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1)Underline 5 similarities between Ken Loach’s life and work and Gustave Courbet’ s life and work.
2)Choose 5 sentences or more and ask as many questions as you can.
Gustave Courbet was born in La Vallée de la Loue (Loue Valley) in Franche-Comté on June 10th 1819 .He studied in Besançon and Paris. His family wanted him to study law but he preferred drawing and painting. He spent a lot of his time in museums copying a huge amount of paintings and eventually stopped studying law. He was politically involved in La Commune and was attributed the destruction of La Colonne Vandôme.
He liked saying “Courbet sans les courbettes”.It means that he was a very straightforward person with a lot of personality- at times, too much!He wrote many interesting pamphlets and letters to explain his viewpoints about painting. He didn’t want to work for the Académie des Beaux-Arts and refused any type of promotion linked to the government because he wanted to be a free “thinker”.
He had a son who died when he was 25 years old .
He was condemned by the French government and put in prison. He died in exile in Switzerland on December 31st 1877. The debate about his responsibility or the absence of responsibility in the destruction of the Column is still going on.
His painting has the realism of every day life:
-people at work
-people coming back from a burial
-ordinary people at a burial
-hunting scenes with realistic details
-ordinary people by the riverside
-nudes with realistic details
-portraits and landscapes of his region
The common key-word and denominator between the two people is r e a l i s m .
Ken Loach was born on June 17th 1936. He started studying law and eventually became a comedian. He is interested in shooting films and documentaries about daily life.He becomes the reference for “docudrama”, a mixture of fiction and documentaries.
He wants to show the difficulties of people in today’s world. The words which best sum up his work are= dark and gloomy, depressive and depressed, depression, gloominess and darkness.
He usually resorts to ordinary people rather than real actors.
He likes shooting films about the working-classes.
Kes (1969) is a film about a young boy who trains a kestrel in an ordinary working-class family with very ordinary people.
-cinema as a tool for understanding our world
-cinema should inform, educate and high light our human condition
-cinema should stress important elements in people’s daily life=
their problems in their jobs and their family relationships.
-cinema should serve politics, ethics and economy more than entertainment.
– “Humour is essential to our humanity”. “It is a question of survival.”
– Football is part and parcel of social life in working class families
Regions shot by the artist:
Sheffield, Manchester-Liverpool , Glasgow.
http://www.visitengland.fr/destinations/find/yorkshire/dg.aspx
Tim Burton
https://www.scripts.com/script-pdf/5949
Find out about prepositions:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/10664776/In-pictures-Cats-sleeping-in-weird-places.html
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“Pardon my enthusiasm!”
“I like your enthusiasm!”
an extract from The Corpse Bride by Tim Burton
My haunted house
There is an owl in the tree. There is a Jack o’ Lantern in front of the house. There is a cat on the roof. There is a ghost in the left downstairs window. There is a witch flying on a broomstick above the moon. There are graves beside the house. There is a skeleton in the right downstairs window. There is a bat in the sky. There is a cobweb above the door. There is a vampire next to the house. There is a werewolf under the tree.
There is a five centimeter pumpkin on the road.
There is a moon at the top of the pumpkin.
There are three cats on the left of the pumpkin.
There is a hat under the road.
There is a cobweb next to the moon.
Projet Vivre ensemble 2010-2011
A partir de l’un des axes du projet de l’établissement, Vivre ensemble,
Les élèves de 6°3 ont participé au goûter du service Agathe de l’EHPAD de Doubs. La musique ayant un rôle fédérateur, les personnes présentes ont également participé sous l’égide des élèves qui ont donné à chacun une copie de la chanson. Nous avons offert une barquette de clémentines aux personnes présentes, la représentation ayant eu lieu début décembre avant l’encombrement des fêtes de fin d’année. Le moment était donc propice et l’attention des personnes bénéfique aux élèves. Un micro aurait néanmoins été nécessaire pour les contes pour une meilleure réception. La mise en scène n’a pas été faite faute de temps. Le coût de l’opération s’élève à 8 euro (clémentines). Le déplacement s’est effectué à pied, nous sommes voisins. L’axe Vivre ensemble du projet d’établissement prend tout son sens.
La chanson Do you like ? Enjoy 6° a été chantée et les contes écrits avecMadame Delphine Kuenzi ont été présentés par les élèves dans le service Agathe.
Ces vidéo-clips sont le travail de la déléguée de la classe qui a filmé ses camarades après accord e des familles.
Conclusion:
Ce travail a contribué à fédérer le groupe -classe.
Cinq minutes ont été nécessaires pour travailler la chanson à la fin de chaque séance. Une poursuite est envisagée. La simplicité de la chanson a été un moyen de faire participer les personnes de l’EHPAD en anglais et de créer du lien entre les participants.
Les 26 élèves ont fait preuve de respect et de politesse en distribuant leurs travaux par exemple ou en répétant plusieurs fois la chanson.
Ils ont chanté une dernière fois, spécialement pour une dame qui en a fait la demande!
Cambrigdeshire boy and school uniform -under construction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-13362700#
1)Match the words :
to tease courage
equal determination
Impington School independance
to be mocked at equality
to bully someone the act of making fun of: se moquer gentiment de
independant a school in Cambridgshire: which intends to develop children’s skills: independance
determined to be involved in a strong physical aggression against someone
brave or courageous to be made fun of