US Travel Advisory France Part 1

In this class, the students studied a text entitled US Travel Advisory.Unfortunately I don't know the source of this text - a friend who had been an assistant suggested we use it when we were working as 'lectrices' at the university and it worked very well with the students!
Once we had established that it was a humorous text based on the stereotypes of the French we had already discussed or seen, I asked the students to work in groups of 3-4 and assigned them different paragraphs to work on. They had to identify criticisms and positive aspects of France as well as the advice given to American tourists and the image projected of these same tourists by the text. If we had time, we also discussed which stereotypes they thought were justified or not. I projected this worksheet to help the students organize their ideas.
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Political Issues in the UK

In this follow up to the How Political Are You? class we talked about some of the main political issues facing the UK, notably the EU referendum and the risk of Brexit. There is a quick explanation in these slides of this concept as well as the details of the role play we started working on at the end of class. We worked on the video below from the Financial Times and the students noted down the pro-Europe and pro-Brexit arguments they heard. They then started preparing in their groups for a TV role play debate in which two Eurosceptics and two pro-Europeans have to convince an audience of undecided voters how to vote in the referendum. They used the infographic below from The Economist to add to their arguments.

How political are you?

I used this powerpoint with the terminale ES group to find out what they know about politics in the UK and France. The class ended with a lively debate about the French employment law reform. One of the students had been on the demonstration that day and was more than happy to discuss why he was against it.

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Stereotypes 2: The Simpsons, The Crêpes of Wrath Episode

This lesson follows on from the first Stereotpyes one. We used this worksheet and watched an episode from series one of the Simsons in which Bart goes to France. While watching, the students made notes on stereotypes, cultural references and positive and negative aspects of the following cultures/nationalities: American, French and Albanian.

Stategy and the Ansoff Matrix

In this class, we worked on an article about the four different marketing strategies in the Ansoff matrix, particularly specialization and diversification. We used this worksheet to gain a deeper understanding of the terminology and the advantages and disadvantages of different strategies. Finally, we did this task to check that everyone had understood the new notions and to prepare for the Bac sujet for the following week. 

Stereotypes Part 1

To follow on from our work on the film "L'Auberge Espagnole" we worked on different national stereotypes, firstly about English-speaking countries and after about France and French people.

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L'Auberge Espagnole Part 2

We started this session with a Flipquiz and/or corrections from last week's role-play. We then watched another two scenes from the film using this worksheet. 
William's ideas about the Spanish and the Germans will lead in to some work on stereotypes within the Spaces and Exchanges theme. 

PESTLE Analysis

Today, we went talked about how to use a PESTLE analysis to analyse a company's macro environment. We used this article and a worksheet to understand each of the factors (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal) and applied them to Harley Davidson, the company whose micro environment we had studied the previous week.

Questions for DNL students

I've made a list of questions for DNL students about their school trips which could be useful for practising the baccalauréat oral exam for this subject.

L'Auberge Espagnole Part One

First, the students had to make the connection between the following pictures and if possible explain the film briefly to the others if they'd already seen it.

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Then we watched the following scene from the film and the students answered comprehension questions about it using this worksheet.

Finally, the students did a flat-hunting role play in groups of 4. One was a French person looking for a flatshare in the UK/USA. The others were 3 flatmates of different nationalities looking for new flatmate. They had to ask each other questions about the flat and the potential flatmate to see if the new person would be a good 'fit' for their apartment. Here are the instructions to show the students.

Speaking: Inventions | Onestopenglish

This is a lesson plan that I used with the STMG group. Speaking: Inventions | Onestopenglish

Heroes in Song

We listened to Bonnie Tyler together and talked about superheroes vs ordinary heroes to continue our work on this theme.

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