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The Addams family was originally a cartoon created by Charles Addams in 1938. It was then adapted to a TV show, films, a musical and recently, an animated film.

Look at them! They are bizarre and scary! I’d like to introduce you to Gomez, the father, his wife, Morticia and their two children, Pugsley and Wednesday. Gomez has a brother. His name is Uncle Fester. Morticia’s mother is a witch! 

Look at the trailer of the TV show released in 1964 HERE. 

Look at the trailer of the 1997 film HERE.

Look at the trailer of the animated film HERE(2019). 

Which one is your favourite version of this unique family? 

Many conversations HERE.

Planning a travel HERE.

More to practise situations at a hotel HERE

and at a restaurant THERE.

Your final task will be to write a page on your virtual travel journal.

On this site HERE, you can find ideas and tips about how to write a travel journal. Click on the link and check it out.

Now meet Réka Kaponay, a teenage traveller, in this article from The Guardian HERE and on her blog THERE.

She wrote the article to tell about her experience as a teenage traveller. The article is quite long but it is time for you to start reading longer texts. 

Read the beginning. The introduction is always the most important part. 

Read the headtitles and the first and last paragraphs in each parts.

Read the conclusion. This way, you will understand better the meaning of the article.

Who is she? What is so special about her life experience? Send me a short summary in French of what you have understood (no Deepl translations of course!).  

HERE, discover part of the novel, ‘It’s Only the Himalayas, and Other Tales of Miscalculation from an Overconfident Backpacker’ written by Sue Bedford in 2016. Go to chapter 1 page 13 to read the title of the chapter and get where the female characters are. Next go to page 17 and read from ‘The next day…’ to ‘far apart’. Do you understand this extreme adventure they experienced? Send me a short summary still in French of course!

FINAL TASK

You’ve travelled some place abroad, or maybe in your mother country, France. Write about a special day, a trek you’ve experienced, people you’ve met or anything about this adventure.

STEP ONE: MAKE NOTES ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY

• present your trip
• explain how you planned the journey
• give your first impressions
• tell an anecdote
• explain what you learnt from this trip

STEP TWO: WRITE YOUR TRAVEL DIARY ENTRIES

Use your notes to write your diary entries: 

• organise you ideas and use connecters
• add drawing, emoticons and photos
• DON’T SEND JPG DOCUMENTS! ONLY PDF OR ODT OR WORD. I’LL PUT YOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS ON THIS BLOG TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THEM. 

Here. A great series of lessons.

Allez ABSOLUMENT consacrer 25 mn de votre temps à regarder sa vidéo ICI. Lisez aussi les pages consacrées à ce chapitre dans votre manuel p.162 à p.166. Ainsi vous avez fait travailler toutes vos mémoires et mis toutes les chances de votre côté pour bien saisir et bien mémoriser cette leçon VITALE pour rédiger des textes niveau B1. 

WHAT IS A GAP YEAR?

Listen to this definition HERE.

Why should you take a gap year? HERE.

ORAL COMPREHENSION : ‘My gap year changed my life’

Now before listening to this MP3 audio document, anticipate by listing on your small training book possible questions you could ask to Melissa about her gap year. 

Now check and find the questions Melissa is asked.