Can the art of science fiction help us understand our society?
Objectifs de la séquence :
Communicationnels :
Etre capable de poser des questions et d’y répondre spontanément et en mettant le ton.
Linguistiques :
Les auxiliaires modaux/ opposition & contraste/ le present perfect/agree/disagree/ cause-consequences
Méthodologique :
Les mots de liaison
Phonologiques :
Les diphtongues et les triphtongues.
Culturels :
Haute technologie, robots, voyage dans l’espace, dystopie, révolte, utopie
Notion du programme abordée => La création et le rapport aux arts
Evaluation = CE
Final task: Participate in a collaborative writing competition.
SEANCE 1
=> Découverte du thème et de la problématique.
HW : Learn “useful words”
SEANCE 2
=> CO. A fan of Sci Fi, New Missions 2014
HW : Listen to the recording again (CD or click on this link) and note down any modal auxiliaries that you can hear + find out what dystopia/utopia mean (one sentence).
SEANCE 3
=> CE, “Deadly Rules”, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008
HW : Exercice on sheet (modal aux)
SEANCE 4
=> CE, “Deadly Rules” (part 2)
HW : writing assignemnt Your voice, your choice (sheet)
SEANCE 5
- Tâche intermédiaire. Writing workshop in groups.
HW : « I know how to use linkwords » on sheet (rappel) + find out information about the Coachella festival
SEANCE 6
=> CO vidéo, "Top 10 movie predictions that came true", Watchmodjo, 2022
HW : Watch full video and write down sentences with modal auxiliaries + learn “useful words”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotsI6Kuv-g
SEANCE 7
=> "Top 10 movie predictions that came true", Watchmodjo, 2022, part 2 *
HW :
- Watch full video on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotsI6Kuv-g
- Copy and do the following (blue) exercice :
Grammar: suppositions in the past
“Back to the future part two may not have gotten everything about 2015 right but it's still got a surprising number of things correct”
Identifie les mots qui expriment une supposition
au passé.
Comment celle-ci est elle grammaticalement construite ?
Your turn:
Give another example of supposition in the past in the context of this chapter
SEANCE 8
=> CE, “Child Soldiers”, Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game, 1985
HW : Find modal aux. in the text and explain what they express.
SEANCE 9
=> CE, “Deadly Rules” (part 2)
HW : Now your turn 1-4
SEANCE 10
=> CE + EOI Star Trek: The vision of a better society
HW: TEST CE + NYT 5-7
