JUNK FOOD

Junk food : it refers to all the foods that contain too much sugar, fat or salt and thus, are not healthy at all ( or at least, that could impact your health if you consumed them in huge quantities).

If you have never watched this documentary, it's high time you did ! Here is the trailer :

What is food turned into ?

STATISTICS

FROM VEGANISM TO FREEGANISM

First, a definition for those who tend to confuse vegetarians and vegans:

- veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that excludes meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived ingredients. Many vegans also do not eat foods that are processed using animal products, such as refined white sugar and some wines. Most vegans also avoid the use of all products tested on animals, as well as animal-derived non-food products, such as leather, fur and wool.

- Vegan refers to either a person who follows this way of eating, or to the diet itself.

Source : http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/Vegan.htm 

- Freeganism is an anti-consumerist movement. It takes issue with society's focus on buying new and throwing away old (but still useful) items. In the simplest terms, freeganism is a reaction against the waste of resources. Participants, known as "freegans," have two main goals: to buy as little as possible and to use only what they need.

Source : http://frugalliving.about.com/od/bargainshopping/p/Freegan.htm

WATCH THIS : "WASTE NOT, WANT NOT" a documentary

DIGITAL DAYS

A press article about digital addiction clinics ( yes, the geeks can be cured !^^): 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20813371

A video about an Internet addiction camp in China : 

Are you a geek ? take this test :  

http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/geek/

Video watched in class last week :

The house of the Future / Living Tomorrow

BINGE DRINKING

What is binge drinking ?

--> It is the fact of drinking huge quantities of alcohol in a very short space of time in order to get drunk.

There's no need for me to write long paragraphs ... this website is worth visiting :

 https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/understand-your-drinking/is-your-drinking-a-problem/binge-drinking

Here are the documents that have been handed out today:

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...

Here is the video you've watched this morning ( 4/12/13)

From the beginning to 1:34

GRAMMAR : it's high time you rolled up your sleeves ! :-)

As I know you're absolutely not keen on grammar and it usually drives you up the wall, here are a few links to your favourite grammar rules !

• LET / MAKE / HAVE / GET.   http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/let.html

       Exercises  http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/letexercise.htm

• FOR versus TO to translate "pour"  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv314.shtml

• A website to learn more about basic English grammar (a lot of useful exercises !)

http://langues.u-bordeaux4.fr/ANGLAIS/GRAMMAR.html

Global Warming

Here are a few links to understand what global warming is.

Ì http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/aboutcc/how_cc_works/

Ten surprising effects of global warming...

A doomsday scenario

I advise you to watch the whole series of videos ( National Geographic) on Youtube.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ZQRIsn2pA
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0_gDXqYeQ
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdLu7wiZOE
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFrR3g4BRQ
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nRf2RTqANg  ( the above video)
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qmaAMK4cM

As easy as pie !

Speaking English is said to be as easy as pie. But when you read that, you may change your mind...
This one goes out to all those who have a tendency not to worry because ( I quote)  "English ? So what ? Fingers in ze nose !"  ;-)

POEM  

(to be read aloud, wow, who is going to take up the challenge ??)

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,

They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
Just look them up -- and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart --
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language?  Man alive,
I mastered it when I was five.

So, was that a piece of cake ?? ;-)
If you need to have words pronounced, here is a useful website : www.howjsay.com

And this one goes out for the buzzing bees who don't get on well with the "-th". 

More seriously, here is a short video to help you pronounce those two nightmarish letters : "the terrible -TH".