Hey guys,

today I hope you had fun performing your scenes from the text "The Heart of Darkness". You all did a pretty good job as it was rather difficult but you did prepare your staging and acting quite well! Congratulations!

Let's keep it up and try to have volunteers who will adapt some texts that we have studied or will study throughout the year.

During the 2nd part of the hour, we continued working with the correction for your test about Niska and her nephew Xavier coming back from the war. You had to work in groups and you will get bonus points for you future exam according to the quality of your correction.

I'll see you next week. Until then, take care. 

Mr Hattais.

Hey guys,

today we started our new sequence but you still don't know its title for sure... we'll see about that next time.

Here is what we did today. You had to describe this picture paying attention to details so as to be able to locate it and give it a date. You also had to find out who was on that boat and make assumptions.

Here is what we said about the document in the end:

"to be written by ..."

HW:

- apprendre la leçon et être capable de faire le recap sur cette image en début d'heure. Faire des fiches de vocabulaire selon les thèmes qui commencent à se dessiner (water, city, ...)

- finir la présentation de son classeur de façon à pouvoir s'autonoter et obtenir 20/20 en tenue de classeur; un 20/20 que je validerai en ramassant vos classeurs et en contrôlant rapidement leur contenu. Vous pouvez télécharger / imprimer / recopier la fiche d'auto-notation ici. Il faudra la rendre avec son classeur et le nombre de points que vous vous attribuer pour chaque critère.

Hey guys,

today after performing your parts with the "Grandparents' House", you had to get into groups and work together as a team to make the text we are studying ("Heart of Darkness") come to life.

Tomorrow, you'll get to perform your parts and I hope that you'll acheive good results since your performances will be graded.

Here are the criteria:

                                                    Final Score = ________ / 20

See you tomorrow for your performances and for the end of this text.

Take care,

Mr Hattais.

Hey guys,

today we first focused our attention on an ad campaign by the charity WWF.

Here is what we said about the picture:

"to be written by..."

HW:

- apprendre le commentaire et le mettre en forme

- réviser les mots de vocabulaire liés au thème "Shopping" et être sûr de leur classement dans le tableau de catégories grammaticales.

Hey guys,

today you had to correct your tests in groups. I think you did your job alright even if it did take you quite a long time.

Here is one part of the correction:

    Vocabulary: 

a)    - Ability = power                               - Epaule : shoulder

        -  De l'acier : steel                             - Brow : sourcil

        - Agé : elderly                                    - Taille (corps): waist

g)     STORY:

 First, the Vulture menaces people: when they see him fly, they are terrified. Later, at a newspaper "J. Jonah Jameson Publishing", the reporters have a    photo of the Vulture and Spiderman. They think that Spiderman is a menace. Finally, the enemies of Peter Parker speak of the Vulture. So, Peter Paker who is doing a science experiment has an idea. He wants to take a photo himself fighting with Vulture.

Take care,

Mr Hattais.

Hey guys,

today you first had to stage a poem by Steve Turner entitled "My Grandparents' House" and then we moved on with analysing the personalities and understanding the characters of the play "Romeo and Juliet".

Here are the adjectives you came up with and that you thought best characterised the two heroes:

- Romeo is romantic, sensitive and impulsive. He is passionate and immature but still likeable. He sometimes feel misunderstood. 

- Juliet is naive and pretty. She is desperately in love. She is innocent and fragile but she is an incredible girl even if she sometimes acts childishly.

HW:

Pour lundi, vous devez finir la caractérisation des personnages (mettre un adjectif réprésentatif pour chaque personnage coché: Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, The Nurse, Tybalt, Paris, The Chorus) et préparer une scène où cette émotion est visible sans parole. Le but sera de deviner quel personnage vous jouer et quel adjectif vous avez effectivement choisi.

Pour jeudi, n'oubliez pas le travail que vous avez à faire pour préparer le cours avec Holly et les choses que vous devez me rendre (cf. post précédent pour les détails).

NB: je mettrai à votre disposition pour une consultation au CDI dès demain un exemplaire des scènes que nous allons devoir adapter. Cela vous donnera un avant-goût du travail qui nous attend. Demandez-les à la documentaliste.

Hi guys,

today we spent the hour correcting your first "big" test. I hoped you liked working in groups and that you saw the point of it.

To validate your bonus points, you'll need to present your transparency to the class next time.

Until then, take care.

Mr Hattais.

Hey guys,

today we began working on a new topic: AIDS.

We listened to an interview of Bono, the leader of the band U2 who is involved in a charity acting against the pandemic. You can listen to it again below:

Here is what we said about the document and the comments we made about the disease:

The document is a report about an event which takes place every year on December 1st. It was launched by Bono (from the music band U2) in Sydney last year. He met with the prime minister to turn the landmarks of Sydney (such as the opera) red.

Red is the color which symbolizes AIDS. They talked about the huge progress in medicine and about prevention against HIV infections. There is no vaccine and no cure for the moment but a treatment that helps to live healthier with the virus.

The gathering was meant to:
- raise money / funds for research
- support people who are infected
- sensitize people / raise awareness about the disease

Ways to get infected:

- sharing an infected needle with a drugs addict.
- having sexual intercourse without "protection" (condoms/rubbers**)
-  from the pregnant mother to her child (although thanks to drugs, this can be prevented in most cases)

- transmission with infected blood (although this can be prevented too with blood selection).

HW:

- apprendre la leçon et le nouveau vocabulaire.

- lire le texte distribué et en préparer un résumé.