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Fil des billets

Should they be pardoned ?

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Your final task :

As a guide at the Shot at Dawn Memorial in Alrewas, UK, present the case of a pardoned soldier and be ready to discuss it with visitors.

You'll find some help to prepare your oral assessment in the document attached.


Victims or villains

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In the attached document, you'll find the homework for Monday 22nd Nov


Visiting New York

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Click on on the attached document to check your answers


Caribbean poetry

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John Agard is another very famous Black English poet. Most British school children study his poems, especially Half-Caste.

1- First of all, listen to what students say about it and answer the questions ( see "John Agard_Student worksheet").  e ready to feed back to the class

2-Before discovering the written form of the poem, read the information below

"Half-Caste : the context of the poem"

John Agard came to England from Guyana in 1977. Like many people from the Caribbean, he is mixed race: his mother is Portuguese but born in Guyana, and his father is black. One of the things he enjoys about living in England is the wide range of people he meets: 'The diversity of cultures here is very exciting'. However, one of the things he doesn't like is the view of racial origins, which is implied in the word 'half-caste', still used by many people to describe people of mixed race. The term is now considered rude and insulting.

 

3- Now read the poem and get some help with some reading guidelines.

Don't forget to take notes of your comments and reactions

Here are some information on Caribbean English


All the documents are attached below

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Caribbean poetry

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If you never heard of Black British performance peorty, here is an example with Benjamin Zephaniah reciting Talking Turkeys. If the video doesn't work, try the mp3 file in the attached document
Listen to the poem and then answer the questions (see attached document)