Saint-Michel Blanquefort, European School

R2 – Beds Are Burning : tck tck tck Campaign

Dear  R2 students,
Welcome back!!

As a complementary study to the documents we already studied last year about the topical issue of “Environment”,

please have a thorough look at the poster underneath, and watch and listen to  Beds are Burning : tck tck tck

We’ll work on these documents in class.

And if you want to downlaod this song for free, go there timeforclimatejustice

Avec une vidéo qu’on trouve aussi sur Youtube.
http://www.350.org/

MC Poussard

2PROS : describe a painting

Dear 2PROS students,

We started a new lesson about arts as you are going to visit a museum soon. Here is an exercise for you… The painting was made by Munch, in 1893 and it is called “The scream“.

Using the vocabulary from the lesson you must write a comment on the blog :

1 ) To describe the pictures (who ? where ? what colours ?)
2 ) To give your feelings about the painting (emotion, feeling, opinion…)

You must do the exercise this weekend. Thank you !

P. Couturier

2PROS H1 : Introducing the families of the “Desperate Housewives”

Hello everyone,

Here’s the opening of the first episode (the pilot) of famous American TV programme Desperate Housewives. After a short introduction, you will discover the 4 main characters and their families. Watch those introductions twice and complete the document with the following information : first name, food they prepared, marital status, children and job.

Desperate Housewives Introduction

Good luck.

P. Couturier

European Day of Languages is coming…

Hello everyone,

On September 26th, we will celebrate the European Day of Languages. it’s a good occasion to celebrate Europe, languages, differences, traditions… Would you like to participate ? If you and your friends want to participate (music, arts, other activities…) you can tell your English teacher about it as soon as possible (= very quickly).

You will find information on this website :

http://edl.ecml.at/

and be able to discover and train on 24 European languages at

http://www.goethe.de/ins/se/prj/ets/mlg/bg/enindex.htm

Thank you for your participation.

P. Couturier, D. Lubeigt, M.C. Poussard, L. Rogliano

CSS2 : drink OR drive !

Dear CSS2 students,

Welcome to the English blog. For your first visit, I would like you to watch the 5 videos of this post. All the videos deal with THE DANGERS OF DRINKING AND DRIVING. Watch the video twice and try to understand who the people are, what they say, what they did, and think about the message of the documents.

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video 5

P. Couturier

Happy Bastille Day

France is about to celebrate its national day, July 14th. In many countries, in which many French people live, there were celebrations this past weekend. Here are some posters  for Bastille Day celebrations in the USA :

And you ? What did you do ? Where did you go ? Feel free to write a comment.

P. Couturier

Weather

Hello,

Summer is approaching… what are the best places to be in July August ? Here are some information about the weather in major cities :

Sydney (Australia) : 8° (it’s winter there !)

Toronto (Canada) : 11° (rainy)

Dublin (Ireland) : 13° (rainy)

London (England) : 14° (cloudy)

Dallas (Texas, USA) : 39° (sunny)

Phoenix (Arizona, USA) : 48°… good luck ! (sunny… very sunny… very very sunny !)

So, where would you like to go ?

Wanna watch the weather on American TV ? Click on the following link :

National weather on the Weather Channel

P. Couturier

D Day

On June 6th, 1944, it was the beginning of the Allied landing in Normandy… It has been celebrated since then and refered to as “D Day“… a massive air and sea operation that changed History. It inspired many movies such as Saving Private Ryan, with Tom Hanks.

Today, President Obama is in France to celebrate that day along with French President and former soldiers who are now heroes. 

P. Couturier

“Home” : a movie to save the planet…

Dear students… 

Maybe you have watched the fabulous movie HOME produced by Yann Arthus Bertrand and broadcasted on an international scale the same day, at the same time. It’s probably the first time in the history of television. 

This movie shows beautiful pictures of our planet and deals with environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation… Here’s the trailer of the movie : 

\”Home\” – Movie trailer

If you want more information about the film and the facts, visit the following link : 

Goodplanet.org website

And if you want to talk about the film, please drop a few words in the comments section. 

Thank you. 

P. Couturier

SPVL1 : violence in American schools

Hello, 

To finish with our topic 5 “Education”, here are some videos about a really serious issue in the USA : violence in schools and universities. I chose different videos that you can watch twice : 

8-year-old carries a gun in school bus

Elephant

school intruder

WWE don\’t try this at home

Now let’s talk and complete the document : type of document / topic / people / your opinion

P. Couturier