Friday, May 13th
Vincent, a short animation by Tim Burton on YouTube.
Vincent Malloy vs Vincent Price
Friday, April 1st
Exercises about Reported speech (aka indirect speech)
=> online activity to help you with exercise 4
Tuesday, March 22nd
Follow-up your pair-work about one of the 9 pictures from Carrie Reichardt by filling in this form.
Friday, March 18th
Tuesday, March 8th
Individual oral presentations
Irregular Verbs =>
- Connaître les verbes irrégulier est la meilleure façon d’améliorer ses notes en anglais, d’un, ça donne du vocabulaire, car comme par hasard beaucoup des verbes irréguliers sont aussi les verbes les plus usités de la langue anglaise, et de deux, on arrête de faire des fautes qui énervent les correcteurs…
- Avec la liste des verbes irréguliers sous forme d’un tableau Excel vous pouvez adopter différentes stratégies pour vous les faire rentrer dans la tête.
- Il est important d’aller vérifier et compléter la traduction des verbes dans un dictionnaire tel que WordReference.com, par exemple, vous connaissez le verbe THINK et dans le contexte de la liste des verbes irréguliers pour vous sa traduction c’est PENSER alors qu’il est aussi très utile sous la forme REFLECHIR!
- En utilisant WordReference.com rajoutez une colonne au tableau des verbes irréguliers, une colonne contenant au moins une phrase d’exemple utilisant chaque verbe en contexte.
=> => Using irregular verbs in a strange story about a very strange day
Friday, February 11th
Friday, February 4th
Fictions et réalités (axe 5)
Re-write the story using Morag’s point of view, and write it in the first person (300 words +/-10%)
- put yourself in her shoes an visualize the landscape (see photo 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.
- email your short-story to pierre@acobas.net by Friday, March 3rd or use the contact page or in my pigeonhole in the Teacher’s room.
Possible beginning: “One day, on a windy morning, while I was cooking some soup, I saw….“
Tuesday, February 1st
English for emails: skip some of the first items or tasks if you find them too easy and/or too repetitive but do as many units as you can!
Friday, January 28th
Fictions et réalités (axe 5)
Reading Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.
Friday, January 7th
Fictions et réalités (axe 5)
Reading Tartan, a short-story by George Mackay Brown.
Friday, December 17th
Fictions et réalités (axe 5)
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, December 10th
CO
Friday, December 3rd
Use this worksheet to comment upon this picture:
Photographer : Dulce Pinzon
Series : The real story of Superheroes
Source : dulcepinzon.com (other relevant material here)
Friday, November 26th
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
Friday, November 19th
Look at the comprehension questions and use them to create a story. Then give your story a title.
- Where did Tony first meet Sandra?
- How old was he? How old was she?
- Did Tony know how to dance?
- Who taught him?
- What was Sandra wearing at the dance?
- Who was she talking to in a dark corner of the disco?
- Who took Sandra home after the dance?
- Where did Tony and Sandra meet again two days later?
- How often did they see each other?
- What was Sandra’s father job?
- What was his attitude to Tony?
- How long was it before Tony and Sandra saw each other again?
- How was their meeting arranged?
- Why was Tony surprised when he saw Sandra?
- Did Sandra’s father change his mind in the end? Why?
Tuesday, November 16th
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/
Friday, November 12th
An overview of the English Tense System
HOMEWORK to be handed in by Friday, November 12th
To watch The Circle, follow this link!
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. This review (250 words +/- 10% – please indicate it) is to be handed in the week after the Autumn holidays, simply paste the text in my contact page).
Friday, October 22nd
An overview of the English Tense System
Friday, October 15th
Written comprehension TEST : another extract from Trevor Noah’s book, do the exercise below and re-read the 2 other extracts.
Friday, October 8th
Listen carefully to the following sound file.
Friday, October 1st
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. |
HOMEWORK => Wednesday, September 29, fill in the following form about the extract from chapter 2 from Trevor Noah’s book.
Friday, September 24th
Friday, September 10th
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Axe 1 identity & Exchange)
Friday, September 3rd
General introduction
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (Axe 1 identity & Exchange)
