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Here is the correction of the 2 exercices we did in class on Tuesday:

I) 1 p.185:

a- was – were using (preterit -ing dans la 2è partie de la phrase car on insiste sur le fait que l’action durait + were, car police est pluriel en Anglais, donc équivalent de “they”)

b- didn’t say – was (simples actions dans le passé)

c- arrived – discovered  – were working (l’action qui sert de cadre: preterit -ing, interrompue par une autre action, au preterit simple)

d- thought – were asking

e- were demonstrating – threw (action qui sert de cadre interrompue par une autre action)

Write 5 sentences with question tags:

- You live here, don’t you?

- She was single, wasn’t she?

- The kidnappers used a car, didn’t they?

- You couldn’t resist beating her, could you?

- The murderer had already chosen his victim, hadn’t he?

Copy the lesson + choose one of the 2 roles. learn it by heart!

Interrogation scene (Episode of TV-series Castle)

Inspector Beckett : – So we found you at the victim’s home. I hope you have a strong alibi! What were you doing there?

Castle: – I was walking in the street when I heard someone screaming. So I went to help her.

-          But you knew the victim, didn’t you?

-          No, I didn’t know this person! I told you I was just walking in the street!

-          You’re kidding me!/Don’t take me for a fool!/ Stop playing with my nerves! You’ve been caught red-handed with a gun in your hands!

-          I found the gun on the floor. I heard someone in the kitchen so I picked it up to defend myself.

-          You must/may have erased the killer’s fingerprints! If you can’t prove your alibi, you will go to jail!

Vocabulary:

- You’re kidding me! (oth)

- Don’t take me for a fool! (oth)

- Stop playing with my nerves! (oth)

- (to) catch somebody red-handed (oth) = prendre quelqu’un en flagrant délit

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:

Spend a day in the life of a child labourer:

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 …

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!

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.

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)

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

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

notes video