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describing people
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The Butler - sit in scene
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Level:
elementary
Age:
8-17
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Appearance Pictionary + Exercises (B/W and key included) fully editable
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elementary
Age:
7-17
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5146
Physical description
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elementary
Age:
8-11
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The 1st 45-minute-lesson (of 2) on the topic Describing People -- Reading Comprehension for Upper Elementary and Lower intermediate students
Level:
intermediate
Age:
10-14
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WHO IS WHO? GAME (PART ONE)
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elementary
Age:
9-11
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2704
DESCRIBING PEOPLE (2)
Level:
elementary
Age:
7-12
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2792
Do question 1 first!Then Watch the video and do the activities
1. Anticipation: complete with the words (before watching the video). Type the words in the blanks
section - waiter - counter - manager - diner
(attention: pas diNNer qui est le dîner mais diNer qui est le restaurant typiquement américain qu'on voit dans les films, quand on mange des burgers et des shakes)
In the USA, you can get food in a restaurant called
. you can sit at the
or in any sitting
(= area). Then you can say what you want to eat = you can
food. The person who serves you is called a
. If you have a problem with the food or with the waiter, you can ask for the person who leads the diner = the
2. Concentrate ONLY on the scene at the restaurant
a.
--> 00:28
Check
Where are they going?
to a supermarket
to a diner
to the library
b.--> 00:50
Complete
Where are they sitting?
Where should they sit?
c. 1:04
Choose
The waitress is saying "You know you all
can be served
can't be served
won't be served
Louis (the black student) is replying " We
don't want to be served please
would like to be served please
would want to be served please
d. --> 01:30
How do the people react?
The people at the counter are
defiant
aggressive
determined
cheerful
The people in the diner are
taken aback (= surprised. abasourdi)
motionless
responsive
e. 01:41
The waitress decides to
serve them
ask them to leave
call the manager
The man says
you all know you're not supposed to sit there
you don't know you're not supposed to sit there
you don't know you're not supposed to stay there
f. --> 02:35
Write in your notebook
How do the people react? ___
g. --> 04:17
What are the young whites doing? Describe what is happening. ___
h.
What happens in the end? How do you feel? ___
3. Watch again the whole extract and concentrate on the students with James Lawson
a.
What are the students doing with James Lawson? Why? ___
L2
Why do they have to role-play first? ____
b.
Listen to James' speech and check the right answers
- Alright kids. Show time.
- Gandhi has
demonstrated
denounced
described
for us that the brown man, in his native
band
sand
land
, or anywhere that he's being
oppressed
opposed
operate
...can pull himself out of
segmentation
discrimination
segregation
with
performance
patience
passion
, with persistence,with intelligence and
south
thought
thus
, with discipline... ...and a bit of a sense of
minor
humor
anger
.
- This is unprecedented,what we're
talking
tackling
taking
about,but it needs a
patient
balance
patience
that none of us have ever seen.
- We are
ordinance
organized
. We have a
leader
sinner
dealer
with every group.We have lookouts with pocket change and the local phone numbers for
ambulances
accidents
abstinents
ready, and when one wave comes off that lunch counter, what follows?A whole 'nother wave of Negro students sitting at that lunch counter, blowing their mind.
- Now, who
waits
wants
wastes
to role-play?
- This is an
experiment
expedient
experience
. So do whatever it takes to
bake
braid
break
their spirits.
- Use the
language
engage
bandage
.I need to hear "nigger" coming out of your
south
mouse
mouth
. “ don't
feel
feat
flee
comfortable saying that”You came here to get yourself
depressed
prepared
aware
and to get her prepared. So let me
hear
near
read
it now. “Nigger.” Louder. Say the
swords
worlds
words
like you mean it. “Nigger.” Louder. “You are a nigger!”
- “You are a nigger.”Make her
belie
below
believe
it.I don't believe you.
FACULTATIF: you can sum up the speech in French. Tu peux résumer le speech en français. Attention, pas de traduction littérale mais un récapitulatif.
YOU ARE DONE! CONGRATULATIONS!