Blog à destination des élèves du collège Joliot Curie (69500 Bron) mis en place par M. Hattais (Anglais) et Mme Parisi (Italien) en 2013
Hello everyone,
Today, we played a game : we did a blind test about dead celebrities.
We listened to them, you had to guess their names and then you had to imagine how long ago they died.
Here is what we wrote :
Thursday, December 11th
(the eleventh)
BLIND TEST : dead celebrities : How long ago did they die ?

- Michael Jackson / 2009 : M. Jackson died five years ago.
- Ray Charles / 2004 : Ray Charles died ten years ago.
- Charlie Chaplin / 1977 : Charlie Chaplin died thirty-seven years ago.
- Marylin Monroe / 1962 : Marylin Monroe died fifty-two years ago.
- Amy Winehouse / 2011 : Amy Winehouse died three years ago.
è How did he/she die ?
Michael Jackson overdosed. He took too much drugs.
Marylin Monroe committed suicide.
Amy Winehouse overdosed too.
Ray Charles died because he was old as well as Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin :
- When was he born ? He was born in eighteen eighty-nine.
- When did he die ? He died in nineteen seventy-seven.
ð So, he was eighty-eight years old.

HOMEWORK : Friday 12th : learn : question “How long ago...?” + answer, + vocabulary.