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Howlers => ces erreurs récurrentes qui font hurler les correcteurs. Si vous faites certaines de ces erreurs, notez-les, de manière à vous créer une liste d’erreurs à ne plus refaire. Une liste de ce genre est particulièrement utile pour se relire lors d’un devoir, ou fournit aussi une liste d’expressions intéressantes à placer lors d’un oral (ou d’un écrit) pour impressionner l’examinateur.

Work placement oral presentations

Wednesday, March 9th

Writing a letter of complaint

Work placement oral presentations

Tuesday, March 8th

Start with the test here.

Work placement oral presentations

Wednesday, March 2nd

=> see March 1st and if you are ready, take a look at what is below)

The Second Renaissance Part I & II, (no subtitles in this version but the transcript is here) from the Animatrix, a prequel to the Matrix trilogy, take also a look at The Three Laws of Robotics which are very relevant to this subject.

It is also a good opportunity to ponder this quotation by Stanley Kubrik the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a famous science fiction film from 1968 based on the writings of Arthur C. Clarke.

One of the fascinating questions that arises in envisioning computers more intelligent than men is at what
point machine intelligence deserves the same consideration as biological intelligence. Once a computer
learns by experience as well as by its original programming, and once it has access to much more
information than any number of human geniuses might possess, the first thing that happens is that you
don’t really understand it anymore, and you don’t know what it’s doing or thinking about. You could be
tempted to ask yourself in what way is machine intelligence any less sacrosanct than biological
intelligence, and it might be difficult to arrive at an answer flattering to biological intelligence.
in Stanley Kubrick Directs, 1971.

Tuesday, March 1st

For next week prepare a detailed account of your work placement to be able to explain to me what you did and where, with the main focus on your project. Be ready to talk for about five minutes and to answer a couple of questions.

Wednesday, December 15th

Le dossier et les instructions concernent un oral de 20 minutes, nous allons le transformer en un écrit de 55 minutes.

1) Présentation en anglais de l’analyse du dossier

(120 words +/- 10% – in English)

2) Rédaction d’un email au manager donnant des conseils à propos du sujet décrit dans la mise en situation.

(120 words +/- 10% – in English)

dossier : http://langues.ac-dijon.fr/IMG/pdf/sujet_zero_no3.pdf

video du dossier : http://langues.ac-dijon.fr/IMG/mp4/sujet_zero_no3.mp4

Utilisez le formulaire de contact pour faire un copié-collé de votre travail en fin d’heure et me l’expédier.

Tuesday, December 14th

Make a detailed list of specifications (specs) for each of these 7 gadgets and send it to me.

Wednesday, December 8th

a kind of follow-up about “green IT”

2. Browse WIRED.com until you find a long article that catches your attention and read it!

Tuesday, December 7th

sujet ORAL zero n°2 (PDF – 426 ko) take a look at part 2 and prepare some notes

you may find this page helpful: https://www.pugetsound.edu/technology-services/green-computing

Wednesday, December 1st

sujet ORAL zero n°2 (PDF – 426 ko)
vidéo sujet ORAL zero n°2 (MPEG4 – 22.9 Mo)

Send me part 1 in a written format

ressources : fiche d’aide à la présentation de documents

Tuesday, November 23rd and Wednesday, 24th

Compilez une liste d’expressions et d’éléments à utiliser lors de l’examen à partir de ces conseils pour newbies :

ADVICE
10 Things to Look for When Buying a Laptop
The top 10 things to consider when buying a new laptop
How to Pick an Operating System
Which Operating System Should You Choose for Your Next PC
Top Ten Safe Computing Tips
50+ Internet Security Tips & Tricks from Top Experts
Ways to Access Your Files From Anywhere
Getting started with your first computer: all the vocabulary you need to talk to a newbie!

EXPRESSING ADVICE IN ENGLISH
Top 10 Ways To Give Advice In English
Making Suggestions and Giving Advice in English

Tuesday, November 16th

26 Computers and Internet Magazines (October 2021) choose one to download and read

+ oral presentations

Tuesday, November 9th

26 Computers and Internet Magazines (October 2021) choose one to download and read

Wednesday, October 20th

l’examen oral

cadrage des sujets (PDF – 394.6 ko)
grille d’évaluation (PDF – 661.4 ko)
sujet zero n°1 (PDF – 424.6 ko)
vidéo sujet zero n°1 (MPEG4 – 25.8 Mo)

Tuesday, October 19th, Wednesday, 13th and Tuesday, 12th

Choose a subject for an oral personal presentation (after the autumn holidays) :

something you like
something you know about
something related to new technologies (doesn’t ned to be specifically about computers and computing)
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 add some pictures or a very short video clip (but no slides) to help your audience focus and understand
=> you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.

Wednesday, October 6th

Check the script of the drone video if you haven’t done so yet.

Take some notes while doing the following exercises, don’t write EVERYTHING but write SOMETHING! If you find an exercise too easy, just jump to the next one, if you are bored, tell me 🙂

Tuesday, October 5th

Let’s fly!

Watch the video below and in another window do the “fill in the blanks” exercise

At the end of the class I will give you the password to this link to the video with subtitles (dronesarefun)

Wednesday, September 29th

Describe the picture above by filling in this form.

Tuesday, September 28th

Watch the following video (watch the video once WITHOUT the subtitles (CC = closed captioning), then a second time WITH the subtitles. If the video is still difficult to understand, you may download the CC using https://www.nitrxgen.net/youtube_cc/ and then copy and paste the text to Deepl.com.

2. read the article from which the video was extracted and take notes about IoT.

Wednesday, September 22nd

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.