"How to spot a liar"

TED talks

Pamela Meyer, "How to spot a liar"

http://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_meyer_how_to_spot_a_liar.html

 

FREE ENGLISH CLASS!

FREE ENGLISH CLASS!

Dear Students of the International Center in New York,

You are all welcome to attend my "English Communications Skills" class on

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012

12:30-2pm

Meet at the outside entrance to the International Center building at 50 23rd Street at 12:30pm. We will proceed to a park or other place for the lesson.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Ellen Baird

LEA L1 Best Final Videos 2011

These are videos made by first year language students at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Students were asked to make parodies of television shows in English. Below are my favorites this year.
Enjoy!

Group 1:  Julia, Elodie, Melina, Roukia, Sylvia, and  Fanida
"VIP Room"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvYHeM35y2A 

Group 2:
Ingrid Couchy-Romain, Fouzia Brahmi, Ylhem Nefoussi and Nadia Djaffar
"Interviews with Khaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and Osama Bin Ladin"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G20EsxRlWYs

Group 2: Julien
Wikileaks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEYepGDhmw

Group 3:
The Horse Whisperer
by Sophie Dumas & Christine Dumas
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhx723_l-homme-qui-murmurait-a-l-oreille-des-chevaux_shortfilms

Group 4:
Parody of "Next"
Yanis, Honorine, Marie Lou, Rachel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fNO_l61htM

Group 4:
"Secrets"
Elodie FRANCISCO, Margot FREYNE, Victor GUILBOT and Constance POUILLART: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMXicF-qzcQ

Group 5:

"Low School Musical"

Aurelie Aniambossou, Aminata Konate, Salameth Tbigui (feat. Carol Jagot-Lachaume)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5AyATYSnQ

Group 7:

"Crime Show"
Guillaume Justin, Jeremy Narcissot, Marcus Nii Amarh, Yoann Nondelo, Roger Oyono
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzNiGSOFpc4

The "Freshest" Video
Group 5:
"University Memories"
Herve, Moussa, Zainab and Gwen
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhxv66_university-s-memories_fun

 

MADAME BAIRD'S FAVORITE LEA L1 L2 VIDEOS

The following are videos produced by first and second year language students in my oral presentation courses at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. The students were asked to create a television show or movie on the topic of their choice. I encouraged them to engage in parodies, but many students created videos about serious topics. The videos linked below are my favorites. They are categorized into groups according to theme: 1. Human Relationships, 2. Zombies, 3. News Shows, 4. Reality TV and 5. "Other".

HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS

L1 G8
David Diankanguila, Igor Nkodia, Fatimata Wane, Sarah Boudouh and Lovelyn Baur

TV Show on Romantic Relationships

“The Fati Kayah Wayne Show” part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCQQD9cOPA

part two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNUMlF2vPY

L2 G5
Mixed couples.
Sarah Pécout & Aminata Kaloga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKjJLkpgoQc

L2 G7
Video about Racism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY5jt1Sh4iI
Rakotomanga.R Mirana, Duboisy Richard, Berry Ismaël

ZOMBIES

L1 G10 – Zombies of the French Suburbs
Edward DeCaen and Alizee Laffitau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFg1rdff0X8

L2 G8– “Residems Evil”
LAKMALI Ahmed, LOURINI Yasmine, GENEST Fany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y55aXjWJDGs

TV NEWS SHOWS

L2 G1 News Report from 1969: the Hippie Movement and the Woodstock Festival

Aly Nadia ,Escaich Althéa et Alunni-Pierucci Cédric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ju7jhxnTPU

L1 G10
M&M TV News: The murder of Hello Kitty and other news. Melanie Morgado and Mathilde Lay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ms9JT7GIM0

L2 G6

"Killing of Reuters journalists in Iraq by US troops"

Alexander Burkel, Emilie Sahakian & Morgan Potrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ebmS4UFCwo&feature=youtube_gdata

L2 Group 6

Ban of Mephedrone

LEDOUX Coralie, ROQUEFORT Clémence, CORIZZI Mélissa
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEW-6Oy6xc

REALITY TV
L1 Group 1
"Jerk-Lanta" Clemence Alaime, Jeff Blondeau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWspsJ6X0_Y

L1 Gr 10
Star People with Pam Anderson
-Elise Lagravière
-Elodie De Mesquita

Link : http://www.youtube.com/user/elise78france#p/a/u/0/7w6Ic6krBak

L1 G5

The Andy Queen Show: Reality TV Stars

http://www.wat.tv/video/andy-queen-show-final-job-2fi41_2fi43_.html

Emilie Franzo , Christopher Tussy, Marion El Kaim, Marine

Peroni, Adelaide Hennequin and Alexandre Touron.

"OTHER"

L2 G8
The End of the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDAyeaV4Nc
by Ivo Ricardo (Vaz), Douwes Arthur, and Devilliers Nicolas

L2 G7
Perversion in Japan
Valentine DeFossez and Kumiko Tanaka
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcy9nf_nfgomg938_school

L1G5
Raphael Kalfa
Documentary on "The Lazy Man"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OoQpsEvPg0

L1 G11
Guided Tour of Cergy-Pontoise University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36VgqpkEHkU
Maxime Bertrand, Cédric Cariou, Manosanh Vasaspathy, Jean-Jacques Tebily

Practice Collocations

Collocations - An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.
They are collections of words that occur together in discourse.

Below are two sites to practice collocations in English.

http://www.ccym.edu.hk/english/Hkcee/Collocation.htm

http://www.better-english.com/strongcoll.htm