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Hey guys,
today we continued our crazy adventure through the realm of "drama". Let's hope you'll perform great things next time.
Today, among other things, you learnt some important stuff such as:
- Staging
- Acting
-> performing
We'll continue next time we are in groups. Until then, have fun!
Mr Hattais.
Hey guys,
today you took your final test about stereotypes. I hope you understood the document alright.I'll try to correct your papers over the week end.
HW:
- vous devez corriger et mettre en page l'article de journal que je vous ai rendu ce jour et dont le sujet était:
"The trial of the 2 girls against McDonald's has just ended. Write an article about the verdict." (200 words)
-> Connectez-vous au site MadMagz en utilisant et l'identifiant et le mot de passe donnés en
cours. Créer votre article. Une fois que tout le monde aura fait son article, nous aurons alors un vrai magazine en ligne auquel vous aurez tous accès. Vous pourrez donc lire le travail de tout
le monde au final et ainsi apprendre grâce à vos camarades.
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,
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,
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 warmed up with the way I was dressed and you had to find the reason why. Here are the different suggestions you made:
a suit (to dress up)
Then we continued talking about the text. We clarified the role of each character or group of characters and we explained what the problems were:
The roles of the characters:
Hey guys,
today we first watched a document about Freeganism. You can watch again below:
Here is what we said about it:
Then we ended the class with understanding the situation in the text very briefly. We answered typical WH- questions about the characters, the setting, and the action.
We didn't have time to write notes about that part but we'll do it next time.
HW: learn your lesson and be ready to talk about the text.
Hey guys,
today we first spoke about this trailer of an American programme called "Food Revolution". You can watch it again below (and the 1st part if you're interested in watching more):
Here is what we said about it:
Warm Up :
The document is the trailer / preview for an America programme entitled "Food Revolution". It is based on the cliché / broad generalization that America is a fat country . It targets one city in West Virginia .
Then we continued the lesson with making a summary and comment about the picture of the stereotypical Frenchman. Here is what we said:
- Pour Mercredi 09/11: lire le texte "In France this is considered very English..." et répondre aux WH-questions (who, where, when, what ... about).
- Apprendre sa leçon et compléter ses fiches de vocabulaire.
Hey guys,
today we first made a quick recap about the Canadian stereotypes dealt with in the document "I am Canadian" and we continued to analyse it. Here is what we said about it:
Canadians stereotypes:
Canadians are said to / believed to / thought to... + BV
- be called Sally / Jimmy / Suzy (but it's not true)
- have a president (prime minister)
- speak American (French & English)
- have a redneck accent
- be travelers and backpackers
(cf. they can sew the country flag on their backpacks)
- be hockey fans (1st nation of hockey)
- Canada is believed to be a peaceful country
Additional vocabulary:
- The animal emblem = the beaver (a proud / noble animal)
- a backpack
- a lumberjack / woodcutter = long beard, ax, tartan shirt / chequered shirt
Then we continued the lesson with the analysis of the illustration going with the last text from the sequence. Here is what we started to say about it:
Stereotypes of the Frenchman as seen by strangers / foreigners / tourists:
- Physical characteristics: ...
- Clothes: ...
- Mental characteristics: ...
- Attitude: ...
HW:
- Finir de remplir la trace écrite avec les informations vues en classe (dans les 4 catégories déterminées, il vous faudra mettre au moins 4 ou 5 idées). Je vérifierai les classeurs pour contrôler le homework.
- Préparez vous à un contrôle de vocabulaire sur la séquence 2 la semaine suivante.
- Dès l'étude du texte terminée, vous aurez un contrôle sur cette séquence. N'attendez pas la dernière minute pour faire vos fiches de grammaire, de vocabulaire, de
culture, ... etc.
Hey guys,
today we first worked as a warm up on French stereotypes. Here is what we said:
Warm up : French stereotypes
French people
are said to eat cheese a lot
are believed to like eating frogs
are thought to be crazy about snails
Of course it's a stereotype. When tourists come to France, they can these dishes on the menu. Snails can be served as starters or an entree but most people in France don't eat any. They think it's horrible and it must taste gooey.
The French as seen by the British:
- Fashion:
The French are thought to like luxury brands.
The French are said to be addicted to luxury brand.
- Racism:
The French are believed to be racist.
- Hygiene:
The French are said to never take a shower.
The French are believed to stink.
- Man/Woman relationship:
French men are said to think they are superior to women.
They are thought to be male chauvinistic.
=> These are stereotypes / clichés / preconceived ideas / broad generalizations because of course it's not true for everyone.
Then we continued the lesson with a recap of what had said in the previous lesson and we tried to understand more things from the document "I am Canadian"
Here is what we finally wrote:
In the video, the speaker is very enthusiastic and proud of his country.
He denies some of the stereotypes about Canadians:
He's not a lumberjack or a fur trader even if Canadians are said to be so.
He doesn't have a redneck accent.
He doesn't own a dog sleigh or live in an igloo.
He doesn't eat blubber.
But he does love hockey and his country flag with a maple leaf on it (the country's emblem).
HW:
- apprendre la leçon et le nouveau vocabulaire.
- terminer les phrases de la trace écrite (en commençant par "even if")
Hey guys,
today we first made a quick recap of what could be said about the picture of the two tourists from last time. Here is what we wrote in the copy books:
The tourists = the way they look / what they are wearing
Man = a cap, sunglasses, shirt (flowery, not trendy, not fashionable), skin color (he is suntanned), bag, camera, watch (time difference), shorts, white socks and sport shoes (trainers, sneakers).
Woman = head band, make-up (lipstick), triple chin => like to test
the local cuisine, sunburnt, not trendy, old-fashioned (70's), outdated flashy vivid
colors (blue, red, yellow), flip flops.
The colours don't match, the clothes don't fit.
-> Ideas of stereotypical American tourists.
American stereotypes:
Americans are said to be fat
German stereotypes:
Germans are believed to be not very trendy
Of course, this is not true for everybody = it depends on many criteria.
These are stereotypes / clichés / preconceived ideas.
Then we continued our study of stereotypes, focusing our attention on Canadian people. Here is the video we watched:
And here is what we wrote for the lesson:
Canadian stereotypes: I am Canadian (video)
Canadians are said to love hockey
Canadian are believed to be woodcutters / lumberjacks
They are thought to love snow
They are believed to have a redneck accent and a strange pronunciation.
HW:
- apprendre la leçon, les structures vues en cours, et le nouveau vocabulaire (faire des fiches).
Hey guys,
today you took your final writing test for the 1st sequence about Junk Food.
Here is the assignment:
"The trial of the two girls against McDonald's has just ended. Write an article about the verdict." (200-250 words)
Let's hope you will have achieved something interesting.
See you next week and have a good week end,
Mr Hattais.
Hey guys,
today we first corrected your articles and you will need to turn in your correction next Tuesday.
Finally, we continued the class with studying a new document entitled "The Tourists".
We didn't have time to write anything down but you understood that the new sequence was going to be about clichés and stereotypes.
HW:
- réviser pour le contrôle de Vendredi (écrire un article de presse sur le thème Junk Food et Law). Les critères seront exactement les mêmes que ceux vus en cours aujourd'hui. Alors faites le nécessaire pour tendre vers 20/20.
- préparez votre correction "argumentée" du devoir (article) rendu ce jour à rendre Mardi.
Hey guys,
today you had both a Jell-O and Lucky Charms experience. I hope you had fun and that you will remember it for long. Here is what we said about it:
Jell-o smells tasty
It smells like lemon and fruit
It smells as if it contained a lot of sugar
It looks quite disgusting
It looks like goo
It looks as if it was/were Martian food
It tastes yummy
It tastes like nothing I’ve ever eaten = It’s a new taste
It tastes as if it was/were unreal
How to express taste:
-Delicious # disgusting -tasty # awful - yummy # horrible
Gooey / strange -> bizarre -> weird -> odd
The layout of the cereal pack is designed to attract children:
- The wizard
- The flashy vivid colours (cf McDonald’s logo is also yellow and red to attract children)
Then we connected this experience to the characters in our text and the types of humour used by the author. Here is what we said:
In our text, Bill is attracted to the packs as if he was/were a child and his wife reacts as if she was/were his mother. The roles are reversed. It creates humour. (1)
Types of humour:
1- Situational comedy
2- Exaggeration
3- Irony
Ex:
- "pretend it's delicious chocolate chips cookies" -> brilliant (3)
- "a paradise of junk food" = it's like a dream (2)
- "microwave pancakes" -> "isn’t that wonderful?"
= quite enthusiastic (2)
HW:
- apprendre la leçon et le nouveau vocabulaire.
- être capable de faire un compte rendu complet du texte.
- se préparer pour le test final (il aura lieu le cours après la correction des articles que vous avez faits à la maison).
More information about ... :
- ... Jell-O here.
- ... Lucky Charms here.
Hi guys,
today we first warmed up with a news report from the website Reuters about the new Danish law (fat tax). You can watch the report below:
Here is what we said about it:
Warm up: News Report in Denmark
The Danish government has decided to make fatty foods more expensive.
Products that contain more than 2.3% saturated fat are concerned.
It’s the first nation in the world to do so in order to combat obesity.
If taxes are higher (like for cigarette, alcohol, or gas) people will cut down on consuming them.
Cigarettes and alcohol -> It dangerous for your health too and addictive.
Gas -> it dangerous for the planet (cf. climate change)
Then we continued speaking about the text: "Junk Food Heaven" and we tried to understand why it was funny and humourous (types of humour).
Here is what we said about it:
Junk food heaven
The tone of the text = funny / humorous
Examples from the text:
.....
This is an example of exaggeration.
She looked at the box and said “no” –> The wife reacts nastily. The husband reacts like a child.
”I beg your pardon, my sweet" -> The husband fakes innocence.
They are examples of situational comedy.
HW: préparez-vous à un test de vocabulaire et de leçon + vous devez terminer l'analyse du texte en terme d'humour (relevez les phrases / expressions drôles du texte et expliquez pourquoi elles sont drôles; classez-les par type d'humour et soyez capable de justifier vos réponses en anglais; 5 phrases au minimum devront être analysées).
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