Déroulement
Séance 1.
(en fait prétravail avant d’attaquer le chaptire proprement dit, après avoir corrigé le devoir précédent ou fait la Webquest)
Séance 1.
(en fait prétravail avant d’attaquer le chaptire proprement dit, après avoir corrigé le devoir précédent ou fait la Webquest)
Description Image (Are We All Peeping Toms? / Manuel de seconde.)
This photograph represents a family (strange / weird / bizarre / odd) They look like weirdoes. They are watching television. The daughter is standing while the father and the son are on the sofa / couch, drinking pepsi and eating. They are real couch potatoes. They are the Osbournes. The father was the leader of a famous Rock band and the daughter sings too. They are constantly filmed. They are the heroes of a reality TV show and people watch them live.
Expression Orale: Do you like watching that type of show? And why?
I like watching reality TV shows because I think they are funny, entertaining, and sometimes interesting.
I don’t like watching that because I find them boring, uninteresting, stupid, ridiculous, preposterous, absurd...
Well, if you like watching such programs, you can be considered peeping Toms, because you like watching other people live.
So what’s this chapter going to be about?
We are going to talk about Reality TV / this chapter will be about Reality TV.
Devoirs Maison: Lesson, be able to present the photograph and talk about your liking Reality TV or not.
Séance 2
Reprise du cours précédent: the Osbournes / Reality TV / Peeping Toms
Expression Orale
Do you know the first reality TV show?
I think it was... / No, for me it was... In fact, in France, it was entitled ‘Loft Story’. But this show was in fact an adapted version of ‘Big Brother’.
Do you know where this title comes from?
Personne ou quasiment personne ne sachant cela:
Compréhension Ecrite
Incipit de 1984 de Georges Orwell.
Type de Document + Auteur (other famous stories ?).
Characters
Going into details :
Actions
Feelings
Conclusions:
The hero is under constant surveillance. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he’s watched / observed or he feels watched, observed either by the posters or by the Telescreen. / He’s under the impression that the poster of BB is staring at him.
He’s forced to watch television and he can’t / mustn’t switch it off / turn it off. He’s deprived of freedom.
Why was it chosen as a title for the original version of ‘Loft Story’?
In this TV show, they picked some people and they made them live in a house under the eyes of millions of viewers. So, it’s a little like the story of Winston Smith.
Incipit de 1984 de Georges Orwell.
Type de Document + Auteur (other famous stories ?).
Characters
Going into details :
Actions
Feelings
Conclusions:
The hero is under constant surveillance. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he’s watched / observed or he feels watched, observed either by the posters or by the Telescreen. / He’s under the impression that the poster of BB is staring at him.
He’s forced to watch television and he can’t / mustn’t switch it off / turn it off. He’s deprived of freedom.
Why was it chosen as a title for the original version of ‘Loft Story’?
In this TV show, they picked some people and they made them live in a house under the eyes of millions of viewers. So, it’s a little like the story of Winston Smith.
Devoirs Maison: Lesson + In your opinion, why wasn’t this title chosen for the French Version? Why did the producers choose ‘Loft Story’?
Séance 3
Reprise du cours précédent: 1984 / Big Brother
Synthèse des DMs
- negative connotation for those who know the book…
- most French people don’t know the book so it wouldn’t make any sense for them. People know more the film Love Story. It makes them think of good things. It’s more positive.
Brainstorming
Inscrire Big Brother dans une ‘patate’ au milieu de la moitié gauche du tableau puis voir si les élèves peuvent donner d’autres titres d’émissions.
Sur la partie droite du tableau : Explication du show
Ex Dismissed : You take one girl or one boy. You make her / him meet two guys or two girls. You let her or him spend time with each of them. Then, you make her or him choose one and dismiss the other. It is broadcast on...
Deux ou trois exemples de ce type. Laisser de la place au tableau sous chaque exemple.
Prise de la trace écrite et effacement du Diagramme pour ne laisser que les exemples.
Expression Orale
- Ecrire au tableau :
Never heard of…
Never watched because…
Already watched and…
Love it because…
- Puis demander aux élèves d’intervenir et de dire laquelle de ces formulations ils peuvent associer à tel ou tel show mentionné.
Prendre des notes au tableau et si aucune structure d’opinion n’est utilisée, laisser des espaces afin de les ajouter et revenir ensuite sur les phrases en disant : ‘This is only your vision, so you have to say it…’ faire ensuite varier les expression en disant : ‘Ah, it has already been said, so find another expression, please…’
Pause réflexive : Reprise du sens de Have + p.p. et expressions de l’opinion
Jeu : Compréhension Ecrite / expression Orale
Voir fiche: show your ‘Culture and Give your Opinion’
- premier travail, compréhension écrite et remplissage
(passage dans la classe afin de donner des aides lexicales au cas où et surtout pour voir les réponses des élèves)
- Exploitation Orale : passage des élèves par groupes de deux (les faire passer sur des choses à propos desquelles ils ne sont pas forcément d’accord pour encourager le débat.
Consigne : Express what you said about number 1 (or x) justifying your opinion.
Then your partner will react and you will have to react to what he or she said. Talk to each other.
Mettre des prompts au tableau : (préciser qu’ils ne sont pas obligés de les utiliser toutes)
I agree / Yes, I think so / I quite agree / You’re right /
I disagree / I don’t think so / You’re wrong! / You talk nonsense / You can’t be serious
Don’t you think so? You agree with me, don’t you?
I mean / You see / Well /
Collage de la fiche et prise d’une trace écrite avec les expressions de l’opinion et les gap-fillers.
Pause réflexive :
1) Les gap fillers : A quoi ça sert ?
2) Faire faire qqch à qqn et laisser qqn faire qqch
Devoir Maison: Leçon + Rédiger un dialogue sur une émission de téléréalité de votre choix. Une personne aime bien, l’autre non. Elles explique les règles du jeu (en utilisant make et / ou let) en donnant leur avis (environ 100 mots).
Séance 4
Reprise du cours précédent et ramassage des DMs
Compréhension Orale
Global understanding: (sans les images: 2 écoutes)
Type of document: people cheering and people talking about someone + we can hear the music of pop idol. So it must be a report about a contestant of American Idol + it is said at the beginning...
Number of people speaking: 5 (two men, one woman, young girls and boys)
Person they are talking about: Jason
This document is a report about a contestant to American Idol. People are interviewed and give their opinion about him. Moreover, we can hear people cheering for him.
Going into details: (avec les images: 2 passages avec des pauses)
Woman
Man 1
Girls
Man 2
Boy
Goal of such a document:
This document’s goal is to make the contestant more human.
It aims at making people identify with him so that they will watch the show and call or send messages (SMS)
Pause réflexive: L’expression du But
To (in order to...) + V
So that + S + will + V
Conclusion: So, what is the key-concept to explain why Reality TV works?
Compréhension Ecrite
What some internauts say about Reality TV
[...]
OhioDMBFanatic: and guess what? this is the time of year, after the season finals, that I stop watching tv I watch American Idol. GASP!
OhioDMBFanatic: and guess what? this is the time of year, after the season finals, that I stop watching tv I watch American Idol. GASP!
ElroyJetsonNY: i just don’t get watching mostly untalented ppl warblei have read a book where the author made this offhanded comment that we are a culture of rejection i think that’s why reality tv works - we are a people who like to reject other ppl and we enjoy seeing other people rejected Survivor is based on the same notion of rejection and humiliation it’s whacked
OhioDMBFanatic: I agree. I don't like seeing people get rejected, and I seriously don't handle rejection well.
ElroyJetsonNY: thats why ppl watch it they like living vicariously through other rejected ppl they identify with it but take pleasure in seeing someone else humiliated on national tv
OhioDMBFanatic: I don't think I take pleasure in it
ElroyJetsonNY: frankly, i think it’s sick. to take satisfaction in the rejection of others to compensate for their own rejection... and Simon is such an evil, unkind man why ppl tolerate him and subject themselves to him is beyond me... such prostitution
OhioDMBFanatic: and I'm surprised you think he's evil he's honest - and these people need to quit being so delusional and realize they suck ... plus, it's TV
ElroyJetsonNY: there are much kinder ways of saying these things but he does it because ppl love seeing other ppl humiliated
OhioDMBFanatic: and if you don't realize that, then you are a f...ing moron
Simon
ElroyJetsonNY: plus it begs the question as to why the producers LET THEM ON IN THE FIRST PLACE these talentless people get on for the sole purpose of being fodder for mockeryit encourages rejection and humiliationit’s not about the successes of the people who advanceit’s about the humiliation and rejection of those who don’t passthat’s the only way to explain
a). why losers get stage time and b). why people watch the losers warble
OhioDMBFanatic: it’s what america thinks is good TV
Corrected version of:
http://bimmergeek.blogspot.com/2006/05/culture-of-rejection-and-humiliation.html
Corrected version of:
http://bimmergeek.blogspot.com/2006/05/culture-of-rejection-and-humiliation.html
1° Lecture: type of document + type of language + underline the unknown words.
Donc: léger travail d'inférence sur les termes inconnus
Devoirs maison: According to this document what are the two important concepts which can explain why reality TV is such a success?
