Hi guys,

today we continued to listen to Eva Longoria and we tried to analyse her speech a bit more.

Here are the things you finally said about her:

Sequence #1: Barack Obama's re-election campaign

Presentation:
Eva Longoria represents Barack Obama at the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Her family and childhood:
She was born in Corpus Christie, Texas. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a soldier. She has 3 sisters. Her elder sister has special needs. Her family was not very rich / was not wealthy.

Other ideas (notes not in the notebook yet):
She spoke about the jobs she had to do to pay for college.
Vocab: financial aid / grant / loan

Feelings = honored / proud / determined / fortunate / lucky

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Homework:

- être capable de parler de la vie d'Eva Longoria et parler de son soutien à Barack Obama pendant la campagne de 2012 ( = leçon).

- facultatif...: revoir la vidéo et faire les exercices en ligne ici.

Hi guys! 

I'm glad to be your English teacher this year and I hope we'll acheive wonderful things this year.

Today, after introducing ourselves very briefly, we began the new lesson about... :

"The American Dream" and "The Presidential Elections in the USA".

We first analysed a wordle to understand better Eva Longoria's support speech.

Here are the documents we studied:

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 Annonce de la tâche finale

- Vous devrez :

              1- Imiter Eva Longoria dans son propre discours.

              2- Créer votre propre discours de soutien pour un candidat à l'élection présidentielle.

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Homework:

- relire et faire signer les règles de participation orale collées p. 2 de votre cahier.

- regarder la vidéo d'Eva Longoria et être capable de redire ce que vous en avez compris (où ça se passe, de quoi elle parle, de qui elle parle, ...).

- Pourquoi ne pas faire cet exercice en ligne pour bien anticiper le prochain cours et être rassuré pour parler?