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Animals save the planet
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x55flm_jellyfish-plastic-bags-the-animals_fun[/dailymotion]
http://www.environmentteam.com/2010/04/11/the-animals-save-the-planet-watch-all-11-cartoons/
Groundhog Day on the 2nd of February
Groundhog Day takes place on the first or the second of February
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16855797
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38846745
A1-A2 Ici et ailleurs, modernités 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 of words:
top hats and a congregation of gentlemen
a suit= un costume
a tuxedo= une queue de pie
a tie=une cravate
a bow =noeud papillon
to wear = porter un vêtement
smart and traditional clothes,
it is freezing cold!
the shadow=l’ombre, many people, a lot of people,
the weather= le temps météorologique
a weather forecast= un bulletin météorologique
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= notre président
the tree-trunk= le tronc d’arbre
the hole= trou
to sleep=
to be sleeping=
to like folklore, not to like folklore,
to like and enjoy dreams and dreamers
Etymology
Groundhogs are able to climb trees to escape.
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?
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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.
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach -under construction-Collège et cinéma
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
Mix it up tree For a Mix it up day:-)
Projet transversal Classes européennes du Lycée Xavier Marmier de Pontarlier
et Classes du Collège Lucie Aubrac de Doubs
Responsable pédagogique arts plastiques: Marie-Eve Mougel, Collège Lucie Aubrac
en lien avec la Municipalité de la ville de Pontarlier
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
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEOA9GbK6U&feature=related[/youtube]
“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.
