No Spanish in school, a Texas Principal says

A Texas principal has provoked a controversy by wanting to ban Hispanic students from speaking Spanish. See the article on http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/12/04/Texas-principal-bans-speaking-Spanish-stirs-controversy/UPI-47601386185690/?spt=fsb&or=ros&n=4

See the students video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hvPhRf9ik

 

 

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!…