my English class

Step 1: picture description and information gap: who is he? what is he looking at?

• réactivation temps de la description: Be-ing
• travail sur l'hypothèse

Step 2: Listen to the recording

 

 

 

Listen to the whole recording and take notes. Focus on the main information : who? where? when? what?

mise en commun : sum up the story using the key words & link words,

Be ready to tell the story, adapt the tone of your voice to the task

Step 3: Analysis

Here is the original painting by John Waterhouse (1903)

Now the adaptation by Dan Cretu (2015)

language at work: expressing contrast, what has changed (present perfect)

Step 4: oral presentations

• Listen to the presentations, take notes and be ready to ask questions. (see document attached)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Now, imagine you are the character in the painting. Write a monologue in which the character tells who (s)he is, why (s)he is satisfied or dissatisfied with his/her self-image, what it says about who (s)he is.

 

 

Step 5:  A Young Man’s Portrait: The Picture of Dorian Gray

• listen carefully to the recording, then read the text and answer the questions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6

Grammar in context: ex. 2 and 4 p. 124 https://www.lelivrescolaire.fr/page/6223833

Correction exercise 4 :

 4  1) You are admiring your reflection in the river as if it were/was a mirror.

     2) With these clothes I feel as if I wore a costume.

     3) Dorian Gray looks as if he never aged.

     4) His costume looks as if it were/was made of gold.

     5) Dorian’s portrait is aging as if it were/was alive.

     6) He is the only person in the world who behaves as if he were/was Narcissus.

 

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Due on Tuesday 31st.

Final project: Writing in English

Would you be ready to do anything in order to remain young forever? Why or why not?

Forme -  utiliser le vocabulaire de la séquence - utiliser l’expression de l’opinion et la justification - utiliser des mots de liaison - utiliser l’hypothèse

Fond - Introduire le sujet par une phrase générale (utiliser les exemples littéraires étudiés) - Développer une réflexion personnelle

Due on Friday 27th. Send your work by email, don't forget to skip lines and to put your name on it! (200 words)

During the spring break:

- Read the abridged version of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (document attached), I'd recommend that you read 1 or 2 pages at a time, as it is quite difficult.

(Don't hesitate to look at the French translation if necessary)

1. Prepare a list of 40 words that you looked up while reading
2. Go on the following website and to all the exercises

https://quizlet.com/join/eNxEBXJ33