cours anglais renforcé

ANGLAIS RENFORCE
lesson
Friday the 25 th of november
aim:
vocabulary : celebrity

word of the day :
Fame= Celebrity / Stardom
famous = well-known
A star = An icon / a clebrity

Vocabulary :
Hush = stop talking

SHOW AND TELL by Celine : Michael Jackson
+ fiche voc

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE FAMOUS ?= a debate

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS ON CELEBRITIES
CONVERSATION QUESTIONS ON CELEBRITIES

Stir = Provoke
A has-been= someone who is no longer famous
Donate to charities
earn a lot of cash
Take advantage of s.o
Make a profit / a quick buck
The booze = the liquor
A household name = a star
A reformed sinner ( un ancien pecheur)= someone who used to commit sins
puppets (des marionnettes)


Word of the afternoon : a nun ( une religieuse )

The Story line
B) Questions
1) She is the main character. She is a would-be singer. She is a lady-killer, a criminal.
2) She killed her lover who wanted to dump her after promising her to turn her into a star.
3) He is a corrupt lawyer = a crook
4) He has an infamous reputation = he will stop at nothing
5) She becomes a media sensation.
FIRST EXTRACT
she was very bad at school and had poor school results but she pretends that she wanted to be a nun.
She was born on a chicken farm.Still he pretends that she comes from a wealthy family who lived in a beautiful Southern mansion.
Her parents are still alive.And yet he decides they should be dead.
She comes from a poor / penniless family whereas he pretends that her family was wealthy but has lost its fortune.
her marriage was banal/ ordinary but the lawyer declares that it was a runaway marriage and therefore very romantic.
She pretends that she wanted to reform herself whereas She killed her lover to get a revenge because he wanted to dump her after promising to make her a star.

The lawyer is lying to the public to buy the public sympathy.
The lawyer is deceiving the public to get her acquitted
He is conning the public to make her well-known
he is duping the public to get the sympathy of the press.

SECOND EXTRACT
THE journalists are turned/ transformed into puppets because he wants to show that journalists are being manipulated.


GRAMMAR
He gets Roxie to be acquitted
He has Roxie acquitted (part passé)
He has The public love her (Faire faire qque chose à qqu'un )
Have + someone+BV
He makes people believe she is innocent / it was an accident (Il fait croire aux gens qu'elle est innocente)


Have someone + BV
ex : He has the public love her
Make someone + BV
ex : He makes people believe she is innocent / it was an accident


HOMEWORK :
3 sentences on what money makes you do ?+ be able to tell us what happens in casino / learn the vocabulary.

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