Life in the City / Life in the Country: Déroulement

Séance 1: Anticipation / Mise en place du lexique

- 1° Visionnage du document

Consignes:

- type of document + do you know where it comes from? - focus on the images and imagine what the two characters are talking about.

Passage à l'oral:

-> Sesame Street: TV show for Kids / Educational programme -> Emission d'hypothèses

Passer de I reckon / I guess / I suppose / In my opinion / they are + V-ing à S + Modal + Be + V-ing

Pause réflexive sur la modalité par rapport à du en cours (S + modal + BE + V-ing) avec un rappel de la modalité sur du "à venir" (S + M + V) et avec en jalon la modalité au passé (S + M + HAVE + p.p.)

- 2° et 3° Visionnage (avec le son)

- Vérification des hypothèses - repérage des mots importants voire connus afin d'établir des champs lexicaux

- focus sur chacun des personnages pour saisir ce qu'ils nous disent de leur vie et de la vie de l'autre.

Conclusion:

In this chapter, we will / may/ deal with the differences between living in the city and living in the country.

==> Ecriture du titre du chapitre: Life in th City versus Life in the Country.

Séance 2

Description d'image: Support: Image page 117 du manuel Going Places 2nde

I: Description

This picture is a drawing. In the background we can see a building / there is a skyscraper. In the middle, there is a car and next to the car, we can see a rich woman who is wearing a red coat. In the foreground, there is a strange man, dressed in green, who is pretending he is reading a newspaper. In fact, he is spying on the woman. This man must be a spy or a private-eye.

Cette description sera l'occasion d'un rappel des différentes structures permettant de situer des éléments dans une image qui a une profondeur (comme c'est le cas présentement).

II. Analysis / Impressions

The atmosphere is frightening / scary / spooky because it's dark. Moreover, the gargoyles on the skyscrpaer are scary and the light reminds us of Batman / makes us think of Batman.

So, this image gives a vision of the city / as a place where strange things can happen. / as a dangerous place.

Description d'image: Image page 118 du manuel Going Places 2nde (remarque au passage: "Eh oui! Pour une fois, on va suivre la progression du livre)

Préambule: Cette image ne peut être décrite comme la précédente car elle n'est pas basée sur une profondeur. Donc, cette description sera l'occasion d'un rappel des strcutures permettant de décrire une image en situant les éléments par rapport à un centre.

I. Type de Doc + Description

This document is a modern painting (not an abstract painting, special thanks to Mrs Hein, who is an Art teacher in collège Guynemer). The dominant colour is black. In the middle, we can see a glass in which there is a city. At the bottom, there are piano keys. On the right and on the left, next to the glass, there are two eyes which are looking / staring at each other. The one on the left is a man's eye and the one on the right is a woman's eye. We can also see dice and a mouth at the top. The mouth is a woman's mouth. Indeed, we can see lipstick or gloss on the lips.

II. Understanding this image

This modern painting is symbolical. All the elements we have mentioned represent something.

We can easily understand / We can reasonably derive / that this painting represents city life at night. Indeed, the centre of this image is a city where all the lights are on and the background of the painting is dark. So, what does this painting tell us about nightlife in the city? The glass is a glass of champain; moreover, there are bubbles everywhere in this painting, which represents excitement / seething / effervescence... The piano symbolizes music and parties. The dice symbolize gambling / fun / entertainment. The two eyes show that the city is a place where we can meet people and the mouth with its red and glowing lips represent passion / excitement / love or else lust...

DM: Lesson + read the text below and say it gives the same image of the city.

Séance 3: Reading time

Text p.118

This text is a poem which presents life in the city at night. We can find the same symbols as in the image we have studied.

__________ reminds us of___________. Moreover, ______________ makes us think of_____________... The rhythm shows excitement, seething, effervescence, which is symbolized in the picture by the bubbles.

So both the image and the text present the city as a place where you can get excitement, where you can meet people and have fun. According to the text, it's a place where things happen.

Guidage donné si personne ne le mentionne: One of the verses gives a contrasting vision...

"with no one to meet"

This verse shows that cities are solitary places. The city inhabitants are people who may feel lonely / whose life must be a life of loneliness or sadness...

In the city, although there are many people around you / even if there are many people around you / you might feel lonely. / There are many people in the city, yet / however / nevertheless / you might feel lonely. In spite of / Despite the number of people who live in the city, it can be a solitary place, a place of loneliness.

Devoirs maison: Leçon + transformer les mots suivants en noms

homeless / faithful / empty / beautiful (Il fallait bien un odd man!)

Séance 4

Synthèse des DMs

Travail sur la formation de mots:

La suffixation en -ness: création de noms (qui à la qualité de, le fait de...)

La suffixation en -ful ou en -less

La préfixation en un-

faith > faithful > faithfulness

Faith > faithful > unfaithful> unfaithfulness

Compréhension Ecrite

Wordworth on London (poem)

Vision given of London:

London is a clam / quiet place. A cultural place where you can go to museums / theaters... A city whose architecture has majesty...

Travail d'inférence lexical sur les mots inconnus de ce poème.

Les quatre types d'inférence (Transparence / morphologie / co-texte / contexte) puis mise en pratique.

DM: lire les textes page 128-129 et dire qui préfère la ville et qui préfère la campagne.

Séance 5

Synthèse des DMs / Expression Orale

X, Y and Z prefer the country. Indeed, X says... whereas / while / on the contrary A, B, C prefer the city. We can read...

D and E have mixed opinions...

Compréhension Ecrite: Advantages & Disadvantages / Pros and Cons

The city provides more entertainment than the country. In the city people can do more things than in the country. Moreover, you can meet more people, so it's less boring / it's not as boring as the country. (As the saying goes:) the more, the merrier. But, it's more polluted. Indeed, in the countryside, the air is fresher because there is less traffic than in the city/ there are fewer cars. The country life is more peaceful. Yet it's sometimes boring; so more and more teenagers use drugs or drink alcohol in the country.

Pause réflexive:

I. Comparatif de supériorité adj-er than / more adj than (doublement des consonne pour des raisons phonétiques / y > ier / les irréguliers.)

II. Infériorité less adj than / less + N (sing. indénombrable) / fewer + N (pluriel)

III. Egalité as adj as

IV. more and more / fewer and fewer / less and less

V. The more... the more...

Expression Ecrite

Rédaction d'un paragraphe pour expliquer si l'on préfère la ville ou la campagne:

Une idée > un ou plusieurs arguments > un ou plusieurs exemples.

Passage à l'oral

DMs : Etre capable de comparer la ville et la campagne et de donner son avis.

Séance 6

Méthodologie: rédiger un texte argumentatif

1) Les conclusions sur le travail de la veille quant à la rédaction d'un paragraphe.

2) Une petite introduction

3) Une conclusion

4) Reprise des mots de liaisons vus depuis le début de l'année scolaire.

Puis: Fiche de révision

Tableau permettant de voir pour chaque activité ou document du chapitre les objectifs linguistiques / grammaticaux / culturels / méthodologiques.

Séance 7

Evaluation

"Living in cities can be stressful, tiresome and dirty" (BBC4 website)

Comment and discuss in about 200 words using comparisons, relative clauses and link words to show the coherence of your essay.