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Aujourd'hui, un peu d'étymologie (science qui traite de l'origine d'un mot, de sa filiation)!
Quelle est l'origine des noms de la semaine, en anglais ? Découvre-le dans cette infographie!
The first sketch from the programme's here !
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)
The video-sketch (below) is the first from a series of 30 worldwide famous art pieces revisited on French/German 'arte' programme "A Musée vous, A Musée moi" [French VO].
"The problem we all live with" (painted in1963 by Norman Rockwell) evokes Ruby Bridges, the first black American to enter a white school... she needed to be escorted by guards to access school safely !
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.
stuffy | sloppy careless |
| stickler somebody who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing | irony using words to mean something that is the opposite of its most usual meaning |
| rhetoric the art of persuasive speaking | literal the usual meaning of a word or phrase |
| clause grammatical unit containing a subject and a verb | emoticons facial expressions made out of keyboard characters |
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.
IMPACTS of global warming
Although the environment endures a great deal of threats and damages, there may be some solutions. The mind map below shows things people could do to slow global warming and to protect our planet :
The third map indicates the origins of global warming :
[Click on each mind map to get the full-size illustration (you can enlarge the picture on the web page : CTRL++]
🎃 Let's discover the origins of Hallowe'en 👻 :
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