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  • How did you feel in highschool?

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

    Hey, today we first warmed up with an audio document about highschool. You heard some people interviewed and you had to guess the question that was asked and why. Here is what we said: How did you feel in highschool? To my mind, it was a very good experience....

  • Correction of your comprehension tests - Harry Potter

    02 February 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey, today during the first hour of class, we came back on the meaning of the document you had to analyse last Thursday. Here is what we said about it: Before J.K.R wrote Harry Potter, she used to work in a coffee shop in the afternoon with her baby....

  • CCTV at school ? - Gregor's opinion + Continuation of the text

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

    Hey, today we first warmed up again with the idea of implanting CCTV at school and we listened to Gregor who was interviewed about the subject. Here is what we said about the document: "to be written by Soumaya or Jessica" You can listen to the document...

  • School uniforms - Pronunciation - /s/ /ed/ and word stress

    25 March 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey, today we first had a little chat about school uniforms and we listened to an audio document that you may listen here again: Here is what we said about it: "to be written by Camille" Then we nearly finished our phonetics activities about the pronunciation...

  • New Sequence : Global Warming

    15 December 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Today, we really began our new sequence on global warming by studying an audio document about 4x4s. You can listen to it again down here: Here is what we said about it: "to be written by Jérémy L." Remember : -> pour intensifier, il y a plusieurs procédés....

  • Uniforms + Pronunciation French VS English

    18 March 2010 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Hey, today we first listened to an interview, a debate about uniforms at school. You can listen to the document again down here: Here is what we said about it: "to be written by Camille" Then we continued our phonetics activities about the French words...

  • Last but one lesson on "The Fun They Had"

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

    Today, we first warmed up with an audio document about 4 x 4s. You had to find out about the advantages and the drawbacks . Here is what you said and wrote: Warm up: 4x4s (four by fours) Advantages: they are performant, they can drive nearly everywhere......

  • What is Jacob afraid of ?

    29 September 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Today, after a quick recap of what the swine flu was, we talked about Jacob and the reasons why he was scared. Here is what we wrote: "He is afraid of being sent back to Russia. He is afraid of not passing the medical test. He is scared of not going to...

  • The 3 characters in the text

    30 September 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 5 )

    Hey, today we spoke about the characters in text recapitulating what we had said last time about them but we didn't have time to copy it down. Here is what we wrote: The characters Jacob is the main character. He immigrated from Russia to escape from...

  • New York's Population - The American dream

    09 September 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 5 )

    Today, we listened to an audio document entitled "The American Dream - New York's population" in which you could learn a little bit more about New York City's population and districts. We made a chart about the immigrants who went to the US, the districts...

  • New York's population

    10 September 2009 ( #2009-2010 - 2nde 2 )

    Today we corrected the translation sentences you had to complete. Remember : Pour exprimer un doute, une incertitude, je dois maintenant utiliser un auxiliaire modal : may ou might. Si mon doute porte sur un événement présent ou à venir, voici la structure...

  • Sequence # 2 - Ireland

    30 September 2009 ( #2009-2010 - Tale STG )

    Today, we started a new sequence on Ireland. I played the beginning of a video but without the image and you had to guess where the scene might take place and justify your choices. Here is the extract again: Here is what we said: - about Ireland: "Ireland...

  • Tuesday, September 29th Group 2

    04 October 2009

    Group 2 Suite du travail sur Opinions About School. Nous avons vu quelques notions. Pour exprimer l’opposition on peut dire : Whereas, while = tandis que, alors que Exemple: BlinkFan likes school whereas Bluebear doesn't. Unlike + nom = au contraire de...

  • Thursday, January 21st

    21 January 2010

    We first read the text and worked on it : All the rage since Reagan and corrected Part 1 Vocabulaire : Nationwide: all over the nation, all over the country Worldwide: all over the world www: world wide web 100: a hundred, one hundred 1,000: one thousand...

  • Wednesday, march 31sT Group 2

    07 April 2010

    Wednesday 31 March 2010 VOCABULARY : How come : comment se fait-il que ? Je viens de faire quelque chose=I have just +participe passée du verbe I can’t afford to +verbe= je n’ai pas les moyens de + verbe To comply with the deadlines: respecter les délais...

  • Thursday, January 28th

    31 January 2010

    We started with a recap of what we did the week before and then, corrected the exercises you had to do 2) a. in the early 80s. b. in hours. c. Nike creates consumer longing by keeping supplies tight and releasing collectible versions with minimal hype....

  • Tuesday, January 12th Group 2

    13 January 2010

    Today, Maud, Marie, David and Flora were absent. Warm up : What are your New year's resolutions ? Victor will study harder. Elodie will study music. Sabah will not be late in class Mégane will find a boyfriend before Valentine's day. Romain will study...

  • Wednesday February 10th

    15 February 2010

    Elina was absent and Guylène did not prepare her current issue. We corrected Paper 3 Then we went through the Landmarks on the Environment and completed the file with the Copenhagen Summit. Whoever was in charge, I am expecting your notes… Homework for...

  • Tuesday, February 2nd group 2

    15 February 2010

    TUESDAY February 2nd group 2 Today Someone presented the document you had to prepare home about plastic bags. Then we worked on a next theme: THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES and on a text page 98 of your text book: Stressed by emails. RESUME DE COURS : ANGLAIS By...

  • Thrusday, February 4th

    15 February 2010

    First I handed back the accounts I graded of the text of your book p. 12. We worked on how to make an account. COMPTE-RENDU en français d'un article en anglais. En un nombre de mots limités Une technique : à acquérir en 1. Suivant un protocole 2. En s'entraînant...

  • Wednesday, November 18th

    19 November 2009

    Today Lindsay and Sabrina presented their current issues. Both found an article in the Independent, a British quality paper. Both articles dealt with the environment. Am expecting Lindsay's notes. Then we worked on the text p 80 of our books. We finished...

  • Thursday, October 22nd

    23 October 2009

    Cédric, Fatoumata, Clément and Franck were absent. I hope they are all right now. We only worked one hour. I am expecting Aziz’s notes on the lesson. As I have no news from Aziz, I thank Gina for her notes. We started to work on an article : The return...

  • Wednesday, January 27th Group 1

    28 January 2010

    Someone showed up in the class and we made the presentations Presentation : Her name is Kristie, she is 20, she comes from England from Grimsby on the North-East Coast, and she is an English Assistant. Kristie has two brothers, an older one and a younger...

  • Thursday, December 17th

    21 December 2009

    We did a recap of what you said about New York and Ellis Island. And we worked on how to express doubt Quand le doute porte sur un événement passé ou futur : MAY + V Quand le doute porte sur événement passé : MAY+HAVE+PARTICIPE PASSE DU VERBE. You had...

  • Wednesday, September 30th Group 2

    04 October 2009

    The language lab being too small for the class, we are now in room 157 on Wednesdays. You had to correct the mistakes you made on the presentation you had handed me in the week before. Quelques uns ont fait une présentation complète de leur camarade de...