Monday, September 11th, 2017 Group 2 CO Brexit This document is an interview of an English / a British woman. She is interviewed about the Brexit and more precisely about the referendum / the vote of June 2016. She quotes the question that was on the...
Wednesday, November 21st 2018. A French Hero This document is a press article (taken) from The Daily News, dated / published on April 8th 2010. It summarizes the story of a role model, Julien Duret, who saved a drowning toddler from East River, Manhattan,...
JOURNALIST: Sirisha lives and works in Hyderabad, a city in southern India that is in the vanguard of the country’s embrace of high-tech industries. So much so that one area of Hyderabad is even called “High Tech City”; the locals have dubbed it “Cyberabad”....
Monday, September 18th 2017 David Cameron’s declaration This document is an extract from David Cameron’s declaration after the result of the Brexit referendum. He says the British people have to make a decision about what’s coming next in the Brexit....
Dread / Fear / Fright / Scare (peur) To be scared to death (avoir une peur bleue) Panic-stricken (pris de panique) Terror (Effroi) Anxiety (angoisse) / anxious (angoissé) Distress (détresse) Confusion (incomprehension) To be in a state of disarray (être...
Friday, September 23rd 2016. Boris Johnson’s declaration This document is an extract from the declaration of Boris Johnson just after the results of the Brexit referendum. He is the one who started the Brexit but he says that there is no need for haste…...
Friday, January 6th 2017 Emmeline Pankhurst - E. Pankhurst was a political activist who fought for the right to vote for women in England. She was also a wife and a mother. She risked her health and security for this fight. She paved the way of future...
Wednesday, September 21st 2016 In New York, there are different cultures from different countries so it’s a multicultural city. There are Asians in Chinatown / Asians live in Chinatown / Asians settled in Chinatown. Italians settled in Little Italy /...
Friday, September 30th 2016 David Cameron’s declaration This document is an extract from David Cameron’s declaration after the results of the BREXIT referendum. He admits / recognizes / acknowledges the fact that the British people took a decision to...
Friday, September 9th 2016 New York is located in the USA, in the state of New York, it’s located in the North East/ on the North East coast. In NY, the people speak English and many other languages. There are 8 550 000 people. (eight million five hundred...
Many authors wrote songs about America: some of those songs present the American dream and others talk about the real life in America. For example the song of Neil Diamond, "America", is a nationalist song because the author talks about the dream life...
Friday, March 3rd 2017 ORAL COMPREHENSION ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE This document is an audio report about climate change. The journalist explains that it’s one of the most worrying things for the planet because it’s changing the earth forever. Indeed, politicians...
1997 : She was born in the Swat Valley (On July 12th) 2008: she championed girls’ education in Pakistan, speaking on TV. 2009: she became the subject of a documentary / the Taliban overran her city / She spoke out in a TV interview. From Jan to March...
Monday, December 12th 2016 Group 1 Churchill’s speech - Commentary Catch his audience’s attention with four one-syllable words : blood / toil / tears / sweat. (list) Lexical field of war and terror : blood, crime, war, suffering, terror, Survival / struggle...
Friday, December 2nd, 2016. Heroes can be classified according to what they did… People like Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates, Malala or Margaret Thatcher can be considered as heroes… Mandela worked for peace in his country and he especially worked to stop...
Monday, November 28th 2016. Group 1: A French hero… This is an article about a French tourist who became a hero near East River, in New York. Indeed, he was having a walk with his girlfriend when he saw what he believed was a doll in the water. But it...
Monday, November 21st 2016. The blind man This is a video to support Mark Pollock. He is a blind man who has decided to walk to the South Pole, in minus 50 degrees. It’s dangerous, he risks dying, or losing a limb if he gets frostbitten. His challenge...
Friday, November 18th 2016 Let it be This document is a radio report from March 29th 1970. It was broadcast on Liverpool News and the journalist is Steven Robson. He wonders whether / if The Beatles will separate and if “let it be” is their last song...
Friday, November 18th 2016 Let it be This is a radio report made by Steven Robson from Liverpool News. It was broadcast on March 29th 1970. It deals with The Beatles’ song “Let it be”. The journalist is wondering whether / if “Let it be” is the latest...
Monday, March 13th 2017. Reduce, Re-use, Replay This is a press article, taken from the magazine Time for Kids. It was published on April 20th 2012. It deals with a band / group of teens / teenagers who play music with instruments made out of garbage....
Friday, January 20th 2017. Interview of a non-smoker. This is a conversation / dialogue / interview / exchange between a journalist and a non-smoker. The non-smoker explains how he was addicted to smoking and how six months ago he stopped smoking. Indeed,...
Friday, January 13th 2017 ROSA PARKS This document is an audio, maybe a radio report about Rosa Parks. The journalist tells us she is a hero because she fought against racism: she stood up for freedom, equality of rights between black and white people....
Friday, November 18th 2016. Into the wild This is an extract / an excerpt from a book / a novel entitled “Into the Wild” and written by Jon Krakauer, in 1997. It is the story of an adventurer, a young man, named Alex. He is 24. He comes from South Dakota...
Friday, October 7th 2016 The Boutin family Tess - Stay home – run family + house – love gardening – bowl – read. The mother of the family is Tess = This is the mother of the family: her name is Tess. She stay s home running / to run the family and the...
Mary: What's next? Listen and fill the blanks in the script Monday, September 19th 2016. Mary : what’s next ? Mary is quite confident about what’s coming next because she hears people speak a lot about the consequences of the Brexit… But she has a powerful...
