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Nos enfants nous accuseront

This new documentary ( in French cinemas at the moment) is certainly worth looking at.  It raises lots of issues on the dangers faced by everyone of us -  Just have look at the trailer (bande-annonce)-  Look at the figures (les chiffres)- 70% of cancers would be caused by what we are doing to our environment. 

Travail

1. Regardez la bande annonce

• Quelles sont vos premières réactions?
• Pensez vous que ce problème s'applique aussi à votre pays?
• Lisez les statistiques (synopsis) -  faites correspondre les chiffres avec un exemple:

                     100 000 - c'est le nombre d'enfants qui meurent de maladies causées par l'environnement
                     1,1% -
etc-----


     2.  Que pensez-vous de la décision prise par le maire du petit village des Cévennes?  Pouvez-vous faire des comparaisons avec des décisions prises dans votre pays?


     3.  Ecrivez un article pour le journal de votre ville dans lequel vous discuterez des problèmes de l'environnement dans votre ville.  Mettez-y vos propres recommendations.

Cross-Curricular links with History

The First World War

Year 9 have been studying The First World War as part of their History lessons. I decided that it would be a very good idea to bring this topic into the Modern Foreign Language lesson.

One of the latest French film which depicts well the life of the soldiers during this war is "Joyeux NoëI".

This is how we worked:

1. In groups, using your knowledge of the First World War, make a list in English of the words you may hear in a Film / documentary about soldiers'life.
2. Translate these words in French. Work on their pronunciation.
3. Whole class contributes to the list:

   -soldat

   -tranchée

   -guerre

   -rats

   -poux

   -combats

   -fusils

   -allemand

   -maladie

   -mort

4. Watch the film - at the end discuss in groups the vocabulary which has been heard. Watch a small documentary from Monjtquotidien about "Les Poilus".
5. Look at the transcript from the documentary and underline the vocabulary that you have identified in earlier lessons. Highlight the words, you know and identify cognates. Research keywords in the dictionary. Homework is to prepare notes together to be used for a Powerpoint presentation.
6. In computer room: do the following tasks:

• Look at information about the film on:
• http://www.joyeuxnoel-lefilm.com/ , http://tinyurl.com/6cno4n, http://tinyurl.com/639qfy
•   For your presentation, you will need to do the following slides.
• 1. List of vocabulary related to the word with translation or pictures.
  2. A summary of the film in English
  3. Several slides on the soldiers' life during the first world War, using the text studied in class.

  The work produced by the students has been very good. Some will be posted soon.