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6eme prises de notes cahier

Révisions conjugaison Présent simple et be+ing/ prétérit simple et be+ing

3eme Matched corrigé

FORCED INTO MARRIAGE

Judy Woodruff : But, first: today on Capitol Hill,

a Senate hearing looked into ending the practice

overseas of child marriage. But what wasn’t

examined, thousands of American girls and

women here in the United States who are forced

into marriage every year.

In the first of two parts, special correspondent

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon reports.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: For Nina Van Harn,

raising her children today is a radical departure

from her own upbringing

Nina van Harn: My childhood was part magical,

and part complicated.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: She was raised in rural

Michigan on a 40-acre farm in a tight-knit

community that practiced a conservative

form of evangelical Christianity. Its members

largely kept to themselves, more “Little House on

the Prairie” than modern-day America.

Growing up, she always knew one day was coming

She recorded its arrival in her diary.

Nina Van Harn: “Dear Kit” — that was the name

of the girl in the journal — “You will never guess

what happened today. Th is morning after breakfast,

Papa sat Naomi and I down at the kitchen

table and nailed us both with a load of bricks. He

believes he found husbands for both of us.”

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Then Van Harn turned

19. She was legally an adult. There was no gun to

her head, no chains around her wrists. But

because of lifelong pressures from her family

and her upbringing, she considers herself one of

thousands of American women and girls forced

into marriage each year.

Nina Van Harn: I knew that I wasn’t going to

say no. I didn’t think consciously in my head,

“I’m being forced”.

SET 1

WB p 66

• My = Cassia’s  us = young people, 17-year-old

• The girls can be identified thanks to their

beautiful dresses and the boys thanks to their

tailored suits while the others are wearing plain,

normal clothes.

• This system consists in matching girls

with boys: “the Matches are announced in

alphabetical order according to the girls’ last

names.”

• How does this extract illustrate the text on

the back cover of Matched?

This extract deals with the ceremony during

which the teenagers are matched. It is Cassia’s

“night”. The Society will choose Cassia’s partner

and will announce it in alphabetical order

according to the girls’ last names. We learn that

they can be matched with people from “other

City Halls”, so they probably do not know them.

PBS News report → WB p. 67

 The link between the document and the

extract from Matched is forced marriages.

 The other details are that she is talking

about child marriages that happen in America.

 a. Your expectations

• The woman’s identity

• The name of her husband

• When she was forced into marriage?

• Who forced her to get married?

• Why?

b. Your notes after listening to the report.

• Nina Van Harn: American –

religious (Evangelical Christian)

• She was forced to get married at 19

• Her father found her husband

• She had no option / She did not even think of refusing

c. Here is the diary page that the woman reads

in the report. Can you spot the sentence where

she reveals “what happened today”? Underline it.

“He believes he has found husbands for us both.

SET 2

WB p. 69

• What is the role and the objective of these commissions?

They had to choose the best of everything, so

that the Society would only keep the 100 best

poems, songs, paintings, stories…

• Why did they choose to create these commissions?

Do you agree with them?

They chose to create them because they

thought you cannot appreciate things fully when

there are too many.

I agree in a way because sometimes, it is difficult

to appreciate movies or TV series since there

are too many. Sometimes you do not even know

what to choose. Yet, I think it is dangerous to

select a limited number of works of art because

artists must be able to express themselves, and people must have the choice to read, watch

and listen to anything they want.

• How does this extract illustrate the text on the

back cover of Matched?

 It shows that the Society dictates everything:

not only who people are going to marry, but also

what they can read or see. They are not free.

Everything is controlled.

American Teenager’s blog → WB p. 70

• What are the links between the title, the first

paragraph and the extract from Matched?

 On peut remarquer le lien qu’établit la jeune bloggeuse

entre la sélection drastique opérée par la

Commission dans Matched et la censure de

certaines oeuvres dans la vraie vie.

• What country is it?

 It is the USA because the school board that

wanted to ban a book was in Pennsylvania.

• Do you agree?

 I agree with the author: if we can consider

burning books that we do not approve of, it

means one day many books could be forbidden.

We would not have choice of books, films, songs…

And it would be very sad because there would be no diversity.

SET 3

WB p. 71

• I = Cassia him = Ky

• Do you understand what Cassia doesn’t know

how to do?

She does not know how to write. She can only

type, on a keyboard.

• In the Society of Matched, everything that people

type is monitored.

If “all they can do is type” and if everything

that they type is monitored, it means that

everything they want to express if monitored,

they are under surveillance all the time and can

never express themselves freely.

• What advantage does handwriting give Ky?

“He can write words whenever he wants”, so he

can express himself whenever he wants, and can

write something and erase it. He is free.

• How does this extract illustrate the words:

“Society dictates” on the back cover of Matched?

It shows that the Society dictates everything:

not only who people are going to marry, but

the way people express themselves. They are

not free since they do not know how to write,

so they are completely dependent on the

computers of the Society, which are monitored.

Everything is controlled.

In the press → WB p. 72

 Read the headlines to understand the topic.

Do you understand the link with the text from

Matched?

The link is the loss of handwriting, the fact that

people may not know how to write in cursive

anymore.

 Now read these comments published in an

article “Is handwriting slowly dying out in America?”

and then give your own opinion.

Productions possibles :

• I agree with Jacob Fender: if we cannot write in

cursive and there is a blackout, we won’t be able

to communicate because the computers will not

work!

• I think Sammi Hascher is right: if you can only

type, you will be totally dependent on your

smartphone or computer.

• I think it’s important to learn how to write to

express yourself.

• Plus, you can be creative.

• Writing makes you independent. It’s an

important skill. Men mustn’t depend on

machines.

I agree with Graham, it is true that we have

electronic signatures so we do not need to sign

with a pen.

4eme corrige exercices p 113 livre

script interview Roald Dahl

When you’re writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals ,it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all.

Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them

and  this is even more true in children’s books.

 I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their

good or bad qualities and so, if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very

bad, very cruel.

If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That I think is fun and makes

an impact.

3eme correction p 74-75 wb

3eme corrigé p 74-75 WB

4eme pour lundi 8

1 p 113 livre, écouter sur le site compagnon puis faire un dessin ou décrire le personnage en français.
2-3-4 p 113 livre

4eme corrigé p 115-116 WB

6eme cours jeudi 4 juin et travail

Jeudi nous avons décrit l'image p 80 et il faut compléter le cours en s'aidant du script 1 p 142 dans le livre

 ( à écouter sur le site compagnon)

La leçon : 

Attention d= he arriVed 

6eme corrigé test 28 mai

3eme Equilibrium , corrigé

4eme Cyberbullying

 CO p 104 livre
 Script

Tu peux réécouter   CLICK HERE  en suivant le script

6eme corrige checkpoint performance

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LISTEN HERE

3eme mardi 2 juin

P 74-75 WB
Je parle de ce qui est interdit et obligatoire

4eme Cyber bullying LOGOS

Thanks to all of you who sent me nice logos.

Here is a selection of some I liked.

Have a nice long week end.

4eme corrigé comprehension orale 19 mai

3eme words dystopia

Test 6eme

COMPREHENSION ORALE

Conversation a

Conversation b

Conversation c






EXPRESSION ECRITE

6eme mardi 26 mai

Voici les images montrant les habitudes des Britanniques

Pour le test de jeudi revoir p 76,77 WB et p 74 livre

3eme corrigé p 66

6eme corrigés exercices

Voici les différents corrigés.

4eme mardi 26

Comprehension orale. ( p 104 livre)

Ecoutez le document intitulé Cyberbulllying  et résumez le en français.

C'est le track 118 , project 6 dans E for English

6eme pour lundi 25

Je m'auto-evalue, p 75 livre

Ecoute les deux documents et résume en français ce que tu as compris.

Listening 1

listening 2

test 12 mai 4eme correction

Pour ceux qui ont joué le jeu et rendu le test  ( bravo à vous ! ), voici le corrigé.

Pour les autres vous pouvez encore faire les exercices et vérifier votre travail en auto correction.

 Correction

1.

Cheeleaders	Very popular
Nerds and geeks	Intelligent
Mechanics and farmers	Old-fashioned
Goths	Introverted
Jocks	Strong
Skateboarders	sporty

2.   Clique 1 : they were very popular and people were jealous of them. They would practice cheerleading (dance, gymnastic).

Clique 2 : they are very intelligent. If someone needed  help to do his homework, they  would help him.

3.

a) This is the girl I told you about last week.

b) I lived in a house which was near the school.

c) This is the boy I know whose the locker was destroyed.
d) There is a new shop in town which sells sport equipment.

4.

a) My brother was teased by some of his friends.

b) Some teenagers are seen  as outcasts.

c) I was asked to leave the room.

d) My car was stolen.

5.

a) Yesterday, the police found the serial killer.

b) Anti-bullying weeks are organised every year.

c) Robert Pattinson was beaten up in high school by bullies.

6.

a) My mother  would tell me stories 10 years ago.

b) We have been told the French teacher was absent.

c) The book I read was very boring.
d) This is the film which won the competition.

e) This is the girl who bullies my brother.