Hi guys,

today we first started the lesson with a quick viewing of a video about obesity and you had to react about it as if it were a document for your oral exam.

Pascal volunteered after a long period of silence... too bad for you that you don't want to practise; don't you dare tell me that you have done everything you could and that you don't understand your final grade...

Here is the quick correction that I wrote for you on the board as Pascal was speaking and developing his ideas.

Then we started the last oral activity of the year with a worksheet about global warming (pronunciation, causes and consequences). Thanks to Mrs Menenteau for sharing this great document.

HW:

- Finir la fiche de travail (prononciation, causes, consequences).

- pour ceux qui étaient absents vendredi dernier et pour ceux dont les enregistrements n'ont pas été faits correctement, vous DEVEZ m'envoyer une nouvelle production [oral sur l'image choisie] par internet avant la fin de la 1ère semaine des vacances.

- Pour la rentrée, vous avez à rédiger l'argumentation (essay) en vous aidant des deux fiches distribuées ("Write On" et "Link Words").

- Révisez votre méthode, votre vocabulaire, et entraînez-vous à parler sur les thèmes que nous avons abordés cette année et qui sont susceptibles de tomber pour votre examen oral (Mercredi 16 mai si mes informations sont exactes; vous aurez une convocation à la rentrée). Vous pouvez vous enregistrez et m'envoyer votre fichier son pour que je vous donne des conseils de dernière minute si vous le souhaitez. Voici quelques uns des thèmes possibles:

- The Internet & Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, ... = dangers and benefits).

- Food (problems of obesity, organic food VS GM Food, ...).

- Discrimination and Racism (segregation, Apartheid, racism today, ...)

- The environment (global warming, pollution, endangered species, green concerns ...).

- Smoking (health, smoking bans, ...).

- North VS South (how wealth is unequally distributed, ...).

- Our consumer society (shopping addiction, over-consumption, exploitation of child workers, globalization, fair trade, ...).

- Appearances and looks (looks, tattoos and piercing, ...).

- The American Dream (problems of immigration, success, metling-pot, failure of integration, ...).

- Women's roles in society (evolution, place at work, differences between men and women, ...). 

- Afro Americans throughout history (from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King to Barack Obama).

- Television and cameras (reality television, surveillance of society with CCTV, ...).

- New technologies (the Internet, computers, mobile phones, blogs, (il)legal downloading, Apple products,...).

- Travelling (trips, holidays, ...).

- Teenager-parent relationship (rebellion, generation gap, ...).

- Guns (policies in the US, school shootings, ...).

- The Law (death penalty, road safety [e.g. texting when driving], ...).