Merry Christmas – Maligayang Pasko – Joyeux Noël – Vrolijk Kerstfeest – Buon Natale
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Verschlagwortet mit holiday
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Le plus long vol direct du monde
Vous vous ennuyez ? Voici un petit quiz.
Lisez l’article dans les actualités 20 Minutes sur le vol direct le plus long entre Shanghai et Buenos Aires.
Lancez ensuite le quiz et répondez aux cinq questions sur le texte que vous venez de lire. Le texte et le quiz sont basés sur un niveau de langue B1-B2.
Voicie est le lien pour les nouvelles:
https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/voyage-le-plus-long-vol-direct-du-monde-assis-pendant-29-heures-103418095
Voici est le lien pour le quiz:
https://app.edcafe.ai/quiz/68cfe229b9f9ed8ab16d7421
En cas d’indisponibilité du lien vers 20 Minutes, vous trouverez ci-joint le PDF contenant le même article au deuxième page.
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Verschlagwortet mit CEFR B1, CEFR B2, quiz
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Postcrossing
Ce site web, qui existe depuis 20 ans, combine le monde en ligne et le monde analogique à l’aide de cartes postales et de timbres. Le principe est simple : tu envoies une carte postale à une personne et tu en reçois une en échange. C’est toujours intéressant de lire quelque chose écrit par une personne inconnue, et cela ne coûte pas cher. Ce sont de petites histoires personnelles et courtes. Pour moi, c’est aussi une motivation supplémentaire pour écrire davantage, principalement en anglais, mais aussi dans mes autres langues.
Postcrossing compte plus de 800 000 membres dans environ 210 pays différents. Depuis le lancement de Postcrossing, plus de 82 millions de cartes postales ont déjà été envoyées. Alors, pourquoi ne pas essayer ? Le lien vers Postcrossing
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Verschlagwortet mit learning, writing
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World Emoji Day – 17th July
Nowadays, emoji are an integral part of everyday communication. It doesn’t matter if you’re old or young, most of us are confronted with them. They are definitely not a new invention, they just look new and have a modern design. Emojis tell us stories and help us to communicate. Some say that the drawings of the cave dwellers painted the first stories on the walls and the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians did the same. You could say that it is simply the adaptation to modern technology. Emojis are the cave paintings on the mobile phone and sometimes they are as cryptic as the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians. It’s a silent form of communication that works perfectly in the world of smartphones.
But why is 17th July World Emoji Day? Check your calendar emoji on your phone. Most phones show on the icon the 17th July. But why is this date on the emoji? For me, it looks just like a random date.
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Verschlagwortet mit everyday life, Strange Holidays
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It’s so hot
For a couple of weeks the temperature in middle europe has been high. Peak values up to 34° Celsius during daytime, or locally even more, have become normal. My lawn is turning brown and the soil is hard as rock. I gave up on watering it, which I think is the correct decision considering the drought and not wasting valuable water resources. Only my vegetable garden is the exception to the rule. I keep them alive and, fortunately, I still have some water in my rainwater tank, which collects rainwater from the roof. But without some rain, this water reserve will be used up soon. I’m looking forward to Monday when the weather forecast promises rain. But a single day will not lead to an end of this drought, it’s only a drop in the ocean.
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Verschlagwortet mit everyday life, summer
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The mid-year (2025)
The first half of the year has already passed. I always wonder why it seems that time always flies faster. Why is this happening? Is it because of getting older or is it because our lives are always getting busier? In my opinion both are possible but I don’t have an explanation for either possibility. Another explanation I found is caused by the fact that we make less “first time experiences” the older we get and this leads to a distortion of our perception. Sounds somehow logical.
But anyway, the 30° Celsius air my fan is blowing in my fan causes some strange thoughts: Soon it’s time to think about Christmas decorations and Christmas shopping.
Is noise cancellation harmful?
The “new” headphone technology allows noise cancellation. This can be pretty useful while listening to something in a noisy environment. But is it harmful or not? The possible answer is probably a no, but with a caveat. Of course it can be very harmful when you get hit by a car because you couldn’t hear it while crossing a street. But on the other hand it can be very protective for your ears while you’re exposed to a noisy environment. Generally speaking, active noise cancellation is not harmful to your hearing.
Now it’s time for the caveat. British physicians are more and more confronted with the so-called auditory processing and perception disorder (the brain can’t process what it hears properly). One possible cause is the noise cancelling function of headphones at a young age. The brain unlearns how to filter background noise.
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Verschlagwortet mit everyday life, Health
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