Listen to:
*Riviera Radio 106.5 FM
(News on the hour, music, and traffic information)
*BBC local radio – BBC 4 (plays) on the Internet

*ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS on the Internet
•	THE GUARDIAN (originally Manchester Guardian) // Le Monde
•	THE DAILY TELEGRAPH //Le Figaro. Quite easy to read.
•	THE INDEPENDENT ( more intellectual & easy to read)

*VOCABLE buy it from time to time. Subscription not recommended because twice a month is too frequent. There are 2 editions: “All English” →recommended because explained in English, or “Anglais” vocabulary translated into French.

*ENGLISH BOOKS 
Nearest English Bookshop: ANTIBES BOOKS open 7 days a week from 10am to 7pm (11am – 6pm Sunday & Monday), 13 rue Georges Clémenceau
*In Antibes go to GEOFFREY’S OF LONDON at La Galerie du Port, rue Lacan. Mince pies. Sherry = Xeres. They also have an online store, & free delivery if you spend 50€.

•	TF1 F2 M6 VM American TV series    ARTE VM films

VOCABULARY

Food to go :		à emporter
Water pipe:		conduite d’eau
Waterproofing:	étanchéité
Flooded:		inondé
I travel a lot and I need practice
I’m out of practice
My in-laws:		ma belle-famille; beaux-parents
Stepmother:		father’s second wife
Grandmother, grandchildren→ great-grandchildren: arrière-petits-enfants → great-great-grandchildren:	arrière-arrière-petits-enfants
Great nephew/niece:	petit neveu/niece
They keep changing the bus route: itinéraire
A man bows/ A woman curtseys: faire la reverence

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LECTURE, CUM on Thursday 8^th October at 6.30 pm:
By Allen BRODIE, a Scottish architect and historian, who studied in Aberdeen and works for ENGLISH HERITAGE. He has done research on seaside resorts like BLACKPOOL and BRIGHTON.
Blackpool is not far from the industrial towns of the north west of England such as Liverpool & Manchester, and is famous for its Tower where there is a ballroom, and the Pleasure Beach  (an amusement park - because the weather is often very bad - with the big dipper). Apart from its sandy beach, Blackpool is not a very beautiful town. It's very flat, so they’ve tried to make it attractive to people. To extend the holiday season, they decorate the Promenade and people come to see the Blackpool Illuminations in the evening from early September to the beginning of November.

Kent is the Garden of England
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About RUGBY
William Webb ELLIS
1806 Salford Manchester - 1872 Menton.  He is buried in the Cimetière du Vieux-Château in Menton.
He was a pupil at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire (near Birmingham). Legend says that he invented the game of rugby in 1823 when he picked up the ball and ran with it. 
The ‘Webb Ellis Cup’ is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of the Rugby World Cup.
"The hosts have been thrown out of their own party" wrote THE GUARDIAN as England was eliminated from the 2015 world championship.