DEVOIR MAISON « School in the USA ».

Page 25 : Yearbook memories.

Regarde et lis plusieurs fois le document page 25 du livre intitulé « Special memories of special people ».

Complète.

Nature of the document :

Title of the document :

Author Link with the Special His / her exploit or extraordinary

special person person’s name action
Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Text 4

Exercice 1 :

Exercice Right/ Wrong + justify : note « right » ou « wrong » sous chaque phrase puis corrige la phrase si elle est
fausse.

1) Mike played with the school band to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attack.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2) He was very afraid and made mistakes.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3) Talia didn’t manage to make a perfect show.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4) Scott’s best friend is very clumsy.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

5) Scott got angry.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

6) All the school was very proud of Mrs Lemoine.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Exercice 2 :

Complete this summary.

Sofia is proud of her big sister who’s the ………………………………. awesome and determined

……………………….. captain. Mike ………………….. play any wrong notes when he played the Star Spangled

Banner at school last September. He was very professional and ……………………………… . The 9th

……………….. are very proud of Ms Lemoine, their French teacher, because she was ……………………

Massachusetts’ Teacher of the year. At the ………………… last June, Peter bumped into Scott and

…………………………….. his tuxedo. Scott didn’t get angry, he bought him a drink. He’s the

…………………………. class president !

POINTS CULTURELS : explique en anglais par des phrases (si en français points divisés par 2) ces éléments
relevés dans le texte.

1) What is the 9/11 attack ?

2) What is the « Star Spangled Banner » ?

3) What is the « White House » ?

Vocabulaire à traduire :
Memories= this fall=
Amazing= a show=
Proud of = congratulations=
To commemorate= self-confident=
A note= to remember=
To dirty= to bump into=

Grammaire :
Explique comment les auteurs des petits articles marquent l’exagération ; 3 éléments à trouver :

1)

2)

3)