Aspidistra Posté(e) 23 septembre 2007 Posté(e) 23 septembre 2007 Thank you Felicity for your corrections. Your summary is great! Can we fix another day and another text?
cococacao Posté(e) 24 septembre 2007 Posté(e) 24 septembre 2007 Thank you Felicity for your corrections. Your summary is great!Can we fix another day and another text? sujet 3 in a fortnight?
teacher Posté(e) 25 septembre 2007 Posté(e) 25 septembre 2007 Hi I 've only had time to prepare the text as though it was D-day: 30 minutes of preparation and my brain... This text is an extract from the novel Angela's Ashes written by FRank McCourt in 1996. The story takes place in Ireland, after the baptism of Angela's son. Four characters are present into this scene: Philomena, Delia and Angela who are sisters and Angela's husband: Malachy. Philomena invites her sisters and brothers-in-law at home to have tea, ham and cakes after the baptism of Angela and Malachy's son Malachy drinks. After a quarrel with her wife ANgela, he prefers to leave into town expecting a free drink in a bar for his son's baptism. At Philomena's home, they eat and drink. Angela is crying because of her husband and she is nursing her son. Philomena tells her she never had to get married with that man and when she was pregnant she should have pur her baby up for adoption. She would be a free woman at that time. Delia also tells Angela what she thinks about Malachy and that she can only blame herself to be into that situation. For sisters, Malachy isn't a good man for Angela. He has a very bad reputation of drunkard. I think Angela's sisters are sick and tired of her situation and they would expect her to be happy. Even though Philomena and Delia's words are "hard", it's because they do want the best for their sister. I don't know many things about this novel neither the author but it is what I can say about this text. Characters speak into an argo language. Of course I understand that you don't always have time but may I suggest that you try to find out a few things about the book , the author ...and Ireland at the same time ( just in case you need it on D Day!) I definitely think you - all of you- should look up for things you don't know about civilisation / culture etc ... when you can as it will help you understand references in texts ....and thus allow you to make better and more complete commentaries
elo44 Posté(e) 25 septembre 2007 Posté(e) 25 septembre 2007 Hi,I am interested in joining your work group if it's still possible. I will read through your last discussion to find it. Can you tell me if I can join? Thanks in advance Hello, Me too. Could you tell me where is the text to work, please? Thanks a lot for this help!
teacher Posté(e) 5 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 5 octobre 2007 It's on the top of this page (103) ! Hey ! Where are you all ? :o You haven't done ( or at least shared) any work for a week now ! Don't give up ! Regularity in your practice is essential ... Back to hard work, everybody
Aspidistra Posté(e) 11 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 11 octobre 2007 Teacher is right, we are not really regular in our work! Who is really motivated to work with me on a text each week? I will try to summarise the present text this week end, and will propose a new text next monday if you agree? See you!
Noann Posté(e) 12 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 12 octobre 2007 I'm motivated as well!! Can I still join? Aspidistra, I will work with you on the new text on Monday if you agree.
chatlutin Posté(e) 12 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 12 octobre 2007 after a lot of computer's problems, i'm back I will work this text this week-end
teacher Posté(e) 14 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 14 octobre 2007 I will work On this text this week-end Well done ! Motivation is back . If you do ONE text A week, it will give you good practice for your oral : you only need to spend maybe one hour a week for English ( of course more would be better ) and keep the rest of your time for the other subjects . Try to listen to some English too ( BBC radio, for instance) Come on everybody !
felicity Posté(e) 14 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 14 octobre 2007 Hi, here is my summary, but I was not inspired by the subject so it is very very light! This text is an extract taken from the Guardian. It was written on March 2, 2006 and it deals with the green spirit of the British airline, EasyJet. According to the new chief executive, Andy Harrison, they care for the future. They want to rise the number of flights to Northern African and Eastern Europe, with a little price together with less pollution. Their concurrents do not care about pollution they can generate. So Easy Jet axes its policy around the green spirit to touch more people. There are more and more low cost flights. EasyJet asked the British gocernment to give up taxes on passengers, and to create new ones to taxe aircraft companies that are responsible for pollution. Richard Branson from the Virgin atlantics, proposed a 25,000,000$ reward, for the scientists who find The sollution against pollution of the atmosphere. One of the sollutions would be to take the Eurostar which is less polluting.
chatlutin Posté(e) 15 octobre 2007 Posté(e) 15 octobre 2007 sorry I couldn't put my summary today my computer is KO and this evening I have my first english speaking lesson try to do this wenesday
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