Good news or bad news ?

Eleven signs you are smarter than average

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/eleven-signs-you-are-smarter-than-average--ZktbWxkCMW

Warning: contains some graphic images...

BBC VIDEO

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35176770

Monty Python Flying Circus

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/quick/14046

PDF VERSION

http://static.guim.co.uk/crosswords/pdfs/gdn.quick.20150516.pdf

MAIN IDEA:  PROTECTION

SAFE

“Well, I checked again, and we’re definitely the ones inside the cage.”

NOT SO SAFE

AMISH PARADISE

Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise par laface

Hard drive used to store top-secret NSA documents that was smashed on insistence of PM

(knowing that there were already plenty of copies out there...)

to be part of exhibition that questions privacy

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/27/guardians-destroyed-snowden-laptop-to-feature-in-major-va-show

TIME

http://time.com/3572853/john-cleese-sketches/

San diego SeaWorld proud of 80th birth

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2014/oct/19/seaworld-san-diego-dolphin-birth-video

• If you think English is difficult, just listen to Joey trying to speak French (in Friends)

• Great political speeches : a caricature with eplanations for students.

http://www.englishblog.com/2013/01/cartoon-great-political-speeches.html#.UZfMJJwowgM

• American tourists : from Little Britain
  

• Big Brother is watching........your cat !

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/tracking-cats/?source=vidcarousel

• Comic strips in Brussels : listen + play the game. Created by Renée Maufroid. (Académie de Lille)

http://www.quia.com/hm/840519.html

• Can you recognize these famous painters and their works? A quia created by Renée Maufroid (Académie de Lille)
• play the game

• Brain Pop

brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/citizenship/ussymbols/    

An extract from Barcelona, by Whit Stillman

UNEXPECTED SQUATTERS ... SORRY!  SURFERS

http://www.startin-sport.com/phoques-planche-surf.htm

Woody Allen : Take the money and Run : the Bank Robbery

On the English Blog by Jeffrey Hill

How to Speak English: At the Café  

From the English Blog:

The lions at Longleat

Snowman's view of tigers at play in Longleat Safari Park 

                                                " The cat must be away - this mouse has come out to play on top of a yarrow flower."

  Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media

ROWAN ATKINSON :Sir Marcus Browning MP

Announcer: Welcome to your seats, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you enjoyed the buffet dinner, but even if you didn't, I know you'll enjoy our guest speaker tonight who's taken time off from his rigorous parliamentary schedule to be with us. We are very honored to welcome Sir Marcus Browning MP. Thank you.

Sir Marcus Browning: My Lord Mayor, my Lady Mayoress. My lords, ladies and gentlemen. There comes a time when we must all stand up and be counted. I am therefore standing up now and can be counted. One. To each of you I say you are a one. And ones are about to become singularly important. Because Britain is facing the gravest economic crisis since 1380. And you know many of us still remember that day. The eternal torment, worry, exesperation and all manner of (?). And if we are to quit the lights go out on our lives once more (?), we must ask ourselves crucial questions. Where are we? How did we get here? Why did we come? Where do we want to go? How do we want to get to where we want to go? How far do we have to go before we get to where we want to be? How would we know where we were when we got there? HAVE WE GOT A MAP? Why did we leave places to get to where we are? Where were we before that we had to leave to get to where we before we knew we're going to go to where we want to be? Where would we end up if we had the choice? Where would we end up if we didn't have the choice? What would we choose given the choice? Do we have that choice to choose? Or indeed can we be choosy about the choice choosings? What are the choosings? Choices! Do we want to stop now? (Rhetorical.) Or do we want to go right back to the beginning and start all over again. Perhaps not. But surely you can see my point. Because what I'm talking about is life. Because life is one of those things that most of us find it very difficult to avoid. In the words of (?) "life is uncertain." My life certainly has a certain uncertainty about it. And I'm certain yours does too. So with my uncertainty and your uncertainty there's certainly a certain degree of uncertainty about, of that we can be quite sure. So let's buckle down, shall we? Purpose is what we're striving for. We must have purpose. We mustn't be purposeless. We mustn's exhibit purposnessless. We must be purposelessnessless. Because we don't want to end up, do we? Because we don't want to end up, do we? Like the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there.

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found on  a colleague's blog ( Langues vivantes)