Podcasts in English

Grâce au site podcastsinenglish.com, vous pouvez télécharger gratuitement des ¨podcasts en anglais. Attention, toutefois, pour obtenir des transcriptions, des exercices de vocabulaire,  il faut s’inscrire et payer…

http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.shtml

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

On December 1st, 1955, in Alabama, in a bus, a black woman changed American history and the world for ever…

Read the Rosa Parks Bus Story on:

http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp

https://www.biography.com/search?query=rosa+parks

https://www.biography.com/search?query=rosa+parks

In 2014…

How American people celebrate the new year

January 11th, 2004 – January 11th,  2014: ten years of Facebook…

January 20th: Martin Luther King’s Day

31 janvier: finale du concours de plaidoiries des lycéens pour les Droits de l’Homme à Caen: cliquez ici

 

February 14th: Valentine Day

February 15th: Susan B. Anthony’s fight for equality between women and men in the USA

February, third Monday: Presidents’Day

March 17th: St Patrick’s Day

Earth Day in March

In April, 23rd, William Shakespeare will be 450 years!

June 14th: Flag Day in the USA..

and many more!…

Martinique Jazz Festival 2013

From November 30th to December 8th, Martinique Jazz Festival is the great occasion to meet artists from the Caribbean, from Europe, from the USA, in French, English and Spanish languages. .

The programme is available on: http://martinique.coconews.com/agenda-martinique/culture/martinique-jazz-festival-2013.html

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States. The term “Cyber Monday” was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled “‘Cyber Monday Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year”.

On wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday