To Build A Fire 1

(Bonjour tout le monde ! Voici la nouvelle activité / séquence. Lisez les consignes bien attentivement, laissez-vous guider, tout est expliqué clairement. Faites d'abord le travail préliminaire que je vous donne en lien, et ensuite, lisez le document pdf joint au message. Bon courage !)


Hello there !

I've got something new for you guys. We are going to read all together, because READING IS AWESOME.

This time around, we won't be reading an adapted, easy thing. No : we'll read the real thing, an actual piece of American literature. 

I present you the great, the splendid, the munificent... Jack London. Together, we'll read one of my favourite short stories ever, To Build A Fire.

I'll try and guide you to it. It's not long, but it could be considered difficult. So why bother reading it ? Well, because...

1. it's a great story, full of suspense and cruelty.
2. it might help you if you in your studies - it's very popular in university teaching.
3. it will show you that even if you don't understand everything, you can still enjoy reading in English (and that you are actually more than able to do so).
4. I'm your teacher and you will do what you're told.

To get started, just follow that link, and try and do your best. A few point in French :

- pas de Google traduction ou autre, s'il vous plaît, le but c'est de vous faire pratiquer votre anglais. Utilisez éventuellement un dictionnaire en ligne ou un dictionnaire des synonymes si besoin.
- pas de copier-coller de paragraphes lus sur d'autres sites. Il y a tout un tas d'articles qui ont été rédigés sur cette nouvelle remarquable. Je n'en veux pas, je les ai déjà probablement déjà lu, ce que je veux c'est votre travail à vous.
- pas besoin d'écrire énormément, encore une fois c'est la qualité plus que la quantité qui m'intéresse !

Once you're done with it, please read the attached pdf file, that's the first page of the story !

(vous pouvez tout à fait regarder le vocabulaire qui vous manque, il y en aura. Tachez toutefois de lire ce premier document d'une traite sans vous interrompre avant de vérifier les mots qui vous intéressent!)

Good luck people !

Cheers,

f.simon

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