Hi guys,

today we continued working on the video from Man VS wild and we tried to analyse the content more precisely.
Here are some things you said:

The man is a daredevil. He is not afraid of anything. He swims in an alligator river and he is prepared to fight the crocodiles. The situation is one of the most frightening experiences he had to live. It was very intimidating and scary.

Here is the video again:

Then we started working on the next video which is the trailer of the movie: "127 hours" starring James Franco as Aaron, an adventurer who got lost and trapped in the desert during about 5 days.

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Homework:

- vous pouvez regarder les vidéos à nouveau pour tenter de mieux les comprendre.
- préparer un compte rendu oral de la situation dans "127 hours". Vous pouvez vous aider du texte ci-dessous:

The scene takes place in the desert. It may be in the US, probably near Grand Canyon.
There is a man. He is a daredevil because he is alone in the desert. He rides his bike and he falls down. We can see that he is not afraid of anything when he meets two girls. He jumps between to rocks from a ridge into a pool of water... how crazy! Unfortunately at the end of the trailer, we can see that he gets trapped under a boulder. There is no one and he has nearly no equipment... It is the biggest mistake he did.
In a survival situation, you should never be alone.
He survived during about 5 days in the desert only thanks to his determination because he had no water and no food.

Hi guys,

today we worked on what the most important things in a survival situation were.

You had to agree or disagree with your partner and use one of the following expressions:

Then we started to analyse this video:

One important word is: FRIGHTENING = SCARY

Here is what we said:

The man swims in a swamp. Maybe it is in the "Everglades". He is crazy = he is a daredevil = he is not afraid of anything. He is prepared to fight the alligators / the crocodiles.

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Homework:

- vous pouvez regarder la vidéo à nouveau pour tenter de mieux la comprendre.

Hi guys,

could YOU survive like Jamie in the bush for a long time?

He was determined and he remained calm. He didn't panic.

Today in class we read a newspaper article about him and we found important information about his survival conditions:

He survived thanks to:

- food
- drinking
- shelter
- his will to survive

Vocabulary:
the bush / the outback = the desert / the forest / the mountain / the jungle = uncultivated, barren parts of Australia

You can read the text here again:

Source BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8151510.stm

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Homework:

- terminer de surligner les éléments demandés dans le texte (3 premiers paragraphes) en 3 couleurs différentes.

• Couleur 1: les éléments liés à food / drink / shelter
• Couleur 2: les éléments liés aux endroits mentionnés (places)
• Couleur 3: les éléments liés aux conditions météo (weather)

Hi guys,

today I explained the final task that you will have to do throughout the year.

Here is a copy of the document:

Then we started a new sequence with this picture:

Here is what you said:

I think the scene takes place in a hospital in Africa. There are two people: a young man and an older man.
A dad is visiting his son.

Maybe he was attacked by a mosquito; he was very contagious. Or perhaps he survived a plane crash and he was rescued. He had a blood tranfusion and now he is cured; or he was dehydrated and now he has problems to breathe.

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Homework:

- se préparer à faire le compte rendu de l'image à nouveau (recap)