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English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.

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The beginning of the detective's work...

The beginning of the detective's work...

Hi guys, today we really began the work of the detective... we analysed the text as if we were in the shoes of Liddy Hamilton trying to gauge the truthfulness of the suspects' alibi and whereabouts... Here is what we concluded from our notes about the...

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The beginning of the detective's work...

The beginning of the detective's work...

Hi guys, today we really began the work of the detective... we analysed the text as if we were in the shoes of Liddy Hamilton trying to gauge the truthfulness of the suspects' alibi and whereabouts... Here is what we concluded from our notes about the...

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Dancer in the Dark - Selma's sentence

Dancer in the Dark - Selma's sentence

Hi guys, today we finished talking about Selma's predicament and made hypotheses about her possible sentence. Here is what we said about her motives for acting in such and such a way and also the possible verdicts if she had to face a trial: Warm-up "But...

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Facebook is watching you!

Facebook is watching you!

Hi guys, today you had a presentation for your oral exam about Facebook and privacy; and you had to take notes while listening. Then I gave you some notes to complete yours. Finally one of you volunteered to try and make a good presentation of the document....

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The wedding ceremony + Strange Fruit Analysis - the end!

The wedding ceremony + Strange Fruit Analysis - the end!

Hi guys, today we worked on this video by Catherine Tate first: Here is what we said about it: "to be written by ..." Then we continued the lesson on segregation and wrote parts of analysis for the song / poem "Strange Fruit". Here is what we said: "to...

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The dead Governor + Vocab

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 worksheet:...

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The dead Governor + Vocab

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:...

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Lynching Parties + Strange Fruit

Hi guys, today after having a quick warm up about the movie "Dancer in the Dark", we continued the lesson on lynching parties with the presentations of some students about the pictures you had to research. Here are the notes you took from their presentations:...

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Dancer in the Dark - Analysis

Hi guys, today we watched the extracts from Dancer in the Dark again and we talked about the intentions of the character and of the director by analysing the words and camera angles. Here is what we said: Analysis of the scene : The intention 1) Bill:...

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Understanding a completely foreign language

Understanding a completely foreign language

Hi guys, today after making a quick recap about last time's lesson, we then expanded it a little bit. Here is what we said: "to be written by Charline" Then we continued the class with a set a methology exercises on how to understand text. As you could...

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