English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
today we first made a quick recap about the Canadian stereotypes dealt with in the document "I am Canadian" and we continued to analyse it. Here is what we said about it:
Canadians stereotypes:
Canadians are said to / believed to / thought to... + BV
- be called Sally / Jimmy / Suzy (but it's not true)
- have a president (prime minister)
- speak American (French & English)
- have a redneck accent
- be travelers and backpackers (cf. they can sew the country flag on their backpacks)
- be hockey fans (1st nation of hockey)
- Canada is believed to be a peaceful country
Additional vocabulary:
- The animal emblem = the beaver (a proud / noble animal)
- a backpack
- a lumberjack / woodcutter = long beard, ax, tartan shirt / chequered shirt
Then we continued the lesson with the analysis of the illustration going with the last text from the sequence. Here is what we started to say about it:
Stereotypes of the Frenchman as seen by strangers / foreigners / tourists:
- Physical characteristics: ...
- Clothes: ...
- Mental characteristics: ...
- Attitude: ...
HW:
- Finir de remplir la trace écrite avec les informations vues en classe (dans les 4 catégories déterminées, il vous faudra mettre au moins 4 ou 5 idées). Je vérifierai les classeurs pour contrôler le homework.
- Préparez vous à un contrôle de vocabulaire sur la séquence 2 la semaine suivante.
- Dès l'étude du texte terminée, vous aurez un contrôle sur cette séquence. N'attendez pas la dernière minute pour faire vos fiches de grammaire, de vocabulaire, de culture, ... etc.