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TV TROPES
Definitions, examples, analysis....
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiHero
TED ED
An interesting lesson
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BBC Culture
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160908-the-language-rules-we-know-but-dont-know-we-know
By Mark Forsyth
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out.”
'Actually, there are a couple of small exceptions. Little Red Riding Hood may be perfectly ordered, but the Big Bad Wolf seems to be breaking all the laws of linguistics. Why does Bad Big Wolf sound so very, very wrong? What happened to the rules?
Ding dong King Kong
Well, in fact, the Big Bad Wolf is just obeying another great linguistic law that every native English speaker knows, but doesn’t know that they know. And it’s the same reason that you’ve never listened to hop-hip music.
If somebody said ‘zag-zig’ or ‘cross-criss’ you would know they were breaking a rule
You are utterly familiar with the rule of ablaut reduplication. You’ve been using it all your life. It’s just that you’ve never heard of it. But if somebody said the words zag-zig, or ‘cross-criss you would know, deep down in your loins, that they were breaking a sacred rule of language. You just wouldn’t know which one.
All four of a horse’s feet make exactly the same sound. But we always, always say clip-clop, never clop-clip. Every second your watch (or the grandfather clock in the hall makes the same sound) but we say tick-tock, never tock-tick. You will never eat a Kat Kit bar. The bells in Frère Jaques will forever chime ‘ding dang dong’.
Reduplication in linguistics is when you repeat a word, sometimes with an altered consonant (lovey-dovey, fuddy-duddy, nitty-gritty), and sometimes with an altered vowel: bish-bash-bosh, ding-dang-dong. If there are three words then the order has to go I, A, O. If there are two words then the first is I and the second is either A or O. Mish-mash, chit-chat, dilly-dally, shilly-shally, tip top, hip-hop, flip-flop, tic tac, sing song, ding dong, King Kong, ping pong.'
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THE GUARDIAN
Ban underfed and underage models in fashion, MPs urged
Two models, one goal: to free women from fashion’s weight tyranny
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/04/models-women-weight-london-fashion-week
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BBC CULTURE
Retrace Samuel Pepys' steps in the Great Fire of London
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160902-retrace-samuel-pepys-steps-in-the-great-fire-of-london
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BBC Entertainment
What Victoria Beckham wishes she'd known when she was 18
Write your own letter to your youngr self
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BBC i-wonder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zsbpv4j
London before and after the fire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/great_fire/index_embed.shtml
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Yvan Baptiste nous propose 80 mots à écouter. Travail de repérage de la syllabe accentuée sous forme de QCM
http://www.franglish.fr/transparent/
Globish
http://yvanbaptiste.pagesperso-orange.fr/globish/index.html
http://yvanbaptiste.pagesperso-orange.fr/globish/0130cor.html
Un collègue de l'Académie de Versailles a mis en ligne ceci ( niveau 6ème)
http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/morali/public/02_Piste_02.mp3