group "english practice"

[teacher]

i'll try to sum this up quite soon... just tell me, i can't see in the programms for the "concours" anything about commenting documents for class... did they suppress it too ???  do they only judge us on our english this year ??!!!  this seems pretty weird i feel, but i'm not there to give my advice on that so...  why do i feel that my english is getting rusty, i'm sure i did some awful mistakes in that paragraph but can't find they right now... no matter. speak with you soon   

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yep ! you are right ! Only your knowledge of / fluency in English is being checked this year .

I have coloured your mistakes in red in your text....Up to you to correct them !!

[Aspidistra]

Hi everybody,

Are you sleeping, it is really quiet isn't it?

Just to tell you that the text proposed by bignota was proposed last year in Grenoble academy for the CRPE.

Last monday at nine we are going to have another chat on this site..

Thank you teacher for following us.

Have a good night!

[teacher]

Hi everybody,

Are you sleeping, it is really quiet isn't it?

Just to tell you that the text proposed by bignota was proposed last year in Grenoble academy for the CRPE. 

Last monday at nine we are going to have another chat on this site..

Thank you teacher for following us.

Have a good night!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Aspidistra !

To avoid repetition, you could have said :" the text chosen by Bigotna....."

but I am nit-picking ! :P

[Aspidistra]

Hi everybody!

teacher, could you propose a translation for 'nit-picking' ?? Thanks in advacne!

Here is my summary for the text chosen by Bigotna....

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This text is an extract of Femail, a magazine aimed to women. This article 's wondering if business success matches with motherhood?

Femail interviewed 3 successfull business women, Yve Newhold, 55, Patricia Vaz, 48 and another women (which interview is not translated on the article we have).

Patricia Vaz explains that she resumed work when her unique son was 2, it was not a choice but she needed the money. During her carrer she used to work at several jobs in the same company. During that times she left her son at 7 in the morning and she always feel guilty of not being there when he came back from school. A nanny name auntie margaret took car of the child, and this woman and her soon were very closed. In the child mind auntie margaret knows better that his mother what to do in case of illness.

When the son was older enought he takes care from himself : he was making his homework and cooking if necessary.

This text is asking a real question : can a woman be a good mother as well as a successfull business women! It doen't give any answer. We can notice that for these women it was sometimes really tough not to be available for their children! But they make the choice of a successfull carrer insite of these difficulties. They probably open themselves out throught their job and we can wonder if a child is not happier with a full bloom mother, even not often avaible, than with a mother who always takes car of him but who doesn't enjoy himself.

I think that it is a really personnal interrogation. Each woman lives her motherhood on a different way, and we cannot judge her.

*****

I am not sure that we have the entire texte, because it fizzles out (???) And I am not really inspired for the second part...

Have a good night...

[bigotna]

i'm sorry but i think i won't have time this week to work on (or about?) the text.

and i have another question : woud you agree to change the day of the chat and put it next wednesday, it means the 12th october?

DO You want that i look for a video to talk about, or do we keep the present text?

NB

[amandine38]

hello everbody!!

Maybe is too late, but can I join you?

I don't know how is ly level in english. I stop to learn it when I was 15 years old, so it's a long time ago.... ( 11 years)

I hadn't ( is it false?) time for reading all your posts, so can you say me what is te text to study and for which day?

Thanks

See you soon ( = à bientot?)

amandine

[amandine38]

Oh sorry I just see the post which speak about te text to study. I think I will not (???) have enough time to work on it this WE because we celebrate my birthday with my father.

Can you indicate me the next text ?

Thanks

Good evening

[reginaphalenge]

Hello girls! (I think there's no boy with us, isnt'it? )

This post works very well, it's great! I'm a little disapointed that I didn't chat with you last time. I hope I'll be free next time! Actually, if there's another meeting during holidays, I'll be there!

Since I didn't work with you for a long time, I had a lot to read so I learnt some vocabulary and I have a remark:

I forgot the chat yesterday night...    and to tell you the true I was so tired that I slept very early 

I think it's " to tell you the truth"

XXX

I wrote in orange when I was not sure of my sentence

[Milla]

Welcome Amandine and happy birthday to you

We don't have the new text yet, maybe tomorrow. Usually it's on monday.

Talk to you soon

[amandine38]

Welcome Amandine and happy birthday to you 

We don't have the new text yet, maybe tomorrow. Usually it's on monday.

Talk to you soon 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks.In fact,My real "day of birth" was 16 days ago but my parents don't live together ( euh???) so we must celebrate it "deux fois ".

I believe my sentence isn't very correct...Sorry...Maybe someone can correct me?

For the text it's ok.

SO, I'll look here on monday evening.

I'm go to do a little of mathematics.

See you later.

[bigotna]

i wanted to propose you a radio program to listen, so i will put you an adress where you will find an audio article

i suggest you to listen it first and we could chat about that and then make a summary (afterwords, i'll tell you the text to compare)

there is the address (i hope you 'll be abble to listen to it):

ici

another thing : it will be difficult for me to what on monday, woud you agree to chat on wednesday the 12th october?

nb

[amandine38]

I just have a look at your link, but I can't open it because our computer doesn't open "real player" files.

So, if you choice this text, I think I could'nt work on it with you but it's not a very big problem...

I can chat with you only on monday evening and friday evening. All the others evenings I have something tod do ( swimming-pool, jogging, ...)

I know I'm "pénible " :P