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  • Rules at school and Taking the Tube

    14 September 2012 ( #3ème 4 - Seniors )

    Hi guys, I can't say that you attitude today was perfect... it still needs a lot of improvement on your part... If you don't focus enough and respect the common rules of the school, some of you will end up at the principal's office (again...) very quickly......

  • American Elections! Let's support your candidate!

    12 September 2012 ( #3ème EURO - Seniors )

    Hi guys, today we started the first topic of the year: American Elections! Yeah! We talked about the 2 main parties and candidates and their support (Niall Horan!!!!!! LOL) but also the steps (the process) of the elections. 1- The two main parties. 2-...

  • Greetings!

    12 September 2012 ( #6ème 4 - Freshmen )

    Hi guys, today we first reviewed the alphabet once more. You REALLY need to know it by heart! Then I checked that you knew your classroom English and we moved on with the lesson about greetings . You can listen to the document here again: Important vocabulary...

  • Facebook - Friend or Foe?

    06 June 2012 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Voici un dossier regroupant des ressources pour exploiter ce thème en classe plutôt pour le niveau 3° mais adaptable bien sûr pour d'autres élèves. Pour y accéder, dézippez le fichier et ouvrez la présentation Open Office: "Add Me". J'espère que les liens...

  • LRRH - The original fairy tale to turn into a parody!

    06 June 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hi guys, today we first worked on identifying the elements from the original story of: "Little Red Riding Hood". You can listen to the story here again: Here is what you said: Then you had to get together in groups of 4 with one person in charge of one...

  • Preparing your dossiers + Academy awards ceremony

    04 June 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère LVA )

    Hey people, today your first had to work and make research on the Internet to prepare your dossiers and above all the line of analysis that goes with it. You will have to finish this for next Monday. Then we watched some of your Vincent short film adaptation....

  • Ethical Fashion - environment / people / industry / solutions

    01 June 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hi guys, today we first talked about the brand "Nike" and how their way of producing shoes was not ethical at all... we then watched the report from the BBC about ethical fashion again. You had to identify the main topics from the video with key ideas...

  • Ethical Fashion - Fashion without a victim!

    29 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hello guys, today we corrected your vocabulary exercise about "clothes" and we continued the lesson with the study of a new text and a video. You can download the text here again: And watch the video here: We didn't have time to write anything formal...

  • Vincent - Caption this!

    21 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère LVA )

    Hello again guys, let me first tell you again how disappointed I am in your behaviour today at the beginning of the class... Once more I had to get REALLY angry before you actually considered talking and so that we could correct your homework for today....

  • Reading - Highlighting - Understanding - Summarizing

    15 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey guys, today you first took a short vocab test about the words from possible assignments. I hope you did well as you will HAVE TO be able to use those words correctly and understand them to complete your future test. Then I gave you a new longer and...

  • YOU are the next Master Chefs!

    14 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère LVA )

    Congratulations guys! Today was quite awesome! Let's hope you liked it too. You can click the picture below to access all of the photos of your wonderful dishes. Here is the worksheet that we used today to talk both about cooking and about Vincent (Tim...

  • Oral presentation - Buy Nothing Day

    13 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - Tale STG )

    Hi guys, today two of you came up to the front of the class to give out their presentations about this visual document: You can send me YOUR personal oral presentation by email and I will help you correct it. Then in the 2nd part of the hour, we had class...

  • The Gold Rush - 1 Mark's trip to the USA

    01 April 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey, today we first did a quick recap of what we had said about the picture with the Rolls Royce. Then we moved on with a new document about Mark. You can listen to his conversation with a friend after he came back to England from the States: Here is...

  • Pieces of advice to have dinner at the Queen + Super Size Me (intro)

    27 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 1ère L 2 )

    Hey, today we first started the lesson with some pieces of advice that you could give a friend if he/she was invited at a dinner party at the Queen of England. Here is what you said: Pieces of advice to have dinner at the Queen: We shouldn 't put our...

  • CCTV at school? + The attitude of Daleidy's parents + her reaction

    27 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Hey, first we warmed up about a topical issue. Should we implant CCTV at school? Here is what we said: Chéryl thinks it's a bad idea. It's useless. She said that in banks or metro stations, there are cameras, but there are still hold-ups / aggressions....

  • Test on stereotypes

    15 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 1ère L 2 )

    Hey, today you took a two-hour test on stereotypes. I hope you will have good grades. I'll try to turn in your exams asap (hopefully next week). You can download the exercises here again - Here is the 1st exercise (lesson + expression): (originally designed...

  • Test on Immigration

    13 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - Tale LV2 )

    Hey, today you had to complete a test dealing with a problem of immigration as a written comprehension exercise. Hope you didn't find it too hard. You can download the text and questions here again: You only had to answer questions 1 to 9. As homework...

  • Module: Global warming, the time has come to take a stand!

    13 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Hey today we first warmed up with oral presentations of two of your classmates. They were not rich and long enough. You need to prepare more things and speak more fluently without looking at your notes. Then we began to work on the video clip "Beds are...

  • The Internet + New Sequence: The American school system and education

    08 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Hey, today we first started with the class with a usual warm up. Today it was about the Internet and here is what we said: How much time do you spend on the internet? I usually spend 5 hours a day. I love the internet, I log on to my facebook and msn...

  • Module: Asking questions + Understanding a text

    07 January 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    In module today, we first warmed up about the good resolutions of you and your parents... what should you / they do or stop doing this year...? And here is what we wrote: - I will spend more time studying - I will try to increase my grades in English...

  • Disunited Kingdom - Oral Comprehension - Part 2/2

    18 December 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 1ère L 2 )

    Today, after warming up again about incredible things, we continued speaking about the document we watched yesterday. And here is what we wrote: Most of the interviewees in the document are turned off by pageantry: "I don't like the whole grandeur", one...

  • Continuation of the story

    16 December 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 5 )

    Today, we first warmed up with the sentence "My mother is 92 years old" and you had to react and guess why. Then we corrected the exercise you had to complete about "interro-negative exclamations". Here is the correction: 1/ Doesn't he look silly! 2/...

  • Maeva's Presentation + Correction of your exercises + Comment on the text + translation

    19 March 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 1ère L 2 )

    Hey, today we first had a little warm up with Maeva who commented on the song "Tik Tok" by Kei$ha. She will need to send me her audio presentation via the Audio Dropbox section so that she can validate her grade. Then we corrected 2 exercises that you...

  • Lesson Test on the text : "Guns"

    11 December 2009 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Hey, today you had to take a one hour test on the text "Guns" that we had studied in class. Those who were absent will need to catch up with it. You can download a copy of this test here: "yet to be uploaded" HW: remember that you will have a test on...

  • How to write a dialogue in English

    02 December 2009 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Today, we first warmed up about Christmas gifts and the celebration. Here is what we said about them: "to be written by Adeline" Then we spoke about how to write a dialogue in English. I gave you a list of verbs of speech. You need to know them for next...