Thursday, June 20, 2013

Four sources for audio and video streams

Here you can have access to the NPR of the NYC region.  It could be useful if you want to improve your listening comprehension of American English.  You can listen to the live FM broadcast or go their show archives.  I personally like Radiolab, Selected Shorts and Fresh Air among the shows they air.
Here you can have access to the BBC website, which also airs on the WNYC in the mornings Brussels time.  It could be useful to improve your listening comprehension of British English.  They also have links under "Learning English", where you can find numerous tools for learners of English as a second language.
Here you can have access to the audio and video streams on The Economist website.  This again is a good source for improving British English listening comprehension.
Here you can have access to TED, which is a good source for numerous talks on a very wide range of topics.  Most talks are given by Americans and Canadians, but there are also other speakers of different nationalities, including some British.

Emphatic structures and inversion

I am hereby making Unit 34 of your text available. 

Subjunctive

A webpage on the use of subjunctive is hereby made available.
 Here you can find more information with exercises on the subjunctive and unreal uses past forms.  Here is the key for the exercises. 

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Brussels Business

For those of you who have the time to watch it, here is a documentary on the role of lobbyists in Brussels.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Carpooling

Dear John,

Here is the link to the french website on carpooling: http://www.covoiturage.fr/
This is a very good website with mostly reliable and considerate people ;-)

Have a nice evening.

Best,

P.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Make, do, get and have

Here you can find some information and exercises on the use of the verbs 'make', 'do', 'get' and 'have'.

Countable and uncountable nouns

Here you can find some information with exercises on countable and uncountable nouns. I am hereby making the key for the exercises available.

Here is another document on the same topic. 

This topic is dealth with in Section 25.3 of your text.