BREAK TIME FOR HELP AND THE BEST!
(Strategy)
How to get information ?
Watch the news on television
Listen to the radio
Read the
papers on line : Google : The times on line, BBC world, Time for kids, The New
York Times on line (US), Mail on line (GB)…
Go to the school library
How to start?
Today,
I’m going to/I want to/I would like to talk about
….. in (+ country/ city).
ARTS / ENTERTAINMENTS
Books:
JK
Rowling wrote* another / a new novel .. it is entitled ( il s’intitule) …
Cinema :
Spielberg ‘s last movie was released this
week (voix
passive)… it is an action movie ..it is about a man who …
Music :
Green Day released their last album … / There
was a huge concert yesterday in London …
Drama (théâtre):
Une pièce de théâtre : a play
une comédie musicale : a
musical
Sports :
battre
un record : beat* a record ( Usain beat the 100 m record)
Gagner : win* (won, won) / Perdre
: lose *(lost ,lost)
ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE A FILM
http://member.tokoha-u.ac.jp/~dixonfdm/Writing%20Topics%20htm/Movie%20Review%20Folder/movie_descrip_vocab.htm
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/cinema/1/wordmatch.html
FILM REVIEWS
http://www.kidspickflicks
http://www.kidspickflicks http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/reviews/default.stm.com/
http://www.teensreadandwrite.com/search/label/movie%20review
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-amazing-spider-man-2
FILM REVIEW WORKSHEET
POLITICS
La politique de
santé du Président Obama : Obama’s health policy
Le Premier Ministre :
The Prime Minister
Les membres du
Parlement : The Members of Parliament
Le gouvernement : the government
Les Sénateurs : the Senators
Prendre une
décision : make a decision
Assister à une
conférence / une réunion : attend a conference / a meeting
Se réunir :
meet / gather
Politique étrangère :
foreign policy
Faire un discours :
make a speech (on ..)
Voter :
vote
ECONOMICS
Les chiffres :
figures
Le chômage: unemployment
Le taux de chômage :
the unemployment rate
Etre au
chômage : be unemployed
Niveau de vie :
standard of living
Augmenter :
increase/ go up
Produire :
produce / manufacture (dans le sens de
fabriquer)
Démissionner :
resign
Embaucher :
hire
Protester :
protest against
Etre mis au
chômage : be made redundant (G.B)
Une grève :
a demonstration
Manifester :
demonstrate
Licencier, « virer » :
sack (G.B) fire ( US)
Se mettre en grève :
go on strike
Prendre sa retraite :
retire
Un syndicat :
a trade-union
Une usine :
a factory
Une banque :
a bank
Crise financière :
financial crisis
HUMAN CATASTROPHES
La guerre : the
war
Une attaque
terroriste : a terrorist attack
La faim : hunger
Tuer : kill / 3 people were killed (voix passive)
Blesser : injure /
5 people were injured (voix
passive)
Mourir : die / A man died in a car accident/
Emprisonner : imprison/ jail/ put in prison
Enlever : kidnap, abduct
NATURAL CATASTROPHES
Des incendies : fires ( Important fires destroyed
thousands of acres in Greece)
Une tornade : a tornado
Un
ouragan : a hurricane : a hurricane hit* Florida yesterday (hit,hit)
Un tremblement de
terre : an earthquake
Un tsunami : a
tsunami
Des coulées de boue
: mudslides
La sécheresse : the drought
Inondation : flood /flooding
FOR THE 8TH GRADERS
CLASS WORK
FOR THE 9TH GRADERS
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/news
https://www.ted.com/topics/news
YOUTH
