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 (1^st 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.