Hello, today we visited Belfast, therefore I am making a quick presentation of the place. Belfast is the second biggest town in Ireland, after Dublin and is the biggest harbour on the island. It mostly developed during the Industrialisation era and was a major producer of linen. During the Second WW, there were 2 blitz…
In December, the BFI class of the year 11 in Théophile-Gautier had 3 2-hour sessions, of creative writing about detective stories. It was about the theme we were working on at the moment: A Cat Among The Pigeons by Agatha Cristie. During the first session, we learned about the use of the 5 senses in…
The Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of sailing boat with no restrictions on the size of the crew. It was created in 1990 by a college of competitors and then a committee was put in place to be sure that the rules are respected….
Watching shows in a foreign language (in this context English) is a good way of learning said language for a multitude of reasons: Firstly it gives great exposure to everyday language which is very often informal and conversational and that you wouldn’t encounter in the classic textbook (ex: slang, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs…). Also these elements of vocabulary are often recurring in TV shows. When…
by Matvey Perdu-Nemirovskaia A wonderful astronomical discovery has been done in the last few weeks. In the centre of our galaxy, there’s a black hole of some million solar masses; there’s mostly in every galaxy a supermassive black hole. But, astronomers discovered another black hole near the centre of our galaxy which is as heavy…
