A Royal Wedding
Who are the two main celebrities in this document?
What are they going to do?
When did they get engaged?
Where?
Who has Prince William informed?
Whose permission has he asked ?
Where will the couple live when they are married?
What will Prince William do as a job?
How old are they?
When did they meet?
Where?
Who explains how the romance started?
What were they doing together after the first term?
What was their relationship after the first year?
What did they do after the second year?
Why is Kate Middleton admired?
Who is she compared to?
What is Ingrid Seward's opinion of her?
When will the wedding take place?
Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding
You are journalists . In groups of four, you have to write down an article on the wedding
Use the information collected in the study of the video , the pictures given and the following information.
You will be judged on your presentation- it has to be beautiful!- and on your English- it has to be correct-.
Information:
Number of guests: 1800 for the Church ceremony
300 for the wedding meal
Menu: still a secret
Number of visitors in London: tens of thousands
Price of the wedding: £ 40 million
Designer for Kate's dress: Jasper Conran
How long will the church ceremony last? : one hour
For the guests, how to behave: will receive a 22 page long booklet on etiquette
Honeymoon: in Sicily
LES PLUS BEAUX ARTICLES SERONT MIS EN LIGNE
A VOS PAPIERS!!
BBC News, 5 February 2011 Last updated at 20:11 GMT
The remains of the buggy of an Amish family, which overturned in a creek killing four.
Four Amish children have died in Kentucky, after the horse-drawn buggy they were travelling in overturned in a creek swollen by heavy rain.
The accident happened on Thursday, after a family of nine travelled in the torrential rain to make a call in a "phone shack".
Authorities say the group was crossing a creek when the buggy overturned in the water. The dead were all aged under 12, and included a five-month-old baby. 'Water was swift'
Two adults and three other children and the horse pulling the buggy all survived.
"Whenever they crossed the creek, the water was so swift it just took the buggy and tipped it over," said County Sheriff Dewayn Redmon.
The group was travelling in the rural community of Dublin in western Kentucky, which has a large Amish population.
Teresa Cantrell, the mayor of Mayfield, the closest city, described the area's Amish community as conservative and private.
Most members of the Amish community shun modern technology including electricity and cars, and preach isolation from the modern world.
Study
| 1) Type of document composition. 2) Picture description and conclusion which you can draw from it.(place, time, way of life) 3) The main facts about the article. Draw a six column chart and sort out the information given. When/ where/ Who/ What/ Why/ information given by the authorities. Then be ready to report to the class. 4) Inference. Try to translate the following words. What elements helped you? Remains, overturn; creek; shun | 5) Given the information you gathered, imagine what the life of the Amish is like. 6) In depth. Learn more about the Amish and their lifestyle. Read the next article (page 2) and your book page 128 (the Amish) and pick out as many pieces of information as you can. Write down a paragraph to sum up all you know. 7) Would you like to live in such community, explain why? |
Who are the Amish?
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Some 200,000 Amish people live in more than 20 US states |
The most conservative, Old Order groups of these reclusive, religious people drive horses and buggies rather than cars. Many have no telephones or electricity in their homes.
They send their children to private, one-room schoolhouses until the age of 13.
They eschew technology and preach isolation from the modern world. They do not join the military or accept assistance from the government.
The Amish community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was a model for the 1985 film Witness starring Harrison Ford, a thriller which contrasted the violent modern world with their peaceful existence.
The Amish experience many of the same problems as other communities, but keep them private.
Strict regulations
Some 200,000 Amish people live in more than 20 US states and in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The oldest group of Old Order Amish, about 16,000-18,000 people, live in Lancaster County, a rural, farming area where Amish first settled in the 1720s - many fleeing religious persecution in Europe.
The Amish are divided into dozens of separate fellowships, broken down into districts or congregations. Each district is fully independent and lives by its own set of unwritten rules, or Ordnung.
The Old Order are the most conservative of these groups, and observe strict regulations on dress, behaviour, and the use of technology, which they believe encourages humility and separation from the world.
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Men and boys wear straw broad-brimmed hats |
Men and boys wear dark-coloured suits, straight-cut coats and black or straw broad-brimmed hats. They grow beards only after they marry.
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Modern technology is not rejected out of hand. Some farms have telephones and local groups can allow electricity to be used in certain circumstances.
Most Amish are trilingual. They speak a dialect of German called Pennsylvania Dutch at home, use High German at their worship services, and they learn English at school.
In some ways, the Amish are feeling the pressures of the modern world. Commentators say child labour laws, for example, are threatening long-established ways of life.
While many Amish own firearms, used to hunt and kill wild animals, their communities have until now been largely free of violent gun crime.
FACTS ABOUT THE AMISH
- Anabaptist Christian denomination
- Communities in the US and Canada
- Many communities reject links to outside world
- Most Amish shun modern technology including electricity and cars
- Plain clothing - no buttons allowed in some communities
- Speak English and a German dialect called Pennsylvania Dutch.
Book page 121
Investigating on an Amish Farm
Essayer de faire le travail suivant en autonomie
Si vous avez des difficultés, n'hésitez pas à aller sur ze blog, je vais y mettre des aides pour l'étude
1°Read the title and make a list of the potential characters. Imagine a plot (the story).
2° Read the document once and tell what it is about. (a short summary)
3°Make a list of all the characters and classify them into different groups. (Three groups, a group may be composed of only one character )
4° What do we learn concerning the investigation? Divide your findings into two groups:
- facts (it is certain)
- hypotheses (it needs being looked into)
Is the investigation the real interest of the text ? Explain your answer.
5° What do we learn concerning the investigation. Facts (certainty), hypotheses (that need to be looked into)
6° ZOOM IN
For each character, pick out what he or she says, how he/ she reacts (body movement etc..) and draw conclusions.
| Name | What he/ she says | How he/she reacts | Conclusions |
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7° Bearing in mind (en gardant à l'esprit) what you have done so far, reread the text and pick out as many pieces of information as you can on the Amish life-style (daily activity/ clothes/ way the society is organized/ rôle of each sex). Be ready to present your findings in a short paragraph.
8° Does Lizzie manage to reach a clear-cut conclusions? What are her first impressions?? What are her second thoughts?
TRAVAIL SUR LA LANGUE
9° Exercice 1, 2 et 3 page 122.
YOUR TASK
250 words
Lizzie has eventually found out the truth and she writes her report to her superior who does not know anything about the Amish community. She explains how this society is organized, the difficulties she has met in her investigation, and she tells about her conclusions. Write this report.
10° Allez voir la vidéo ( cliquez sur le mot vidéo si la vidéo ne part pas depuis l'image fixe) Amish Paradis sur 'the blog' (your reaction, why? Type of doc? )
http://www.eagertown.blogspot.com/
Je vais faire un article pour finir l'étude de ONE NIGHT STAND et je vais mettre des aides pour le travail que je vous demande dans cette séquence. N'hésitez pas à m'envoyer un commentaire si quelque chose n'est pas clair......
‘Yessuh’, he said, handing over the yams, ‘I can see you one of these old-fashioned yam eaters’
‘They’re my birthmark’, I said. ‘I yam what I am!’
