Hey guys,

let's hope you achieved good results for one of the last tests of this year.

It will be very important for my decision for the 3rd term.

Take care,

Mr Hattais.

Hi guys,

today you had to find 3 things to remember not to do for next test on Wednesday... let's hope you will abide by your proof reading rules...

Then we continued the class with analysing how speech verbs worked in English and how to build a dialogue.

Here is a set of 3 main rules worth remembering (differences between French and English dialogue):

"to be written by..."

Additional vocabulary:

"to be written by..."

Eventually, you took your vocabulary and lesson test.

HW: 

- réviser pour les contrôles à venir (verbes irréguliers + test de fin de séquence C.E. et E.E.)

- apprendre votre nouveau vocabulaire associé au discours.

Hi guys,

today we first listened to an audio recoring (a news report) about illegal downloading. You can listen to it again below:

Here is what we said about it (+ grammar rule about suffixes):

Warm up: Illegal downloading/ file sharing

The document is a radio news report about illegal downloading. It deals with a meeting in London with the British governement and British artists (Lily Allen, Pink Floyd...) to find a solution against the problem. The hackers will receive a warning (two letters) before their connection is slowed down.

In France:
first: a warning -> you receive 1 email and 1 letter.
then: a fine -> you have to pay the government.
finally: you can go to jail/prison

-ing : Transforme un verbe en nom
share -> sharing (partage)
warn -> warning (avertissement)
meet -> meeting (rencontre)

Then we continued the lesson with the correction for the timeline of events the day of the murder. Here all the elements mentionned with their approximate time:

 
Time line of events:

7:30 -> someone arrived
time of death
8:00 -> The visitor left
Inez made a last round of the house and discovered the corpse
9:10 -> Inez called the police
9:30 -> the police arrived (+Inez's interview)
10:00 -> Mason's interview
11:00 -> Shepard's interview
Midnight -> I went back home
3:00 am -> I called Mc Coy

Finally, here is a picture of what the crime could look like (drawn by Sarah D.):

HW:

- préparez-vous à la fin de la séquence, contrôle de vocabulaire, contrôle de verbes irréguliers...

Hi guys,

today we continued studying the text and for those who still haven't finished highlighting it with different colours to make the different WH- stand out, I strongly advise you to do so...

Here is what we have written so far about the different parts of the document (people, places, alibi, motives, problems about the alibi...):

Mason:

     Motive? He and Kelner had been political allies for years but recently he favored another candidate. So they had a spat. Mason said Robert called him "to mend fences" 

     Alibi? there was music playing in an upstairs room. He was reading and he didn't hear or watch the news.

James Shepard:

     Alibi? He was sick/ had a stomach flu; he had a weak voice and stayed at home. 

     Reaction: He was horrified when he heard the news = he already knew about the governor's death.

Vocabulary:
to mend fences: to clarily a problem
stomach flu: la gastro 

HW:

- remplir la feuille distribuée ce jour (3 exerices = replacer tous les éléments sur la chronologie avec les heures connues ou supposées / représenter schématiquement la scène de crime en utilisant le plus d'éléments possibles d'après le texte / faire son dernier rapport reprenant toute l'enquête, dénonçant le coupable et innocentant les autres suspects en justifiant ses choix.)

Hi guys,

today we first corrected some exercises from your worksheet about methodology and we then continued the lesson with a vocab recap and the beginning of a study of a text entitled: "The Dead Governor", by Stan Smith.

Correction of the vocab worksheet:

Weapons -> action of the criminal / victim

- gun / shot gun / rifle  -> to shoot / to be shot
- fire poker / baseball bat -> to hit / to be hit
- saw / chainsaw -> to cut into slices / to be cut into slices
- sword -> to slay / to be slain
- knife / razor blade / dagger -> to stab / to be stabbed
- poison -> to poison /  to be poisoned
- ribbon / hands -> to strangle / to be strangled
- cushion / pillow -> to choke / to be choked

You had to highlight all the information you could understand about the WH- questions and try to make links between your ideas.

HW:

- finir les repérages + vous devrez être capable de présenter ce texte en vous aidant de ce que vous avez compris (= expliquer la sitation générale).

Files: download a copy of the text here.