Tuesday the 6 th of April
ter Anglais renforcé
Task: study of the text : My sister's keeper
Word of the day : a new-fangled invention ( new- fangled= tout neuf)
CORRECTION OF THE VISUAL DOCUMENT : THE TWINS
VOCABULARY EXERCISE ON BIRTH
RECAP ON THE TEXT
STUDY OF THE QUESTIONS
vocabulary :
a surrogate ( une mère porteuse)
surrogacy = what the surrogates do :
when you are paying someone to carry your child.The father gives some sperm. the surrogate gives an egg.After an in-vitro fertilization , the zygote is implanted into the surrogate's womb who will then deliver the baby to the commissioning parents.
euthanasia = assisted suicide = asking someone to kill you because you can't commit suicide yourself because you are crippled= handicapped.
in my sister's keeper, we discover at the end of the book that kate was the one who asked her sister to sue her parents because she wanted to die to stop her own sufferings.She knew that if she had asked her mother to let her die the latter would have never accepted.So she had to ask her sister to do it on her behalf.
bone marrow transplant ( bone marrow = moelle épinière)
be genetically engineered = when you were born after a selection of cells
a pawnbroker ( un préteur sur gage)
keep = maintain her sister alive
a lawyer = an attorney ( un avocat)
demean someone = diminish someone
be depressed = be downcast
a harvest ( une récolte)
harvest ( récolter)
kate's sufferings
have a one- track mind = think only about one thing .the parents had only one thought in mind: saving their daughter
the Webster is a dictionary
a bone of contention ( une pomme de discorde)
on my behalf ( à ma place)
she has no identity of her own
an organ bank ( une réserve d'organe)
the core issue = the main issue/ problem
homework : revision for the mock exam
DO BE CAREFUL TO PREPARE YOR PAPERS/ LIST OF TEXT/ ID CARD + AN EXTRA PHOTOCOPY OF EACH TEXT FOR THE TEACHER WHO IS GOING TO GIVE YO THE TEST
Absent : landu aurelien ( will we ever see you again?)
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