Hello everyone,

These days, we revised the comparative thanks to Nighthawks parodies:

Wednesday, March 29^th

(the twenty-ninth)

Comparing the original “Room in New York” and the duplicate from the film “Shirley”

The man on the left is more athletic than the man on the right.

The man in the photo is blonder than the man in the painting.

He is as focussed in the photo as in the painting.

The painting is less colourful than the photo.

We also started preparing the final task:

3e8: Homework:

Monday, 3^rd: Creative writing (final task)

Prepare your document and you vocabulary

·   Compétences:

 Prendre des notes / les mettre en forme et reformuler de manière ordonnée.

·     Produire de manière autonome quelques phrases sur soi-même, les autres, des personnages réels ou imaginaires.

·     Écrire une histoire, un article, une publicité. Écrire à la manière de... Résumer. Rendre compte.

More parodies: http://www.laboiteverte.fr/20-parodies-de-nighthawks-dedward-hopper/

Hello everyone,

We studied Nighthawks again and we analysed it:

Monday, March 20th

(the twentieth)

It’s spring today!

Analysis of the painting ‘Nighthawks’

There is a contrast between the bright diner and the dark street.

There is no door to get in or to get out so the effect is to separate the spectators and the characters.

The couple looks sad, unhappy, tired.

[Attention: look = paraitre, sembler et look like = ressembler à]

Two of the men are wearing hats. We can imagine that they are gangsters or police inspectors.

HOMEWORK: 22/03/17: learn the lesson

After that we studied the audioguide: Listen to it again here:

https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/elainev/16341/#recordings

HOMEWORK: Monday, 27th: revise everything on Nighthawks and learn the last sentences of the audioguide.

Hello everyone,

Let's catch up. Here are our last lessons:

Wednesday, March 15^th

(the fifteenth)

Correction of the test

Exercise 2: Do’s and Don’ts

-      He has to load newspapers in a truck.

-      He mustn’t be late. 

-      He must be on time. 

Exercise 3: Conversation (experience)

-      Have you ever played the piano in another country?

-      Yes, I have already played the piano ten times in other countries.

-      How long have you played the piano?

-      I have played the piano for forty years.

Thursday, March 16^th

^{(the sixteenth)} 

Describing and presenting a painting

-      Presentation of “Gas” by E. Hopper:(author, type of painting, date, artistic movement, year)

This painting was created by Edward Hopper in 1960. This is an oil canvas belonging to the Realism movement and entitled ‘People in the sun’.

-      Description of the painting:(scene, people, landscape, lights, point of view, different parts, imagine the sounds, atmosphere...)

The scene takes places / the scene is set in the countryside. There are five people sitting on deckchairs and they are probably looking at a sunset.

The light is mainly on the left, more precisely on the people’s faces.

In the background, we can see dark mountains and the blue sky.

We suppose this scene is rather quiet / calm / peaceful and that we can just hear the sounds of nature.

HOMEWORK: 20/03/2017:

Learn the expressions/vocabulary/structures of the lesson.

Describing and presenting a painting

-      Presentation of “Gas” by E. Hopper:(author, type of painting, date, artistic movement, year)

It was painted in 1940 by E. Hopper and it belongs to the artistic movement of Realism.

This oil painting is entitled “gas”.

-      Description of the painting:(scene, people, landscape, lights, point of view, different parts, imagine the sounds, atmosphere...)

The scene takes place in a gas station. It is probably set in the U.S.A because it looks like a typical American station.

In the middle of the painting, we can see a man, alone, standing next to gas pumps.

The foreground, where we stand watching, is in the light whereas the background is very dark.

HOMEWORK: 20/03/17: Learn the correction of the descrption + presentation.

Hello everyone,

Today, we finished the description of the painting Nighthawks (E. Hopper).

Here is the lesson:

Wednesday, March 8^th

(the eighth)

Describing a painting

Nighthawks – a description

The scene takes place in a city in an American diner.

On the left, we can see the street where we stand watching. On the right, there is a diner.

The street is in the dark, deserted and silent whereas the diner is in the light, busy and noisy.

It takes place late at night and we can see three customers and a waiter in the diner.

There are many details we can see: for example, the hot water containers, the napkin boxes, the advertisement for Phillies cigar...

HOMEWORK

-      Salle info 115 (demain)

-      Monday, 13^th: learn the decription information + technique

Hello everyone,

Last time, we worked on our EPI and we discovered a painting. You memorized information and you used it to fill in the blaks in our lesson:

EPI : Art and English: Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

This document is a painting.

This is an oil painting painted by Edward Hopper in 1942.

He lived from eighteen eighty-two to nineteen sixty-seven.

He was a famous American painter.

The painting is quite big (84 by 152).

You can see it at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This document is entitled Nighthawks.

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks belongs to the art period of realism.

HOMEWORK: learn the information and structures of the lesson