Stereotypes - What about the French people...?

Hey,

today we first warmed up with the pension reform. Here is what we said about it:

Students and workers are protesting / demonstrating / striking because of the pension reform. With the new bill / law, people must work until 62 and they cannot retire before. If they want to have a full pension, they must work until 67.

Voc:
demonstration / protest / strike
retirement (la retraite) / pension (l'argent que l'on touche à la retraite)

Then we continued the lesson about stereotypes after you filled in a vocabulary test that I have decided not to grade since it was really poor... you'll take another one very soon.

Here is what we said about the video:

• Confirmed stereotypical ideas:

- the best hockey players
- not to like Americans
- they want to be different from Americans

• Denied preconceived idea:

Canadians are said to have a redneck accent but it's not true. For example, they pronounce "about" correctly; not [abu:t]

Finally, we began to study the picture illustrating the text that we are going to talk about. Here is what we said about it:

French people are said to smoke as if everybody in France smoked. But it's not true.
French people are believed to wear a beret as though everybody wore a beret. But that's not the case for everyone. 

HW: you need to complete the as if / as though exercise. You can download it here again.

Files: Download a copy of the text here.

More activities: you can try to find out what French stereotype you correspond to. Click here and have fun! And get back to me with the result (post a comment to do so).

Here is the result for MY test...

You have a tidy white uniform with a red scarf and a silly white hat. When you are in a good mood, you kiss your fingers with a flourish. When you are in a bad mood, you chase ungrateful customers with a meat cleaver.