Hello everyone,

Here are all the lessons we worked on [about Everybody Hates Chris]:

Thursday, January 5^th

(the fifth)

TV series: Everybody hates Chris

This document is a TV series entitled ‘Everybody hates Chris’.

The main character’s name is Chris, a teenager who is approximately thirteen and who lives in Brooklyn, NYC.

Chris wants to buy a new leather jacket to look cool and to be like others.

So, he needs $50 to buy this jacket and he decides to ask his father for an allowance. His dad doesn’t agree.

 

An allowance = pocket-money = money that your parents give you every week.

 

Tuesday, January 17^th

(the seventeenth)

Everybody Hates Chris : his solution to get money

Chris asks his father to help him finding a job.

His father tells him to go and work with him.

He can begin/start the deliveries at 3:30 a.m.

 

It is too early for him so he oversleeps / sleeps too much / doesn’t wake up.

 

HOMEWORK: learn the lesson for Thursday, 19th

Hello everyone,

Here are the instructions for your final task:

Final task: Humans of Annecy

Take a photo (of a person) and explain:

-       Why you chose it

-       Why you like it or not

-       What / who you can see

Write a story (1ère personne du singulier, preterit + présent, 3 structures vues en classe). 100 words.

 

 

Homework: rendre la tâche finale (photo + texte)

 

The lesson we worked on today:

- we finished listening to "Empire State of Mind" and we filled in the gaps in the lyrics.

- we finished talking about new year's resolutions:

-> imagine your partner's resolutions

-> give the resolution of someone in the class (guess who game).

-> listen to the teacher's suggestions and guess who it is about.

 

Lesson:

Tuesday, January 3^rd

(the third)

New Year’s resolutions

 

Read your partner’s thoughts and find three of his/her resolutions:

Gentrit: I suppose he is not going to be shy anymore.

 

Jules: I guess he is going to continue correcting what the teacher says J 

Hello everyone,

Here are our last lessons:

Thursday, December 8th: LISTENING : ELLIS ISLAND TODAY

HOMEWORK: learn the information from the document.

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Friday, December 9th:

Become a guide at Ellis Island immigration museum

Pairwork: choose a place in Ellis Island. Present it to tourists.

1. The passage  2. The arrival  3. The baggage room  4. The stairs to the registry room + The Great Hall

5. The registry room  6. The medical exam  7. The legal inspection  8. The detainees 9. The stairs of separation 10. The kissing post

-> Then, you were touristic guides and you presented the place you chose to the class.

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Group work: Monday, 12th or Tuesday, 13th: GRAMMAR:

Grammar: structures in the preterit

 

1.Exprimer l’obligation au preterit:

Ex: I had to move to the U.S.A.

   S + “had to”+ BV + Complément

                             C’est “have to” au preterit.

2.Exprimer la nécessité/le besoin au preterit:

Ex: I needed to have money               / I needed money.

     S + need + ed + to + BV + compl. / S + need + ed + nom.

3.Exprimer l’impossibilité au preterit:

Ex: I couldn’t afford the trip to the U.S.A.

     S+ could + not + BV + complement.

                                  “could”, c’est “can” au preterit.

Exercise 1: Re-organize the words:

a)          food – to – I – needed – for – buy – my – family.

b)          Jersey – pay – she – to – for – New – had – the – ticket – to

c)           brother – because – my – couldn’t – he – eat – money – have – didn’t – any

Exercise 2: Translate:

a)          Je ne pouvais pas voir ma famille car je devais rester dans l’hôpital de l’île. J’avais besoin de guérir (recover)

 

HOMEWORK : 16/12/16 : learn the grammar lesson.

 

Hello everyone,

This week, we worked on the webquest that you did on Ellis Island.

Here is what we wrote:

 

Friday, December 2^nd

(the second)

Correction of the test: Survival

Ex1:

b) While I was crying, I heard a helicopter.

d) If I had to start it all over again, I would not eat just berries but leaves too.

2: scared : afraid/terrified – cry: shed a tear.

A hole: a pit – quite: rather. No water: dehydration

Stop fighting: give up – it’s finished: this is it

3: a: stuck  / b: a shelter / c: freezing

4: I suppose he is going to stop fighting.

Correction of the webquest on Ellis Island:

1. How many immigrants landed at Ellis Island ?

12 million immigrants.

 

2. When did Ellis Island open ?

In 1892.

3. Look at the map of Ellis Island. What are they ?

1. The passage

2. The arrival

3. The baggage room

4. The stairs to the registry room

5. The registry room

6. The medical exam

7. The legal inspection

8. The detainees

9. Why is Annie Moore famous ?

She was the first immigrant to land at Ellis Island. She was a 15-year-old Irish girl. 

5. Where was the baggage room ?

On the ground floor þ 

 

6. Why did doctors stand at the top of the stairs ?

They watched the immigrants climb the stairs and checked if they were healthy and fit (they checked if they had a medical problem or a disability).

7. What did doctors do if they thought an immigrant was sick ?

They put a chalk mark on the immigrant's clothes. They were 17 different marks.

8. What happened if…

An immigrant had a curable disease ?

He was sent to the island's hospital.

An immigrant had an incurable disease ?

He was sent back home and the steamship company that had brought him had to pay for his fare.

 

9. How long did it take to pass through Ellis Island ?

5 hours at best.

10. You're an immigration officer at Ellis Island. Ask three questions to an immigrant.

a. Where are you from ? / What nationality are you ?

b. Where are you going to live in the United States ? / What is your final destination in the United States ? 

c. Where are you going to work ? / What is your job / occupation ? / What do you do for a living ?

 

11. By 1921, immigrants had to take the Literacy Test if they were over 16 years old.

 

12. How much money did immigrants had to have in order to enter the USA ? $ 20.

 

13 Where did immigrants usually go after leaving Ellis Island ?

To Manhattan (1/3 of the immigrants)  or       to New Jersey (2/3 of the immigrants)

14. How far is Ellis Island from Manhattan ?   1 mile.

 

Next, you did a reading task to learn more on Ellis Island and we wrote this lesson:

(1 mile is about 1.6 km þ)

Tuesday, December 6^th

(the sixth)

The different places on Ellis Island

When the immigrants arrived by boat, they put their luggage in the baggage room.

They had to pass the six seconds medical exam and if they had a problem, they had to do complete medical exams.

Families waited in the Great Hall for sometimes just a few hours, or sometimes even months.

 

HOMEWORK: Thursday, 8^th:

 

Learn information + vocabulary from the lesson.

Hello everyone,

During our last lesson, we worked in groups.

Here is what we did:

Tuesday, November 29^th

(the twenty-ninth)

Group work: become a New Yorker

Choose a New Yorker and present his/her identity.

 

Then, give a message including: your opinion on NYC, the story of your origins.

 

Homework: just revise the previous lesson again