McDougall on barefoot running

Here is the link for Christopher McDougall's TED talk Sebastien mentioned today.  For those of you who have never used the TED website, it could be a good introduction.  Try the interactive transcript and/or subtitle tools.

Prepositions

Basic prepositions:
Here you can find some exercises on basic prepositions.  The key to the exercises is hereby made available. (Source: English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy) 

Noun, adjective and verb + preposition:
Here you can find some exercises on nouns, adjectives and verbs which are used with certain prepositions.  The key for the exercises are also hereby made available. (Source: English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy)

Phrasal verbs:
Here you can find some exercises on phrasal verbs.  The key to the exercises is hereby made available. (Source: English Grammar in Use: Intermediate by Raymond Murphy) 

Rating agencies

To complement Messan's presentation, here is a link for a short stream, in which John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University, explains how the rating agencies work on Jon Steward's talk show.

Future of the EU

Here you can find an article from Foreign Affairs on the past, present and future of the EU.

Here is a link for an Economist article on the future of Britain within the EU.

Composite sentences with future tenses

Here you can find many exercises on future tenses.  I am also hereby making a list of all the tenses and key words available. You can do exercises 18 - 28, which deal with future tenses. Remember: we do not use 'will' in the part of these sentences with the linking word.

China

Here is an article from European Voice, which came out before the EU-China summit.

Here is another one published around the same time.

Here is a 21-minute TED talk on China.

Here is an Amnesty International report on China.  Thank you Adela!

More tips on PowerPoint presentations

Here you can find list of do's and dont's for PowerPoint presentations.