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When I Arrived In England 2

Warm Up Annihilation a film or a movie? The Colour Out Of Space , HP Lovecraft / Body Snatchers to speak about/to deal with:     to highlight, to epitomize, to lay out, to expose, to depict It's An Emotional visit She talked about the first time she saw snow. it was bright, white, clean & fluffy. T hree years ago she went back to Jamaica, it was an emotional moment when she saw her grandmother again. Even though ( même si )  she enjoyed seeing her gran again,  she was treated like a foreigner by other Jamaicans. (a foreigner is a stranger) England is more her country than Jamaica, she says England is "her country." street differently sensally century vise

When I Arrived in England 1

Warm Up I'm best friends with to meet / met / met to spend / spent / spent a meeting between a daughter and her mother It's an interview of a woman about her past. Here are the elements we think we understood: We could hear a woman's voice. It's a woman who lived in Jamaica and went to England 15 years ago / 50 years ago. She said she came to England 50 years ago at the age of 13. The woman came to England because her mother was there. She had to join her because she was living in Jamaica with her grandmother,  and she didn't want to leave because she loved her grandmother, she was living with her, and she was lovely. She must prepare a passport to go to England. She said England was frozen. she said she had a picture in her passport, she was 12, 13?  

Vampires & Villagers Oral Expression

Today we had our last game. Here are some words and expressions that we would have needed: all the time: à chaque fois a game is not a party it was noisy to be sure of something: être certain/certaine an accomplice: un complice strange... possible synonyms are : weird, odd, queer, bizarre, eerie... the both of you/ you both/ : tous/toutes les deux to unmask: démasquer a deed is not being dead. without the shadow of a doubt: sans l'ombre d'un doute the plague female / male a mass grave

Vampires & villagers 7

Warm Up I'll talk about / Let me tell you about... AKA   -> Also Known As October 25th ( October the twenty fifth ) An evangelist a songwriter / a composer Homework correction - a field  a place where you can cultivate plants (un champ) - unattended not supervised (sans surveillance) - to sweep/swept/swept when something takes over (balayer) - a plot a secret plan (un complot) - a needle a syringe (une aiguille) - to draw/drew/drawn dessiner / déplacer / tracer  - wary prudent (being on guard) - to stone to kill with stones (lapider) - to detain to jail / to incarcerate (détenir) Today we finished studying the text, and we explained parts of it, translating them as we read. The article deals with rumours of vampire attacks. These rumours are so strong that some villagers believed them and started killing and injuring people. We compared that situation with the game we're playing, when we play vamp...

Vampires & Villagers 7

Warm Up I'll talk about / I'm going to talk about / I'll tell you (all) about my holidays my in-laws ( ma belle-famille) / Father in-law ( père de mon conjoint) vs stepfather ( nouvel époux de ma mère )  / Foster family to look / to watch Warm-Up -> in advance.