Licence Lettres, Langues, Etudes Transfrontalières

Mention Langues et Cultures Etrangères


Practice with Rhythm


Extras related to Lectures:

On your oral exam for UE101 2008, you will be asked to read a few lines from The Sneetches. Below you will find links to the text and to sound files; you can listen and practice your rhythm, paying special attention to weak forms.

Full text of The Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss

You can watch & listen to (at least) two video versions on YouTube:
Book pictures with American voiceover (5:33 mins.)
Hip, musical 1970s American version

In previous years, students read from either the Green Eggs & Ham text or from the Seussian Shakespeare (Green Eggs & Hamlet) text. Here are the texts & sound files ... if you're really keen!

Green Eggs & Ham text Green Eggs & Hamlet text
Green Eggs & Ham (audio) (read by a North American male) Green Eggs & Hamlet (audio) (read by a British male.)

 

Text of the original Hamlet "To be or not to be" lines from the play by William Shakespeare, just for fun .....