The Queen of England (example):

When was she born?
When was she crowned?
What is her job?
Who did she marry?
When did she marry?
How many children did she have?

Lady Diana (example):
When did she die?
How did she die?
Where did she die?

Answers: Lady Diana (example)
She was* born in 1961.
She died on August 31st 1997.
She died in a car crash in France.
She married Prince Charles in 1981 and she had* 2 boys, Prince William and Prince Harry.

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Homework:

- Finir son poster sur une personne célèbre + se préparer pour passer à l'oral pour le présenter + savoir poser des questions pour obtenir des informations sur une biographie.

Who...

Where...

When...
When did he go to London?
When did he start writing?
When was he born?
When did he die?

What...
What was his job?

How (many)...
How many children did he have?
How did he die?

Why...
Why did he start working at 10 years old?
Why did he become famous?
Why did they divorce?

Structure of a question in the past:
1) WH-    AUX   SUBJECT   VERB ... ?
                (did)
2) Attention à BE -> WH-   WAS/WERE   SUBJECT ... ?

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Homework:
- apprendre les question de biographie et être capable d'y répondre pour Charles Dickens.
- préparer son intervention orale (poster d'illustrations de la vie d'une personne célèbre disparue sans texte [sauf le nom de la personne] et courte biographie de faits marquants)

He was a famous British novelist / writer.
He was born in 1812 (100th anniversary of his birth in 2012). He died in 1870.

He moved to London when he was child. He couldn't go to school. He had to work. His parents didn't have money. They were poor.

In 1836, he started writing and he became famous. He married in 1836 too but divorced in 1850.
He wrote "Oliver Twist".

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Homework:

- connaître la biographie de Charles Dickens et être capable de parler des éléments importants dans sa vie.

Hi,

today we continued speaking about the visit to Madame Tussaud's wax museum and then we talked about the famous people that the penfriends saw at the museum.

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Homework:

- apprendre la leçon sur le musée Madame Tussaud's = être capable de raconter le week end de Lucy.
- savoir faire une phrase au passé (verbes réguliers / irréguliers / négation au passé)

Hi,

today we continued speaking about the audio document (conversation).

Then we analysed how to speak in the past with regular and irregular verbs.

Ex:

They saw* the wax statues of the royal family (Henry VIII, Lady Diana, Camilla, ...)
Her friend went* to the museum two years ago with his history teacher.

-> the most important moments in English history mentioned in the document:
* the gunpowder plot
* the great fire
* the blitz

-> the most famous royal family members:
* Prince Charles and his wives (Lady Diana -> they divorced and she died + Camilla Parker Bowles)

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Homework:

- apprendre la leçon = être capable de parler de la conversion entre les deux amis.