First we did a quiz  about the quantifiers.

Then we did a recap of what we did last week.

What did we speak about?

We spoke about:

OVERTIME = les heures supplémentaires.

Overtime  is when employees do extra work.

Overtime is when employees do long hours

Overtime is when employees work more than the normal time

Debate : The 35 hour-work week

Vocabulary :

Chômage: unemployment

Embaucher: to hire

• by + V+ ing: au moyen de, en + V+ ing
• to + V : pour + V (le but)

leisure : loisirs

high – low

élevé – bas

être oblige de: to have to + V

to lead to: entraîner

huge: immense

= The work-week: la semaine de travail

In France the 35 hours-work week was decided and implemented in the 1990’s by a socialist government ( Mrs Aubry)

Exercice de traduction:

1) Les employés doivent faire des heures supplémentaires.

Employees must do long hours.

Employees  have to do long hours

2) Il y a de nombreuses façons de trouver du travail.

There are a lot of ways to find work.

3) L’immense augmentation des réseaux sociaux permettent aux gens de communiquer d’avantage.

The huge increase of social networks enables people to communicate more.

4) Le travail supplémentaire entraîne des problèmes de santé pour les hommes surmenés.

Long hours lead to health issues for overworked men.

Overtime leads to health issues for overworked men.

Thank you Fatou for your notes

Homework for Thursday, November 19^th

Vocabulary quiz. Learn all the words seen in lessons for quiz… See blog

Today, you had a big surprise in the name of Kirstie.

Kirstie is an English assistant. She is in her twenties( between 20-30 years old)

Her parents live in Grimsby- It is a small town on the East coast of England - Midland)and she lives in Newcastle (in the North East of England.

She has got one older brother (Steven, 28). He works with James Kaan. One younger sister (Daniele, 19). And one younger brother (Peter, 17). He is a golf champion.

Questions asked by the students in class:

Do you practise sport?
Yes, I practise netball and I am a member of a gym .

What do you like?
I like shopping and music(Oasis is her favorite band and she saw their last gig)

  Her role in Champlain High School: she helps with speaking and pronunciation.


Thank you for your notes, Mégane.
For next week you have to prepare your own identity file to be able to introduce yourselves to Kirstie.

Daphne presented  an article to the class which dealt with Samsung’s earnings.

The article was published in the New York Times, on October 5^th 2009.

It was about Samsung future earnigns. Samsung is the world top maker of memory chips and flat screen TVs.

Samsung forecast higher earnings thanks to their marketing strategy. The market of memory chips has been emerging for 2 years due to mobile phones and TVs.

Moreover, they spend more money on marketing, that’s why they have a good place on the market.

Facts :

Global warming

The greenhouse effect

à Air pollution

natural disasters (tsunamis, floods, hurricanes)

water pollution

sea pollution à oil slicks, oil spills

chemical products like fertilizers

Solutions:

Ecology means taking care of the environment (with environmentally-friendly products or behaviour)

Sustainable development means living on the planet without taking more than can be replaced

Fair trade means protecting small producers, farmers from developing countries by allowing them to sell their productions.

To guarantee the protection of the environment countries have signed agreements.

Translation

Hurricanes = ouragans

Sustainable development = développement durable

Oil slicks/ oil spills = marées noires

Fertilizers = engrais

Fair trade = commerce équitable

Thanks Justine for your notes

Today we did a recap of what we have been doing so far in class.

We said that what we learn is to be written in files.

We learn ideas, knowledge about a topic and how to speak and write about thies ideas.

Recap
WORK : file1
-how to find a job
-job interviews
-working time/hours/long hours: it's when you work
more/longer than what you're supposed to.

Number of working hours in France: 35 hours a week

Number of working hours in the UK: 48 hours a week


what is it called? comment cela s'appelle-t-il?

GRAMMAR:
's
1) ex men's issue: le problème des hommes
2) ex that's an increase: is
3) ex he's got 3 brothers: has

VOCABULARY:

an increase: une augmentation
a figure: un chiffre (un nombre)
the least/the most= le - /le+
heures supplémentaires= overtime/extra hours
a health issue: un problème de santé
harmful/harmless=
qui fait mal/inoffensif
overwork= surmenage (= too much work=trop de travail)

Then we corrected Unit 2 text 1 and ended the lesson with a short pronunciation exercise.

Thank you Céline for your notes 

Homework for Thursday, November 12^th

Learn lesson

File words and ideas in FILE 1: WORK

Revisez les quantifieurs pour interrogation