Task:
Your final task will be to Create your own "Who's who".In this situation, you will read short articles on some famous figures in American cinema, you will write short biographies of your favourite stars and explain why you admire them.
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Compétences:
PO:
- A2-B1: Savoir communiquer quelques informations de base sur un personnage connu.
CE:
- A2/B1: Comprendre de courts articles de « fans » et les raisons de leur admiration.
Comprendre de courtes biographies de personnes célèbres.
EE:
- A2/B1: Ecrire une courte biographie sur une personne de son choix et justifier son admiration.
- B1: Améliorer un écrit en clarifiant chronologie, en ajoutant précisions et détails, en utilisant les connexions logiques.
Stratégies:
- CE: Faire le point sur ses connaissances avant de lire
- CE: Repérer les différentes parties d’un article biographique
- EE: Structurer un écrit en paragraphes
- EE: Choisir les outils linguistiques appropriés en fonction de l’effet recherché
Compétences grammaticales, phonologiques et orthographiques
- Le pluperfect
- Le superlatif (rappel)
- Les phrases complexes (who, which, where, when, though, while).
- Les groupes nominaux complexes
- Les orthographes britannique et américaine.
- La règle des « trois un »
Compétences culturelles et lexicales
- Quelques figures marquantes du cinéma américain contemporain
- Le vocabulaire du cinéma (jeu, réalisation, genres, récompenses, appréciation du public…)
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Preparation time
1. Get ready!
You are going to write an article on your favourite star for the magazine « Movie Buffs »Look at the pictures of these Hollywood figures. Say all you can about them.
2. Read and react
Read the article and do the activities in your WB p50-53__________________________________________________
Now write!
3. Practise your spelling (WBp54-55)
________________________________________________4. Create your article for Movie Buffs
Your teacher will give you a fact sheet about the early career of one of these famous cinema figures.Get help to write your article in the WBp56.
Write your short article on a sheet of paper.
Stick it up on the wall in your classroom for everybody to read and enjoy!
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Practice time
1. Reading a biography... and getting it all! + WB p57 + 58 + 59
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2. What makes a good biography?
a. a biography needs to be easy to read.Look at Spielberg's biography and highlight in different colours the various elements it is composed of:
You can have:
- a title: Steven Spielberg: biography
- sub-headings:
. How it all started
. Piling up hits
. More than a director
- An introduction: One of the most influential celebrities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest film makers in the world.
- a photo (or more)
- a quotation: "Being a movie-maker means you get to live many, many lifetimes. It's the same reason audiences go to movies, I think."
- a conclusion: With all this to Spielberg's credit, it's no wonder that he's regarded as one of the greatest figures in entertainment.
b a biography needs to be organized
- Part 1: the start of his career
- Part 2: The most important achievements and successes in his career
- Part 3: Other aspects of his career
c. a biography needs to give clear time indications
-Time indicators for the Simple Present tense: usually, always, frequently, seldom, never, two times a week, every other day
- Time indicators for the Simple Past: this morning, yesterday,last night/week/month, two days/weeks/months/years ago, before 1998, after the war, during the revolution, in the 60's, once upon a time, a long time ago, ....
d. a biography needs to mention its subject's most remarkable achievements, but not all of them!
Examples can be introduced by such as / such + noun + as.
Find 4 examples in Spielberg's bio.
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3. Practise writing a biography.
a. Choose the facts you'll write about (you can highlight them on the fact sheet)
- decide what you'll put in the three parts and choose sub-headings
- choose one or two facts which you think are remarkable in your personality's time line;
- choose the events you want to talk about
- choose the examples you want to give
- choose the information you want to add
- pick something you find surprising
b. Now write your bio. Make it clear and personal.
- write the sentences for the events you want to talk about with time markers;
- use the pluperfect to underline what is remarkable in the chronology;
- add information using relative clauses;
- use a complex sentence with "though" to show that something is surprising;
- introduce examples with "such as";
- use superlatives to show admiration;
- write an introduction and a conclusion.
