Hi guys,

today we first did an oral competition to know who could remember and use as many words as possible in sentences to speak about India. Then you refused to do your presentations (positive and negative things about the country... shame on you... ... ... there will be consequences...).

Finally you presented the main elements in the text that we have started to study:

"to be written by..."

HW:

- préparez une présentation powerpoint sur l'Inde que vous accompagnerez de commentaires à l'oral (sans note) pour décrire la situation telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui dans le pays.

- finir la fiche "Resist" qui porte sur le texte.

- retravailler vos posters (AIDS) de façon à améliorer votre note qui n'est que temporaire.

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Hi guys,

today we continued working on India and we first watched a document about a strange wedding.

You can watch it again below:

Here is what we said about it:

Vocabulary :

                  a guest - a person attending a ceremony
                  Bridegroom --> Husband
                  Bride --> wife
                  Bridesmaid / best man
                  Holy / Sacred animal
 
Warm up:

The wedding ceremony of the sacred / holy cows.
WHO: It features a woman who wants to marry two cows.
WHERE: The scene takes place in a small village in India.
WHEN: It took two months to organize the ceremony.
WHAT: It deals with the wedding of two cows
           It is an unusual / a strange thing even in India where the animals are holy
How/Why: The woman decided to marry her cow; the animal is like a daughter for her since she can't have children
Cost: It cost a lot of money = expensive -> even if it cost only $3 or 4 / pers., you have to remember that 35% of the population in India live with less than $1 / day!

Then we continued the class with the analysis of the two sets of texts you had to read. Here are the pieces of information you have taken from the documents:

"to be written by Esther"

Additional Vocabulary:

"to be written by Esther"

HW:

- vous devez préparer un compte rendu complet sur les points positifs et négatifs du pays et donner votre opinion en fin de présentation: "would you like to visit India now, or not?"

Hi guys,

today after speaking about the dabbawala service in Mumbai, India, we continued the class correcting the vocabulary exercises and cultural facts you had to complete for last time.

Here is what we said about the report:

Warm up:

The box is a container for food, it's made of metal and it has a wooden handle.

The dabbawalas transport these boxes to their clients / customers. They bring their lunch to their schools or offices --> they sell a service but not the food.
The food is prepared / cooked by the owner of the box.

Vocabulary:

to deliver / to bring / to transport /

Wood / wooden /

handle

tin / metal

customers / clients

Here are the elements of correction and vocabulary from the worksheet:

1) despite: malgré  / Gap: différence - fossé / Rise (rose-risen): augmenter

2) malnourishment: malnutrition / overall: globalement / Impoverment: appauvrissement / life expectancy: espérance de vie 

3) illiterate / illiteracy

4) Numbers:

35%: percentage of people who live on less than $1 a day.     
60%: people in towns.           
20%: people in rural areas who don't have access to proper sanitation and water.
63 yo: Life expectancy                         
61%: adult literacy increase over a short period in time.                     

6) Positive things about India:

- social aspects : infant mortality has decreased and life expetancy has risen. Adult literacy has risen too.        

- economic aspects: poverty has declined. There has been a rapid economic development.

Watch the video again here:

HW:

- préparer un compte rendu (présentation orale avec notes uniquement; pas de rédaction) sur ce que vous avez appris de l'Inde. Que pourriez-vous dire pour présenter ce pays? Vous pouvez notamment vous aider de la tool box qui se trouve sur votre worksheet en bas de page.

Hi guys,

today we first brainstormed about India and what you knew about the country. Then you had to read some documents to add some more information in the spidergram.

Here is what you said about it so far:

ANIMALS:
elephants

MONUMENTS and IMPORTANT PEOPLE:
Taj Mahal
Sultan
Gandhi & Nehru

TRADITIONS & CULTURE:
the red dot (in your forehead )
Sari
Decorated trucks
Hair
Cricket/Hockey

RELIGIONS:
Hinduism
Buddhism
sacred / holy cow
Offerings

THE MEDIA:
Slumdog millionaire
Bollywood - Famous people - TV shows

ECONOMY:
One of the biggest powers
Many people (density/population ----- overcrowded = densely populated)
poor people
developing country

FOOD SPECIALTIES:
chicken
spices
dabbawala (a person who brings your lunch)

LANGUAGES:
Many official languages (10)

HW:

- vous devez apprendre les faits sur l'Inde et préparer des questions (entre 5 et 10) type "who wants to be a millionaire" à partir des informations trouvées dans les documents ou données en classe (3 solutions proposées dont une seule est correcte).

Hi guys,

today we first reviewed how to present any kind of documents. Here is what we said for the presentation of the extract:

"to be written by..."

Then we continued with a deeper analysis of the action taking place in the document and about what really happened as well as the reasons explaining the attitudes of the characters. Here is what we said:

"to be written by..."

HW:

- vous devez préparer un compte rendu détaillé du passage concernant l'évolution des sentiments des personnages (en vous aidant du texte support si besoin pour quelques mots de vocabulaire).

- Faire une fiche de méthode sur la présentation d'un document.

- pour vendredi dans une semaine (le 27/01), vous devrez avoir réalisé une affiche de prévention (bilingue) avec pour thème central, le SIDA. Vous pouvez vous mettre par groupe de 2 ou 3 maximum; à vous de vous organiser. Envoyez-moi les textes de votre affiche dans le courant de la semaine prochaine suffisamment à temps pour que je puisse vous les corriger si besoin.

Documents:

- le texte "Fired" ici (avec des questions supplémentaires de compréhension pour affiner votre réflexion)

- des documents et informations pour réaliser au mieux votre affiche ici et là.

Hi guys,

today after taking a vocabulary test, you had to watch this video and analyse it as a listening test.

Hope you fared alright.

Take care,

Mr Hattais.

Hi guys,

today we first did a quick recap of what you were supposed to know about the text Philadelphia.

Here is what we said (using the vocabulary of "job", "illness", and "body parts"): 

Job:
Andrew's lover / partner teaches in an institute.
Andrew has been fired from a law firm because the boss said he's incompetent.
Andrew arrives at Joe Miller's office to say that he has been discriminated against.

Body:
Andrew shakes Joe's hand.
Andrew has caught a skin cancer: we can see lesions on his skin (on his face and particularly on his forehead).

Illness:
Andrew has AIDS; some of the symptoms of this disease are illnesses such as pneumonia or skin cancer. He has done chemo and that's why he doesn't have hair anymore.

Then we continued the lesson with the correction for your reading comprehension test that was catastrophic before the holidays... Here are important assignments that you need to get familiar with:

"to be written by ..."

And the correction for the quesions will come later and be finished on Friday.

HW:

- contrôle de vocabulaire / leçon sur le début de cette séquence AIDS.

Hi guys,

today was our last day of class before the holidays... awesome, ain't it?

We worked on a scene from the movie Philadelphia, first without the sound and you had to focus only on staging and acting to invent a possible dialogue. You did quite a good job assuming what the situation was.

You can watch the extract again below: