HOW TO … write an email

A : GREETINGS :

– Dear Mrs Chauveau/ Hello Mrs Chauveau (formal – pour un professeur, ou autre, avec qui on n’est pas camarade)

– Hi ! (informal : to a friend – informel : pour un ami)

B : YOUR MESSAGE :

Here is my work

I’m writing to send you my work …

Please find my exercise/oral exercise/ drawing/photo attached. Si vous avez une pièce jointe

C: 2^nd part of your message (if necessary)

Closing (salutations) :

Hope you are well/fine

Hope you are doing fine

Have a nice/lovely/great/wonderful day/week-end

Best regards,

Bye for now

E : your first name

Please do not forget to write the subject (objet du mail) : Your name + homework

SAY THEIR NAMES

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Introduce the document :

author : African-American artist Kadir Nelson date : June 22 2020

genre : New Yorker cover, portrait title : Say their Names

question :

What has Goerge Floyd become an icon of ? /Why is this portrait of George Floyd a tribute to African-American history ?

Description : From the bottom to the top of the picture, pick a few names and explain the story behind every drawing.

Context : George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Say their Names, white supremacists, Donald Trump

Conclusion : Answer the question. Mention Black history and the election of the 46th president

Black Lives Matter

Discover the June 22 2020 New Yorker cover about George Floyd and read about black victims

Build a vocabulary list about violence and justice :

accuser de meurtre/ accuser/arrêter/assassiner/ battre, tabasser/bombarder, tuer par bombe/ commettre un meurtre/condamner à la prison/ condamner/lyncher/menacer/tuer par balle/

Learn the vocabulary of justice

The simple past passive or the present perfect passive :

simple past passive : il y a une date, et l’histoire est terminée. Be au simple past + participe passé
present perfect passive : l’histoire est en cours, elle est toujours vraie, elle n’a pas de conclusion au moment où je parle. Have au présent + been + participe passé

Choisissez la forme qui convient : Attention, il y a aussi des formes actives…. Réfléchissez au sens des mots.

Entraînez-vous ici :

Reprenez les phrases et complétez-les ici :

1 MLK ________ in Memphis, Tennessee, 1963 (to assassinate)

2 Malcolm X _______ his own biography (to write)

3 Some scholars _______ the graves of enslaved people by looking for periwinkle ( a blue flower used in cemeteries). ( to find)

4 George Floyd _______ by a policeman in Minneapolis on May 20, 2020. The policeman ___________. He _________ with murder. (to kill/to fire/to charge)

5 David McAtee _________ by the police on June 1st 2020 (to shoot)

6 Rodney King ________ by four policemen in 1991. The action________ by a witness. None of the policemen________ in California. (to beat/to film/to convict)

7 Emmet Till _____ by two men in Mississippi in 1955. The men_______not guilty ( to lynch/to find)

8 Hundreds of people _____ from Selma, Alabama, in 1965. A 25 year old activist______ . Dozens ______ by the police. The Voting Rights Act________ that year. ( to march/to die/to injure/to pass).

Kadir Nelson, Once Upon a Time in the City of Angels.

Key (solutions): 1 was assassinated 2 wrote 3 found 4 was killed/was fired/has been charged with 5 was shot 6 was beaten /was filmed/was convicted 7 was lynched /were found 8 marched/died/were injured/was passed

I HAVE A DREAM : listen to the speech