HOW TO DESCRIBE A DOCUMENT?

This document is a photograph. His name is Jeff , he is Scottish. He lives"z" in New York and he is maybe/perhaps/  /pə^rˈhæps/ thirteen. His parents are divorced "d". He has got black shorts, a black jersey/ ˈdʒɜːzi/, black socks and blue football shoes.

He doesn't/ˈdʌz^ənt/ like Donald Trump. Donald Trump was the president of the United States of America. He loves"z" pizza , cats and dogs/pets. He doesn't like  rugby but he prefers /prɪˈfɜː^rz/football/soccer. 

THE BRITISH ISLES PT 2

 Let's Recap what you have to know about the British Isles

Do remember the composition of  - GREAT BRITAIN = ENGLAND + SCOTLAND + WALES
                                                    - THE UNITED KINGDOM (U-K) = GREAT BRITAIN + NORHERN IRELAND

What is the UNION JACK? It's the national flag of the United Kingdom, formed by combining the flag of England ( St George's cross), Scotland (St Andrew's cross) and  Ireland (St Patrick's cross). 

 As you can see it was first the Union Flag (England &Scotland) in 1606 before it turned up to the Union Jack in 1801.

EMBLEMS:
The Lion, for its bravery,  is the national animal emblem of England.
Remember Richard the Lionheart king of England from 1189 until 1199.

The rose is England's national flower.

      

          The Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland

                                   &

           The Thistle is the floral emblem.

The Red Dragon is a popular welsh symbol. This myth originated from the tale of Merlin's vision of a red and a white dragon battling,  with the victory of the red one.
The Leek (poireau) is the national emblem of Wales
The daffodil (jonquille) is the national flower of Wales.

Many of the symbols of Ireland were earlier to the division into Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (1922).

The Shamrock is the national plant and emblem of Northern Ireland.

The celtic Harp is a national symbol of  the Republic of Ireland
We can find it on the Irish Euro coins.

Compass Points

SEAS SEASSURROUNDING THE BRITISH ISLES:

The British Isles are bordered by 4 (four) seas:
- to the south by the English Channel ( la Manche), which separates it from continental Europe.
- to the east by the North Sea
- to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.   
 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021

 

End of the term, end of the year.  Your English teacher wishes you all a Happy New Year 2021.

Some pictures of the two classes I enjoy working with: 6e Milliat & 6e MBappe

Here are the latest activities of the year

Click here: Nawël, Inès and Charline

                                                 Click here: This Oldman 6eMBappe

Click here. This Old man 6EMilliat

Une grosse dédicace à mes anciens élèves de 6e du Collège JPTimbaud à Bobigny. Sur la séquence Weather, voici la tâche finale réalisée en 2018: Make a video clip on a remix of the song "Things gonna alright" by Jain.  Click here:6eJPT

HOMEWORK pour la rentrée Janvier 2021

1/ Beaucoup d’élèves n’ont pas encore présenté et vont donc présenter la séquence météo finale à l’oral.

2/ Complete the map of the British Isles if you can.

3/ On the map or IN YOUR COPYBOOKS (lesson part), draw the flags of England, Scotland and Ireland (represented by crosses of Saints). 

4/ On the map or IN YOUR COPYBOOKS (lesson part). Write the seas surrounding the British Isles and the points of the compass.

 5/  IN YOUR COPYBOOKS (lesson part) 

Look for the national animal and floral emblem of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Vous pouvez vous aider de vos manuels d’anglais

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TOMORROW

 On arrive à la deuxième partie, c'est à dire la présentation météorologique au futur. On aura besoin d'un marqueur de temps futur, par exemple "Tomorrow" et les mots clés suivants

There will be➽➽ Il y aura 

It will be ➽➽ Ce sera

It may rain ➽➽  Il pleuvra peut-être

Aidez-vous de la vidéo suivante:

Voici le script de la vidéo pour vous en inspirer:

Tomorrow morning, it will be sunny with a chance of rain with clear skies in Spain but it will be cloudy in France, it will be foggy in the morning and it may rain in the afternoon.

In London, it will be windy with a chance of rain. It will be hot in Mexico tomorrow, with a temperature of 37°C (Celsius). It will be even hotter in Brazil, there will be a heat wave moving to the country this week. Tomorrow, the temperature in Brazil will reach 40° C; however, it will be cold in Moscow tomorrow. The temperature will reach negative – 14° C in Moscow and it will snow tomorrow afternoon.

Tomorrow evening there will be a thunderstorm on the East coast of the United States. People should not go outside where there is thunder and lightning. There will be a hurricane approaching LA tomorrow afternoon while there will be a tornado warning in the Western part of the United States.

More vocabulary to Describe the weather

Good, great, nice, fine, lovely, beautiful, wonderful, excellent, pleasant.
bad, awful, terrible, nasty, rotten, miserable, unpleasant, ugly;
sunny, warm, hot, mild, cool, chilly, cold, freezing, icy, frosty; very cold; bitter cold;
rainy, wet, humid, dry, foggy, windy, stormy, breezy, windless, calm, still;
Sky: cloudy, overcast, cloudless, clear, bright, blue, grey, dark; a patch of blue sky.

Or
The weather is nice today. The weather is good today. The weather is awful today.
It's warm today. It's hot today. It's cold today. It is cold and windy. It's getting colder. It’s a little chilly

It is sunny, there are clear skies. There s not a cloud in the sky. It s a fine day.
The wind is blowing. . A strong wind is blowing. It s a windy afternoon
It's humid. It's hot and humid. It's cloudy, but there's no rain. It's snowing hard.
It's raining. It's raining hard. It's raining cats and dogs. It s overcast right now (le ciel est couvert).

Un script plus facile au futur si vous manquez d'inspiration

Tomorrow, in Brazil, the weather will be very hot with a temperature of 38° Celsius but it will be awful in Argentina, there will be a storm in the afternoon with 17°C. Do not go out!

In Algeria, the weather will be bad, cold and windy  in the morning but nice in the afternoon. It will reach 29 °C.

Tomorrow, It may rain in Italy, about14° C; however the weather will be excellent in Germany, it will be a hot day, not a cloud in the sky. The temperature will reach30 ° C.

Une fois que le ou les textes sont rédigés, vous irez sur l application suivante:   https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/    

C'est un synthétiseur sonore. Vous entrez votre texte et vous aurez la restitution sonore pour la prononciation.

Après cela, vous pouvez vous enregistrer sur: https://vocaroo.com/  et m'envoyer le lien par ENT si vous voulez, ainsi je pourrai écouter.

Vous pouvez bien sur vous aider d'un dictionnaire en ligne ou vous avez aussi la prononciation qui est donnée, je conseille : https://www.wordreference.com/fren/ 

THERE IS/ARE

 How to introduce your final task?

Good morning/ evening Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Marais TV channel.

My name is John  and this is Terry. Today is Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 and it's 9:30 am/ 7:00pm or 10  o'clock am/ 8:00 pm . Lets see the weather in the United Kingdom.

THERE IS /THERE ARE

/ˈðɛə^r/
A travers les exemples, nous avons constaté que pour parler de l'existence ou de l'absence de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un, on utilise THERE IS au singulier et THERE ARE au pluriel.
Singulier
Forme affirmative: There is a cat in my street ou There's /ˈðə^rz/ a cat...... (contraction possible)

Forme interrogative⟷ Is there a cat in  my street?
Forme négative: There is not a cat in my street ou There's not a cat....ou There isn't a cat.....
Pluriel
Forme affirmative: There are three birds on my doorstep.(contraction impossible)

                          Il ya trois oiseaux sur le seuil de ma porte
Forme interrogative⟷Are there three birds on my doorstep?
Forme négative: There are not three birds....street ou There aren't three birds

➽➽➽ THERE IS si le premier mot énuméré est au singulier

             There is one dog, two cats and one rabbit in my garden

➽➽➽ THERE ARE  si le premier mot énuméré est au pluriel

             There are two cats, one dog and three birds in my garden

EXERCISES

   1/ Coche les phrases correctement construites (Tick the correct sentences).

a)      There is two red fish in my living-room.                    □

b)     There are a bath in the bathroom.                              □

c)      There is no milk in the fridge.                                      □

d)     There are two chairs and one table in my kitchen.   □

e)      There are one new boy at school.                               □

2/Is ou Are ? A toi de choisir (Choose between Is and Are).

a)   There ___________ thirty trees in the park.

b)  ________ there any birds in these trees?

c)   No, there ________ not but there _______ one fox living in one tree.

3/Réponds par une phrase complète en disant la vérité (Answer the following questions by telling the truth).

a)     How many pupils are there in your school? ________________________________________

b)     How many girls are there in your class? ___________________________________________

c)      How many candies are there in your schoolbag? ____________________________________

d)     How many people are there in the room right now? _________________________________

4/ Demande si ces bâtiments existent dans ta rue et réponds (Ask if these buildings are in your street then answer the question).

(post office)     _____________________________________ ? _____________________________________

(bakery)          _______________________________________ ? ____________________________________

(stop sign)            _______________________________________ ? ____________________________________

ORDINAL NUMBERS

1^st   FIRST              6^th   SIXTH            11^th   ELEVENTH                  16^th   SIXTEENTH

      /ˈfɜː^rst/
2^nd  SECOND       7^th   SEVENTH      12^th   TWELFTH                    17^th   SEVENTEENTH

     /ˈsɛkənd/   
3^rd   THIRD            8^th   EIGHTH        13^th   THIRTEENTH               18^th   EIGHTEENTH

       /ˈθɜː^rd/
4^th   FOURTH         9^th   NINTH          14^th   FOURTEENTH             19^th   NINETEENTH

       /ˈfɔː^rθ/              /ˈnaɪnθ/
5^th   FIFTH           10^th   TENTH          15^th   FIFTEENTH                  20^th   TWENTIETH

        /ˈfɪfθ/                                                                                           /ˈtwɛntiəθ/

There are 2 days to rest

 DAYS/MONTHS/SEASONS

How many days are there in a week?
➡ There are seven days in a week. The North American calendars use Sunday as the first day, while European calendars regard Monday as the first day.
The names of the days of the week in a lot of languages are from the names of classical planets, a system introduced by the Romans around 7th century AD (7ème siècle après J-C)
               
Monday /ˈmʌndeɪ/      ⇨⇨⇨⇛⇛ the Moon /ˈmuːn/
Tuesday  /ˈtjuːzdeɪ/       ⇛⇛⇛⇛  Mars /ˈmɑː^rz/
Wednesday  /ˈwɛnzdeɪ/ ⇛⇛⇛⇛ Mercury  /ˈmɜːkjʊri/
Thursday  /ˈθɜːzdeɪ  ⇛⇛⇛⇛⇛ Jupiter /ˈdʒuːpɪtə^r/
Friday     /ˈfreɪdeɪ /   ⇛⇛⇛⇛⇛ Venus /ˈviːnəs/
Saturday  /ˈsætədeɪ/ ⇛⇛⇛⇛⇛Saturn /ˈsætɜːn/
Sunday /ˈsʌndeɪ /  ⇛⇛⇛⇛⇛ the Sun/ˈsʌn/                               

There are twelve Months:

    January      -  February   - March  -    April   -  May -     June   -   July   

/ˈdʒænjəri/ - /ˈfɛbrʊəri/  - /'March'/- /ˈeɪprɪl/- /ˈmeɪ/ - /ˈdʒuːn/ - /dʒuˈlaɪ/ 

 August  - September    -   October -  November     - December 

 /ˈɔːɡəst/- /sɛpˈtɛmbə^r  /- /ɒkˈtəʊbə^r/- /nəʊˈvɛmbə^r -  /dɪˈsɛmbə^r/   

  

 Since there are 12 months in one year, each season lasts about 3 Months so there 4 seasons:

 SPRING runs from March 20 to June 21

SUMMER runs from June 21 to September 22

AUTUMN/FALL runs from /ˈɔːtəm/September 22 to December 21

WINTER runs from December 21 to March 20

EXERCISES:

SEASON  https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6706

Month and season : https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=614

DAYS of the week funny: https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5062