Some words put together (with no inspiration at all)

Because picking out phrases must be useful, here is a short text I’ve written to reuse them in a brand new context.

Internet is usually a good way for me to come up with original ideas for my English writing works. It has got me off the hook many times. But in the latter case, I can’t say it was a resounding success.

I jumped between different websites I’m used to visit, relying on them to find some kind of amusing topics through the tremendous amount of information but I didn’t deemed any of them fitted to the kind of work I had to do.

I was hesitant about talking about two articles found on wikipedia. One of them was about a book given to the soldiers involved in the Normandy landings. It was called “112 gripes about the french”. The purpose of this book was to help the soldiers to put up with the french people and their strange habits.  Now we have a hindsight of 50 years I thought it was quite funny to quote this book. But I refrain from doing this because it was hard to put my phrases through quotations.

The second one dealed with a ceremony which closely mimics the Nobel prices awards ceremony in a humorous way. During this ceremony, the laureates receive an award called the Ig Nobel price for discoveries “that cannot, or should not, be reproduced”.

I really get a kick out of this kind of happening. So I started to write something about it but nothing came out. Even if of the two articles mentioned, this one was the most interesting, I was really not inspired. Inspiration really depends on the day !

Haha Fat chance !

Hey. Here are some phrases, vocabulary and interesting things I’ve collected from differents English sources in order to improve my skills in this language.

The big transcript – Part 2

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the second part of my transcript. It was harder than the other one. More words are missing and some sentence sound strange. But I’ve done what I could.

The big transcript – Part 1

Here is the first part of my transcript. It was a little short so I’ve decided to find an other video to transcript in part two (soon on your screen).

If things were perfect

Here you can find the comments I’ve left on my classmates’ blogs to help them to eradicate the mistakes.

I went first ont Julie E.’s blog. It was almost perfect in my opinion. The only comment I’ve writed was:

Hello.  I’ve just started browsing the blogs to suggest my correction and how lucky you are ! You’re the first on the list .
But you’re lucky twice. I haven’t found huge mistakes. The only thing I have a doubt about is “to be indulgent with”. According to WordReference, it would be “to” or “toward”. But the rest is clean !
Enjoy your “holidays” .

Her answer was:

Hi Joris !

It seems there is actually a mistake with my sentence: “please, be indulgent with my grammar !” the structure “be indulgent with” is correct, but I should have write “be indulgent with me” and not “with my grammar”. So, we can remenber the following structure: “to be indulgent with _*sb*_”.
Thank you for your shrewdness!

On Julie T.’s blog, the only post was the transcription from the podcast The Linguist. That’s why I’ve left it like it was.

Julien’s blog seems to be clean. The only mistake was already corrected by Julie.

Karine’s one was well filled but it was also well written. I’ve just given my opinion in a fiery debate about the use of  “interest in” and “interest on”.

The main part of Laetitia‘s mistakes  was already corrected by Karine who did a great job. But thanks to my determination I found some little things to say !

Hi ! It’s hard to find new mistakes when Karine has already visited a blog. But here are two little things I’m not sure about.
First, I wouldn’t write “an interview about” but “an interview with”.
Then, (I know I’m niggling ^^) Spore is only one game. I think the “s” is not needed. But it’s detail !

It’s me again !
In my opinion, there is a little problem with the verb “improve” in your sentence. I think “to improve my english” would be more accurate.

Search on the theme of visual effects

Here are the results of my research based on the theme of the Visual Effects and the 3d Animation.

My first reflex was to type “visual effects” as a search string. I thought it was a good idea to keep the link on the wikipedia definition which was the first answer in the list. The next ones were not really relevant.

My second search was on the video section of Google. I typed “making of” and I found the second link interesting. It shows the creation of the BBC’s april fool from a technical point of view. I didn’t keep the first link because of the french subtitles . Other videos were also interesting but sometime in french, or even mute (there was only music on them) or not really focused on the VFX. That’s why I’ve only kept this one.

Then I typed “ILM vfx” because ILM is one of the most famous visual effects company which has worked on many blockbusters. From this startpoint I found a video named “FXguideTV episode 20″ which lead me to the podcast of fxguide. Here is about 40 videos with mainly interviews of visual effects expert who explain how they work on different movies.

I think this three links are a good base to start working. I’ve also personnal resources but I can’t remember the way I found them. Here is the list:

• VideoCopilot
• vfxworld
• Matteworld

Hello world !

This blog has been created as part of  M. Gérôme’s english course.

In this first post is a short record on wich I introduce myself.

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