Hey guys,

today we first watched the very beginning of the first season of "Breaking Bad", an American TV show that Holly advises you to watch.

You can watch the whole episode below and get to know the final answer about who the main character is, where he is, what's just happened and what will happen next... For Thursday, you need to watch the whole video and tell us which one of your hypotheses were correct:

Here are your assumptions:

He is a criminal or a crazy man -

Yes:

- he is carrying a dangerous substance and it's illegal.

- he may have killed someone since he is bearing a gun (however in America, it's not illegal to possess a firearm)

-> he is going to be arrested by the police / he's going to escape to New Mexico (or Mexico) running through the desert

-> he is about to commit suicide since he is crying when he talks to the camera (to his family). He says goodbye at the end and he is holding a gun

-> he is going to fight off the police when they arrive

No:

- he has been kidnapped and he killed his kidnappers. It was self-defense.

- he has just discovered a military secret

- he is a scientist who is carrying out an illegal experiment

-> he is going to tell us the whole story (he is the hero)

-> he has just escaped from a mental / psychiatric hospital

Then you had to work on film genres and fragments from a movie poster.

Here is the spidergram that you came up with:

HW:

- pour la prochaine fois, vous devez arriver en classe avec le poster complet autour de l'image qui vous a été remise et un titre pour ce film.

- N'oubliez pas que certains d'entre vous doivent également préparer la saynète (adaptation du texte "A Year in the Merde" de façon théâtrale pour Lundi --- RDV à l'amphithéâtre pour la suite de cette séquence "Théâtre")

Hey guys,

today was the last lesson before your test so we made sure the lesson was understood by everyone. We first worked on how to narrate the 2nd page of the comic book and here is what we wrote:

"to be written by Mounir"

Finally, we continued the class with some revision about phonetics. Here are the basic words you need to know and associate with a symbol:

"to be written by Mounir"

HW:

- pour vendredi, révisez pour le test. Faites-vous des fiches et soyez prêt à parler de la leçon (cf. textes / images étudiées), vocabulaire, ... = réfléchir aux critères donnés en classe et vérifier que l'on sait faire ce qui est nécessaire pour remplir la tâche demandée.

- pour mardi, trouvez pour chaque symbole phonétique 3 mots que vous connaissez bien et qui peuvent rentrer dans le tableau.

Hey guys,

today we first corrected your homework with the different types of humour that there is in your text and here is what you finally wrote from the board:

Finally, we did some theater. One of our objectives will be to turn the text we are studying into a play. Hopefully, we'll be able to finish this next week.

HW:

Ne pas oublier le devoir de fin de séquence sur le thème de stéréotypes. Révisez bien votre cours et faites vos fiches de vocabulaire, grammaire, méthode, culture, et phonétique pour vous y préparer.

Hey guys,

after taking a short vocabulary test, we moved on with the lesson; first recapitulating what we had said last time and then continuing with the correction of your homework adding structure to your oral interventions.

Here is what we said:

"to be written by Seda"

Here are the important elements that you need to concentrate on when describing a picture:

"to be written by Seda"

HW:

- apprendre sa leçon

- préparer le test de vendredi

Hey guys,

today you got to know Holly, your English assistant who's going to teach you classes every other week (on A week). I hope you liked what we did and to discover what her life is like and her personality.

Next time, we'll have a contest to see if you remember what's been said during the lesson... who will win...? Will you forget or will you show you have a good memory?

Until then, I'll see you tomorrow for the last lesson before your final test on the Stereotype sequence.

HW:

- ne pas oublier de classer des citations du texte en fonction du genre d'humour qu'elles expriment. Vous devez trouver au moins une citation pour chaque type d'humour mentionné et expliquer pourquoi.

Hey guys,

don't forget to turn in your super hero poster or I will really get PISSED OFF and you don't want to see that.

In the first part of the lesson, we corrected your homework both about description and narration. Here is what we finally wrote in your copybooks:

HW:

- être capable de présenter à l'oral n'importe quelle vignette (ne prendre que des notes) et l'histoire dans la 2ème page.

- apprendre les nouvelles structures vues en classe

- contrôle de vocabulaire sur la localisation

Hey guys,

today we first watched a silly British show as a warm up and you had to understand the situation and why it was funny, then try to find what could define British humour.

You can watch the document below:

Here is what we said about it:

Finally, we talked about the text and we tried to see what types of humour you could find in the text and explain it.

Types of humour in the text "In France this is considered very English":

- Bernard's accent -> exaggeration

 - Repetition of monosyllables

- Grotesque situation

HW:

- finir le repérage dans le texte en terme de critique: identifier les passages humoristiques, déterminer le type d'humour et expliquer.

Hey guys,

today we first worked on how to create an atmosphere starting just from your senses and impressions and our little experiments... ;)  Creepy, wasn't it?

Here is what we finally said:

Narrating starting from your sensations and feelings


The desert island:
 

Arriving/landing: by boat, by airplane.

I came to the desert island by plane but it crashed into the ocean. I felt cold and wet.
 

Reaching the beach: I managed to reach the beach walking in the sand. It felt like biscuits under my feet.

 
Getting into the forest: I felt lost and exhausted. I was injured/hurt/wounded. My eyes hurt. I felt as if I were blind, but I knew I was in the forest. It felt dry and like twigs under my feet.

 
In the forest, first meeting with the natives: I was taken by people to their camp. They fed me soup with mysterious ingredients. It felt as if I were eating human eye balls and a warm beating heart.





Structure: Exprimer une émotion/sensation
    

The 5 senses:
Touch -> to feel
Smell -> to smell
Taste -> to taste
Hearing -> to sound
Sight -> to look … + adj
                               + like + nom
                               + as if + phrase (prétérit modal)

Ex: It feels strange and mysterious
       It smells like vinegar
       It tastes as if it were dead fish

  
Then, after revealing the real objects from the bag, we continued the lesson with a recap of your homework about Joseph Conrad and we began to study an extract from one of his biggest success: "Heart of Darkness". 

Here is what we have begun to say about it:

Heart of Darkness:

 
Type of narrative: 1st person narrative. The point of view is Marlow’s. It’s an internal focalization.
 

Who: Marlow and his men (pilgrims) + the natives.
Where: On a river, into the forest, in the wild/wilderness (a wild dense jungle)
When: At night
 

What: Marlow is looking for a friend (Kurtz) who may be lost/ may have been kidnapped. As he sails up the river, he feels as if someone were watching and following him. In this imagination, it sounds as if the natives were preparing a ceremony/sacrifice. Because of the heavy foliage and the dark, he feels as if he were blind.
    Cf. : « bodies swaying »      Sense of sight
            « eyes rolling »            Sense of sight
            « feet stomping »        Sense of hearing


Additonal vocabulary:

A steamer
A steam-ship
A roof
(to) sail = to go by boat
(to) manage to = (to) succeed in ...

HW:

- pour mercredi, vous devez répondre aux questions 2 à 5 de la fiche guide de compréhension du texte.

- faites-vous des fiches de lexique par thème. Je vais bientôt ramasser des classeurs pour vérifier que le travail est fait correctement.

Documents:

- Téléchargez le texte ici.

- Téléchargez la fiche de compréhension ici.