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 Expression  et interaction orale. A1-A2 Ici et ailleurs, modernité et traditions.

Where does it take place?

 

What  can you see?

 

What can you hear?

 

 

What are people wearing?

 

 

What’s the name of the  famous groundhog?

 

 

What can it predict?

 

 

 

Who are the members?

 

 

 

 

Do you like this tradition?

 

 

My toolbox words: top hats, a congregation of gentlemen, a suit, a tuxedo(queue de pie), a tie(une cravate), a bow (noeud papillon),  to wear  smart and traditional clothes,  freezing cold, the shadow(l’ombre), many people, a lot of people, the weather, a wetaher forecast, the best weather forecast, the dream, dreamers,

very traditional, to see its own shadow (voir la projection de son ombre), funny and pleasant, to announce spring, to announce winter,

a very likeable animal, it is part and parcel of traditions, one president, the tree-trunk, the hole(trou), to sleep, to be sleeping,

to like folklore, not to like folklore, to like and enjoy dreams and dreamers

Etymology

The etymology of the name woodchuck is unrelated to wood or chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, wuchak. The similarity between the words has led to the common tongue-twister:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could

if a woodchuck could chuck wood!^[12]

[edit] In popular culture

• One of Robert Frost‘s best known poems is “A Drumlin Woodchuck,” in which he uses the imagery of a woodchuck dug in to a small ridge as a metaphor for his emotional reticence.
• A woodchuck figures prominently in the movie Groundhog Day.