RAPPEL :

# 1 : Prepositions of place : 10 cartoons (Feb. 20, 2016) [ Cycle 3 - 6ème ]

# 2 : Prepositions of place : 30 marble drawings :-)

Pour les plus curieux...

Mime 3 prépositions devant tes camarades : ils devront deviner qui (ou quoi) est positionné où...

The first sketch from the programme's here !

"American Gothic"

was painted  by Grant Wood.

The artist  "combined Americana with European technique. Inspired by the window that recalled the cathedrals he had seen in Europe during his training and travels, [Grant] Wood posed his quintessentially American figures in a "rigid frontal arrangement" that recalls Northern Renaissance art, while mimicking that movement's close attention to detail."

The artist  "combined Americana with European technique. Inspired by the window that recalled the cathedrals he had seen in Europe during his training and travels, [Grant] Wood posed his quintessentially American figures in a "rigid frontal arrangement" that recalls Northern Renaissance art, while mimicking that movement's close attention to detail." (From "15 Things You Might Not Know About American Gothic" - June 2015)

Here is a second video, also based on "American Gothic"...

have fun :o)

Why is punctuation important, and does it matter if we get it wrong ?
Neil and Alice discuss rhetoric, commas, and why using full stops when we’re texting can make us sound insincere.

This week's question : What is another word for the keyboard sign that represents a paragraph ?

Is it… a) pilcrow ?   b) bodkin ?   c) pica ? ... You'll hear the answer at the end of the programme.

And here is >>  the transcript of the programme.

You work for the WWF Advertising Department : you'll have to design the front page of a  leaflet campaigning against man-made global warming effects.

The WWF = the World Wildlife Fund : a global environment-friendly organization created 56 years ago. Its logo 

shows a black and white panda (a protected species)

Watch the picture below attentively... then write as many words or phrases (expressions) as possible !

TIP : Reuse the previous vocabulary activities (Questions 1 to 5 page 31 - workbook, ex. #1-2 -copy) and the vocabulary mind map on the environment you worked on last week.

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Tu travailles pour le Service Publicitaire du WWF. Ta mission est de concevoir (rédiger et illustrer) la première de couverture d'un prospectus de campagne contre les effets du réchauffement climatique causés par l'Homme.