2°11 consigne EE en duo pour LUNDI 4 Mai

 Suite à la visio je vous redonne les consignes pour l'expression écrite en duo:

Write a modern and funny fairy tale.

You MUST use:
- the past
- Once upon a time
- elements to make your story modern (a new character and/ or a different point of view, or politically correct elements, or a different ending...)

You CAN include  dialogues.


Looking forward to reading you!

2°11 révisions des verbes irréguliers Tuesday 28th

2.11 Révisions des prépositions Tuesday 28th

2.8 Quelques rappels séance visio de ce matin / dialogue à renvoyer pour lundi prochain

Après reading the short story (again...) work with one or two friend(s) (online of course) to write a dialogue:


- the topic: 

you are fond of football and you support Manchester United; your relative, who hates football,  wants you to wear the sweater of Manchester City he/she has just bought.

⇛Write the dialogue.


- it has to be funny, like the short story.


-NB: quelques rappels des règles:

→ Respectez la ponctuation  " ...  "  et le retour à la ligne pour chaque nouvelle intervention
→ he said/ she asked... sont hors guillemets
→ variez les verbes introducteurs de discours
 ex: she yelled/ he sighed/ she explained/ he added/ he shouted/ she demanded / he complained / he moaned...
→ pensez aux tournures plus "oralisées"  comme:  well.../ you see  / I mean... / you know.../ Don't you understand...? /gonna et wanna sont des tournures plutôt américaines ...
→ la langue du dialogue peut être simple (anglais parlé dans une famille) mais les phrases peuvent être complexes (= principale et subordonnée(s) !)

Bon courage!

2°11 Monday April 27th Reading: an article about the influence of tales

Read the text and answer these questions:

1) What sort of document is it? What is the main idea?

2) Guess the meaning of: 
- plot (§ 1, l.1)
- depth (§ 3 , l. 3)
- feel (§ 3, last line)

3) What/who do the pronouns refer to?
- them ((§1, l.3)
- them (§ 1, l.5)
- them (§ 1, l.11)

4) - Pick out ONE word showing why Michael, Zoe and Isabella love tales (one kid = one different word). 
⇛To sum up what do fairy tales enable all these kids to do?

5) Use your own words to explain why teenagers like fairy tales too.

Why Kids Say They Love Fairy Tales

adapted from readbrightly.com 

by Kari Ness Riedel

Almost any young person can tell you the basic plot of Cinderella or Hansel & Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood. What is it about this genre of stories that make them so memorable and so loved by kids and adults?
These stories draw them in, transport them to another place, and make them feel something — fear, happiness, worry, or excitement to name a few. They speak to universal themes of good versus evil and moral values like hard work and kindness. This makes sense as these tales were often passed down as oral traditions, so they must be captivating and relatable enough that people want to hear them again and again and memorize them to tell their own friends and family.

What Kids Say About Fairy Tales

Michael, 7, speaks for many kids when he says, “The magic is my favorite part about reading fairy tales.” Witches and warlocks, good fairies and evil trolls, characters who can transform into something more beautiful or an entirely new shape inspire active imaginations and make kids feel like anything is possible. Zoe, 9, loves the adventures in fairy tales. “Reading them lets me escape from the real world.“ Isabella, 8, seconds that saying, “I can use my imagination when I read these and visit places I could never really go.” [...]

Favorite Fairy Tales and the Disney Factor

When asked to pick their favorite fairy tales, the answers ranged from classics to modern twists to Disney’s versions. Kyra, 12, appreciates the depth and complexity of classic fairy tales. “They help me think about real life problems and give me hope” and Abby, 12, “loves the original, dark tales like the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales.” Jack, 12, loves books like A Tale Dark and Grimm where “the tales take a twist and who you thought was bad becomes good.” For older tweens and teens, series like The Lunar Chronicles  take familiar tropes and characters and give them a modern and mature feel that these readers adore...

2°8 Monday April 27th video + visio ( Short story/ going further : A brief history of Canada )

Today is Earth Day...

 Earth Day 2020 – live: Millions to gather online to demand urgent climate action as last year confirmed as Europe’s hottest on record

The Independent

 Earth Day has now reached its 50th year, with millions estimated to take part in the annual day of environmental action to tackle the huge challenges facing our planet.
This year’s plans for events have been upended by the coronavirus  crisis, but the movement has planned 72-hours of digital action instead to celebrate the theme of climate action. It comes after the pandemic forced the UN to postpone the COP 26 international climate conference set to put countries back on track to avoid climate breakdown.

Meanwhile, the lockdowns introduced across the world have seen the skies clearing of pollution and wildlife returning to deserted streets, while US oil prices plunged below zero for the first time in history...

Rappel: les pluriels irréguliers...

Irregular plural forms

 Sometimes you do not just add the letter –S .
 This is a list of some irregular plural forms.

 Complete: 

 a) The vowel sounds change:
man→ men
 woman→ ---------------
 foot → feet
tooth→ ---------------
mouse → mice
louse→ -----------------
child → ----------------

 b) Some words do not change at all:

 sheep → sheep
 fish→ -------------
means→ ----------
species→-------------
 series→ --------------

 c) Words ending with –f→ - ves:
wife → wives
calf → --------------
leaf → ---------------
thief → ------------
life → -------------

 d) Words ending with –o →-oes:
 hero → heroes
 potato→-------------
tomato→ -----------

e) Some have a Latin plural form:
cactus→ cacti
 larva → larvae

 f) Words ending with –on → a
 phenomenon → phenomena

 g) Words ending with –is→ -es
crisis → crises
thesis→ theses

Reading time The Hockey Sweater part 3

So I was obliged to wear the Maple Leafs sweater. When I arrived on the rink, all the Maurice Richards in red, white, and blue came up, one by one, to take a look. When the referee blew his whistle I went to take my usual position. The coach came and warned me I'd be better to stay on the forward line. A few minutes later the second line was called; I jumped onto the ice. The Maple Leafs sweater weighed on my shoulders like a mountain. The coach came and told me to wait; he'd need me later, on defence. By the third period I still hadn't played; one of the defence-men was hit in the nose with a stick and it was bleeding. I jumped on the ice: my moment had come! The referee blew his whistle; he gave me a penalty. He claimed I'd jumped on the ice when there were already five players. That was too much! It was unfair! It was persecution! It was because of my blue sweater! I struck my stick against the ice so hard it broke. Relieved, I bent down to pick up the debris. As I straightened up I saw the young vicar, on skates, before me. "My child," he said, "just because you're wearing a new Toronto Maple Leafs sweater unlike the others, it doesn't mean you're going to make the laws around here. A proper young man doesn't lose his temper. Now take off your skates and go to the church and ask God to forgive you. Wearing my Maple Leafs sweater I went to the church, where I prayed to God; I asked him to send, as quickly as possible, moths that would eat up my Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.

Roch Carrier Translated by Sheila Fischman

 

Reading Time The Hockey Sweater part 2

That day I had one of the greatest disappointments of my life! I would even say that on that day I experienced a very great sorrow. Instead of the red, white, and blue Montreal Canadiens sweater, Monsieur Eaton had sent us a blue and white sweater with a maple leaf on the front - the sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs. I'd always worn the red, white, and blue Montreal Canadiens sweater; all my friends wore the red, white, and blue sweater; neverhad anyone in my village ever worn the Toronto sweater, never had we even seen a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater. Besides, the Toronto team was regularly trounced by the triumphant Canadiens. With tears in my eyes, I found the strength to say: "I'll never wear that uniform." "My boy, first you're going to try it on! If you make up your mind about things before you try, my boy, you won't go very far in this life." My mother had pulled the blue and white Toronto Maple Leafs sweater over my shoulders and already my arms were inside the sleeves. She pulled the sweater down and carefully smoothed all the creases in the abominable maple leaf on which, right in the middle of my chest, were written the words "Toronto Maple Leafs". I wept. "I'll never wear it." "Why not? This sweater fits you ... like a glove." "Maurice Richard would never put it on his back." "You aren't Maurice Richard. Anyway, it isn't what's on your back that counts, it's what you've got inside your head." “You'll never put it in my head to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater." My mother sighed in despair and explained to me: "if you don't keep this sweater which fits you perfectly I'll have to write Monsieur Eaton and explain that you don't want to wear the Toronto sweater. Monsieur Eaton's an Anglais; he'll be insulted because he likes the Maple Leafs. And if he's insulted do you think he'll be in a hurry to answer us? Spring will be here and you won't have played a single game, just because you didn't want to wear that perfectly nice blue sweater."

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2° 8 and 11 -ED pronunciation [ t ]

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2.8 Reading Time : the beginning of a short story

The Hockey Sweater

 The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church, and the skating-rink, but our real life was on the skating-rink. Real battles were won on the skating-rink. Real strength appeared on the skating-rink. The real leaders showed themselves on the skating-rink. School was a sort of punishment. Parents always want to punish children and school is their most natural way of punishing us. However, school was also a quiet place where we could prepare for the next hockey game, lay out our next strategies. As for church, we found there the tranquillity of God: there we forgot school and dreamed about the next hockey game. Through our daydreams it might happen that we would recite a prayer: we would ask God to help us play as well as Maurice Richard. We all wore the same uniform as he, the red, white, and blue uniform of the Montreal Canadiens, the best hockey team in the world; we all combed our hair in the same style as Maurice Richard, and to keep it in place we used a sort of glue~a great deal of glue. We laced our skates like Maurice Richard, we taped our sticks like Maurice Richard. We cut all his pictures out of the papers. Truly, we knew everything about him. On the ice, when the referee blew his whistle the two teams would rush at the puck; we were five Maurice Richards taking it away from five other Maurice Richards; we were ten players, all of us wearing with the same blazing enthusiasm the uniform of the Montreal Canadiens. On our backs, we all wore the famous number 9. One day, my Montreal Canadiens sweater had become too small; then it got torn and had holes in it. My mother said: "If you wear that old sweater people are going to think we're poor!" Then she did what she did whenever we needed new clothes. She started to leaf through the catalogue the Eaton company sent us in the mail every year. My mother was proud. She didn't want to buy our clothes at the general store; the only things that were good enough for us were the latest styles from Eaton's catalogue. My mother didn't like the order forms included with the catalogue; they were written in English and she didn't understand a word of it. To order my hockey sweater, she did as she usually did; she took out her writing paper and wrote in her gentle schoolteacher's hand: "Cher Monsieur Eaton, Would you be kind enough to send me a Canadiens sweater for my son who is ten years old and a little too tall for his age and Docteur Robitaille thinks he's a little too thin? I'm sending you three dollars and please send me what's left if there's anything left. I hope your wrapping will be better than last time." Monsieur Eaton was quick to answer my mother's letter. Two weeks later we received the sweater…

2° 11 Answer the questions (written task) Friday April 10th

NB: merci de bien vouloir taper vos réponses (vous pouvez le faire  directement dans le corps du mail). 

Questions:

A) Who is the narrator? What's his name?

B) What/who do the following pronouns refer to?
- you (l.2)
- it (l. 4)
- we (l. 7)
-He (l. 28)

C) How does the wolf explain what happened to the pigs? USE your own words.
 
D) Which vision of the wolf is given in this modern tale?