Man gets car trapped on station steps in Paris

A confused driver has ended up trapping his car on the steps of an underground station in the French capital, Paris.

He managed to brake in time to stop the car, leaving the back wheels sticking out.

Apparently, he mistook it for the entrance to a car park.

"There's a sign saying 'Haussmann Parking' right in front... I made a mistake," the driver told journalists.

No-one was hurt but the scene drew plenty of crowds and cameras.

At least he wasn't trying to take his car on the train!

The Past Simple - Powerpoint presentations

More PowerPoint presentations from IngridGreenberg

The Past Simple of IRREGULAR VERBS

Useful links for exercises:

http://www.sk.com.br/sk-irrve.html (list of irregular verbs with translation)

http://www.myenglishteacher.net/irregular_verbs.html (list of Irregular Verbs)

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises?03 (verb BE)

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=562(verb BE)


http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3509 (verb BE)


http://english-zone.com/verbs/irrpast1.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irpast1.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_mix.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises

Last weekend Sally read many books. (Affirmative)

She didn't read any magazines (Negative)

Harry Potter books released in electronic form

Another fantastic News!

Electronic editions of Harry Potter books have gone on sale for the very first time.

They're available to buy on JK Rowling's website and are cheaper than the traditional book versions.

Ebooks have to be bought online and then downloaded to a reading device.

They'll be advertised on websites like Amazon but can only be bought directly from the Pottermore website.

The ebooks cost £4.99 or £6.99.

These are only a couple of pounds cheaper than the book versions and Pottermore say this is so people don't stop buying paper books.

The Harry Potter ebooks are also different from others as you can download them to several devices, whereas other ebooks normally only work on one device.

JK Rowling is writing the Harry Potter Encyclopaedia

Are you a Harry Potter fan?

You are? so, surprise, surprise!

If you're a Harry Potter fan who wants to know your Hufflepuffs from their Blast-Ended Skrewts then read on.

Author JK Rowling is working on a Harry Potter encyclopaedia.

She says she'll give the money she makes from the book to charity.

Rowling said, "For a long time, I have been promising an encyclopaedia of Harry's world and I have started work."

Over 400 million copies of the Harry Potter novels have been sold worldwide.

Happy easter for you all my friends!

Meet the world's rarest ducklings - Madagascar pochards

Eighteen of the world's most endangered ducklings have hatched on the island of Madagascar, off the coast of south-east Africa.

These Madagascar pochards are the results of a breeding programme that's hoping to save the rare birds from extinction.

The births at a special breeding centre bring the world population to just 60.

The species was rediscovered six years ago, after scientists thought they'd become extinct in the 1990s.

There are only 60 Madagascar pochards in the world

A mission to save them was launched in 2009 - conservationists from Durrell and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) collected 24 eggs for a breeding programme.

There was no centre back then, so the ducklings from those eggs were reared in a hotel bathroom at first!

Scientists are studying the Madagascar pochard population to work out why they're so rare.

Peter Cranswick from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) said: "Our initial investigations suggest there is too little food and this may be leading to the low survival of the ducklings."

The hope now is to find or create wetlands where the birds can survive on their own.