1G2 2022/23 – ACOBAS.net

=> search the web IN ENGLISH for information and vocabulary,
Google is mainly going to give you results in French, try another search engine called Duckduckgo which can be easily switched to another language and location => https://duckduckgo.com/settings
=> compile a long list of elements (nouns, adjectives, VERBS, phrases, sentences etc. Store this list ONLINE.
=> prepare your presentation using the collected material
=> you may bring some pictures or a very short video clip on your phone (but no slides)
=> you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.

Thursday, January 12th

1.) exercise 4 with correction

2.) Simply read the following instructions to determine which subject you are going to work on.

Don’t do the exercise now!

An oral presentation about:

something you like
something you know about
something which can be talked about in English

=> search the web IN ENGLISH for information and vocabulary,
Google is mainly going to give you results in French, try another search engine called Duckduckgo which can be easily switched to another language and location => https://duckduckgo.com/settings
=> compile a long list of elements (nouns, adjectives, VERBS, phrases, sentences etc. Store this list ONLINE.
=> prepare your presentation using the collected material
=> you may bring some pictures or a very short video clip on your phone (but no slides)
=> you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.

Thursday, January 5th

Friday, January 6th

Reported Speech

with my very best wishes for 2023

Reported Speech

Pair work from Thursday, December 8th, to Friday, December 16th.

Writing a story using the worksheet and elements found below.

Thursday, December 1st

Writing a story using a worksheet to collect all the useful elements and following the traditional pattern (12 stages) presented in the video above and summed up below:

Let’s take a look at the first episode of the Tales of The Jedi (Season 1) and check how it follows this pattern.

Friday, November 25th

Tony and Sandra, exercise, verbs, fill-in-the-blanks

1didn’t want
2took
3should not work / needed
4had just turned
5was
6enjoyed
7was
8had
9noticed
10joined
11knew
12invited
13 was
14 accepted
15 didn’t really know
16 had never done
17 told
18watched
19 were
20disappeared
21found
22 talked
23 took
24 went up
25 offered
26 accepted
27 left
28 asked
29 began
30 thought
31 didn’t approve
32 asked
33 thought
34 was
35 should work
36 could be discussed
38 did
39wanted
40stopped seeing
41 was
42 was
43 was
44 was
45 managed
46 was
47 was
48 hurried out
49 was
50 was
51 managed
52 was
53 was
54 did not want
55 realized
56 loved
57 understood
58 had
59 felt
60 gave
61 got
62 lived
63 is

Thursday, November 24th

Friday, November 18th

The modals, online exercises:

Exeercise 1 to 3 are very basic, do them only if you want to revise the basics!

The modals (the simple chart needs to be completed with elements from the exercises and the complete chart below)

Thursday, November 10th

The modals, an introductory chart Download

The modals (complete chart) with examples and exercises Download

Reformulez les phrases anglaises suivantes en employant un auxiliaire de modalité.

1. Certainly, Tina knows that smoking is forbidden

2. Certainly, Tina knew that smoking was forbidden.

3. It is possible that Tina didn’t know that smoking was forbidden.

4. The Masked Avengers were probably the best band at the concert.

5. Brian forgot his own address. That’s incredible.

6. Perhaps she is right after all.

7. It is probable that the fire started in the kitchen.

Thursday, October 20th

Watching The Circle

some facts about The Circle (the link opens to IMDB.com – the American equivalent of AlloCiné.fr)

Friday, October 14th

Test

Thursday, October 13th

Write about the picture below using this worksheet and some vocabulary help.

Friday, October 7th

you need to work with 2 windows side-by-side (one for the sound, the other for the exercise, or you may listen to the sound file on your smartphone)

The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy – American accent + extract from a spy novel – you may download the mp3 file or listen to it directly below.

and/or

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling – British accent – extract from the first chapter of the first volume – you may download the mp3 file or listen to it directly below.

Thursday, October 6th

Write about the picture below using this worksheet and some vocabulary help.

Friday, September 30th

Take a look at this page about Irregular Verbs.

Use these handouts as reference : Simple Tense Chart / Complete Tense Chart

Thursday, September 29th

Tenses: some fill-in the blanks exercises Download

Friday, September 23rd

Re-write the story using Morag’s point of view, and write it in the first person (350 words +/-10%)

put yourself in her shoes an visualize the landscape (see photos below) and the scene (the Vikings coming ashore)
collect vocabulary and information in the short-story which you are going to recycle in your own version.
use this form to copy and paste your short-story and send it by Friday, October 7th.

Thursday, September 22nd

Reading Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.

Thursday, September 15th and Friday 16th

tenses-simple-chart Download

Wait for the bus, the slides used in class Download

Tenses, an overview Download

Friday, September 9th

Reading Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.

Thursday, September 8th

“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reading Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.

Visualizing the scene by drawing elements. The scene takes place in the north of Scotland, near Durness and it looks like this when the weather is good!

Friday, September 2nd

General introduction and a short history of the English Language.

=> homework: watch the video