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Hi guys,
here is the commentary made by Cassandra for the following picture:
You can download it here:
Thanks to her for sharing.
Take care,
Mr Hattais.
Hey guys,
today we finished correcting the translation that we had started to review yesterday. Here is what you have finally said:
"to be written by ..."
Then we continued the correction of the 2nd text (about Nora and Sally) with analysing the intricate relationships between the characters present and mentionned. Here is the graph that we have drawn to symbolize who was connected to whom and how + the beginning of the interpretation of the text:
"to be written by ..."
HW:
- révisez pour votre bac blanc (faire des fiches de vocabulaire par thème, faire une fiche sur les procédés de traduction récurrents et les techniques les plus
importantes à appliquer, revoir la méthodologie des expressions écrites [dialogue, narration, essay, ...], ...).
Hi guys,
today we first warmed up with an extract from Madonna's show for the Super Bowl and we spoke about how expensive it was to place an ad during this sports event.
Here is the complete show of the singer (amazing, ain't it? vulgar some might say because of her age...):
Here are some ads that I promised you I would upload:
And finally, here is the correction for your test about Faith's parents moving back to Jamaica and her progressively and naively discovering the news...:
"to be written by ..."
HW:
- finir la correction pour les groupes pour lequel ça n'est pas fait.
Hey guys,
today we finished correcting your translation from the text about Ana. Here is what you finally agreed upon saying:
En utilisant l'argent liquide envoyé par Ana et ses frères et soeurs, sa famille construit une maison qui s'étend sur deux étages et éclipse les taudis en parpaing de ses voisins. La nouvelle maison est déjà pleine de canapés confortables, de chaînes hi-fi et de téléviseurs. Comme dans beaucoup de barrios mexicains, la consommation démesurée de sa famille a fait grandir un profond resentiment. Les gamins des familles les plus pauvres n'ont pas le droit d'entrer dans la maison de peur qu'ils n'aient l'idée de voler des jouets ou de la nourriture.
Then we moved classes to go to the documentation center and have the many mini conferences about hyper realism and we worked together with Mr Brot to finally
comment upon a yet unknown work of art. You did quite an impressive job today, bravo! Let's hope your brochures and recordings will be as awesome!
See you next time,
Mr Hattais.
Hey guys,
today we first worked on the following video as a warm up:
Here are the notes we took about it:
India:
Who?
Dabbawala: a person who brings / transports food to customers at their schools or offices for
example.
They are 5000 throng. They work for the group not just for themselves: there are the president, the supervisor and the
Dabbawalas. They all have the same salary.
Where?
For lunch, they have had this service since 1890 in Mumbai.
What?
- Delivery service company, price of service: $10/month.
- Number of customers: 400 000 lunch boxes a day.
How/Why?
bicycle / train / man power. Now they have new technology; nowadays they have SMS - computers (Microsoft).
The salary of everyone can be reduced if they don't work well as everyone has shares in the firm.
EXPLANATION OF THE FAME
Prince Charles invited the president of this organisation to William's wedding; the BBC has made a documentary about
them because their system works: they are very efficient. They are never late and never mistaken even if / even though they are illiterate. They are proud of their achievements.
Then we began to correct the translation you had to do for today about Ana's text. Here is what we have said so far:
"to be written by ..."
HW:
- pensez à aller voir l'exposition et préparer minimum 3 questions pour vos guides concernant les oeuvres exposées et votre ressenti.
Hi guys,
today we worked a little bit more on Ana's story and you had to determine whether it was a positive or a negative experience for her to have gone to the US.
Here is the chart that we drew about the two sides of her adventure and our conclusion:
- indeed Ana feels uprooted. Even if she is the breadwinner of the family and it makes her happy, she is not with her children.
She fled Mexico because she and her family used to live below the poverty line. She went to the US in order to achieve her dreams and improve her family's life.
- At the beginning, when she arrived, she was still destitute and cut off from society. It must have been difficult to adapt, above all because she was an unskilled worker. She may also have felt rejected.
VOCAB:
a seam
root -> uprooted
flee (fled-fled)
determined to succeed
Seamy side Bright Side
|
LONELINESS: · Although they were poor there were content, now the family is torn apart. · Ana hasn’t seen her infant son since he was 1. · Ana can’t see her siblings. · She earns little money according to American standards.
· Angel (daughter) has no friends -> the neighbours are
jealous and they fear they might steal from the family. · Ana can’t live with her family. · Ana’s children don’t consider her as their mother but only the breadwinner who sends gifts. · Ana's mother suffers without her children.
ALIENATION: · Ana has been sucked into consumerism. · Ana's mother thinks she has forgotten where she used to live / where comes from. THE LIFE OF AN ILLEGAL ALIEN: · Ana is an outlaw |
SUCCESS: · Better life. ALTRUISM: · She helps her family to have what they want.
· Expensive house (in Mexico) · Ana and her siblings helped build the house
· Ana's family has lots of money consdering Mexican
standards. INTEGRATION/ASSIMILATION: · American friends. · Cristina offered a job which allowed her to have an apartment. · She admits she as a new taste of the “good life”. · Ana has been sucked into consumerism. |
All the parts of the bright side of her adventure hide
a seamy side. It’s two sides of the same coin. But there are 2 points of view. Ana’s point of view: she is satisfied /
content with her new life and well-integrated.
Her family’s POV (her mother's): they wish the family could be united again.
HW:
- d'ici à jeudi: aller voir l'exposition au CDI et trouver des questions à poser (au moins 5) concernant les oeuvres exposées. Vous devez vous montrer curieux et préparer votre conférence sur le thème.
- pour mercredi: traduction d'un passage du texte de: "But back..." jusqu'à "... food".
- pour mercredi: être capable de faire un compte rendu oral sur le texte en incluant les remarques faites aujourd'hui, en les expliquant et en les développant.
- Actualisez vos fiches de vocabulaire... Test de vocabulaire très prochainement...
Hey guys,
today you spoke a LOOOT about Ana's situation in the US. Here is the global written account of what you have said so far:
Ana used to be poor in Mexico but now she is well-off in the US. She must have been depressed and lonely at first when she left her family six years ago. Ana must have been torn apart to leave her infant son.
However she has succeeded in integrating to her new life even if she does everything off the books: she is an illegal immigrant who takes a lot of risks. She started as a laundry woman. She then became a maid and now she has a more important but risky job; she is a broker for undocumented migrants. She helps them to find a job (she is like a coyote but for work).
We can say that she has climbed up the social ladder. She sends things to her chilren who stayed in Mexico so that they have an easier life.
If they came to the US with the salary / wages / income she earns, they couldn't have the same standard of living in America. Moreover it costs a lot of money to pay for the smuggler and it would be really hard for her family and children to all cross the border illegally. Besides, the more they are in the US, the more they are at risk to be caught by the police.
Because she is determined and courageous, she has fought her homesickness and guilt and she has found friends to support her.
HW:
- apprendre la leçon / faire vos fiches de vocabulaire
- préparer une intervention orale en utilisant au moins 5 mots de la tool box non utilisés jusqu'à présent pour parler du texte (ce que nous avons déjà commenté ou
bien sur la suite du texte).
Hi guys,
today after having an interesting presentation by Sarah of yesterday's picture (good job), we moved on with the lesson and began studying a text about an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
Here is what we have said about her so far:
Ana: an illegal / undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
She left her 2 children and ex-husband to go to America. She paid a smuggler /
coyote to help her and drove to Los Angeles where she finally took the plane
/ boarded an airplane to go to NYC.
During her trip, she hid in a car; she
crawled into the US through a drainpipe / the sewage
system. t must have been a very exhausting trip / journey. It must have been a very dangerous trip. She could have died in the desert for
instance.
VOC
- a coyote: a person you pay to enter in a country illegaly -> ex: $1,000 fee for 1 person
- to smuggle money off shore = to hide money in another country
CLUES ABOUT "HIDING"? to look for / to hide / to find
smuggler
scrunch onto the floor
moonlit drainpipe
crawl
not her real name
sneak
tax fee / off the books
Identity card:
- Ana (not her real name = nickname)
- 35 - 29
- Mexican (Puebla)
- 2 children -> 1 daughter Angel 13 and 1 son Misa 7 years old (1 when she left = an infant)
- divorced
- 8 siblings -> 4 in the US
HW:
- apprendre la leçon ( = être capable de parler d'Ana au début d'heure en reprenant les élements de sa "carte d'identité" et son arrivée aux USA)
- Entre le Vendredi 27 janvier et le Jeudi 2 février, vous devrez aller visiter l'expo qui sera mise en place au CDI. Vous devrez préparer des questions aux
conférenciers qui vous présenteront les oeuvres. L'après-midi du 2 février sera une après-midi "anglais" pour tous les élèves de la TL de 13h10 à 17h15. Vous assisterez d'abord aux explications
des guides en prenant des notes, puis poserez des questions pour compléter vos notes dans un 1er temps. Puis, dans un deuxième temps, vous serez mis en groupe pour préparer une intervention sur
un document "inconnu" faisant partie du même mouvement artistique que celui présenté par les guides-conférenciers.
Hi guys,
today we first talked about this extract from the movie Philadelphia as a warm up:
Here is what we said about it:
Then we continued the lesson with analysis of the picture from googlemaps. Here is what are some of the keywords from your speech:
Key words
to warn drivers
to protect illegal immigrants
to avoid many casualties
considered / depicted as animals or criminals
shocking
HW:
- vous devez être capable en début d'heure d'utiliser toutes les idées mentionnées aujourd'hui dans un développement construit et argumenter pour présenter, décrire, analyser, remettre l'image en contexte et donner votre avis sur le montage.
More information about the movie Philadelphia here. You can watch it here in English if you'd like to.
Hi guys,
today you first took a vocabulary test about the previous sequence "Colonialism and Heart of Darkness" and then we continued the lesson with a picture to describe and analyse. You can see where the actual photo was taken below thanks to this google map.
Here is some useful vocabulary to talk about the issue:
The border
A highway / a ringroad
A road sign
A wall / a fence
(to) cross the border illegally
An illegal immigrant
(to) hold hands
(to) run away from
HW:
- préparez-vous pour le contrôle de 2 heures sur la séquence terminée (compréhension / expression / traduction)
- pour mercredi 18/01/12, préparez une réaction développée et argumentée à l'oral sur cette image.
For those who don't know how to make Google Maps work... here is a picture of what you can do with it to be able to locate the picture precisely on a map... Just in case...
Hey guys,
today we first watched the live report about the attacks on the WTC back in 2001 and you had to confront the text we were studying with the testimony of the two eye witnesses upon that day.
Here are some of the comments you made about the document:
Then we continued working on the correction of the translation:
...de ses inquiétudes à propos des poisons qui flotttaient dans l'air. Et puis elles dormirent. Elles dormirent, dormirent et dormirent du sommeil de l'épuisement et peut-être du soulagement d'être loin de là-bas, de l'endroit où ça s'était passé. Mais le dimanche, quand Inga demanda à Sonia ce qu'elle avait vu depuis la fenêtre de sa classe ce matin-là, la jeune fille se contenta de secouer la tête, le regard vide et la mâchoire crispée.
and we summed up some of the techniques and important points that you needed to think about when in front of your translation:
"to be written by Jason / Joyce"
HW:
- j'ai oublié de vous dire que vous auriez un contrôle de vocabulaire Mercredi sur l'ensemble de la séquence incluant le texte "Heart of Darkness" + un devoir de
fin de séquence Jeudi (2 heures: comprehension / expression / translation)... oops... ... faites passer le message. Merci.
Hi guys,
today we began to correct the translation you had to complete during your 3-hour test before the holidays. Here goes what we have done so far:
In the days afterward, I couldn't get in to them. The area had been cordoned off and most it evacuated but somehow the police nerver arrived at 40 white
street to tell its residents to leave.
Les jours suivants, je n'ai pas réussi à les rejoindre. Le quartier avait été bouclé et la plupart évacuée, mais bizarrement
la police n'arriva jamais au 40 white street afin de dire à ses habitants de quitter les lieux.
The first week-end, Inga and Sonia managed to travel to Brooklyn and I cooked for the two of them. We talked a little. Inga
told me about the ruined cars piled up on C.S, the smoking pit a few blocks south,
Le premier week-end, Inga et Sonia réussirent à aller à Brooklyn et je leur ai fait à manger. Nous avons un peu discuté. Inga
m'a parlé des carcasses de voitures empilées sur C.S, du cratère fumant quelques pâtés de maison plus au sud,
the pale dust that had covered everything like a toxic snowfall, her worry about poisons in the air. And then they slept. They
slept and slept and slept, the sleep of exhaustion
de la poussière pâle qui avait tout recouvert comme un manteau de neige toxique, de ses inquiétudes à propos des poisons qui
flottaient dans l'air. Et puis elles dormirent. Elles dormirent, dormirent, et dormirent
and perhaps relief to be away from there, the place where it had happened. But on Sunday
when Inga asked Sonia what she had seen from the classroom window that morning,
du sommeil de l'épuisement et peut-être du soulagement d'être loin du lieu où cela s'était passé. Mais le dimanche, quand Inga
demanda à Sonia ce qu'elle avait vu depuis la fenêtre de sa classe ce matin-là,
the girl just shook her head, her
eyes blank and her mouth tight.
la jeune fille se contenta de secouer la tête pour dire non, les yeux vides et les lèvres sérrées.
We will finish correcting it tomorrow.
HW:
- pensez à actualiser vos fiches de vocabulaire et préparez-vous à un contrôle sur la séquence "Disturbing Lives: colonisation"
- rendre la correction de son devoir d'expression écrite (en corrigeant les erreurs / finissant / améliorant votre production)
Hi guys,
today we took the plane to New York JFK and you tried to get in the USA. Unfortunately for some of you as you were terrorists or drug dealers, you were denied access...
You can download the announcements made by the cabin crew (me...) to welcome you on board and to prepare yourself for landing here:
Here is the waiver that you have to fill in when on the plane to the US:
Here is what we said about it:
Warm Up: Immigration Waiver
Today we did a warm up about immigration services in the USA. Firstly we began with a little activity, we watched a video that made us feel as if we were on a plane; we were the passengers and Mr Hattais was the flight attendant (he made a very good job!). Then we filled in a waiver and to finish we talked about it. We gave our opinion and wrote the lesson.
Lesson:
I don’t think it’s really useful because people can lie. I believe it cannot prevent terrorists from striking. It’s only to enforce security measures and show that the government cares about people. It’s to reassure them.
Voc:
Illegal immigrant
(to) enter ¤ a country
A form / a waiver
Useless / inefficient
HW:
- finir vos fiches de vocabulaire sur la séquence précédente en vue d'un contrôle de vocabulaire.
- revoir les éléments de la séquence précédente (en terme de récit notamment) pour être capable de rédiger un texte en prenant en compte le point de vue d'un
personnage.
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 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:
|
|
Poor |
Medium |
Good |
Excellent |
|
Text is known by heart |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
|
No phonetic problems |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
|
Tone of voice is coherent |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
|
Staging is creative and well done |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
|
Laughing for no reason (malus) |
- 1 |
- 2 |
|
|
|
A real group work is made (bonus) |
|
|
+ 1 |
+ 2 |
Final Score = ________ / 20
See you tomorrow for your performances and for the end of this text.
Take care,
Mr Hattais.
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