2011-2012 - 1ere es

The Jell-O experience

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hey guys, today you had both a Jell-O and Lucky Charms experience. I hope you had fun and that you will remember it for long. Here is what we said about it: Jell-o smells tasty It smells like lemon and fruit It smells as if it contained a lot of sugar...

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Fat tax and humour in the text

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hi guys, today we first warmed up with a news report from the website Reuters about the new Danish law (fat tax). You can watch the report below: Here is what we said about it: Warm up : News Report in Denmark The Danish government has decided to make...

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Understanding the article thanks to lexical fields

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hey, today we worked on the content of the article a bit more and we finally made a clear summary about it. Here it reads: M.Daily was severely obese because he suffered from malnutrition. He used to be 152 kg. But now after the operation he can’t eat...

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How to write a newspaper article - I want to be fat again

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hi guys, today we worked in groups around the notion of "How to write a newspaper article". From a recent article, we determined what the layout was composed of and while reading it we could identify some typical information about the content. You can...

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Information - 1ère ES

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

En raison de mes absences dues à des convocations extérieures pour le baccalauréat (rattrapage session de Sept. 2011) , je vous informe d'une modification dans l'emploi du temps. Le groupe 1 n'aura pas cours ce lundi 3 Oct. Il sera remplacé par le groupe...

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A new kind of murder weapon...

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hi guys, today you first took a lesson, vocabulary and listening test. You can listen to the recording here again: Then we continued the lesson with a "mysterious document" that only two of you watched. You can now all watch it here: Here is what we finally...

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I like food, you like food, ...

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hey, today we first warmed up with the "I love food" song and we listened to the very beginning of the movie again. Here is what we said about it: The director's critism : The movie opens with a scene where children are taught a song; it goes: " I like...

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Super Size Me - the opening

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hi guys, today we first checked your pronunciation of some important vocabulary words from the lesson such as "chocolate", "hamburgers", "broccoli", ... and then we moved on with trying to understand the very beginning of the movie "Super Size Me". You...

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Bill Bryson's buying junk food... what about his wife?

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hey guys, today we made a quick recap of what we had said about the definition for junk food and we completed it. Here is what we said: Eating too much junk food may lead to health problems such as: - diabetes - high blood pressure - difficult pregnancy...

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Junk Food or not Junk Food....? That is the question!

2011-2012 - 1ère ES

By English Prof

Hi guys, today we corrected your homework and we discussed the notion of junk food to really determine what it was. In the end we concluded that there were 3 types of junk food items and we made a short list according to the main ingredients: Junk food...

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