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Posted in: 2nde - Freshmen 2
Hi guys,
today we first spoke about animal noises and their onomatopoeia. Here is what we said:
"to be written by Ameline"
Then we continued the class with the most probable explanations for the doctors' behaviour and I gave you my personal interpretation:
The most probable assumptions :
1st Doc
- He may be fed up with his job.
2nd Doc
- He may be nice with Jacob because doctors have to be kind with their
patients.
- He may understand how it is to be like Jacob (troubled and complicated past) and he may have grown up in a nice family.
Mr Hattais's assumptions :
1st Doc - He may be tired of the repetitive job he is doing. Checking 5,000
immigrants everyday is not very interesting.
2nd Doc - His parents or grand-parents may have been immigrants too, who arrived during the first wave of immigration between 1840-1860
Finally, we ended the class understanding the text and what the lexical fields of both fear and pain meant for Jacob. Here is what we wrote:
FEAR
- "Oh god" --> (he is afraid of going back Russia)
- (to) blurt out --> (say quickly)
- "but nothing wrong with my leg" --> (he lies because he's scared of
going back to Russia and he's frightened of the Cossacks)
- (to) sweat
- Nervously
- "How can I be calm" --> (He can't calm down = he is distressed)
- "They (will) kill me"
PAIN
- "Hunting accident" --> (He lies, it's not the truth)
- limp slightly
- bullet wound
- "I got shot"
- "He was wreck" --> (He is both in pain physically and
mentally)
- agony / apprehension --> (He is agonizing. He is in pain = it's tantalizing,
not because of his body here. He suffers mentally)
- ached a bit
HW:
- écrire la lettre de Jacob (à son arrivée à Ellis Island et avant qu'il ne passe les tests en racontant en priorité ce qui s'est passé dans son village). Vous
devez vous aider des fiches méthode et vocabulaire distribuées ce jour en incluant un minimum de 10 mots de vocabulaire empruntés parmi les différents thèmes proposés.
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