Compteur
any money they won’t want to do any more music
I think, mankind wants to keep its money if it can / when it is
given the opportunity it will do it.
The music industry is in a panic because pirates are back.
When you steal a CD you steal the label, the packaging and the shop,
when you download the music you just steal / rob the music.
If there were no music any more I think we would know where the problem
would be.
As to me, nowadays, artists think more about money than in the past.
I disagree with the fact that there won’t be music any longer because
Artists have found new ways.
The situation has changed for the better or for the worse.
MAKING MUSIC
Speakeasy n°2 pages 6 and 7
I List all the vocabulary that is connected with computers and the Internet in the text:
II Find a synonym for:
In 1st paragraph :
to have enough money to= ; far from=
in those days= ; such a big number=
III Find the opposite for:
In 1st paragraph :
if you look carefully= ; it’s really difficult=
IV mix and match:
In No more record stores?
era un magasin en ligne
drawing to a close “soi disant”
online store un accord
overall courants
dropped époque
streams chuté
deals touche à sa fin
so-called globalement/ global
V Find the opposite for:
In No more record labels? and No more “being signed”?
a group work= ;they did not want to do it=
in a bored sort of way= ; mysterious=
stop there=
VI Say if it is right or wrong Justify your answer:
a) The baby boomer talked by means of 45 rpm records.
b) The music industry is booming.
c) Pirates are back.
d) Teenagers download music peer to peer because thy do not want to queue in big store.
e) Artists cannot find new ways of earning money.
f) Some bands engage their fans.
g) Some unknown artists manage to get their music heard.
h) “Selling out” is now a positive thing.
i) ipods are forever.
VII Answer the questions:
1) Who has a problem: teenagers, music companies …?
2) Why is there a problem?
3) Could they solve the problem?
4) How?
5) What do you think about those possibilities of solving the crisis?
6) Do you think they are good for the artists? In what way?
Grammar
Look at the examples:
Who Which:Look page 6 line 8 and 9
7inch records meant there were “singles” which meant there were hit singles, which led to hit parade”
Page 6 line 4and 6
“Even those who purchase music legally are doing it differently.”
Which et who:
Pourquoi sont-ils là? Quelle est leur fonction dans la phrase?
Who est…………………………il …………………………………
Which est ………………………il…………………………………..
There is a great deal of talk about music in the class:
Downloading it free is judged unavoidable by most. It allows you to have the songs you like.
Going to a store to get a CD is judged a time consuming activity. Some pupils just do not see why they should pay for a CD they will no longer like next month.
Musicians do not seem to regret anything, they love music and they want to be heard by the largest number of people, they want to be famous (you can sing it if you like) all of which the Internet achieve very easily and conveniently.
There we are we will continue tomorrow. Cheers!
right or wrong.
a. it is right up to a certain point . About, 45 rpm records
they communicated. They communicated when listening to
45 rpm records/ thanks to / because of 45 rpm records they talked.
peer to peer is easier and free.
c. Music piracy has become common place. Downloading music free
on the Internet is illegal. Up to a certain point every one of us is going to participate to
the destruction of the music industry.
I don’t agree it is not the destruction of the music industry it is just a
change.
List of vocabulary connected with the Internet:
ipod- website- download/ digital download version of CDs- itunes-
online music store- music piracy-
Apple- digital – mp3- website advertising- myspace- CDs- music site-
Facebook Myspace- on / over the Internet- streams- a buzz – a post -
digital catalogues online .
music is like a drug but music is not dangerous (apart for your ears)
music is like a marvellous world / a beautiful poem (sometimes)
music is a sort of freedom
music is a way to communicate
music could be the voice of a generation
music is the soundtrack of life
music is necessary for the soul/ it frees your soul
music is like a feeling it is tuned to your mood
music follows our feelings
music is like a good friend
music can bring you to another world
China’s Underground Hip-Hop Movement
on the New York Times video library http://video.on.nytimes.com/
It is not like Hip Hop it is stressed like in rap.
it began small but now many people listen to Hip Hop in China.
They try to do like Americans, they just began Hip Hop
American Hip Hop was the first / came first
Hip Hop in China is less commercial it is not about cars, money, it is more about the problems in China.
I think Chinese sing Hip Hop because it is a passion.
We are not used to listening to Chinese Hip Hop.
We do not have the opportunity to listen to it easily.
As to me American Hip Hop is better than French Hip Hop. They cannot be compared. They play because
they like this music and they feel good in it
Maybe Chinese want to change / give the lie to their imagine of serious, intelligent people.
Chinese let their hair down with Hip Hop!
There is a revolt in Hip Hop and maybe t is the same in China
Homework:
Lesson copybook.
→not quite as big as that
→rather smaller than that
→quite smaller than that
Relative clauses
Observe :
a- The man, who has just left the room, forgot his book on the table.
b- We are looking for the only dog that has a black mark on its left paw.
c- That book, which was written in 2003, is on Winston Churchill’s books.
d- This is the only film that we have seen before.
1- Souligner les pronoms relatifs et les relier à leurs antécédents.
2- Quand faut-il employer Who? Which? Who= antécédent personne Which = le reste
3- Dans deux de ces phrases la proposition relative pourrait être supprimée ? Lesquelles ?
a et c
4- A quoi sert le pronom relatif dans ce cas ?
à ajouter une information non importante
Deux types de relatives et deux types de pronoms relatifs en anglais :
Les relatives limitatives / restrictives:
La relative limitative contribue fortement à déterminer et à restreindre le sens du groupe nominal auquel elle se rapporte.
Les relatives descriptives :
Elle donne des précisions supplémentaires sur l’antécédent qui ne sont pas essentielles à son identification.
N.B. :
le pronom relatif that est employé lorsqu’il y a …only ou bien un superlatif ….dans le groupe nominal antécédent.
+ sont très utiles et doivent être sus.
Whoever = qui que se soit qui
Whatever = quoi que se soit qui
Whichever = quel que soit celui qui
Wherever = où que
Whenever = chaque fois que
Exercises :Fill in the blanks with who, which or that :
1) This is the only room…that ..is equipped with a TV set.
2) They all talked to the champion ……who…..was standing in the middle of the room.
3) My aunt,.who..is 87, came to see us.
4) It was the first time..that.they had seen that film.
5) The small computer ……which…..is on the shelf is very cheap.
6) That actor is the best……that……..I have ever seen.
Homework: lesson copybook and photocopy
There are many kinds of music one for each mood.
Music goes with , adds up to the film if you mute the
film it is quite different.
Music is for everybody a,d for every ages it is universal.
Music can deliver some message, like Will.i.am who sings a song for B. O.
Music develops imagination it gives lots of hope.
Music in films make the film more moving, more vivid,
it stresses the suspence, of the film.
It warns of the action.
It seems to me that a film without music is not a good film today,
I don’t agree with silent movies having no side tracks there was a
musician playing in the theatre.
Music helps us suspend our disbelief. Today music is everywhere…
Each age used to have its own music but today it is no longer true.
it is due to the fact that we are all different
different music.
I think nowadays it is easier to listen to allsorts of music because
today religion is less important.
Music today is not very elaborate.
You can listen to music wherever you like, whenever you like,
whatever you like (downloading, ipod, computers help)
I believe today there are a lot of singers but the most popular are comercial
and not very elaborate.
Today people are not very open ot other kind of music, we listen mainly
to American, English Spanish and French music.
Correct:
When he got older he learnt how to play ping pong
Where Forrest lives.
Where America has been committed .
Life is like a box of chocolate …
For marque la durée , le temps écoulé en minutes secondes siècles etc..
During situe la période dans le temps sans s’occuper de la durée de cette période.
Example: she worked for three hours
she worked during the holidays
Discours direct/ indirect:
Dans un devoir rédigé une question est rarement au style direct.
Vous ne direz donc pas:
What does Jenny do?
mais bien
we do not know what Jenny does.
Why does he have the medal of honor
mais
we do not know why he has the medal of honor
N.B.: il ne faut pas écrire les formes contractées dans un devoir rédigé.
Place du verbe et de son COD:
On ne met rien entre un verbe et son COD
On dit
I particularly liked the moment when…
As to me, F G is a young stupid boy
Superlatif comparatif:
The introduit un superlatif et non pas un comparatif.
He is the nicest man / he does not want to become the wealthiest.
Groupe nominal:
L’ordre des mots n’est pas le même qu’en français: article+ adjectif(s)+ nom
There are some very interesting moments.
Do this mix and match exercise
Norman Rockwell illustrated the four rights of American people, the American dream.
Music will be our next topic: For Thursday bring Speakeasy number 2 (those who have it)
is worse than he thought.
Forrest Gump as we see it: I liked this film because it shows the American history during the
twentieth century / This movie recounts the main lines of American history It delivers a lot of messages like peace, love etc.. Seeing American through Forrest eyes or point of view makes
the film is funny but the subject is somehow less funny than it seems. I loved the way the film used flash backs and then goes back to forrest’s
life for Forrest to tell his life since he was a little boy
We saw beautiful landscape when Forrest ran.
Forrest being stupid makes the story funnier/ Forrest’s stupidity makes
him truly likable, moving and funny.
It is a film in which everybody can find what he likes …..
Forrst is at a bus stop from beginning to almost the end of the film
retelling his story to strangers.
Forrest might be a yarn spinner!
Do you know this flag?
It is the most famous of the flags of the Confederacy it is called : The Confederate Flag.
People in the Deep South still display this flag although it is very controversial.
What does segregation in the Deep South States mean in the fifties?
It means going to diferent schools, different universities, different cinemas,restaurants, lavatories etc…
Secret racist organisations like the KU Klux Klan.
Still when they wanted to listen to Jazz whites went to blacks only music halls.
Forrest’s life is set in a typical rural southern environment:
A small town
The old colonial house
A lot of poor farmers
Water disasters
The Virtues of the Deep South
Family life
Religion
Hospitality
A man killed his family and set an inn on fire.
Then he ran away, he hitch hiked and was found
in a shelter for the homeless.
a suburb.
Vocabulary for the lesson:
Up/ down
Left/ right
To the left/ to the right
In the middle
At the bottom
At the top
More/ less
Not that one / The next one
The first / The second / The third / The fourth / The fifth
Only if you are angry:
Maroon!!
Come on!
What is happening to Forrest
in each picture?
It is during the war in Vietnam, he is in the American army
He has to answer, to be careful about his instructor orders
Does it remind of another film or book? It reminds me of some films like Platoon, Apocalipse Now , Full Metal Jacket.
Set the pictures in the correct
order and find the right caption
An invisible enemy
A warm and humid climate
Fighting in the middle of civil life
Napalm
The tunnel rats
A difficult situation back home
Look at this picture again:
Where does the story take place? It takes place inVietnam during the Vietnam war.
Who are the characters? They are Forrest and Bubba
Where do they come from? They come from the deep South
What has just happened? There has been an attack on Forrest’s platoon and Forrest is trying to save all his fellows by running just as Jenny told him to do.
Does the new picture look like the other? Yes it does
What film or book is it from? Gone with the Wind which was first a book by Margaret Mitchells and then a very famous film.
The two pictures look almost the same, the situation is very different:
In Gone with the Wind Bret is saving Scarlet from the fire spreading through Atlanta, Scarlet is a sort of symbol of the old Southern society whereas in Forrest Gump Forrest is saving Bubba the great grand son of an afro american slave in the Confederacy. Th situation is both similar and very different The second is the reverse of the first.
Monday, January 5th
News today and then we worked on pictures taken from Forrest Gump
1775-1783 The war of independence 25,000 American casualties
1861-1865 The civil war 623,026 casualties
1917-1918 WWI = World War one = The first World War 116,708 American casualties
1941-1945 WWII = World War two = The second World war 407,316 American casualties
1965-1975 The Vietnam War 58,169 American casualties
2003-……….. The war in Irak
We will finish next time.
Homework:
for Thursday afternoon, test on OF and TO and the indirect speech
I hope you enjoyed your visit to the Louvre
Thursday, December11th
Morning lesson:
on the news about social unrest in Greece the following vocabulary was either found or found missing!
Riots /rioting
demonstration
tear gaz
American newspapers:
The situation on Wednesday remained volatile.
New clashes between the police and protesters
erupted on the fringes of a long-planned general
strike over the government’s economic policies.
English newspapers:
Riots have broken out in several Greek cities after police
shot dead a teenager in the capital Athens.
The unrest began in Athens
Tuesday, December 9th
A few pupils talked about their work experience. We noticed it was more interesting when pupils talked about what they had enjoyed.
For instance:
One pupil said she particularly liked walking in the Museum early in the morning before the museum opened and when there were no visitors around.
Work for next Thursday:
Emploi de of et to
Lorsqu’ils introduisent des compléments circonstanciels
v Le complément circonstanciel de cause :
Il répond à la question Why ?
- En indiquant des causes matérielles et scientifiques : il est introduit par :
of = de
He died of starvation il est mort de faim
- En indiquant des causes matérielles invoquées: il est introduit par :
Because of = à cause de
The match was cancelled because of the weather
Le match a été annulé à cause du mauvais temps.
on account of = étant donné que
On account of the strike there will be no mail today
A cause de la grève, il n’y aura pas de courrier ce matin
For fear of = par crainte de
They do not want to go there for fear of the neighbours seeing them!
Ils ne veulent pas y aller de peur que les voisins les voient.
out of = de
She ran away out of fear
Elle s’est sauvée par peur
v Le complément circonstanciel de concession :
Il décrit une situation qui n’a pas eu l’effet attendu par l’énonciateur.
in spite of = en dépit de
They went out in spite of the snow storm
Ils sont sortis malgré la tempête de neige
v Le complément circonstanciel de condition :
Il décrit une cause hypothétiqueou supposée.
in case of = en cas de
In case of danger ring me up.
En cas de danger, téléphone moi
v Le complément circonstanciel de manière:
Il répond aux questions How ? In what way ?.
by means of = au moyen de
They would communicate by means of a secret code
Ils communiquaient à l’aide d’un code secret
Les propositions circonstancielles de but
Elles répondent à la question What for ?
Ce sont généralement des propositions infinitives.
Elles sont introduites par :
in order to = afin que
He spoke slowly in order to be understood by everybody
Il parlait lentement afin que chacun puisse le comprendre
so as to = afin que
He spoke slowly so as to be understood by everybody
Il parlait lentement afin que chacun puisse le comprendre
to = pour que
They got up early to get a lot of work done by noon /midday
Ils se levèrent de bonne heure pour abattre beaucoup de travail avant midi
Attention à la forme négative de ses propositions :
He spoke quickly in order not to be understood by everybody
They got up late not to get into the way of those who wanted to get a lot of work done by noon /midday
Ils se levèrent tard afin de ne pas gêner ceux qui voulaient abattre beaucoup de travail avant midi…
Exercises
D’après la situation ci-dessous, réécrivez ces phrases pour excuser votre retard. Utilisez le plus souvent possible of et to (vous devrez peut-être ajouter des explications:
My alarm clock failed to ring. I woke up late. There was a train strike. I waited for a bus. The bus was full up. I tried to hail (héler) a taxi there were no taxis. Mr Brown, my neighbour, gave me a lift. His car broke down. I walked the 3 miles to the office. It was hot. I was tired and my feet were sore (me faisaient mal) . It took me a long time. I lost my way. A policeman gave me directions. I arrived at mid-day. I am sorry.
Monday, December 8th
Correction Test November 26th
Useful writing technique
Sentences you can learn and use in your next test:
- First, I would like to say that… / First, I would like to live and work in…
- I cannot really say / explain why / answer …
- Furthermore, I would like to become (famous)…
- Finally I would rather do (a job I like and that would be rewarding.)…
- As to me, (Sophie was just stupid)…
- According to me, (a good job is …)
What you really wanted to write but sometimes could not or not quite as well as this:
All these sentences were taken from one of your papers
- When you are a barrister you must (have to) give good speeches whereas an estate agent just chats about houses. So, I would not like to be an estate agent…
- She should have been thinking for a longer time after she left University, it could have been easier for her to find a job she liked and could be good at.
- Finding a good job is not easy, now it depends on who you are and if you want (wish) to do long or short studies.
- I think that, deep inside, being a barrister and an estate agent really is the same job. Both have to boast, to talk and convince…
- Sophie just has no job hunting technique.
- When you are an estate agent you do the same thing everyday (day in, day out.)
- Everyday you have to say how nice the aspect is and so on and so forth…
Very clever use of what you know:
- I would rather do like Lizzy, I think I must manage my career and find a job. I would not like to get a mortgage and then sell my house for very little money when the market goes down and then have to say to the bank I cannot reimburse the money.
- To become a barrister you have to be keen on learning law, you have to learn how to speak in public. But it can be very difficult if you are not well-known.
- To begin with, I think Sophie is stupid, she left college without a clue, she should have thought earlier about a job.
Thursday, November 27th
Morning:
Test
Afternoon:
Exposé on the different topics given 10 days ago.
Tuesday, November 25th
Summing up of what we said last time
I think it stands to reason, that the girl does not manage to find
a job as a photographer because she chose this job because she
had no other proposition. She believes it will be easy to get this job
but to be a photographer it must be a hobby since childhood.
Being a photographer is really hard job and we must both learn it and
be naturally good at it.
Estate agents earn a lot of money and are very well-off. (We compared
being a barrister to working in an estate agency).
We summed up what were both the drawbacks and the good points of
these jobs .
Remember:
To dedicate oneself to…
it depends on the market…on the stock exchange…
The feedback…
If I choose this job I know I will…
I should choose…
I will enjoy it…
AND
The vocabulary on your work sheet. Think about how you would choose your future job would you do like Sophie?
what job you would like to do later ?…
Thursday, November 20th
For next week:
Test on Finding a job we like. probably on Thursday
Exposé: a 3 to 5 minute exposé on
- the Deep South
- Martin Luther King
- Segregation
- The Ku Klux Klan
- Slavery
- Jazz
- Chicago
- Rosa Parks
- Civil War
On the text Finding a Job we Like:
The narrator wants to become an estate agent because she says
she will earn a lot of money so that she will be able to retire when she
is very young./ very early.
I find that taking up a job because she wants to get lots of money should not
be the main reason.
Th
(afternoon lesson)
Reported speech
Observe and find out :
Observez les phrases suivantes : dans un premier temps, le discours est rapporté de façon directe et on emploie les guillemets ; dans un deuxième temps, il est rapporté indirectement sans guillemets.
a- Elisabeth is saying : « I wonder where our children are ? »
Elisabeth is saying (that) she wonders where their children are.
b- Jack said: “I’ll be back here tomorrow.”
Jack said (that) he’d be back there the next day.
c- The teacher said to Bill: “Your work has not been very good lately.”
The teacher said to Bill (that) his work had not been very good lately.
d- Helen said to Berry: “I’ll kill you if you tell anyone!”
Helen said to Berry (that) she’d kill him if he told anyone.
e- She exclaimed: “The weather was beautiful an hour ago!”
She exclaimed (that) the weather had been beautiful an hour before.
f- They said: “We went for a long walk and would go again today .”
They said (that) they had gone for a long walk and would have gone again on that day
g- She said to the waiter: “Bring us some water please.”
She told/asked the waiter to bring them some water.
h- She asked him: “What are you doing? Are you doing your homework?”
She asked him what he was doing. and if he was doing his homework.
Conclusion:
Le discours est rapporté au présent:
- il n’y a pas de changement de temps
- il y a changement de pronom sujet, de pronom complément, d’adjectif et, éventuellement, de pronom possessif.
Le discours est rapporté au prétérit:
- il y a changement de temps.
- il y a changement de pronom sujet, de pronom complément, d’adjectif et, éventuellement, de pronom possessif.
|
Temps du discours direct Temps du discours indirect |
|
|
Présent |
- |
|
Prétérit |
- - |
|
Present perfect/ past perfect |
- |
|
Futur/ conditionnel |
- |
D’autre part, on note quelques modifications :
|
Discours direct Discours indirect |
|
|
here |
- |
|
Today |
- |
|
Tomorrow |
- - |
|
Yesterday |
- |
|
ago |
- |
Il y a également changement de pronom personnel sujet et /ou complément, d’adjectif et de pronoms possessifs.
· Ordres au style indirect : phrase :…………………
On passe de l’impératif à ……………………………..
· Interrogations au style indirect : phrase : …………………..
L’ordre des mots (sujet/ verbe) est celui de la phrase affirmative.
Lorsque la question directe est une « yes, no question », on utilise ……………………
ou …………………………….avant l’interrogation au style indirect.
· Enfin, lorsque le verbe say est suivi d’un complément, il est remplacé par « ………………….. » au style indirect.
Attention à bien choisir votre verbe :
Pour indiquer qu’il s’agit d’un ordre:
He said : « Stand up » = He ordered me to stand up.
Pour indiquer qu’il s’agit d’un conseil :
He said ; “You should be more careful. » = He advised me to be more careful
PRACTICE
I) Voici un dialogue. En utilisant les amorces données, mettez les dialogues au style indirect :
Suzan: The game is going on.
Mary: How do I look?
Suzan: You look great.
Mary: I feel so hot. Do I look tired?
Suzan: No, of course not.
Mary: I’ve run so fast!
Suzan told Mary ………………..
Mary asked her………………….
Suzan replied that Mary………………..
Mary said……………………………………………………then she asked Suzan if….
Suzan replied that she …………….
Mary exclaimed that………………….
II) Mettez les phrases suivantes au style indirect:
- 1) This is stupid; you have not kept your promise! When will you do? Can you keep it today?
- 2) I must of course but I will be ready to do it tomorrow.
III) Mettez les phrases suivantes au style indirect. N’oubliez pas le verbe introductive:
a) He told me it had been a very difficult time for him.
b) He told his sister he had seen a tramp who seemed to be watching the house.
c) She told him she would take up the job if she didn’t like this one.
d) The officer told us not to move.
e) I had to ask the boss if he wanted to give me a rise (une augmentation).
Problems linked to the translation of the French :
Premièrement = In first
In the first time FIRST, to begin with, in the first place…
firstly
Le livre de leur victime = The book of their victim est une traduction mot à mot il faut dire:
Their victim’s book
They do not arrive speak est faux , il faut dire They cannot speak
On ne redouble pas normalement le sujet dans une phrase anglaise :
Une brute c’est quelqu’un qui…
A bully it is someone who … il faut écrire A bully is someone who…
Of /From/ About ou le problème de la traduction de de:
Of: extrait un sous ensemble d’un ensemble
the seventeenth of November
From : marque l’origine.
He demands money from his victim
It is different from what happens in France
Do not forget: pour faire une soustraction on dit: 2 from 4 are 2.
About : au sujet de
this is about bullying
And conjonction de coordination :
They should speak with their parents and phone the police.
Should est toujours suivi de la base verbale donc speak et phone qui dépendent tous les deux de should sont en base verbale.
Do not forget
Singulier Pluriel
This these
That those
everyone has stopped everyone everybody s’accordent au singulier.
I mustn’t expriment la notion de contrainte leurs contraire est donc I don’t have to
I have to I can
I may
Monday, November 17th
On the text Finding a Job We Like
Correction:
She did not have any ideas or she had no ideas.She has always quite liked looking at houses.
In the end, finally.
Traduction de à:
In the morning I go to school
Then I am at school
In the afternoon I go back home.
Friday, November 14th
We worked in the computer room on the TELL ME MORE software.
November 13th
Homework for Monday:
Read the text carefully, look for new words and try to understand the text as best you can then do exercises b) and f).
3°4/6
November 13th
First part on bullying:
against his/her will
Tv does not make you a bully
Tv cannot make you a bully
If you play video games you will be more likely to get violent or to think violently.
Here are the new text and exercises we are going to work on:
Finding a job we like
I don’t know how other people manage their careers, I really don’t. Like my oldest friend Lissy. She’s always known she wanted to be a lawyer-and now, ta-dah! She’s a fraud barrister. But I left college with absolutely no clue. My first job was in an estate agency, and I only went into it because I’ve always quite liked looking round houses, plus I met this woman with amazing red-lacquered nails at a career fair who told me she made so much money, she’d be able to retire when she was forty.
But the minute I started, I hated it. I hated all the other trainee estate agents. I hated saying things like a “lovely aspect”. And I hated the way if someone said they could afford £ 300,000 we were supposed to give them details of houses costing at least £ 400,000, and then kind of look down our noses, like, “You only have £ 300,000? God you complete loser.”
So after six month I announced I was changing career and was going to be a photographer instead. It was such a fantastic moment, like in a film or something. My dad lent me the money for a photography course and a camera, and I was going to launch this amazing new creative career, and it was going to be the start of my new life…
Ewcept it didn’t quite happen like that. I mean, for a start, do you have any idea how much a photographers’ assistant gets paid?
Nothing. It’s nothing.
Which, you know, I wouldn’t have minded if anyone had actually offered me a photographer’s assistant’s job.
Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret? Black Swan, 2003.
Vocabulary Help:
Nouns :
unemployment= le chomâge self confidence= la confiance en soi a challenge= un défi
Words you may need:
Adjectives:
▪ disappointed ▪ hopeful / desperate ▪ optimistic/ pessimistic ▪ motivated ▪ ambitious ▪ conscientious ▪ poor = badly-off ▪ wealthy = well-off = well-to-do = rich ▪ unemployment= sans emploi au chomâge ▪ successful / unsuccessful
Verbs and expressions:
Like = enjoy = be keen on = be fond of ▪ dislike ▪ hate ▪ agree / disagree ▪ rely on = compter sur ▪ make a living = gagner sa vie ▪ earn money = make money = gagner de l’argent ▪ become rich ▪ be under paid = être sous payé ▪ reach one’s goal = atteindre son but ▪realize = se render compte ▪ to succeed in réussir à
Exercises
a) Vocabulary
Complete these sentences with words from the text:
- A…………………………………..is someone whose job is to defend other people.
- ……………………………………..is the school you go to from the age of 16 to 18 in England.
- An……………………………………..is a place you go when you need to buy a house or to sell a house.
- …………………………………………are parts of your fingers which some women like to have coloured.
- A………………………………………is a big place where you go when you don’t know what job you want to do. There are people who can help and advise ( conseiller)
- Most people ……………………………….when they are between 60 and 70 years old. They no longer have to go to work.
- When you have a lot of money you can…………………………….to buy expensive things.
- When somebody…………………………………..money, they expect (ils s’attendent à) you to give it back to them.
b) Right or Wrong? Justify your choice:
▪ The narrator knows what career she wants:
▪ Lissy is the narrator’s oldest friend:
▪ Lissy is successful and has managed to do the job she’s always wanted to do:
c) Ex plain what “I left college with no clues” means:
d) Why did the narrator want to become an estate agent: Give at least two reasons
e) Did she like this job? Why or Why not:
f) Put the events in the correct order:
The narrator met a fantastic woman
The narrator’s father lent him some money
The narrator could not find a job as a photographer
The narrator went to a job fair
The narrator did not like his first job
The narrator found a job in an estate agency
The narrator could buy a camera
e) Translate:
1) De nos jours, il est parfois difficile de trouver le metier que nous aimerions faire.
2) La narratrice ma;que de confiance en elle mais semble consciencieuse.
3) Elle peut compter sur sa famille.
3°4/6
November 11th
You asked if I could translate the words “please”. Well…it is better for you if you look it up in a dictionary, it is part of your work and part of the learning process. I am sure it will help you progress. The Collins is the best the following website uses it:
http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/
Remember:
You can always ask in class if you are stuck.
Monday November 10th
We did a test today you can do it also, enjoy it!
3°4-6
Fill in the blanks :
a) If you boil water it…………..(be) at 100°.
b) If you………………………….(learn) your lessons, I would be happier.
c) If you had seen that film, I think you ……………………………(like) it.
d) You will feel better if you………………………….(sleep) well.
Find the right tense:
a) Thieves…………………………(steal) a painting in the museum last week.
b) When we ……………………………….(understand) our mistake it was too late they………………………………………..(already/ leave).
c) 18/20! You……………………………(improve) your English, well done!
For, since, ago et les pronoms interrogatifs qui conviennent:
a) ……………………………………have you been watching this program ?
I have been watching the T.V. ………………………one hour, …………………the competition began.
b) …………………………………….did they move (déménager)?
I think they moved in September about two months……………………….
On bullying:
What do bullies do?
How do their victims feel?
What kind of people bully?
Who is bullied?
What should victims do? Their friends / their parents: their teachers do?
Friday, November 7th
Vocabulary:
to overdo/ to overeact/
to be widespread
against their will
To belong
to be aware of…
To stand up to…
To talk back to someone
Setences from the debate on bullying:
Bullies may have problems in their family or with their friends Some bullies may have been bullied when they were young. It is a vicious circle.
Sometimes people overeact.
Some people feel bad so they avenge themselves on others.
Some bullies may bully because they are jealous or they do not have friends at all.
I think bullies may bully because they are alone and excluded.
Some people may bully others to feel they are stronger than them.
I think bullies do it for fun.
Some people bully because if they bully someone who is not popular
They will become popular.
Bullies are popular because they are strong nobody talks back to them
stand up to them.
When you see a bullied child he is not popular and strong whereas the bully usually is.
I think a bully can be popular but he bullies because
he wants to have money or other things people have.
I think it is really hard to conclude because there are many cases
and we do not know any bullies.
You can bully and not be strong but be a bully all the same.
November 6th
We corrected the exercises in the morning.
In the afternoon, we worked on bullying. Text in your books page 24.
We did a quizz: Are You a Bully?
The students discovered they were not and tried to pinpoint why calling somebody names and hiding their things does not always mean you are a bully!
Here is what we wrote on the blackboard:
behaviour / attitude = comportement
For all that = malgré tout…
it does not follow that I am a bully
to laugh at= se moquer
to ignore somebody to snob somebody
to allow = permettre
To be widespread = être répandu
I do some of these things but It is not serious it is just to tease my friends
It is not nasty/ bad /a crime. I am just joking
If I know the personality of the person then I can tease him or her.
I think in the U.K. bullying is a more important problem than in France
where it is not very common/ widespread.
Homework: lesson copybook . Be careful test on bullying and grammar/vocabulary on Monday.
On October 23rd:
we have corrected the for and since exercises. The Notion De Durée Révision was handed out: http://lewebpedagogique.com/justincase/la-notion-de-duree-revision/
The exercises are to be done for Thursday, November 6th.
Then we compared the two schools we had seen.
The Elizabeth Irwin High School in New-York look Financial Crisis Hits Teens in the link:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/business/1194811622255/index.html
and the public school in the Interwrite contest:
http://contest.interwritelearning.com/contestant/243/
The students used many comparatives:
more+ adjective+ than
Adjective+er+than
Not as+adjective+as
less+adjective +than
(see New Live page 164)
Some said they would never have imagined that students in a private schoole in which tuition is 31000 dollars could be so much hit by the finanacial crisis.
Two pupils said they were puzzled because although the private school was more expensive the teachers only had an old-fashioned blackboard and chalk whereas the public school had computers, interactive boards, nice desks…
Since it was the end of the lesson the pupils are to think about it and find an answer.
On Friday two pupils gave an exposé:
One on King Arthur
The other on synchronised swimming
It was well done, they did not read the text but only glanced at their notes,.
Still, the advice I would give for an exposé is:
Learn the most important words you will need probably they will be the adjectives and the verbs.
Use guide lines: the heads of the different paragraphs, a graphic to help your memory.
If you are stuck remember: Well…/ you know what I mean…/let’s see…
Show some pictures to illustrate your subject, a slide show we can project on the board.
DURING THE HOLIDAYS
Do the Notion de Durée exercises and revise the grammar and the vocabulary we have seen.
Enjoy your holiday!
dpaci
