Saturday, 31 October 2015
Friday, 30 October 2015
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Your Halloween Costumes: Expectation Vs. Reality!
You'll recognize make-up featured in another article!
Monday, 26 October 2015
Sunday, 25 October 2015
An interesting article in The Guardian, today...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/24/charlotte-brontes-romantic-obsession
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Answer to the game...
An artist called Solaina imagined what Disney animal characters would look like as human beings...
Friday, 23 October 2015
Thank you for your cooperation!
The first period of comments is over....
Long live the new period (until November 29th) !
An interesting article, on words...
How hipsters may be bringing
back vintage language
Hipsters are famous for their love of all things old-fashioned: 19th
Century beards, pickle-making, Amish outerwear, naming their kids things like
Clementine or Atticus. Now, they may be excavating archaic language, too.
As Chi Luu points out at JSTOR
Daily — the blog of a database of academic journals, what could be
more hipster than that? — old-timey words like bespoke, peruse,
smitten and dapper appear to be creeping back into
the lexicon.
This data comes from Google's Ngram viewer, which charts the frequencies of
words appearing in printed sources between 1800 and 2012.
Google's Ngram shows that lots of archaic words appear to be resurfacing --
including gems like perchance, mayhaps and parlor.
The same trend is visible for words like amongst, amidst, whilst and
unbeknownst, which are are archaic forms of among, amid, while
and unknown.
The upturn is even visible in some seriously Shakespearean terms, like thou,
thee, ere and hath.
It's not clear exactly why this trend is
occurring, but one candidate could be the broader influence of hipster culture,
which continually combs through the past in an activity that Luu refers to as
"nostalgia mining."
Hipsters are certainly smitten with all things bespoke and dapper, and they may be getting into parlors,
too.
It's not like hipsters are the first youth trend to look to the
past for inspiration.
The hippies built on the beats, and '90s grunge
sampled from both. But hipsters are somewhat unique in the nomadic way
they roam the past in search of things that are
"authentic" -- acquiring, and perhaps just as quickly losing,
tastes for things like Pabst Blue Ribbon, small-batch whiskies, and heritage brands.
Some hipsters do this with a greater sense of irony than others -- irony,
because, in seizing on something authentic and making it popular and hipster,
they might be making that thing "inauthentic" again, like
tourists continually in search of remote vacation spots that haven't yet been
touched by tourists.
But others may not pick up on that irony. Mayhaps they just do hipster things
because they like them.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
It actually is about baseball...
...but it works for the blog!
Don't forget our Friday Evening game, pupils and visitors!
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
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Monday, 19 October 2015
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Saturday, 17 October 2015
Answer to the game (woof!)
Friday, 16 October 2015
Game! Game! Game!
Explain why this is funny (it refers to something).
As usual the first good comment will get a prize!
Meet Aliena...
Hi ! My name is Aliena and
I'm seventeen. I was born in Paris in August, 1st 1998. I live in Allogny,
which is not so far from Bourges. I moved here two years ago, but I used to
live in Paris with my mother. I love living in Bourges because I think it's
beautiful and really peaceful. Being from Paris, I wasn't used to this kind of
town, but I like it here.
I love singing and listening
to all kinds of music. I like reading and writing too, I used to write poetry
when I was younger. I enjoy traveling and I have already been to London, New
York, Spain and Germany. I like to play tennis with my father in my spare time.
By the way, I would say that I'm really close to my father, he's like my best
friend. He listens to me and we're able to talk for hours.
My favorite band is Nirvana
and I'm crazy about this movie by Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill. I
also really like the series of books by Sarah Pinborough :
Poison, Charm and Beauty. Those books are like a remake of famous fairytales,
in a darker way.
I would say that I'm
optimistic, creative, sociable, joyful and full of surprises. But I would also
say that I am sensitive and sometimes slightly too impulsive.
I'm an only child and I have
lived with my father for four years. I think that after my exams, I'll move
from here to live in Paris with my grandmother. I would really like to finish
my studies there. I would like to study english to become an english teacher.
[Brace yourself, my young Padawan! Teaching is a hard but oh so fulfilling job! Mrs P.]
[Brace yourself, my young Padawan! Teaching is a hard but oh so fulfilling job! Mrs P.]
Thursday, 15 October 2015
An extra article by Becarefulouis!
Hey it's becarefulouis, and it' s almost ...................
☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ Halloween☠
☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠
And I wanted to share with you the work of a famous youtubeur in the U.S.A who did a
wonderful d.i.y (do it yourself) which seems really easy and really
original !
Her username is Rclbeauty101.
As everyone saw , on Snapchat, they added new effects...
Her username is Rclbeauty101.
As everyone saw , on Snapchat, they added new effects...
And Rachel (aka Rclbeauty101) decided to turn those effects into make-up
for Halloween costumes, and I really like her idea !
It's so original and
fun !
I really would like to see someone this year at the Carnaval in our
school even if it's not scary, it's cute.
So now just watch the video and
enjoy Rachel's D.I.Y
By the way, I would like to know in the comments if you knew Rachel
before reading my article?
And if you have one, what's your favorite
youtubeur ?
Comments below and don't forget to suscribe (haha)
BECAREFULOUIS
xoxo
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