Do You Believe in Aliens?

Ridley Scott, director of ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner,’ returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. (See the trailer of the film before its release on 8th June)

In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system’s natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team discovers an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.

With dotSUB we can see videos with accurated captions, sometimes in youtube they are not so good. Here you can meet one of the characters of Ridley Scott film starred by Michael Fassbender: he explains what an android is and what their function could be.

Enjoy this video and its captions, of course in English!

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Meaning of Mayday

Some words have an appearance that we identify with a certain meaning because of its similarity with some in our own language, these words are called false friends but today we are going to learn the origin of mayday. It has no relation with the 1st of May but with a French expression to ask for help, remember the films....
Listen to the VOA programme and learn some others.
Can you identify these other French expressions? If so, add a comment on this post.
If you need to read the tapescript after all, here you are but try it first!

Reading Inspires Children

'A noun is a person, place or thing. A verb is an action word...Max, something to share the class? Come on! Thanks.'
"How tired I am of this unbearable distance between us. How I long for the toll of the recess bell. Have you forgotten me? Grown mindless of me? Tell me I am not riding into an abyss. Or that is what will become all my heart."
Every year I cannot avoid showing you this video, only a good reader could write this. Inspiring, isn't it?
Only a good reader could write something like this,
don't give up reading!

"Do you love me?"

 

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