Thursday, October 3rd 2013. Let’s compare paintings ! These two paintings, by Gainsborough and Hockney show a lot of similarities: There are both / they both represent portraits. In both paintings, we can see a man and a woman or maybe a couple (they...
Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, India. Chowpatty , Mumbai’s most famous beach, is a favourite spot for anyone out to enjoy some fresh air. The highlight of the year at Chowpatty is Ganesh Chaturthi (August/September ), when huge crowds gather to watch images...
WOODSTOCK Want to learn more? Go and check the following links: Click here to discover a website dedicated to the Woodstock festival... Click here to watch a gallery of photos... Click here to watch Janis Joplin at the Woodstock Festival... Click here...
Thursday, September 5th 2013. A fashion show This document is a picture / photo / photography of a fashion show. In the foreground, I can see a pile of rubbish / trash and in the background, I can see eight models who are walk ing on the catwalk. Behind...
Thursday, September 5th 2013 Cities in English speaking countries New York : It is a big city in the USA. It’s nicknamed the Big Apple. It has got a lot of skyscrapers. It is the biggest city in America. On this picture, we can see the Brooklyn Bridge...
Thursday, September 5th 2013. Protest songs of the 1960s and 1970s The first text was written by Bob Dylan. It’s about the cold war. He sang against the leaders of that war: the US and the Russian president who built weapons but didn’t have the courage...
JOBS A carpenter is someone who work s outside. He work s with wood. He build s houses, roofs… It’s interesting because you work outside. A vet is someone who heal s pets / animals. He work s inside but also outside… A gardener is someone who work s outside....
Seconde B/C Wednesday, September 4th 2013. English speaking countries The American flag is composed of 50 (fifty) stars representing the 50 states and 13 (thirteen) stripes representing the 13 first colonies. It’s called the Star Spangled Banner. The...
Monday, September 30th 2013. Mr & Mrs Clark and Percy – by David Hockney (1970) This document is a painting by D. Hockney. It was painted in 1970. It represents two persons / people, a man and a woman. Maybe they are married. One is sitting (the man)...
Wednesday, September 11th 2013. Mr & Mrs Andrews This document is a painting. It was painted by Thomas Gainsborough in 1750 (seventeen fifty). It’s entitled “Mr & Mrs Andrews”. It’s a portrait. In the foreground, we can see two people, one is standing,...
Monday, December 14th 2020 Gothic literature TOPIC: How does imagination express our fears of the world, of the other and of our self? => imaginary worlds => monsters in cinema, literature and art. a film poster for the Elephant Man made by David Lynch...
Tuesday, October 1st 2019 Painting? self-portrait = a portrait of yourself this was created by Andy Warhol in 1966 There are 9 different pictures. But they are the same picture with different colours / they are identical. many colours / much contrast...
Tuesday, October 1st 2019 A. Warhol date of creation: 1966 => it was created in 1966 9 portraits / self-portraits = portrait of ourself colours: green, blue, yellow, red, pink, black, orange, dark blue pictures / photos / photographies different colours,...
Group 2 Monday, January 16th 2017. Malala - Fought for children’s rights to go to school - From Pakistan - Wrote a book - Got a Nobel prize - Was attacked by Talibans - Nearly died - Lives in the UK Group 1 Monday, January 16th 2017. Malala - From Pakistan...
This document is a cartoon / a caricature, by Mike Dammer, entitled “people and computers around the world”. We can see 12 people from every country in the world / from around the world, on computers. They are smiling and they are looking at the screens...
This document is a cartoon by Randy Bish, entitled “rake the leaves, son”, which was published in the Pittsburgh Tribune Gazette, on October 13th 2008. Under the cartoon, we can read a quote from one of the characters. We can indeed see two people: a...
Monday, December 1st 2014. “My greatest challenge” This is about Lindsey. She is 25 (years old). She is a student in Sociology. She lives in Bristol, Connecticut and she joined a programme called “togetherness”: she walked from Connecticut to Nebraska....
Tuesday, January 19th 2021 What social media do and don’t do for a cause. This is an interview on KUER radio which is an American radio from Utah. We can hear a guest and a woman. He is a professor in Social transformation and she works for the radio....
Read the text carefully. What’s the English for…? Allumé / illuminé = lit up / illuminated Le coucher du soleil = sunset Le lancement = the launch Massivement = overwhelmingly Diffuser = to broadcast Montrer, diffuser = to feature Un pont, une passerelle,...
Friday, January 15th 2021 This document is an audio document, recorded from a radio report about an attack / a shooting in Florida, in a high school. A student killed 14 pupils and 3 members of staff, he used a gun. This happened in February 2018. The...
Video # 1: We are the All Blacks nation Who is the main speaker? The main speaker is a little girl from New Zealand. What is her message about? Her message is about the diversity of people in New Zealand (“near and far”, “old”, “young”, “big”, “small”,...
Monday, November 16th 2020. A tender-eyed baby peers over the fence that divides the border between the United States and Mexico. The monumental black and white installation dominates the wall and is the work of French artist JR, and is located near the...
Monday, November 30th 2020 Enrique’s journey Time : January 29th, 1989 Characters - social roles: Enrique, boy, 5 years old. Belky, girl, Enrique’s sister, 7 years old. Lourdes, mother of Enrique, 24 years old, poor, doesn’t have a job, sells things in...
Read from line 1 to line 9, and search for vocabulary: What’s the English for…? Autrefois = once Appartenir = to belong to Habillé en lambeaux = tattered Frénétique = feverish Arriver en masse = to pour in L’appétit = hunger Des subventions = grants Grogner...
Reading from line 28 to line 37, describe briefly how farmers turned out? They were no longer farmers but owners who led a farm. They mostly worked with paper in offices and no longer with tools in the fields. What description do we read about the expansion...
