Première séance

These activities were done in the classroom.

• Activity number 1: Speaking and reading

I wrote the title on the blackboard:

Shakespeare Forever

Then, the pupils' role was quite simple: Tell me everything they knew about William Shakespeare.

He was a playwright and a poet in the 16th or 17th Century. He wrote plays:

- Comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew...
- Tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet...

Not being specialists in Shakespeare, the kids were supposed to ask questions about what they did not know:

Where and When was he born?

Where did he live? / Where did he grow up?
Did he have a wife and children?
What other plays did he write?

To answer those questions, they opened their books pages 130-131.
They read the text and could answer the questions

He was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He probably attended the grammar school in Stratford until he was 15. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway and had three Children.
He then worked in London and became a partner in the New Globe Theater.
In addition to the plays we mentioned, he wrote Macbeth in 1605...

Puis vint le moment tant attendu de la pause réflexive (qui comme chacun le sait se passe en Français, parce que la grammaire peut paraître complexe alors n'en rajoutons pas!!)

Question simple: De quoi venons-nous de parler? et Vers quel choix cela nous a mené d'un point de vue grammatical?

Parler de Faits passés

Nous avons utilisé V-ed (appelé ainsi parce que pour conjuguer on prend la base verbale et on ajoute -ed)

Fonctionnement:

Affirmations: S + V-ed + C
Questions: (Wh-) + did + S + V (+C)?
Négations: S + Did not + V + C

A quoi ça sert:

A parler d'actions passées, datées et terminées.
Ben oui, mais pourquoi?

En fait, la marque -ed, marque une rupture. C'est pourquoi, V-ed peut servir à parler du passé parce qu'il y a une rupture entre le moment où s'est déroulée l'action et celui où l'on parle



Pour le moment, ça n'a l'air de rien, mais gardez cela à l'esprit pour plus tard...

• Activity number 2: Understanding Texts and Matching

Read the texts pages 130-131 and match them with the photos

Play one is... because we can read... an

d the picture shows...

Play 2 is ... Indeed, the text says... Moreover...

In text 3, ... therefore it corresponds to...

Devoirs à la maison: Leçon, être capable de présenter Shakespeare et de parler des quatre pièces dont nous avons parlé. + Aller sur http://vieilleanglais1.blogspot.com/ et regarder la séance devoirs de vacances.