Hey guys,

today we started a new sequence about cooking. I hope you will enjoy it!

Here is your final task:

You will record yourself in front of a camera speaking about a recipe. You will need to:

- present your ingredients

- indicate all the steps of the recipe

- talk about the history of the dish while cooking

At the end of the project, you will need to bring your food to class and you will have to present it in front of jury who will ask you questions and criticize positively or negatively what you have done. Get ready! 'cause you're the next Master Chef!

Here is what we did today. You first had to make research about some dishes originating from the different parts of the English-speaking world.

Here are the ingredients that you talked about and sometimes mispronounced:

"to be written by ..."

Then, we watched a naan recipe and you learnt how to make a naan, the typical Indian bread. You can watch the video again below (I wouldn't mind it if you brought me a piece of your tentative creations some day...):

Here is what we said about it (ingredients + steps):

"to be written by ..."

BE CAREFUL! You forgot to mention: "baking powder" in the ingredients otherwise your dough will never grow and your naan will remain plain flat...

Finally, you had to begin and complete a crossword puzzle with culinary-related words. You can download it again below. By the end of this sequence, you will need to know all these words by heart and many more...:

HW:

- pour le lundi en rentrant de vacances (le 5 mars), vous devrez avoir fini vos recherches sur l'origine de votre plat. Connaissez également parfaitement les ingrédients qui le composent ainsi que leur prononciation. Vous ferez une nouvelle présentation à la classe qui jugera votre prestation.

- continuez vos fiches de voc "cooking-related words: verbs / nouns (ex: ingredients: meat / vegetables / herbs / ... = give a title) / adj..." de façon à ne pas être pris de court par d'éventuels contrôles de vocabulaire... :)

Documents:

- Téléchargez la fiche de recherches pour les recettes ici.

NB: Julie E., as you were absent today, you will be either working with Victoria on "Christmas Pudding" or on something of your own if you don't want to pair up for this dish. You have "Clam Chowder" and "Blood Sausage" left. Take care.

Hi guys,

today you all made brief but interesting presentation about one work of art by Banksy that you had selected. Then you had to imitate Holly accent while reading your brochures so as to get prepared for the conference you are going to give in two weeks.

Here are the recordings so that you can train again from home:

- A girl

- Two women

- Do it yourself - Landscape

- Man on a bench

- Campbell Soup Cans

- Linda

HW:

- pour lundi, avoir fini la mise en scène et connaître son texte par coeur pour une répétition générale et les derniers ajustements avant la représentation du lundi suivant.

- pour jeudi, connaître parfaitement l'oeuvre étudiée (et sa brochure, les commentaires à faire, et être sûr de pouvoir réagir à des questions = avoir compris ce dont vous parlez). Il s'agit également de la répétition générale avant que vous ne soyez guide de l'expo la semaine suivante.

Hi guys,

today I first gave you back your adaptations from the play "Romeo and Juliet" that were quite poor except for one of them. You really NEED to work more and understand better what is expected of you.

I will be absent this Monday (because I have a training session), so you won't have class from 3 to 5 pm. However, it doesn't mean you shouldn't stay at school and work... It's a time when you are able to gather together in groups and get on with your projects, i.e. begin the theatrical adaptation (staging and acting) of the text.

Then I gave you your "Christmas gifts": I've finished up the brochures for you. But my gift comes with a price. You will have to be the tour guides for the presentation of the modern art exhibition within two weeks. You will have to present the works of art to the seniors (L) so that they learn stuff about hyper realism. Your role is VERY IMPORTANT as it will be useful to them for their final exam.

Finally, Holly introduced you to Bansky, a graffiti artist from the UK and you had to discuss about whether his form of expression could actually be considered as art or simply as vandalism. Wed finished the lesson with trying to find whether all graffiti should be considered legal or illegal...

HW:

- pour lundi 9/01: retravailler en suivant les remarques les adaptations de la pièce de théâtre et / ou terminer son rôle. Préparer l'adaptation scénique.

- pour jeudi 12/01: faire le bilan des arguments trouvés en classe et se préparer à parler en début d'heure en confrontant ses idées avec les autres groupes.

+ lire les informations distribuées sur Banksy et être capable de les réutiliser dans un commentaire sur une oeuvre de l'artiste. Vous devrez pendant l'heure établir un commentaire sur une oeuvre de Banksy (de votre choix).

- pour lundi dans une semaine 16/01: vous devrez avoir bien révisé vos fiches et brochures sur l'hyper réalisme étant donné que vous devrez présenter les oeuvres aux Terminales L. Commncez dès maintenant à vous entraîner.

+ vous serez également capable de donner une première représentation complète de votre scène adaptée de Shakespeare.

Documents:

- About Banksy here

- Issues tackled by graffiti artists here

More about ... Banksy here and there.

Hey guys,

today you had to present your movies to the class and your audience had to find out about the genre, the possible title, and the layout of your poster. They also had to give you points as far as your plotlines were concerned and say if they would promote the film as directors and/or spectators.

Here are the two films in the competition for the moment:

"PLEASE, do update this part with the notes from your group {one secretary, please} and send me a digital version of your poster so that I can display it on the site along with the genre, the title, ..."

Next two groups next week.

Take care,

Mr Hattais.

HW:

- ne pas oublier de donner les documents que vous auriez oublié de me remettre demain à Mme Menenteau (DERNIER délais) qui me les transmettra. Si je n'ai pas ou la brochure ou l'essay sur la torche de la statue de la liberté, vous subirez les conséquences d'un devoir non rendu.

Hey guys,

today during Holly's conversation class, you had to finish and imagine the plot of your story from the only tiny bit of poster that you had.

You came up with pretty good ideas on the whole but you definitely need to be faster and more focused on your task and on speaking English in your groups.

There's no point of speaking French in English class, is there?

HW:

- pour jeudi prochain 8/12/12, vous DEVEZ ABSOLUMENT:

       * finir vos histoires, avoir un titre pour votre film, être capable de raconter les événements principaux et les motivations des personnages, avoir développé la "characterisation" des perso, leurs psychologie et les raisons qui motivent leurs actions et l'aventure, être en mesure de parler de la scène clé du film où l'action est la plus intense, et enfin avoir une affiche de film à présenter à la classe en y incluant le morceaux que vous avez. Sans ce travail, vous nous ferez perdre notre temps car vous ne serez pas prêt pour entâmer la nouvelle heure de conversation. Si ce travail n'était pas fait, je me verrai dans l'obligation de vous mettre ZERO (coefficient 3) dans votre moyenne et ce, pour tous les membres de votre groupe. Alors vous avez plutôt intérêt à faire le travail et le faire correctement! Nous pouvons mener des séances d'anglais qui vous motivent et vous intéressent mais il FAUT que vous donniez de votre personne en terme de travail pour que l'on s'investisse également pour vous.

       * Pour jeudi prochain également 8/12/12, n'oubliez pas que j'attends vos brochures également concernant l'exposition hyper réaliste qui doit être mise en place au CDI juste avant les vacances de Noël pour un vernissage prévu à la rentrée. Il FAUT IMPERATIVEMENT que vous me remettiez une copie de vos brochures explicatives (une brochure = recto / verso / pliée de telle façon que l'on puisse l'emporter après être sorti de l'exposition). De la même manière, si ce travail devait ne pas être réalisé (et à avec SOIN!), je serai obligé de finir par vous sanctionner lourdement en terme de notation. REAGISSEZ! Le deuxième trimestre vient de commencer et faites en sorte qu'il commence mieux que le 1er trimestre n'a terminé en terme de travail personnel et d'investissementn pour votre réussite!

Dernière information qui pourra peut-être vous faire réagir...:

- Vos épreuves d'anglais l'année prochaine pour le BAC 2013 compteront au total pour un coefficient 9... peut-être serait-il temps de prendre la mesure des choses...?

Hey guys,

today we first watched the very beginning of the first season of "Breaking Bad", an American TV show that Holly advises you to watch.

You can watch the whole episode below and get to know the final answer about who the main character is, where he is, what's just happened and what will happen next... For Thursday, you need to watch the whole video and tell us which one of your hypotheses were correct:

Here are your assumptions:

He is a criminal or a crazy man -

Yes:

- he is carrying a dangerous substance and it's illegal.

- he may have killed someone since he is bearing a gun (however in America, it's not illegal to possess a firearm)

-> he is going to be arrested by the police / he's going to escape to New Mexico (or Mexico) running through the desert

-> he is about to commit suicide since he is crying when he talks to the camera (to his family). He says goodbye at the end and he is holding a gun

-> he is going to fight off the police when they arrive

No:

- he has been kidnapped and he killed his kidnappers. It was self-defense.

- he has just discovered a military secret

- he is a scientist who is carrying out an illegal experiment

-> he is going to tell us the whole story (he is the hero)

-> he has just escaped from a mental / psychiatric hospital

Then you had to work on film genres and fragments from a movie poster.

Here is the spidergram that you came up with:

HW:

- pour la prochaine fois, vous devez arriver en classe avec le poster complet autour de l'image qui vous a été remise et un titre pour ce film.

- N'oubliez pas que certains d'entre vous doivent également préparer la saynète (adaptation du texte "A Year in the Merde" de façon théâtrale pour Lundi --- RDV à l'amphithéâtre pour la suite de cette séquence "Théâtre")

Hey guys, 

today we first worked on commenting on this video with Holly. I'm sure you thought it was dumbfounding... who wouldn't be surprised at seeing such a thing. But you finally admitted that it was probably not a good solution to power the torch of the Statue of Liberty even though you could see some advantages.

You can watch the video again below:

Then you continued talking about your personal sources of energy (the ones you designed and the ones you selected to answer in your essay). Here are some of the ideas that emerged from the discussion (my favourite is definitely the electricity produced by the cyclist who use the cycle-hire system...):

Quentin:

Design a machine that willtransform air pollution into electricity

PROs:

• it will solve two problems at once = (to) kill two birds with one stone.

CONs:

• it will take a long time of research and is probably not feasible.

Ornella:

Use hydroelectric power

PROs:

• inexpensive over time even though it may cost a lot to build the installation (dam and turbines) at first

• renewable

• no green house gases emissions

Shanice / Kay:

Burn waste

PROs:

• it will solve two problems at once (NY also has a recycling problem)

• not green but renewable supply.

CONs:

• might create air pollution

Harmonie:

“The Speaking Energy” = Install boxes with sound detectors in the street, offices and homes. Voices and sounds will produce energy.

PROs:

• people speak a lot

• renewable

• created by people and for people

• really inexpensive (apart from the cost of the equipment at the beginning)

• would be possible to use on the street to have a constant supply

CONs:

• it will take a long time of research and is probably not feasible.

Rémi:

Banana skins

Use a machine to produce energy out of banana peals. A turbine would be activated and produce electricity.

PROs: …. ?

CONs:

• it will take a long time of research and is probably not feasible.

Maïlys (and others):

Use the cycle-hire system to produce electricity:

• extract the energy from a generator connected to the bike

• force all evil step mothers to pedal in a cellar

• pay people to cycle

  OR

  Use tourists who want to go the statue; get them a free entrance for every 10 minutes of cycling for example

PROs:

• energy is free and it encourages people to have a positive impact on the city

• It’s a fun way to create electricity and will attract more tourists

• It will help solve lots of problems including obesity if a campaign is created that would combine 3 aspects:

  - Reduce power consumption

  - Use renewable green energy

  - Make people more active

HW: pour jeudi, rendre l'argumentation complète (env. 250 mots) sur le sujet "20 years from now, how should the torch of the Statue of Liberty be powered?" -- vous devrez corriger votre brouillon et me rendre un essay propre + le soumettre au site sur la page du concours ici: