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.

Food!!

This is Hortensia's oven-baked turbot:

As an expert on seafood, she also recommends Le Zinneke for mussels in Brussels.













Here are Bertrand's recommendations:
 

RESTAURANT ROUGE TOMATE
190 Avenue Louise
1050 Bruxelles (IXELLES)
www.rougetomate.com

Good cuisine, nice place, nice terrace when it’s sunny (!)

Highly recommended

A bit expensive, but it is worth it!

For the first and/or special date.

MILLESIME

rue Eugène Cattoir 5

1050 BRUXELLES (IXELLES)

http://www.restaurantmillesime.be/

Very good restaurant; the menu is not big but very fresh food.

For the second date!

The two following restaurants belong to the same family, a Belgian culinary dynasty.

High level quality.

Expensive but ordering just one course is OK.

LA MARIE-JOSEPH

Quai au Bois à Brûler 47- 49

1000 BRUXELLES

http://lamariejoseph.niels1926.be/

For fish: (there is nice fresh fish and chips – take a look at the deserts).

CANTERBURY

Avenue de l'Hippodrome 2

1050 BRUXELLES (IXELLES)

Specialty: poultry

Huge terrace under chesnut trees in front of etangs d’Ixelles.

Go and have lunch on a sunny day in the summer.

Nice Brasserie menu, very fresh food.  (Belgian bourgeoisie atmosphere!)

No website!

LA QUINCAILLERIE

Rue du Page 45

1050 BRUXELLES ( IXELLES )

http://www.quincaillerie.be/

Same owner as Le Belga's.

A place to see with a nice brasserie menu; a bit expensive.

Simple restaurants, brasseries:

VOLLE GAS

Place Fernand Cocq 21 

1050 BRUXELLES ( IXELLES )

http://www.restaurant-volle-gas-bruxelles.be/

Good Belgian family culinary.

Recommended!!

LE SCHIEVELAVABO

There are several good restaurants at place Jourdan!

I know the one behind Theatre St Michel and I recommend it:

Woluwe-Montgomery

Rue du Collège Saint Michel, 52

1150 Woluwé Saint Pierre

http://www.leschievelavabo.be/

Student and family restaurant, not a lot of space, small tables, good and not expensive.

Terrace for summer.

L'ESPRIT DE SEL BRASSERIE

Place jourdan 52-54

1040 BRUXELLES ( ETTERBEEK )

http://www.espritdesel.be/

Good brasserie restaurant .

Good fondues

Given that winter is coming, here are two places I know:

L'R DU TEMPS

Avenue Hansen-Soulielaan 78

1040 BRUXELLES ( ETTERBEEK )

http://www.rodel.be/

Traiteur, as well; they can deliver food (cheap and OK; they can also deliver newspapers and cigarettes!)

Swiss specialties, mainly cheese fondues

A bit strange, wooden atmosphere like a Swiss chalet.

Can deliver food.

Lend plate for take away fondues.

MET JEANINNE

Avenue d'Auderghem 152

1040 BRUXELLES ( ETTERBEEK )

http://www.metjeaninne.be/

Meat specialities.

Meat fondues.

Here is Angela's recommendation for a Spanish restaurant, also endorsed by Hortensia:

Casa Miguel
Place des Gueux/ Rue Franklin
http://www.lacasamiguel.com/  

Here are John's recommendations:

Here you can access the website of In't Spinnekopke.

Here you can find some information about 9 et Voisins, and here you can find information about Le Fin de Siecle, which have very good price-quality ratios and are owned by the same person with almost identical menus.

Here you can have access to the website of Francois for those of you who like seafood.  They also have a store right next door.  This was also recommended by Suzanne.

Here is Suzanne's recommendation:

The following is the link for the Congolese restaurant where we will be going at the end of our course: 
http://www.congorama.com/loisirs/inziabxl.htm
  

Art: Achitecture, interior design, comedy and circus

Here is a link for a website where there is information on some the architectural treasures in Brussels as a continuation of our discussion in the last session.

I am open to suggestions concerning issues related to interior design.

Here is a link for Cirque du Soleil's homepage.

Living & working in a foreign country and life in Brussels

 Here is an article on the benefits of working abroad for the global economy.

Here is another article for people considering moving abroad for work.

Here is an online forum on the topic.

You can hereby have access to Agenda, the weekly magazine for the cultural events in Brussels. The website seems to be only in Dutch and French, but the paper version is in three languages, i.e., English, Dutch and French.  If you live in Brussels, you can get a free subscription for home delivery.

More tips on PowerPoint presentations

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

The dont's for PowerPoint

Here you can find Don McMillan's standup on the dont's of a PowerPoint presentation.

The 10/20/30 Rule for PowerPoint

Here you can find Guy Kawasaki's recommendations on the length (10 slides), duration (20 minutes) and font size (30 points) in a PowerPoint presentation.

Here you can find a stream of his pitch. ('Bozo' means 'fool'.)

Lists of three and the rule of 3s: two speeches

Here you can find the first part of Steve Jobs's iPhone product launch speech.

Here you can find Barack Obama's inauguration speech.

In both of them, please pay attention to the usage of the lists of three and the rule of 3s.

Here is a stream where the rule of 3s is explained among other useful tips on making presentations.

US elections

Here you can find a BBC piece with the highlights of the first debate.

Here you can find another BBC piece with the highlights of the second debate.

Here you can find a BBC news piece on the key points of the third debate.

Here  is a Guardian article on which candidate is supported in different parts of the world.

Here is an election update page from the The Guardian.

Four sources for audio and video streams

Here you can have access to the NPR of the NYC region.  It could be useful if you want to improve your listening comprehension of American English.  You can listen to the live FM broadcast or go to their show archives.  I personally like Radiolab, Selected Shorts and Fresh Air among the shows they air.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, which also airs on the WNYC in the mornings Brussels time.  It could be useful to improve your listening comprehension of British English.  They also have links under "Learning English", where you can find numerous tools for learners of English as a second language.

Here you can have access to the audio and video streams on The Economist website.  This again is a good source for improving British English listening comprehension.

Here you can have access to TED which is a good source for numerous talks on a very wide range of topics.  Most talks are given by Americans and Canadians, but there are also other speakers of different nationalities, including some British.

Languages, diversity and multiculturalism

Here you can find a short BBC article on languages, diversity and multiculturalism.

Here is another article from The Guardian on the same topic.

Gender equality

Here you can find a stream of a speech delivered by the Prime Minister of Australia.  It is about sexism. We can use gender equality as a discussion topic during one of our sessions in the future if you like. Thank you Hortensia!

Fiscal and polical union in the EU

Here you can find a recent article from The Economist on Europe's fiscal union.

Here is another article from Financial Times on Europe's political union.

Economic crisis: austerity vs. public spending

Here I am making a Guardian article available for our next session.

Subjunctive

A webpage on the use of subjunctive is hereby made available.

Opinions, agreeing and disagreeing

Here you can find some phrases which can be used to express your opinions, agreements and disagreements along with some exercises.

The Middle East

Here is an article from The Economist to be read for our next session.

BBC on negotiations and meetings

Here you can have access to the BBC website on negotiations, where they have useful expressions and/or phrases contextualized in short dialogues available as audio streams with transcripts.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for interruptions contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.

Here you can have access to the BBC website, where they provide some examples for agreements and disagreements contextualized in a short dialogue available as an audio stream with a transcript.

The US

Here are some links for a few streams on US history:

Here is one on the history of the expansion of the US territory.

Here is a satirical animation on US history and gun ownership.

Finally, here is the perspective of Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of the United States.

This is just to give us the initial momentum.  We do not have the limit the scope of our discussion to US history; we can also talk about issues such as education, culture, etc.