Monday, January 17th
Talk to me 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 extremely short video clip on your phone
- => you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.
Monday, January 10th and Wednesday 12th
The modals (simple chart to be completed).
Reformulez les phrases anglaises suivantes en employant un auxiliaire de modalité.
1. Certainly, Tina knows that smoking is forbidden
Tina must know that smoking is forbidden.
2. Certainly, Tina knew that smoking was forbidden.
Tina must have known 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.
The Modals: online exercises
Thursday, January 6th
Monday, January 3rd 2022 and Wednesday 5th
The modals (simple chart to be completed with elements from the complete chart below).
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.
Monday, December 12th and Wednesday 15th
HOMEWORK to be handed in by Friday, January 7th
The aim behind watching The Circle (the link opens to IMDB.com – the American equivalent of AlloCiné.fr) is to write a film review about it, here you may find a few tips about writing a film review and here too (chapitre Movie Review Outline). This review (400 words +/- 10% – please indicate it) is to be handed in the week after the Xmas holidays, simply paste the text in my contact page).
The two interviews below are here only if you want to quote Emma Watson in your film review.
If you need to watch The Circle again, it’s here.
At its most basic your review can be organized like this :
Thursday, December 9th
If you need to watch The Circle again at home, it’s here.
Monday, December 6th and Wednesday, 8th
Almost a dictation, about airpods, the first commercial when they got released/launched.
The voice is that of Jony Ive, long-time Apple designer and one of the most celebrated designer today.
Thursday, December 2nd
Wednesday, December 1st
- Read this text which makes abundant use of the passive.
- Do this exercise and this one too
- Finish the worksheet
Thursday, November 25th
Monday, November 22nd and Wednesday, 24th
Un article en français pour du “background” sur le nouveau sujet, ou téléchargez le fichier pdf.
Read the online graphic novel Madaya Mom, if the link doesn’t work download the pdf file.
Thursday, November 18th
CO
Thursday, December 16th – Gr.A, Gr.B
The oral presentation will take place as a one to one session with the teacher and will start in January.
- 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, there are no slides during the exam)
- => you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.
Monday, November 15th and Wednesday, 17th
Quizzes about your relationship to technologies:
The quizzes are not interesting in themselves but they offer plenty of useful vocabulary and colloquialism often used to talk about the use of tech!
Monday, November 8th and Wednesday, 10th
finish the exercise about Reported speech (aka indirect speech)
=> online activity to help you with exercise 4
Holiday reading: a short-story, The Gun by Philip K. Dick
- read online
- read on your phone/tablet/e-reader
- listen to the audiobook (file here or below)
(material found on Gutenberg.org – Project Gutenberg, a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
Thursday, October 21st
Reported speech (aka indirect speech)
Wednesday, October 20th and Monday 18th
Take some notes while doing the exercise, don’t write EVERYTHING but write SOMETHING!
Thursday, October 14th
Written comprehension TEST : another extract from Trevor Noah’s book, re-read the 3 extracts studied in class.
Monday, October 11th and Wednesday, 13th
Axe 1 Identités et échanges
Photographer : Dulce Pinzon
Series : The real story of Superheroes
Source : dulcepinzon.com (other relevant material here)
=>=>=>=>=> fill in the following form to comment upon the photo
Tuesday, October 7th
Listen carefully to the following sound file.
Monday, October 4th and Wednesday, 6th
Listen carefully to the following sound file and do the fill in the blanks exercise.
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
Thursday, September 30th
1 | What we have here is an extract from Trevor Noah’s autobiography entitled “Born a Crime”. |
| 2 | The setting of this autobiography is South Africa. |
| 3 | The events described in this extract occurred during the time when Apartheid was in place in South Africa. |
| 4 | The main characters depicted are Trevor Noah and his parents, Patricia and Robert. |
| 5 | The main topic here is the racist political regime that was put into place in South-Africa in the second half of the 20th Century. |
| 6 | The first part from line 1 to line 9 concerns Trevor Noah himself and the circumstances of his birth in a country which prohibits relations with a person of another race. The second one from line 10 to line 16 explains why giving birth to a mixed person is a crime in a society built on institutionalized racism. The third paragraph from line 17 to line 34 is focused on the historical evolution of the segregative system in South Africa. The last paragraph from line 35 to line 55 deals with the insanity of the enforcement of these new laws. There were special police squads to control and prevent sexual relations between people of different races. These police squads were violent and treated differently white and black people. And finally Trevor Noah explains that it didn’t prevent his fearless mother to do what she wanted, that is having a mixed child with a white man. |
| 7 | By writing his autobiography Trevor Noah wants to explain Apartheid and to make us understand what it truly was. |
| 8 | What strikes me the most about this autobiography is its title “Born a Crime” and the fact that Trevor’s parents were considered criminals for having given birth to him. |
| 9 | Apartheid reminds me of slavery and segregation in The USA. |
| 10 | To conclude Apartheid was one of the worst case of institutionalized racism, fortunately it came to an end in 1994, but it must be remembered. |
Monday, September 27th and Wednesday, September 29th
fill in the following form about the extract from chapter 2 from Trevor Noah’s book.
Thusrday, September 23rd
Wednesday, September 22nd Gr2
Use these handouts as reference : Simple Tense Chart / Complete Tense Chart
- https://www.englishclub.com/esl-quizzes/grammar-3-for-since.htm
- http://englishmaven.org/HP6/Present%20Tense%20Final%20Exam.htm
- http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/at050-my-piano-lessons.htm
- http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses-19.htm
- http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses18.htm
- http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses17.htm
- http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all_tenses3.htm
- http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs29practicetest.htm
- http://examtimequiz.com/english-aptitude-test-on-tenses/
Monday, September 20th Gr1
An overview of the English Tense System
Thursday, September 16th
Axe 1 Identités et échanges – Extract from Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Monday, September 13th Gr1 and Wednesday 15th Gr2
>>>>> for next week, get ready to talk a little bit about you to introduce yourself to the rest of the class.
Thursday, September 9th
Axe 1 Identités et échanges – Extract from Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Monday, September 6th Gr1 / Wednesday, September 8th Gr2
General introduction and a short history of the English Language.
