What makes an efficient slogan?

8 12 2011

Here is one of the slogans we worked on in class. It denounces domestic violence:

 

Now, inspire yourself of this cartoon and create your own slogan to denounce child labour:




Child labour

5 12 2011

Spend a day in the life of a child labourer:

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lesson “An exceptional destiny” (p.50-51) 2GT1-6

28 11 2011

Copy this lesson in your copybook, classify the vocabulary in your vocab page and learn:

An exceptional destiny

Barack Obama’s mother was born in 1942 in Kansas, in the USA. She married Barack Obama Sr, a Kenyan with whom she had her first child, Barack Obama. Then, they divorced and she married again to an Indonesian; that’s why she moved to Jakarta. She had a daughter with him and she died of cancer in 1995.

She was generous, optimistic, humorous, tolerant and open-minded .

Barack Obama spoke in positive terms of her and he said that he inherited his ideas from his mother.

 

VOCABULARY:

- (to) move to (vb) = démménager à

- optimistic (adj)

- humorous (adj) = qui a de l’humour

- open-minded ≠ narrow-minded (adj) = ouvert/fermé d’esprit

- (to) inherit … from … (vb) = hériter … de …




Answering a penfriend (2 GT1-6)

20 10 2011

Read through those five letters (click to enlarge the letters) and choose your favourite penfriend. Read his/her letter again. Copy the following table on a piece of paper and complete it before your mission. Remember to bring your table with you for your mission!

pen friend’s             name and age            

                                                                                     

address (city, area, country)

 

family and pets

  

hobbies

  

details about school

   

questions asked

   

Penfriend 1: Georgie  

Me and my friend Julia. I’m the girl on the left.

Penfriend 2: Shira

This picture was taken in our school with two of my classmates. I’m the girl standing in the middle. 

Penfriend 3: Andrew

Me at school (on the left), and me playing hurling, an Irish sport. I’m the guy on the right hand side, with the yellow T-shirt.

 

Penfriend 4: Judie

Me and my horse Jazzy

Penfriend 5: Ranjit 

Here is a picture of me with my mum and my sister in a restairant in Jaipur.




2 GT3-4 lesson: finish to copy the lesson + vocabulary

6 10 2011

A British independent school 

Durham School is one of the oldest schools in Britain. It is a co-educational independent

boarding-school which welcomes between 450 and 500 pupils in senior school and 160 in junior

school who are aged from 3 to 18 years old. Pupils learn in small classes and they have to wear a

uniform composed of a dark blue jacket, a white shirt, a tie and blue trousers for boys. Girls

wear a skirt.

In the boarding-school, they are separated in single sex houses and they have to go to sleep at

9 pm.

They can do almost any type of extra-curricular activities like music, drama, singing or sports.

For example, they can practise rugby, hockey, snooker, ping pong, rowing and even army

training.They may also play netball and lacrosse.   

 

vocabulary:

- co-educational = mixed    (adj)

- independent school = école privée  (n)     state school = école publique   (n)

- boarding-school = internat   (n)    day school = externat    (n)

- extra-curricular activities = activités extra-scolaires (n)

- rowing = aviron (n)

- snooker = billard (n)

- drama = théâtre (activité)   (n)

 

 




Durham School video

20 09 2011

Here is a video on Durham school, an independent day and boarding school in Britain. Compare this school system to yours:

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Here are the notes we took in the class. Use them to write a paragraph to present Durham School:

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