Happy New Year 2017!

to the 6th Graders!

ACTION 1

Watch and react.

 ACTION 2
 Here is the lyrics of this traditional Scottish New Year song
called 'Aul Lang Syne'  ('Old Long Ago')...

... best known in French under the title
" Ce n'est qu'un au revoir ",
a song for Friendship, Love, Fraternity and Remembrance!

Did you know?
http://charrette.strathlorne.com/archives/723 
 http://cornemusique.free.fr/auldlongsyne.php



 ACTION 3

Listen, watch and sing!

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/fr/songs/time-another-year 

ACTION 4

Read and answer.

1° How many months have 30 days?

Which are they?

2° How many months have 31 days?

Which are they?

4° Which month is different ? Why?

5° What is your favourite month?

Spell it.

6° What is the season and the weather like

for this month?

ACTION 5

Tell us about your New Year's Resolutions!

 

to the 8th Graders! 

ACTION 1

Listen and enjoy!

ACTION 2

Listen and read the karaoke!

ACTION 3

How do you react to the tune of this song?

Did you know?

"Aul Lang Syne" is a traditional song that British people sing at midnight on December 31; but most people don't know that it is a Scottish poem written in 1788 by Robert Burns and later set to the music of a folk song. 

 The song's (Scots) title may be translated from old Scottish dialect into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago" or "days gone by". 

http://fr.enlizza.com/hogmanay-ou-le-nouvel-an-en-ecosse/ 

Did you recognize the tune ?

This is the karaoke version of 'Chant des Adieux' the French equivalent of Auld Lang Syne and is sung to the same tune, ou 'Le Joyeux au revoir scout', ou encore 'Ce n'est qu'un au revoir'.

 

ACTION 4
a) Revise your ordinals to say the date!

 b) Practise these ordinals and the date!

http://yvanbaptiste.pagesperso-orange.fr/numbers/dates.html

ACTION  5
Observe the cartoon and answer the questions below.

11° Who can you recognize?

2° Is he a human? Why?

3°Why does he speak then?

4° What does he say?Why?

5° Do you know more traditional New Year's Resolutions?

Make a Mind map to organize your ideas!

AT SCHOOL / AT HOME / SOCIALIZING AND FRIENDSHIP / OTHER   ?

ACTION  6
Rock the New Year!

Here is a parody of the Beatles' Revolution!

 ACTION  7

Read and react!

  ACTION  8

Listen and tell about Tassa's New Year's Resolutions.

Then answer her question!

 Need some help?

  http://www.henry4school.fr/Celebrations/new_year/resolutions.htm

to the 9th Graders! 

 ACTION 1
The Scots celebrate their bard!

Look at the document below and answer the questions.

 1° Which type of document can you see?

2° Which event is it about?

3° When is this event?

4° In which country is this event?

5°  In which place and at which address

 will this event be celebrated?

6° What time will it be celebrated?

7° What is the menu?

8° Which food is typical and is praized by a poet?

ACTION 2

Learn more about Roberts Burns

here...

...or over here!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/british_history/robert_burns/

 
ACTION 3

Look and react! 

ACTION  4

Look at this pie chart and find out the most popular

 New Year's resolutions for people! 

Did you know?

 People usually make New Years resolutions at this time of the year and so does Adrian, a fictional British teenager who records his misadventures in his personal diary!

His author is Sue Townsend who started writing a series of books at 15 and did it for 20 years until her death in April 2014.

The book has been issued in 1982and it starts at 1st January...

ACTION 5

First, let's have a look at the first edition book cover!

1° How do you know it is a book cover?

2° What is striking at first sight 

on this book cover?

3° How is the illustration related to the book title?

4°From the word "diary", what kind of writing can you expect?

5° From the title and the illustration, what can you say about the tone of the book and the main character of the book?

ACTION 6

 Listen to this song from the musical adapted from the book

 to check your first impession.

  What did you learn about this teenager?

(his personality/his state of mind/his worries)

Do you identify with any of his problems? 

Which one(s)?

    ACTION 7

Now look at a montage of just some of the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole book covers over the 30 years by Sue Townsend.

Which one is the most appealing to you ? Why?

ACTION 8

 Here is an extract from that first teenage diary.

Read it and then answer the questions.

 Thursday, January 1

BANK HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES
These are my New Year’s resolutions:
I will help the blind across the road.
I will hang my trousers up.
I will put the sleeves back on my records.
I will not start smoking.
I will stop squeezing my spots.
I will be kind to the dog.
I will help the poor and ignorant.
After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last  night, I have also vowed never to drink alcohol.
My father got the dog drunk on cherry brandy at the party last night. If the RSPCA hear about it he could get done. Eight days have gone by since Christmas Day but my mother still hasn’t worn the green lurex apron I bought her for Christmas! She will get bathcubes next year.
Just my luck, I’ve got a spot on my chin for the first day

 of the New Year!

  

1° When does this extract take place?

2° Where does it take place? 

What is the other name given

 to these 4 countries together?

3° Make a glossary of these words:

Bank holiday

the blind

hang up

the sleeves

spots

RSPCA

apron

4° What is the entry of this diary extract?

5° What are the topics spoken in this extract?

6° Which one is the longest, the funniest,the most hilarious,  the most disgusting, the most generous, the most unexpected, the most disappointing, the most mysterious, the most boring and the healthiest? 

  7° Look at the dictionary entry on 'diary'. Answer the questions. 

                                    1° What is a diary?

2° Have you ever kept a diary?

 3° Why do you think teenagers 

very often keep one? 4° If you became famous, would you be happy for your diary to be published? Why or why not? 

5° What do you know about diary characteristics and style?

  Need some help?

https://prezi.com/ui28dijgcobc/diary-writing-ks2/ 

ACTION  9

 Now your turn!

 Imagine you are Adrian Mole. 

 Write a diary entry for Monday, January 25^th  

 or any other day before the end of January. 

  Need some tips?

- The event concerns your father, your dog and one neighbour.             

- It can be funny or surprising or unexpected.  

                  

- It happens a few days after Jan.1st at home.    

      

- It involves the RSPCA members.

- You have to use the vocabulary you know and the Future tense. 

- To conclude, you will explain the impact of this particular event on your life.

 

 

,

  A time for world's concern

and hope...

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A time to remember 

and cherish life more than ever

day after day... 

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