Unexpected love stories
Does love have to follow conventions?
Démarrage : 04/11/24
Objectifs de la séquence :
Communicationnels :
Etre capable d’écrire un dialogue, en faisant passer des émotions.
Linguistiques :
Modaux de probabilité/ should = conseil/ ought to/ must/have to/ used to/ be used to
Culturels :
Jane Austen, Helen Fielding, CGI Animation, Annie Nelson, Roy Delgado, Bruce Erik Kaplan
Thématique du programme : Imaginaires. Axe du programme : L’amour et l’amitié
Tâche finale : You are a script writer working on the adaptation of a book into a film...
SEANCE 1
=> Anticipation, découverte du thème + problématique
=> cartoon, « finding someone to love », Bek, 2017
=> Vidéo « First date», CGI, Yap Voon Meo/Ding Yen Vern
HW : Watch video again (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGoFcDR7Ia8) + and imagine what may happen next.
SEANCE 2
=>CE “Love at first sight” (To Cut a Long Story short, Jeffrey Archer, 2010)
=> EE en binôme
HW : exercice auxiliaire modaux (sheet)
SEANCE 3
=> CO vidéo «Speed dating » (short film, Isaac Feder, 2016)
HW : Watch video again + learn vocabulary.
SEANCE 4
=>CE : extract from “Pride and Prejudice” (Jane Austen, 1813)
HW: Complete paragraph + be ready to explain the situation in your own words
charming beneath Reputed manipulative dislike
Mr. Bingley’s friend, Mr. Darcy, is ____________to be twice as wealthy as himself; but he is haughty and his manners cause everyone to____________ him, especially Elizabeth Bennet (the Bennets' second eldest daughter). Indeed, he refuses to dance with her at a ball at the beginning of the book because he finds her family ____________ his social status. However, later on in « Pride and Prejudice », Mr. Darcy eventually asks Elizabeth to dance at a different ball, and she accepts despite her previous vow never to.
George Wickham is an apparently ____________ young man and his story of being badly treated by Darcy attracts the sympathy of Elizabeth. She therefore fails to see how____________ Whickam in fact is, which leads both men to hate each other even more.
SEANCE 5
=> CO vidéo, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Joe Write — The Dance Scene
=> Pairwork: imagine and act out the next scene.
HW : Watch video again (you can read the script before watching at the bottom of this page if you think you need to*) + Find out who Bridget Jones is.
SEANCE 6
=> CE extract from “Bridget Jones’s diary”, Helen Fielding, 1996
HW : Compare Bridget’s Darcy and Pride and Prejudice’s.
SEANCE 7
=> CO vidéo, extract from Bridget Jones’s Diary.
6- Lecture script + correction inter-active.
HW : Revoir pour test + interrogation de verbes irréguliers+ vocabulaire.
*Script of the ball scene
Elizabeth Bennet: I love this dance.
Mr. Darcy: It is most invigorating.
E : It’s your turn to say something, Mr. Darcy, I talked about the dance now, you’re to remark on the size of the room our other couples.
Mr. Darcy: Perfectly happy to oblige. Please tell me what you’d like most to hear.
E : Your reply must do for present. Perhaps by and by, I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones. But now we may be silent."
Mr. Darcy: "Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?"
Elizabeth Bennet: No, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn. It makes all so much more enjoyable, don’t you think?
Mr. Darcy: Tell me, do you and your sister very often walk to Meryton ?
Elizabeth Bennet: Yes, we often walk to Meryton, it’s a great opportunity to meet new people. In fact, when
you met us, we'd just had the pleasure of forming a new acquaintance.
Mr. Darcy: Mr Wickham's blessed with such happy manners, as may ensure his making friends. Whether he is capable of retaining them, is less certain.
Elizabeth Bennet: He's been so unfortunate as to lose your friendship. I dare say that is an irreversible event.
Mr. Darcy: It is. Why do you ask such a question?
Elizabeth Bennet: To make out your character.
Mr. Darcy: What have you discovered?
Elizabeth Bennet: Very little. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
Mr. Darcy: I hope to afford you more clarity in the future.
