SEQUENCE EN COLLABORATION

AVEC L' ASSISTANT DE LANGUE:

La presse anglaise populaire: classe de première 2013/2014

Présentation des objectifs de la séquence:2

Support: Film: Notting Hill + tabloids: The Daily Mail and the Sun

Activités langagières: CO+EO+CE+EE+EEI

Objectifs conceptuels:

Lexique: vocabulaire relatif au monde la presse populaire vocabulaire relatif aux stars,

cinéma, à la célébrité

Grammaire: notions: contraste + regret + probabilité

verbes de perception + pronoms relatifs + both + should (have +EN)

Phonologie: travail sur l'intonation des questions ouvertes et fermées + intonation des "tags"

Pragmatique: cohésion: travail sur les mots de liaison cohérence: travail sur l'agencement

des idées: logique des arguments/ idées dans l'agencement de l'article de presse

Culturel: deux mondes en contraste: a) monde populaire de Notting hill

b) monde hollywoodien de strass et paillettes

Objectif méthodologique: pre-writing - writing first draft - revising – proofreading - editing

Problématique: Notion: Forms of Power: The power of the language

Tâche finale: écriture d'un article de presse à scandale racontant la rencontre de Anna Scott

et des photographes après une nuit passée chez son petit ami William.

Travail en parallèle entre le professeur (A) et l'assistant (B)

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A: travail sur les deux extraits de films: Notting Hill:

•B: Brainstorming lexical: newspapers and magasines

a) the opening scene

b) at William's: tha paparrazzi

Activity n°1:

Activity n°2:

Travail de l'assistant a commencé en léger décalage avec celui du professeur

Activity n°3:

Activity n°4:

Activity n°5:

Activity n°6:

4B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story * the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline * the Body * the Lead * the Ending

- Identify the different sections * Advice/ Comment sections * Joke sections * Advertising * Clothes section

B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and take notes from your observationReading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid article:news featuring sex escapades, crime, violence, scandals of all sorts; focus is oncelebrities, scandals are focused on rich and famous people's lives, stories cover

problems of lives of celebritiesinteresting, shocking and appealing paragraphs

sentences of 16 -30 short words + small paragraphscolumns are narrow and easy to read: small amount of writingphrases do not repeat themselvesstories are personal

5B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story * the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline * the Body * the Lead * the Ending

- Identify the different sections * Advice/ Comment sections * Joke sections * Advertising * Clothes section

B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and take notes from your observationReading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid article:

words used: colourful adjectives and extreme adjectives Pick out extreme words with the help of the assistant and find the equivalents in a more neutral register.fury (anger) boost (encourage) quit (resign)controversy (turmoil) bar, ban (exclude) soar (rise)clash (disagreement) threat (possibility) hate (dislike)dumped (dismissed) quiz (question) broke down into tears (eyes watered) split (division) oust (replace)

6B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story * the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline * the Body * the Lead * the Ending

- Identify the different sections * Advice/ Comment sections * Joke sections * Advertising * Clothes section

B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and take notes from your observationReading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid article:

many pictures: huge amount of pictures

does not present a lot of facts

weird stories based on true stories, however most of the time it is fake, made upand really exaggerated

printed on small papers and folded

A: Travail abordé par le professeur: Methodology: writing a news story

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4 - Proofreading and editing: check for careless errors: pay careful attention to the spelling of names. have your classmate review your work.Write the final copy of your story.

1 -Pre-writing: planning your writinga) Select your subject: write about a news worthy subject, something important interesting or unusual that your readers will want to read about.b) Collect details (here from the two short movie extracts). A good starting point is to ask the 5 W's and H -: Who? What? where? When? Why? How? (observations are important)

2 -Writing the first drafta) Write the lead or 1st paragraph: begin with the most important or interesting detail. If at all possible, put a person in the lead paragraph.b) Write the main part of your story: remember that the most important information is usually stated early in basic news stories. try to leave your readers with something to think about in the ending.

3 - Revising: improving your writing: review your work: make sure you have included all of the important facts and details in your story. make sure your information is in the best possible order.

A + B: Séance commune avec l'assistant et le professeur

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Travaux d'élèves: atelier d'écriture avec l'assistant et le professeur

* élèves sont divisés en groupes de travail

* travail collaboratif sur plusieurs tables dans la classe

* affichage des productions au CDI (semaine de la presse) et dans la classe.

Renvoi aux productions d'élèves.