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  • Understanding a completely foreign language

    27 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hi guys, today after making a quick recap about last time's lesson, we then expanded it a little bit. Here is what we said: Grammar: Who (personne) Which (objet/chose) ex: - It's the cover of a magazine which was probably published during the Xmas season....

  • LVA - Prepartion for the final exam

    28 April 2012 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Bonjour à tous, voici un document que j'ai créé pour permettre aux 1ères LVA en fin d'année de commencer à penser à leur examen l'année prochaine et pour que leurs objectifs soient clairs dès le début d'année en terminale. J'espère que cela pourra vous...

  • Role plays - Questions of the customs officer and answers of the tourists

    25 October 2012 ( #6ème 2 - Freshmen )

    Hi guys, today was dedicated to preparing your role play for after the holidays. You will be a customs officer and a tourist in pairs and exchange your roles. Here are the activity worksheets if you ever lost them: Here are some prompts for the tourist...

  • Ana's identity and story

    19 January 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hi guys, today after having an interesting presentation by Sarah of yesterday's picture (good job), we moved on with the lesson and began studying a text about an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Here is what we have said about her so far: Ana: an illegal...

  • Acronyms - Correction

    13 September 2012 ( #6ème 2 - Freshmen )

    Hello guys, today we corrected the exercises you to complete about finding an acronym and we wrote some important ones to remember. Ex: BFF stands for "Best Friend Forever" CUL8TR means "See you later" ... Attention à la prononciation du [i:] dans : see...

  • Icoal - Clean our Cloud (Greenpeace's campaign) + correction of the translation

    09 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hi guys, today we first warmed up with the viewing and analysing of the following video made by Greenpeace. Here is what we said about it: "to be written by ..." Then we commented the translation that I gave you from the text "Southern Trees". Here are...

  • Monuments in London + TEST

    19 September 2012 ( #3ème 4 - Seniors )

    Hi guys, today you first listened to a document (Sharmila explaining Kyle what they were going to visit in London) and you had to stop the monuments they were talking about. - The Tower of London - Tower Brigde - The London Eye - Big Ben - Picadilly Circus...

  • How to comment on a picture (father and child) + Gun Culture in the US

    04 May 2011 ( #2010-2011 - Tale L )

    Hey, today we first began the class by partially correcting your homework from today (analysis of the picture entitled "Father and Child). Here is what we said about it: Type of doc / color -> the document is a photograph in black and white whose artist...

  • Acting Lamb to the Slaughter + How to translate!

    31 May 2012 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hi guys, today after correcting your dialogues and finally acting them to get some more points on your grade, we commented and corrected the translation that I made for you from the text about segregation that you were given as a test 2 weeks ago. Here...

  • AIDS is a mass murderer - Awareness campaign

    09 December 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hey people, today you were VERY VERY quiet and it really pisses me off when students just don't play their parts and don't try to participate and elucidate what's asked of them... I DO think that the document you were shown today was VERY controversial...

  • Health quiz - Squanto - Mystery picture

    30 November 2012 ( #4ème 3 - Juniors )

    Hi guys, today we first completed the quiz that you had created about health and sport. Then we continued and wrote the lesson about Squanto in the copybook along with a chart with regular verbs (pronunciation of /ed/ ending): - Squanto was a Native American...

  • Jim Ricotti + Extract of the movie "The Terminal"

    25 October 2012 ( #6ème 4 - Freshmen )

    Hello guys, today we continued working on Jim Ricotti's dialogue. You had to complete the script with more polite quesitons. Then there were 3 groups of 3 people who were invited to act out their presentation. As you didn't have a lot of time to remember...

  • I like food, you like food, ...

    21 September 2011 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    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...

  • Max's story and Hello, how are you? - the song

    14 September 2012 ( #6ème 2 - Freshmen )

    Hi guys, today we listened to a new document about Max's story... Argh! Max is always late! It's a big problem! He's late for school in the morning. He's late for class in the afternoon. He's late for the bus in the evening! He is always late!!!!!! So...

  • AIDS Poster, the temporary grades...

    09 February 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hey guys, as I'm really not satisfied with what lots of you have done for the AIDS poster, I will give you another chance to improve your grade over the holidays... Here are the results of let's call it "first draft"...: Let's hope you do something nicer...

  • Phonetics chart - Name Bingo & the basics

    20 September 2012 ( #6ème 4 - Freshmen )

    Hi guys, today we first made a quick recap of the different adjectives you need to know when you speak about feelings. Then we continued the lesson with a "phonetics Bingo". You had to tick the names you heard to see if you had a bingo. Finally, we completed...

  • Dancer in the Dark - Selma's sentence

    30 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 1ère ES )

    Hi guys, today we finished talking about Selma's predicament and made hypotheses about her possible sentence. Here is what we said about her motives for acting in such and such a way and also the possible verdicts if she had to face a trial: Warm-up "But...

  • Consumerism - a modern scourge (photo of a graffiti)

    06 April 2011 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Here is a post particularly dedicated to senior STG students who will take their oral exam at the end of the year. The recording and commentary was made by Holly, our British language assistant from London, UK. This document deals with: Consumerism, over...

  • Reviewing Likes and Dislikes + TEST

    19 September 2012 ( #4ème 1 - Juniors )

    Hi guys, today we first reviewed how to express what you like and dislike in English and then you took your final test for this sequence. Let's hope your marks are not going to be too low. Unfortunately, your behaviour still needs improvement... _______________________...

  • Akeelah and the Bee

    31 August 2011 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Voici le lien vers un document collaboratif pour étudier le film: Akeelah and the Bee exploitable en 6ème (mais pas seulement), notamment lors du rebrassage de l'alphabet. Tâche finale: Organiser un Spelling Bee dans la classe et/ou interclasse voire...

  • What do you like...? + How can you...?

    23 November 2012 ( #6ème 2 - Freshmen )

    Hello everyone, once again, I had to be very strict with you because you were not focused enough on the class. But here is what we did anyway. We completed the pair work about the activities you like doing and how well you could do these activities. Remember:...

  • Tim Burton's Vincent - Dubbing a short animated film

    31 July 2012 ( #Teachers' Corner )

    Bonjour, voici le détail d'un projet qui amènera les élèves à doubler un court métrage en tâche finale; dans cet exemple, il s'agit précisément du court métrage d'animation: "Vincent" de Tim Burton (1982) dont vous pouvez regarder l'oeuvre ci-dessous....

  • The Gold fever!

    07 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hey guys, today we first did a quick recap of yesterday's lesson and clarified some phonetic remarks about /-er/ endings. Then we listened to the document about Mark's trip to the US and more specifically about his historical visit to the places of the...

  • Arriving to an unknown world

    17 November 2011 ( #2011-2012 - Tale L )

    Hey guys, today we first worked on how to create an atmosphere starting just from your senses and impressions and our little experiments... ;) Creepy, wasn't it? Here is what we finally said: Narrating starting from your sensations and feelings The desert...

  • The beginning of the detective's work...

    30 March 2012 ( #2011-2012 - 2nde 1 )

    Hi guys, today we really began the work of the detective... we analysed the text as if we were in the shoes of Liddy Hamilton trying to gauge the truthfulness of the suspects' alibi and whereabouts... Here is what we concluded from our notes about the...

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