Hey,

today we first started the class with a little "If game" and here is what we wrote in our lesson copy books about it:

"Speaking" :  "If" Games :

IF + PRETERIT => WOULD + VERBE

• If I broke a vase while babysitting I would pay for it or I would accuse the baby.
• If I could become invisible, I would strike it rich because I would steal from people.
• If I could fly away this instant, I would go to the USA.
• If it rained everyday of my holiday, I would buy an umbrella and I would feel disappointed.

Then we continued the lesson with the study of a new text. You had to find who the characters were and what their characteristics were. Here is the chart that we began drawing about them:

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New Document : The Rolls-Royce:

The characters:

Joe (I): The narrator, an adult / a grown-up; => He remembers his childhood, when his father was about 50 (cf. "bits of white in his beard")

Peter (he): Joe's father,  he wanted a car when the narrator was young, more precisely a Rolls-Royce. He's dead now.

Moral Portrait :
- Melancholy
- poetic
Physical appearence :
- brown eyes
- tall
- thin
- moustache
- beard

Emily (she): Joe's mother

Friends (they): friends of Peter's

                                                              

Hey,

today you had to take a test about the gold rush. You will be able to watch and listen to the document again below:

"yet to be uploaded"

There was also a part where you had to complete your irregular verb test.

Finally I gave you the script of the document and you had to highlight the answers from your test in that document. I'll be giving you the results on Thursday afternoon.

Hey,

today we first did a quick warm up about "illegal downloading". Here is what we said about the document we studied: 

 
The document deals with illegal downloading,  i.e.when people download music from the Internet for free / without paying.
Lily Allen has threatened to quit the music industry if people continue to download her music for free.
In London, with Pink Floyd and RadioHead, they have made a proposal to the government: if the police knows someone downloads illegally, they will first send 2 letters of warning and then slow down the hacker's Internet connection. 

Voc:

(to) slow down = ralentir

(to) shut down = fermer

You can listen to the document again here:

Then, we finished studying the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 and here is what we said about it:

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (the end):

Many words refer to the event which happened in 1972.
=> The "broken bottles" evoke the artisanal bomb [b].
=> The "dead-end streets" show that the conflict in Ireland was a civil war.
=> The rhythm of the drums alludes to the heart beats  of people and recalls their fear.

Comment évoquer quelque chose ?

- it alludes to ...
- it refers to ...
- it evokes Ø
- it recalls Ø
- it stands for ...
- it symbolizes ...

HW: you will have to read the song aloud and you will get a grade for it. Get ready!

Hey,

today we first did a quick recap of what we had said about the picture with the Rolls Royce.

Then we moved on with a new document about Mark. You can listen to his conversation with a friend after he came back to England from the States:

Here is what we said about this document:

Audio Document: Gold Rush

The document deals with Mark, an Englishman who travelled to the USA and visited many monuments.
He went to Niagara Falls and the West Coast. He particularly liked California and more precisely, San Francisco.
He has even found a gold nugget. In the 19th century, gold diggers went to California to become rich / to strike it rich, between 1848 and 1850.
San Francisco's population increased (= went up) very fast; there were a lot of inhabitants. Consequently, violence also increased and the price of food (particularly water) went up.
The "Gold Fever" was brutal and violent. It was dangerous and life was expensive. 

Hey,

today you first had a small test on irregular verbs. Then we moved on with the beginning of our new sequence. We first commented on this picture:

Here is what we said about it:

The Rolls Royce in the gilded / golden cage

The document is a drawing. It represents a car in a gilded cage. There are 2 groups of people who are looking at it on both sides of the cage.
The couple on the right looks rich. The man may be a business man who is going to buy the car. He is carrying a briefcase with maybe a lot of cash in it.
On the contrary, on the left, a man is standing alone. He looks sad and disappointed. His shoulders are slumped. He would like to buy this car but he can't afford it.

We also imagined what the character on the left could be saying. Here it reads:

He might be saying:
-> "Wow! This car is so beautiful! What a pity / too bad, I can't afford it"
-> "I wish I was / were rich"
-> "I wish I had a lot of money"
-> "I wish I could afford this car"

Grammar:

L'expression du souhait avec "I wish" => Suivi du prétérit, dit "prétérit modal" car cela ne renvoie pas à un événement passé mais hypothétique (hypothèse). Le changement par rapport au prétérit classique est le verbe BE qui fait "were" à toutes les personnes.

HW: for next time, you need to be able to comment on this picture again, i.e. learn your lesson.