TG-1 2025-26

Friday, February 27th

Read and listen to the rest of Chapter one (below) and read these notes about The Hobbit

Tuesday, February 24tH

Bilbo The Hobbit – Chap1

Thror’s map as designed by Tolkien for the first edition of The Hobbit

 

from line 35 to line 72

from line 72 to line 109

from line 109 to line 152

from line 154 to line 199

from line 201 to the end of the extract (and more)

Friday, February 6th

Finsih the work about Carrie Reichardt + Tale, you may send both to me using this contact form (copy and paste) or my email pierre@acobas.net

Tuesday, February 3rd

Carrie Reichardt, artist and craftivist, You may have a look at her Instagram account.

Exercise: Carrie Reichardt, follow the link and choose one picture to study.

Friday, January 23rd and 30th

Telling a Tale: WORKSHEET 

Friday, January 16th

Telling a Tale: WORKSHEET 

Friday, January 9th

Telling a Tale: WORKSHEET 

Tuesday, January 6th

Telling a Tale: WORKSHEET

Friday, December 12th

WATCH: Vincent, a short animation by Tim Burton

RESOURCES: VINCENT (The Script)     //   Vincent Malloy vs Vincent Price   //   Tim Burton’s Fandom Webstite

TASK: If you feel comfortable writing in English and inspired write a short film review abour Vincent here OR if you feel like being guided write about Vincent by filling in the following form

 

Tuesday, December 9th

Extract from The Drowning Woman

Now answer the QUIZ

Friday, December 5th

Orals + Reported Speech => exercise & correction

Tuesday, December 2nd

Reported Speech

FRIDAY, November 28th

Orals +

See last week’s entry about The story of an Hour 

  1. do the revised QUIZ
  2. watch this video
  3. read the study-guide
  4. take some notes

Tuesday, November 25th

Friday, November 21st

The Story of an Hour first appeared in Vogue in 1894:

The Story of an Hour (link to the PDF file of the short-story)

by Kate Chopin (link to her entry in Wikipedia)

QUIZ: The Story of an Hour

To go further: Study-guide

Friday, November 14th

Orals +

  1. read LBR Blog – Mamdani at the Crossroads by Niela Orr

2. answer here

 

Friday, November 7th

now watch this other video and answer these questions.

Friday, November 4th

The Modals – simple chart

The Modals

1. Vous avez dû rêver. You MUST HAVE dreamed.

2. J’ai dû changer un pneu. I had to change a tyre

3. Est-ce qu’ils ont pu le vendre? Could they sell it? Were they able to sell it? Did they manage to sell it?

4. Il a fallu qu’elle prenne le train de sept heures. She had to take the 7 o’clock train.

5. C’était dangereux, il aurait pu se casser un bras. It was dangerous, he could have broken his arm.

6. Si elle avait dix-huit ans, il pourrait voter. If she was/were 18 she could vote.

7. La tâche des enquêteurs pourrait être difficile. The investigator’s task MIGHT/COULD/MAY be difficult.

8. ils n’ont pas dû s’en apercevoir. They MUSTN’T HAVE realized.

9. Si tu les avais cassés, tu aurais dû les remplacer. If you had broken them, you SHOULD HAVE TO replace them.

10. J’aurais pu l’acheter, mais j’ai préféré garder l’argent. I COULD HAVE BOUGHT it but I prefered to keep the money.

11. Ils auraient dû s’en apercevoir avant. They SHOULD HAVE REALIZED it before.

12. Il se pourrait que leur équipe gagne la coupe du monde. Their team MIGHT WIN the world cup.

13. Elle a dû recevoir ma lettre. She MUST HAVE received my letter.

14. Il faut qu’il parte avant la fin de la réunion. He HAS TO GO before the end of the meeting.

15. Ce n’est pas la peine que tu restes. You DON’T NEED TO stay

16. Il ne faut pas conduire si vite. You SHOULDN’T DRIVE so fast.

17. Ça ne doit pas être très difficile. It MUSTN’T BE too difficult.

18. Ce n’était pas la peine que tu te presses. You DIDN’T NEED TO HURRY.

 

Friday, October 17th

Oral presentation about:

  • something you like
  • something you know about
  • something which can be talked about in English
    1. => search the web IN ENGLISH for information and vocabulary,
    2. 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
    3. => compile a long list of elements (nouns, adjectives,  VERBS, phrases, sentences etc. Store this list ONLINE.
    4. => prepare your presentation using the collected material
    5. => you may bring some pictures or a very short video clip on your phone (but no slides)
    6. => you need about 300 words to talk for a few minutes.

Tuesday, October 14th

The Modals – simple chart

The Modals

1. Certainly, Tina knows that smoking is forbidden

Tina MUST KNOW that …

2. Certainly, Tina knew that smoking was forbidden.

Tina MUST HAVE KNOWN that…

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

Tina MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN that…

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

The Masked Avengers MUST HAVE BEEN …

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

Brian CAN’T HAVE FORGOTTEN …

6. Perhaps she is right after all.

She MAY BE right after all

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

The fire MUST HAVE STARTED…

 

Friday, October 10th

Test

Friday, October 3rd

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.

Tuesday, September 29th

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.

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

Friday, September 26th

  1. Compound adjectives
  2. Compound nouns
  3. Word formation
  4. Howlers – most common mistakes to avoid
  5. numbers and figures (to train yourself at home use this)

Tuesday, September 23rd

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

Friday, September  19th 

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

    1. http://englishmaven.org/HP6/Present%20Tense%20Final%20Exam.htm
    2. http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses-19.htm
    3. http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses18.htm
    4. http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all-tenses17.htm
    5. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t139-all-tenses.htm
    6. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t138-all-tenses.htm
    7. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t137-all-tenses.htm
    8. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t135-all-tenses.htm
    9. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t133-all-tenses.htm
    10. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all_tenses1.htm
    11. https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all_tenses2.htm
    12. http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/all_tenses3.htm
    13. http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/at050-my-piano-lessons.htm
    14. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs29practicetest.htm

 

Friday, September 5th

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!

Tuesday, September 2nd

General introduction & a short history of the English Language