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La voix passive - Exercices

2012-01-23T10:51:00.000+01:00

1. Mettez les phrases suivantes à la voix passive. Ne mentionnez pas le complément d'agent si cela n’est pas nécessaire.

1. Someone broke into our house last night.

2. They cancelled all flights because of the fog.

3. Millions of people have read that book.

4. The police are looking for the missing paintings.

5. They should have told him.

6. Workmen were cleaning the entry to the museum.

7. He invited me to the party.

8. They have not opened the doors yet.

9. Somebody will deliver the package before 9 o'clock.

10. Nobody noticed his mistake.

2. Mettez les phrases suivantes à la voix passive ou active selon le cas. Ne mentionnez pas l'agent (complément d’agent) sans qu'il soit nécessaire.

1. You must make a decision.

2. This work was painted by Picasso.

3. We were forced to cancel the trip.

4. Someone ought to have told him that the meeting was at 10 PM.

5. We will clean your swimming-pool this weekend.

6. They will have to clean it up.

7. The windscreen must have been broken by a rock.

8. Their rivals must have beaten them.

9. They are looking up the customer's name

10. The champion has been knocked out by a young boxer.

The Cambridge Spies

2012-01-02T17:40:00.001+01:00

News about Northern Ireland (Ulster)

2011-12-03T10:11:00.004+01:00

If you want to learn more about Northern Ireland's news, click on the links below.

* Belfast Telegraph

* BBC News Front Page: Northern Ireland

* BBC News - Continuity IRA murdered officer

* BBC News - Arrest over NI policeman murder

Fisherman Hero

2011-12-03T09:54:00.001+01:00

Listen to the story again HERE!
(Be patient, it can take one minute...)

Camden Local Food - The Skip Garden

2011-12-03T09:49:00.002+01:00

Melting Pots and Pans, Intermediate Task

2011-12-03T09:43:00.001+01:00

Context

Your school is organizing a European festival.

Your English teacher asks you to design a board game about London's famous monuments; the game will be played during the festival.

Process

1. Each group chooses one monument and prepares a portfolio including:

a. Information to locate the monument on a map.

b. Information about the area where the monument is situated.

c. One or several photos of the monument.

d. Information about the monument itself (in the past and today).

e. A quiz about the monument and its area, that is to say four or five different questions (including multiple choice, true/false, yes/no and other types of questions).

2. Each member of the group prepares a five-minute oral presentation of the monument.

The other students of the class answer the questions of the quiz during the presentation.

3. All of the students of the class must design the layout of the board game and write the rules. The cards of the game can be made by using the questions from the quiz.

Evaluation

Group evaluation : portfolio
Individual evaluation: oral presentation

List of monuments

1. Bank of England

2. Big Ben

3. Buckingham Palace

4. Globe (the -)

5. Houses of Parliament

6. Nelson's column

7. Royal Opera House

8. Shaftesbury Monument Memorial Fountain

9. St Paul's Cathedral

10. Tower of London

11. Tower Bridge

12. Westminster Abbey

13. Westminster Cathedral

The World Is Your Oyster

2011-10-21T09:35:00.000+02:00

Final Task
Your school has joined the Comenius Programme and plans to start a partnership with a British school. You have the choice between schools located in Bristol, liverpool or Edinburgh.
Which city will you choose? Write a blog entry on the school website to explain you preference and convince the school community. 200 words

Get Ready
Browse t
he web to find information about the Comenius Programme and the three cities .

Comenius Programme

1. Who are the people concerned by the programme?
2. What are the goals of the programme?

visitbristol.co.uk
www.visitliverpool.com
www.edinburgh.org

Location
1. Where are the cities located and how far they are from your own school?
2. How can you get there: means of transport, fares?
3. How far is it from the airport / internatioanl train station?

Places of interest
1. List the places which are worth visiting in the city itself.
2. Think of other places of interest in the area
3. Don't forget to mention museums.

Specific events
1. Check what's happening in the year to come: festivals, concerts, plays, sporting events

Historical background
1. Check what happened there.

Terminale L - Poursuites d'études

2011-10-16T17:18:00.002+02:00

Poursuite d'études filière L

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Dublin, the City of...

2011-09-14T15:37:00.002+02:00

Context

With three other students, you have decided to visit Dublin from October 24th to October 28th.

Final task
In fours, it will be your job over the next weeks to prepare the oral presentation of your trip to Dublin.

Process

Step one

List all of the things you have to think about: plane tickets, accommodation, catering, visits, activities, etc.

Step two (Evaluated)

Prepare a portfolio about Dublin that will include 4 different parts, dealing with your research about the city.

Here are some examples to help you:

- Historic aspect,

- Geographic aspect,

- Economic aspect,

- Artistic aspect,

- Cultural aspect,

- Architectural aspect,

- Social aspect...

Each of the four students of your group will be in charge of one aspect.

Important recommendations:

You are not allowed to copy and paste information that you will find on the Internet. Instead, you must sort, classify, summarize and rephrase the information.
Your portfolio must be a Word-like document. Be ready to publish it on this blog!

Step three (Evaluated)

1. Prepare an oral presentation to present your trip:

Explain your choices of accommodation, visits, activities, etc. day after day
Give the total cost of the trip and justify your expenses.

2. Convince the audience that your trip is the most attractive one and is good value for money.

3. Create a PowerPoint presentation to dynamize your presentation!

Evaluation

1. You will be evaluated on the quality of your Internet research and the relevance (pertinence) and accuracy (exactness) of your final presentation.

2. Your will also be evaluated on your linguistic skills and your ability to speak to an audience and convince them.

Phonology: minimal pairs

2011-08-30T11:46:00.001+02:00

PHONOLOGY : minimal pairs

Click HERE to listen to minimal pairs and check your perception skills.

:- )) Good luck and work hard! :-))

TELL ME MORE Education Online

2010-12-01T19:00:00.004+01:00

Le lycée Marcel Gimond vous donne la possibilité d'utiliser un logiciel d'apprentissage des langues: TELL ME MORE. Vous pouvez l'utiliser de chez vous et ainsi faire des exercices - en anglais, mais aussi dans d'autres langues - de compréhension écrite, compréhension orale, production écrite et production orale ainsi que des exercices de grammaire, vocabulaire et phonétique.

Vous avez à votre disposition un contenu réparti en 10 niveaux qui va de Grand Débutant à Expert (niveaux A1 au niveau C1 du Conseil de l’Europe).

Pour vous connecter:

1. Allez dans l'espace élève,
2. Cliquer sur "Pas encore enregistré"
3. Entrez le code d'enregistrement "07205"
4. Déclarer vos caractéristiques personnelles
Cliquez ICI pour accéder à TELL ME MORE.

Si vous rencontrez des problèmes, contactez-moi ici.

Creative Spirit

2010-09-05T12:10:00.005+02:00

1L and ES students are asked to visit the web pages below and do the different acitivities found on these pages.

Review of cause and effect linking words

Guide de conversation

Should / shouldn't

Expressing purpose

Modern Art Museums

2010-09-05T11:40:00.002+02:00

Here are the links of two very famous museums:

* The Museum of Modern Art in New York

http://www.moma.org/

* Tate Modern in London

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

On these two web sites, you can find the paintings you are to work on.

Good luck and work hard!