L’Anglais en DNMADe (tous les semestres)
Descriptif Anglais en S3 et S4
Myself, my projects and prospects
Get ready to introduce yourself
Revise how to write the perfect CV
Show you know how to write a great CV – Pracise! 1
Show you know how to write a great CV – Practise! 2
Show you know how to write a great CV – Practise! 3
Listen and show you understand – A different type of CV
Show you know how to write a write a cover letter
Show you understand the content of a cover letter
Revise how to talk about your qualities / flaws
Talk about your qualities and shortcomings / flaws
Listen and show you understand
Phone numbers : worksheet – audio file 3_telephone_dictation
Read good (and bad) examples of CVs
Show you can write a cover letter in response to a classified ad
Communication
Telephone quiz + vocabulary to learn
Employ – employment
Leaving your comfort zone
Read to get information – “Be your own boss”
Show you understand – “Be your own boss”
Infinitive or -ing form?
Listen and show you understand : The pros and cons of self-employment
Listen to the following words, write them down and find the stressed syllabe in each one.
Company benefits
2 Listen and show you understand : Describing useful benefits
Sustainable approach to design
Spidergram : “Sustainability”
Pair work – Discuss one of the following statements with your partner:
1) “Sustainability and graphic design are two contradictory terms.”
2) “The graphic design industry produces too much waste but not much can be done today to solve this problem.”
3) “Going green necessarily limits a designer’s creativity.”
Show you know how to talk about sustainability.
Words ending in -ity – Listen to the following words and concentrate on the primary stress. On which syllable is it?
continuity – durability – electricity – feasibility – responsibility – security – sustainability – utility
http://lewebpedagogique.com/davies57/files/2022/09/words-ity.mp37
Revise how to talk about colours : RED and BLUE (source : Shades of red color infographic)
Read to get information – “What is a sustainable approach to design?”
Listen and show you understand
Countable or uncountable ? Practise using quantifiers
Originality
Spidergram : “Originality”
Observe and describe – Damien Hirst “Mother and Child”
First, anticipate from the title. What sort of artwork are you likely to describe? What may it have been inspired from? Pay attention to the key-words. What kind of issues may it criticize or draw attention to?
Pair work – Discuss one of the following statements with your partner:
1) “Everything has already been invented so it is no longer possible to be original these days.”
2) “Today, originality rhimes with obscenity. You have to shock viewers to stand out.”
3) “Originality doesn’t boil down to uniqueness. An original idea can be shared by millions of people.”
4) “What you create is always original because you are unique and when you let your true self express itself during the creative process, you necessarily end up creating something original.”
Show you know how to talk about originality.
Adjectives ending with -al. Listen to the following words and concentrate on the last syllable. What vowel sound do your hear? abnormal – accidental – agricultural – essential – normal What sound do you hear, / æl / or / ?l / ?
Observe, compare and constrast (Rembrandt’s Self Portrait at the age of 34 – Titian’s Man in Blue)
Read to get information – “Contemporary 2art is not original”
Pair work: Choose one of the following controversial works of art, find information about it and present it to the class.
Pierro Manzoni’s Merda d’Artista Guillermo Vargas’s Exposición N° 1
Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca Joel-Peter Witkin’s The Kiss
Damien Hirst’s God Alone Knows
Purpose or means ? Practise !
Listen and show you understand
Book objects / Artists’ books
Spidergram : “Books”
Observe and describe – “BookCup” (Rie Akutsu & Koji Shimizu)
First, anticipate from the title. What sort of book are you likely to describe? What may it have been inspired from? What purpose could it serve?
Pair work – Discuss one of the following statements with your partner:
1) “People would read more if books were attractive objects.”
2) “I totally agree with the following saying: don’t judge a book from its cover. What matters is not the way it looks, but its content.”
3) “I am totally against the idea of recreating everyday objects like books, especially for children. It is very confusing and counterproductive.”
4) “Books should be beautiful objects because once you’ve read them, they are going to spend some time on your bookshelves so they should be decorative and appealing.”
Show you know how to talk about the different functions of a book
The parts of a book deconstructed
Show you understand – the anatomy of a book
Revise how to use relative pronouns / clauses
Relatives ? Practise !
Read to get information – “Books as Art Objects (Reading is Optional)”
Read and order the paragraphs
Read and complete with the relevant linking words
Written expression – correction
Observe and describe some of the following books
Listen and show you understand – Werner Pfeiffer’s Book Objects and Artist’s Books: Part One
Learn more about Book objects vs Artists’ books
Inspiration vs plagiarism
Read to get information – “Graphic design trends”
Listen to the following words, write them down and find the stressed syllabe in each one. What conclusion can you reach? What is the odd one out? Why ?
Listen to the following video and show you understand
Plagiarism in graphic design
Read to get information – “How to take without stealing’
Plagiarism vs inspiration – Practise !
Observe, choose one picture and describe it to the group.
What is the common point between the following pictures?
Pair work – Discuss one of the following statements with your partner:
1) “I am convinced that the day will come when Artificial Intelligence will totally replace human editors.”
2) “Artificial intelligence? It is just another gimmick the book industry can do without.”
3) “Soft skills are essential to succeed in the book industry so why use Artificial Intelligence?”
4) “The integration of Artificial Intelligence in book editing is a necessary step to make in order to save time and money.”
Read to get information – “AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down ”
