jeudi 25 novembre 2010

Pour travailler la compréhension orale

Certains lors de la réunion ce soir ont demandé à travailler la compétence: compréhension de l'oral
Pour vous entrainer, allez ici:
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/
Vous trouverez des documents authentiques sur des thèmes variés. N'oubliez pas de lire la présentation d'audio lingua avant utilisation.
Rien ne vous empêche de prendre des notes ou de créer des mind maps; je vous les corrigerai.

Thanksgiving

This is a link to work on a book Danièle Lagarde created. Many thanks to her. Read the pages, do the exercises and take notes so as to be able to speak about Thanksgiving with your classmates.
http://gmenglish.pagesperso-orange.fr/5emes/Thanksgiving/index.html

Remember to write pages 3 and 15 in your notebook.


A joke to read.
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.

Every word out of the bird's' mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.  John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary.

Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The  parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even more rude. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet.  Not a peep was heard for over a minute.

Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.  The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions.  I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."

John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude!

As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly, 
"May I ask what the turkey did?" 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Everyone!

lundi 15 novembre 2010

Tuesday, November 16th

This morning we worked on an extract of a film entitled "Night at the museum". In fact, a few of you have already been to a museum. Some of you went to science museums but you said you didn't visit art museums. Now you know the title of the two first documents and the names of the artists. I'd like you to try to find the titles of the three other paintings with the names of the painters .Some pieces of information may help you.                                                               


E_________ H_________(1882 - 1967):   "N__________________(1942)"
He was an American painter and printmaker.It is considered his most famous painting.
G_________ W_______((1891-1942): "A____________G_________" (1930)
He is best known for his paintings depicting rural America.

R__________ L___________(1923-1997): "The C_______G_______"(1963)
He was one of the most important artists of the pop art movement.

Suite aux extraits de films travaillés avec la mise en valeur du prétérit en be + ing ,voici quelques exercices à faire  tout seul.( avec score et correction) que vous trouverez sur le site d'Yvan Panier. (Merci.)
http://ypanier.free.fr/spip.php?article204

dimanche 14 novembre 2010

Sunday, November 14th


I was sent this link which I find interesting when you want to learn words listening to music.http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php

It is  a site which collects and organises song videos from around the Internet. You can search videos according to musical style, level of linguistic difficulty, language. There are 3 levels of difficulty of online self-correcting exercises based on typing in missing words from the
lyrics.

lundi 8 novembre 2010

Monday, November 8th

We spoke about New York city's boroughs this morning and watched a video about New York's marathon, which besides took place yesterday.
You can find the video here if you want to see the way the runners took.
http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/video.htm

We also mentioned Broadway where all the theaters are and where people can go and see musicals. If you want to know what's on in Broadway at the moment, click below.
http://www.broadway.com/