English Recordings

AXIS 8 : TERRITORY AND MEMORY

1. SPACES
local VS national VS international
area: zone: sphere
borders: boundaries: frontiers
a landmark: a monument
territories
time VS space
to move in VS to move out
to protect: to preserve

2. MEMORY
collective heritage
to pay a tribute to
a symbolic figure
destiny:fate
testimony
to remember: to recall
the ruins: the remains
forgotten
ravaged: damaged
to maintain:to uphold
to obliterate:to destroy

3. TRANSMISSION
to convey a message
legacy : heritage
knowledge
to commemorate
to guide
to pass on to : to transmit
meaningful VS meaningless
treasured : cherished
reconstructed
amnesty/forgiveness

4. HISTORY
patrimony
experiences
past VS future
perspective
record
traditions : customs
to claim
disputed : fought over
timeless : lasting
to acknowledge
to take control of : to take possession of

I’m going to present the movie The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring. First, the movie came out in 2001. It was directed by Peter Jackson. The director also directed The Hobbit.
Additionally, the movie is a fantasy movie. Then, the action takes place in the fictional world of Middle Earth. Moreover, the main actors and actresses are Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett.
At the beginning of the movie, the hobbit Frodo and his friend Sam embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring and ensure the destruction of the Dark Lord Sauron. At the end of the movie, Frodo and Sam continue their journey to Mordor.
In my view, fantasy movies are the most entertaining movies because there are extraordinary elements and they make the audience dream

I have had this bike for ages, it's literally falling apart.
I wonder what you have been doing in my room.
Sorry, I have been looking for some photographs.
Sit down and catch your breath. Have you been running?
Anna is an old friend of mine. I have known her nearly all my life.
Why are you angry? What have I done?
The Barkers have been renting this house since they moved to Liverpool.
The Greens have owned this plot of land for centuries.
You might say it has always been theirs.
I have been calling you all the evening. Where have you been?
Mark has been staying with us for a couple of weeks, but he is planning to leave
tomorrow morning.
Look, this player has broken the rules again. He has been playing very badly
in this match.
Has the taxi arrived yet? We have been waiting too long.
We have been working without a break since 9 o'clock in the morning.
I'm sure everyone has got tired.
Your eyes look red and swollen. Have you been crying?
I'm afraid I have heard this story five times since yesterday and
I don't want to hear it again.

I love watching movies. At the cinema, on TV or on my computer. I'm a big movie fan and love all the news of my favourite movie stars. I like all kinds of movies - Hollywood blockbusters, black and white movies from the 50s, independent movies... They're all good. Recently I've got into watching foreign movies. I like the films that come out of Bollywood - they're very different. The first film I saw at the movie theatre was Star Wars. I was amazed at the special effects. Nowadays, so many movies have such good computer graphics that we forget how special the effects are. One of my favourite ways of relaxing is to rent the latest DVD and sit on the sofa with a big bag of potato chips. The sound has to be up to the max and the lights have to be off.

A: Good morning, I am Pierre and I come with my class, in “A” level in Community and Social care, in the North East of Ireland to visit your structure.
B: Ah, yes! You must be the French group; welcome to “Petersburg Adventure centre”; My name is John O’Neil and I am the manager here.
A: When was settled your structure?
B: It was settled by my father in 1972.
A: What public do you receive?
B: We greet any public from seven years old. Anybody can practice our sports activities; there is only one condition, they need a medical certificate for sports activities, so our oldest participant was eighty-four years old. In fact, we greet individuals but mainly groups, for example, classes and international big companies; BMW or IBM
A: Your centre seems very successful.
B: In fact, we are not just a usual sport centre. It is an extreme sport centre. Here we are on an exceptional site next to the sea and as you can see, there are mountains not very far. So, you can do the normal walking or horse riding. But you also can do rock climbing in the mountains, canyoning or sea kayaking. These activities seem dangerous but they are not. I have a very competent team to lead activities. They are the best in their speciality from all over the world. For example, for rock-climbing our activity organiser is a mountain guide from Switzerland and for the canoeing our leader is from Colorado.
B: What are the objectives of this structure?
A: our objectives are to offer sport activities but also to create a team spirit in a group. Big companies come here because with our activities, which are physically difficult, colleagues learn to work together and people know each other better. We create a dynamic in the group.
A: How many people can you greet here?
B: We can receive up to one hundred and twenty people for sports activities during the day. But we can also greet people for the night. In the centre, we can receive seventy-six people in different double rooms there is also, not very far, a dormitory in a chalet for twenty people. It is a small village here so; there is not much accommodation, for example hotels or Bed and Breakfast; That is why we had to build accommodation in the centre and a restaurant. But it is also an advantage to develop team spirit because people can stay together for many days an in the evening we offer activities; karaoke, singing… there is always something going on. Unfortunately, the residents do not come often, they are too tired after all their physical activity

part 1:listen and repeat the verbs

number 1: to repair

number 2: to test

number 3:to assemble

number 4:to disassemble

number 5: to replace

number 6: to clean

number 7: to add

number 8: to check

Part 2: Listen and repeat the phrasal verbs

number 1: to trouble shoot a car's failure

number 2: to check the condition of a car

number 3: to do oil change

number 4: to do servicing

Who was the Iron Lady?

What was J.K. Rowling's job before she became a writer?

Where is Ben Nevis located?

What is Agatha Christie's home town?

What is Great Britain made of?

Who is Hamlet?

Where did Princess Diana die?

What is traditionally eaten on Christmas day?

When did London last host the Olympic Games?

What sport is Wimbledon famous for?

When did the Empire Windrush arrive in London?

Who invented the theory of the evolution of species?

What kind of novels is John Le Carré known for?

Has Stephen Hawking ever won a Nobel prize?

Is Scotland in Britain?

In which part of England is Cornwall located?

Is Canada part of the Commonwealth?

Can you name a famous park in London?

Can you name two Caribbean islands?

Is the Meridian of Greenwich in Ireland?

How did Robert Fortune become famous?

How many World Cups did Lewis Hamilton won?

I like Americans.

I like Americans
They carry such pretty umbrellas.
The Avenue de l'Opéra on a rainy day
Is just an avenue on a rainy day.
But Fifth Avenue on a rainy day
Is an old-fashioned garden
Under a shower.

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 -1950

Through Spider-Man, the X-Men and many other characters, the late Stan Lee sought to make a positive and lasting difference.

Last summer, when images of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville circulated on social media, [Stan] Lee responded with a powerful statement of his own. “Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today,” he wrote. “As true today as it was in 1968.”
The words he shared originally appeared in Stan's Soapbox, a column he wrote for Marvel that was published in the same year Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
From The Fantastic Four to the X-Men, his heroes were outsiders who fight for a better society - no surprise, given they were created during the height of the civil rights movement.
X-Men has often been praised for its portrayal of mutant oppression and its reflection of the fight for civil rights. Fans have even compared Professor Xavier and Magneto's differing views to King and Malcolm X's respective ideologies.
“I always felt the X-Men, in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality,” Lee told the Washington Post in 2016.
Alongside his long-time collaborator Jack Kirby, Lee also created Black Panther, the first black superhero to appear in comics. This year's film version was praised for providing the representation many black audiences had been craving for.

According to Jesse J. Holland, Black superheroes are “being used as symbols in American culture.” He explains “ Back when I was reporting in Ferguson after the Michael Brown death, I started seeing images of the black Captain America, that's being used by Marvel, being used in protests. And I think we'll see a lot of the images of the Black Panther around the country now that the movie is about to hit, and then the book is out. So I think not only are they going to be entertainment on the screens, but they'll also be used as icons, as symbols of the way this country is diversifying, and about how we see ourselves as a country. We don't see ourselves in just one color or two colors anymore. We see ourselves as a huge, diversified country whose heroes can be of any race.

“How Stan Lee's superheroes helped change the world”, Taylor-Dior Rumble, BBC, 2018

About six years. I moved here for grad school.

Oh, where did you go ?

University of Michigan.