Oh Stella!

12.10.2011

Hey guys,

today we first warmed up about the possibility to maintain a love relationship during the war and here is what you said:

Falling in love during the war is probably possible but very harsh.

There's a difference between falling in love before the war and trying to keep a long-distance relationship and falling in love at war which seems to be frivolous. Keeping a long-distance relationship depends on several things:

- Faith and trust in your partner

- And finding solutions to communicate

For instance, Cathy's cousin has been in love with a foreigner for two years now; they are getting married when her boyfriend proposes to her.

Voc :

- Tenderness

- (to) seek shelter

- (to) propose # (to) offer

- faith/trust

- a foreigner = a stranger

Then we continued with summing up what the Blitz was and we jotted down a few words to remember:

Voc : The Blitz

Bombing - to blast a city

to shelter oneself

murderous

casualties = victims of the war

Finally, we started reading a new text about Stella, Philip and Joe on the farm. Here are the notes that we took to remember the first elements of the story:

Torn Apart (text)

E (soldier)

Characters : Stella ---X----> Philip --------- ---> Philip's mother / Philip's friend (soldier)

---L----> Joe (farmer) -----> Mr Lawrence (boss, Joe's father)

--W ---> Other farmers ("reflected all those in the room")

Where : on a farm

in London/ at the hospital

Facts : Philip's Mother / call / Stella : Philip -> lost a leg + a foot (?)

Voc: (to be) crippled

handicapped

mutilated

HW:

- être capable de faire le compte rendu du texte sur ce que nous avons compris pour le moment.

- préparer des notes pour répondre à la question suivante en anglais à l'oral: "What would you do if you were Stella? Leave the farm and break up with Joe or stay and break up with Philip? Explain why." (2-3 minutes)

Documents:

- Télécharger une copie du texte ici.

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